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Conservation and Research Center (National Zoological Park)
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1970-1987
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13 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-037
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Christen M. Wemmer, Associate Director, documenting administrative activities. Some materials pre-date Wemmer and the Conservation and Research Center (CRC) and were probably collected from other offices as informational files. Major topics include the American Association for Z...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1979-1991
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24 cu. ft. (24 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-022
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes records documenting the production Smithsonian World, an educational television series that explored people, ideas, and events shaping world culture and blending art, science, history, and the humanities to create a harmony among disciplines. The production was narrated by historian David G. McCullough and co-produced ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1979, 1986
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-120
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of 16mm film and 1" videotape documenting the 1979 production, "Thomas A. Edison and His Amazing Invention Factories," a companion film to the exhibition, "Edison: Lighting a Revolution." The 28 minute film was a biography featuring the invention of electric light and the founding of research labs. The film won the ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1987
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-125
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of U-matic videotapes documenting two programs celebrating the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art. The symposium "Recreation with the Muses: Creativity in the Arts and Sciences" (8 videotapes) was held on September 11, 1987, and organized by the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies and the National Academy ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1986-1987
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2.38 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 film box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-122
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of 16mm film, 1" videotape and U-matic videotape documenting companion films to exhibitions in the National Museum of Natural History Hall of Indian and Eskimo Cultures. Working titles of films include: Potlatch "Box of Treasures," Potlatch "Strict Law," "Northwest Coastal Masks," "North West Coast Indian Masking," ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1985, 1994-1995
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1.58 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-124
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of film, video, and audio elements documenting the educational production "Search for the Tunguska Meteorite." Materials include 9 film elements (release print, original dupe negative, opt. negative S/T, black & white second position print, preview print, and 16mm mag. S/T); 3 video elements (D2, Beta SP film transfers ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Information
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1947-1965
- Size:
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1.38 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 film box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-128
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual records created during the production of "Sikhote-Aline Meteorite" and "Smithsonian Institution Missouri River Basin Survey." Sikhote-Aline Meteorite" documents the meteorite between 1947, when it fell in Siberia, and 1950 and was produced by the Central Documentary Film Studio in Moscow in 1956. Thi...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Dates:
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1986-1988
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3.08 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-121
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection is comprised of motion picture, video, and audio recordings of three productions regarding issues related to biodiversity, biotic communities, and the study of these systems. "To Coexist: Diversity and Development" was produced for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The 30-minute program depicts how developm...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1989-1991
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-130
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of 18 video elements (1" magnetic masters, Beta masters, dubs and burn-ins, VHS copies); and 4 audio elements (1/4" audiotapes) documenting the interactive video, "300 Years of American Papermaking," that accompanied the National Museum of American History exhibition of the same name. The exhibition commemorated th...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1979-1989
- Size:
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4.58 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-132
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of video elements (1 inch magnetic, 3/4 inch U-matic, VHS), 1/4 inch audiotape, and 16mm film documenting seven productions. The 1986 production "Looking at Earth" (also known as the "Radar Show") was a companion show to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition with the same name. The exhibit was concerned with ...