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Boudini, Phil
Boudini Brothers
Boudini, Dan, 1891-
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1909-1928
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1.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1426
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document the Boudini Brothers Vaudeville act. They include letters, postcards and telegrams, mostly of a business nature (such as relating to bookings); business papers including contracts and papers relating to expenses; photographs of the family and of the act; programs; scores and sheet music; music manuscripts; advertisements for app...
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Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
Pool, Ithiel de Sola, 1917-
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1919-1984
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0713
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of articles, publications, writings, and research notes on the topic of communication in the 20th century, especially the psychological effects of mass media. Also 4 VHS videotapes and an accordion file folder.
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Elizabeth Ridout Collection
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Ridout, Elizabeth
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undated
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1 Album (Accordion album with 24 albumen prints; 24 postcards)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Items presented to the Archives by collector Elizabeth Candida Ridout (1938-2015). Includes a small Japanese accordion album with brocade covers and 24 hand-tinted albumen photographs, ca. 1880s. One side of the album shows studio constructs and portraits of Japanese women, either alone or in groups posed in daily activities; the other side shows p...
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undated
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12 Items (panels , color illustrations, approximately 5 x 4.5 inches each (50 inches total length))
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1998-31
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National Anthropological Archives
This collection is comprised of an undated Mayan codex, consisting of 12 accordion-folded panels measuring approximately 5 x 4.5 inches each, with color illustrations and Maya script on both sides.
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Dalí, Salvador, 1904-
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1936
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1 Item (leaf, ill., 25 x 19 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.dalisalv
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Catalog designed by Salvador Dalí for his exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery, 602 Madison Ave., New York, 15 December 1936 - 15 January 1937. The front drawing shows a figure; underneath snap-on cardboard breasts are 2 accordion folded strips each containing 6 reproductions of Dali's work. Reverse is labeled "Souvenir - Catalogue" and lists 21 w...
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Bentivoglio, Mirella, 1922-
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1959-1962
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24 Items
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bentmire
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence tied with research in preparation for Bentivoglio's book on Shahn. Includes two letters from Edith Gregor Halpert of the Downtown Gallery. Also includes one copy photograph of Shahn's photo "The accordion player" and a printed flier for "A treasury of Yiddish stories" (a book with illustrations by Shahn).
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Waagenaar, Emile
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1980-2008
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0.5 Cubic feet (64 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1150
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Environmental portraits of Cajun musicians: 64 inkjet photographic prints, 1980-2008, some in black-and-white and others in color.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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undated
1824-1981
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75 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S21
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 20, Newspapers contains approximately 4,900 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards the playing of music in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Wurlitzer (Rudolph) Company
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1860-1984
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56 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0469
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the history and development of the Wurlitzer Company and consists of company publications, business records, employee files, manufacturing records, sales and marketing records, product information, publicity, advertising, photographs, audiovisual materials, and organ installation drawings.
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Basile, Mark
Coca, Imogene
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1879-2008
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7.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 4 framed items, 12 accordion folders, two loose stacks)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1479
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and career of comedian Imogene Coca.