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Carmichael, Hoagy
Arnaz, Desi, 1917-1986
Mills Brothers.
Calloway, Cab, 1907-
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1930s-1940s.
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0775
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
16mm motion picture films, produced in the 1930s and 1940s by various film production companies, documenting performances by jazz and popular music performers, including Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Lena Horne, the Mills Brothers, and Rosemary Clooney, and others listed below.
Southern Agriculture Oral History Project Records
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Daniel, Pete
- Dates:
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1986-1991
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25 Cubic feet (79 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0773
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is divided into four series. Series 1: Oral History Transcripts, 1982-1991 are transcribed versions of the oral interviews. Correspondence and/or notes pertaining to the interviewed individual collected or written by the interviewer are filed in this series following the transcription. The majority of the oral histories were done by ...
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Public Schools (District of Columbia)
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1962-1980.
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0764
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Filmstrips and accompanying recordings, on consumer and home economics topics, intended for use in public schools.
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Wood, Priscilla
Quilles, Mario
Quiles, Manuel, 1908-1989
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1944-1947.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0765
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Home movies documenting various events in a small, close-knit, South Bronx, New York community of Puerto Ricans who came to the mainland U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s. The films depict birthdays, weddings and Christmas celebrations.
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Gensel, John
Morgen, Joe
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1950-1979
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0763
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to Duke Ellington, once owned by Ellington's publicist Joe Morgen: Morgen's correspondence, much of it relating to appearances by Ellington; photographs; some financial records; some music manuscripts of Ellington's; concert and theater programs; a film of Ellington at the White House in 1969 when he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Nixon; and press releases and newspaper and magazine articles.
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Rethi, Lili, -1969
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undated
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6 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0749
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Drawings, biographical material, photographs, printed material, relating to the career of illustrator Lili Rethi.
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DeSouza, E.
Iverson, Lillian Lucas
Saskatoon Public Library
- Dates:
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1922
- Size:
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1 Photographic print (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0754
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
"Photo by / E. DeSouza / 467 Pa. Ave. N.W. / Washington, D.C." imprinted in negative.
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Garvin, Thomas
Vines, Gail
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1951-1953
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0756
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One scrapbook of fourteen pages consisting of hand-drawn illustrations cut from envelopes and glued to the scrapbook pages.
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Burns, Ralph
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circa 1940-1994
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1 Cubic foot (4 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0736
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains sheet music and presentation scores of songs written and arranged by composer Ralph Burns.
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Silver, Horace, 1928-
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1981-1998.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0737
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed materials, consisting mostly of obscure, alternative jazz magazines containing articles about Silver; and two publicity photographs of Silver.