Miles Davis Music Manuscript
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Miles Davis Properties.
Davis, Miles
Evans, Gil, 1912-1988
- Dates:
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1959.
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0920
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Manuscript for "Summertime", recorded by Davis and GIl Evans in 1959.
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D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948-
- Dates:
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1988-2000
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0891
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of three music manuscripts created by Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban-born musician and composer and a photograph.
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Armstrong, Louis, 1900-1971
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0904
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Conductor's scores for: "Didn't it Rain", "Shadrack", "This Train", "Sometimes", "Jonah", "Down by the Riverside", "Jonah and the Whale", "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen". Condensed scores for: "Shadrack", "Go Down Moses", Ezekiel", "Motherless Child", "Rock My Soul".
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Santamaria, Mongo, 1917-
- Dates:
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1950s-1996
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0893
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes music manuscripts, articles and clippings, concert programs, passports, and photographs.
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Sports, Entertainment and Leisure, Division of, NMAH, SI
Bartel, Jean
- Dates:
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1943-1970, undated
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0902
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of Jean Bartel during the Miss America Pageant in 1943 and her activities during her reign.
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Lanza, Kenneth
Lanza, Anthony, 1925-1995
- Dates:
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1925-1946
undated
bulk 1940-1946
- Size:
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1.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0910
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
World War II personal papers, photographs, and printed material of Anthony R. Lanza, who served in the U.S. Army in Japan between 1944 and 1946.
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Williams, Claude, 1908-2004
Fouse-Williams, Blanche Y.
- Dates:
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1920-2005
- Size:
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1 electronic discs (cd)
13 cassette tapes
4.66 Cubic feet (14 boxes, 3 map- folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0909
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business and personal papers, photographs, and audio recordings of Claude "Fiddler" Williams, an award-winning jazz fiddler. Although Williams played music for almost a century the materials in this collection date largely from 1970 to 2005.
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Safko, Lon S.
- Dates:
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1984 - 1996
- Size:
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12.6 Cubic feet (34 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0911
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of Safko International, Inc., document an assistive computer technology company created by Lon S. Safko to produce and sell the environmental control systems he invented for the physically disabled, specifically quadriplegics. Through the use of a computer and alternative input devices, the physically disabled were able to overcome physical barriers which inhibited them from attaining an autonomous lifestyle.
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Burch-Brown, Carol
- Dates:
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1997-2003
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0857
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents a working class "gay" bar, the Shamrock Bar, Bluefield, West Virginia, 1997-2000, through photographs and oral history interviews.
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Northlight of Colorado, Inc.
Jacobson, Jake
- Dates:
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1996-2000
- Size:
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8 framed print
3.42 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0866
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of photoprints and other materials created by Jacob Jacobson for the "Heart & Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America" exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), from April 2000 to early 2004.