A Clerk [greeting card]
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Norcross Greeting Card Company (New York (N.Y.))
- Dates:
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Circa 1890
- Level:
- item
- Size:
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1 Item (Ink on paper., 8.7" x 6.6".)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0058
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Vinegar valentine, with image of a man at desk. Poem below image: "How few of clerks there are who know, / There's little worth in outside show; / However well they dress'd may be, / All brainless heads are plain to see."
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Humphrey, Lizbeth Bullock, 1841-
- Dates:
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undated
- Level:
- item
- Size:
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1 Item (Ink on paper., 5.9" x 8.4".)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0058
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
llustration of three children sitting by a fireplace, bordered by poem by J. G. Whittier.
Contained In:
- Norcross Greeting Card Collection / Antique Greeting Card Collection / Prang Company Related Materials, 1863-1908; undated / Bound volume, Child Life: A Souvenir of Elizabeth Bullock Humphrey, A Collection of her most Popular Designs with a Biographical Sketch by Mary J. Jacques published by L. Prang and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890 / Snowbound [greeting card]
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- Dates:
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1943-1974
- Level:
- subseries
- Collection ID:
- AAA.saaralin
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Subseries consists primarily of material relating to personal aspects of Aline Saarinen's life, as well as some scattered papers of Eero Saarinen and a file relating to their son, Eames Saarinen. Aline Saarinen's papers include a diary she began as a young girl and periodically added to over the years; a guest book which records the names of peopl...
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- Dates:
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1870-1925; undated
- Level:
- subseries
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1252
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This subseries includes papers relating to the life of Mary Elizabeth Kennedy Sandford's husband. Frank Sherman Sandford was born in 1853 and graduated from Danville Seminary in New York as Frank Gilman in 1870. He married Mary Elizabeth Kennedy on October 22, 1878. In 1885, he moved the family to 13 Seward Street. Sandford worked in New York Cit...
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- Dates:
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1957-2015
- Level:
- series
- Size:
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1.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 17-19)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.deemgeor
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This series includes biographical material, correspondence, subject files, project files, printed material, and photographic materials donated to the Archives of American Art as a subsequent donation. Correspondence includes Deem's letters to museums relating to donating artwork and publications about his work. There are letters to Ullya Dydo, Chr...
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- Dates:
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1950-2004
- Level:
- series
- Size:
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3.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-4)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.slivrose
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The correspondence of Rose Slivka is both professional and personal in nature. Professional correspondence reflects her involvement with a variety of organizations and teaching activities. Correspondence concerning her editorial work includes memos and documents produced or received by Patricia Dandignac, Donald Wycoff and other staff of Craft Hori...
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Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Dates:
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circa 1970s
- Level:
- item
- Size:
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1 sound recording (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.AV09-023
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Students from Federal City College read poems written by African American poets, including Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Sterling Brown, Mari Evans, Langston Hughes.
Poetry reading. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Undated.
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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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1959
- Level:
- item
- Size:
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1 Slide (col.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
"A more organized 'conversation' with an audience is called a 'tende'. It is a spontaneous event. It may occur during a wedding or at a child's christening or when a person returns from a long absence or when there is a visitor. Usually an elderly woman starts a tende by bringing a wooden mortar, filling it with water, and covering it with a skin. ...
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- Creators:
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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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1959
- Level:
- item
- Size:
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1 Slide (col.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
"A more organized 'conversation' with an audience is called a 'tende'. It is a spontaneous event. It may occur during a wedding or at a child's christening or when a person returns from a long absence or when there is a visitor. Usually an elderly woman starts a tende by bringing a wooden mortar, filling it with water, and covering it with a skin. ...
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- Creators:
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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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1959
- Level:
- item
- Size:
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1 negatives (photographic) (b&w, 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
"A more organized 'conversation' with an audience is called a 'tende'. It is a spontaneous event. It may occur during a wedding or at a child's christening or when a person returns from a long absence or when there is a visitor. Usually an elderly woman starts a tende by bringing a wooden mortar, filling it with water, and covering it with a skin. ...