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- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 70
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917
Talman, Hugh (photographer)
MacCormack, Forrest (intern)
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circa 1888-1899, 1906, 1993
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0416
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twenty glass plate negatives and reference copy prints of the images taken between the late 1880s and the early 1900s by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas W. Smillie. The images depict the skyline of Washington D.C., views from the 1893 World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, blueprints for the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, and an unidentified orchestra.
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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology
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1944-1946
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26 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.amermuse
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Archives of American Art
The microfilmed American Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology correspondence with Barnett Newman and Betty Parsons contains correspondence between painter Barnett Newman and gallerist Betty Parsons with Harry L. Shapiro, Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History regarding two exhibitions of N...
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1885-1928, 1941 and undated
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2.5 cu. ft. (5 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7325
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The 1879 act establishing the United States Geological Survey (USGS) declares "And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, and fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer need...
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Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942
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1893-1904
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7233
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of Schuchert's incoming correspondence, with some outgoing correspondence, while employed by the USGS and the United States National Museum. The correspondence concerns Schuchert's field work with the USGS and the examination and exchange of specimens.
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Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
Stevenson, James, 1840-1888
Anderson, Larz, 1866-1937
Avery, Rachel Foster
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ca. 1870-1910
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5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4689
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National Anthropological Archives
Most of Stevenson's scientific notes are included as separate items in the series of numbered manuscript and the papers of John Peabody Harrington. This particular set of materials is made up of papers that passed into the hands of the executor of her estate. It consists of a miscellany of letters, notes, legal documents, cartographic materials, ge...
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André Emmerich Gallery records
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André Emmerich Gallery
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circa 1929-2009
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311.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.andremmg
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Archives of American Art
The André Emmerich Gallery records and André Emmerich papers measure 311.4 linear feet and date from 1929 to 2009. The collection documents the business of the André Emmerich Gallery as well as André Emmerich's life and activities related to the business of selling art. Gallery records include correspondence; appointment books; administrative and subject files; exhibition files; artist files and accounts; inventory, sales, purchase, and consignment records; chronological files; financial and legal records; printed materials; original artwork; photographic and audiovisual materials. Also found are personal papers and records relating to André Emmerich. A small addition received in 2014 includes general correspondence, administrative files, exhibition files, artists' files, inventory records, consignment records, printed material, photographic materials, and André Emmerich personal papers and records.
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1888-1936 and undated
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3 cu. ft. (6 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7272
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers of Frederick Vernon Coville were part of a group of Smithsonian Department of Botany records which were originally deposited in 1971 at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. In December 1977, the records were returned to the Smithsonian for maintenance in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Sims, George W.
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1896-1981.
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0127
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. It includes forty-one notebooks, 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, forty-one stereo view cards, and three boxes of personal papers and ephemera. While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places and provide biographical information on Sims.
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
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1890-1998
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400 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001
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National Museum of the American Indian
These records document the governance and programmatic activities of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation (MAI) from its inception in 1904 until its sublimation by the Smithsonian Institution in 1990. The types of materials present in this collection include personal and institutional correspondence, individual subject files, minutes and annual reports, financial ledgers, legal records, expedition field notes, research notes, catalog and object lists, publications, clippings, flyers, maps, photographs, negatives and audio-visual materials. These materials span a varied range of subjects relating to the activities of the museum which are more fully described on the series level.
