Mary Harriman Rumsey collection of Harriman Alaska Expedition photographs
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- Creators:
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Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 1881-1934.
- Dates:
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1898-1900
1903
1914
bulk 1899-1899
- Size:
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396 lantern slides
286 Photographic prints
1 Map
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.053
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Mary Harriman Rumsey collection largely consists of photographic prints and lantern slides documenting the Harriman Expedition to Alaska in summer 1899. These depict members of the expedition and Alaskan scenery and people. The collection also includes scenic photographs of Alaska taken by Dora Keen in 1914 and photographs of Blackfeet, Hopi, Apache, and Suquamish Indians made by Edward Curtis in 1900 and 1903.
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- Level:
- series
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 105
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This material consists of bound letterpress Letter and Memorandum Books and 1 box of loose correspondence, 1915-1923, of Associate Curator Charles W. Richmond. The Letter Books contain general correspondence of the Division of Birds, while the Memorandum Books contain internal SI memoranda, receipts, acknowledgments, and correspondence ...
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Young, Stanley Paul, 1889-1969
- Dates:
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1921-1965
- Size:
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5.29 cu. ft. (9 document boxes) (1 12x17 box) (1 5x8 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7174
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bird and Mammal Laboratories
- Dates:
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circa 1885-1971
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18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7171
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include early correspondence of the Bureau of Biological Survey; general files of the Bird and Mammal Labs including correspondence, project reports, annual and quarterly reports, memoranda, material of various staff members and material on the organization, history and policy of the Labs; correspondence from the Bird Section ...
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- Dates:
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1926-1974, undated
- Level:
- series
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22 Linear feet (Boxes 1-22; Reels 5488-5545)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.downgall
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This series consists of the business and personal correspondence of Edith Gregor Halpert and the Downtown Gallery. For the most part, this series is general business correspondence concerning routine activities of the Downtown Gallery, including the American Folk Art Gallery and the Daylight Gallery, both operated by the Downtown Gallery on the sam...
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Wells, Ellen B.
- Dates:
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1874-2009
- Size:
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18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0396
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of cookbooks, but many would accurately be described as pamphlets. Also included are some labels from products that contain recipes. The cookbooks were produced by manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers.
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Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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circa 1880-1950
- Size:
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220 Cubic feet (700 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0055
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection forms a documentary record of over half a century of the history of radio, with the greatest emphasis on the period 1900-1935. The collection includes materials that span the entire history of the growth of the radio industry. It is useful for those historians and other researchers interested in technological development, economic history, and the impact of applications of technology on American life.