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Baggerman, William F.
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circa 1947-1970
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1,688 color slides
31 negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
22 prints (silver gelatin)
5 color prints
3 postcards (color halftone)
1 drawing
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.98-23
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made during William F. Baggerman's travels, including trips on the Pan-American Highway, the Tara River in Yugoslavia, and a Transsaharan "expedition" in the Amazon River Region, and in the Balkans, Tibet, Iran, Afghanistan, and Bakistan. They document people and their natural and built environments, as well as markets, ceremonies and ...
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Posey, Carl A.
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1945-1966
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1.35 Cubic Feet (3 legal document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2000.0023
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of airport reports and plans, mostly written by Posey, for the following countries: Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador, Colombia, Honduras, Haiti, Trinidad, British Guiana, Spain, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
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Seherr-Thoss, Hans Christoph, Graf von, 1918-
Seherr-Thoss, Sonia P.
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circa 1960-1968
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4 Linear feet (approximate: 1250 items)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2001.15
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Photographs and negatives of Sonia P. and Hans C. Seherr-Thoss. Mounted and unmounted color slides, transparencies, black and white negatives, mounted prints, contact sheets, and a photograph, circa 1960-1968. The majority of images, taken by Hans C. Seherr-Thoss, appear in their publication, Design and Color in Islamic Architecture: Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey, published by the, Smithsonian Institution Press, in 1968. Countries depicted are Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Koch, Emma Augusta, 1847-1932
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circa 1862-1885
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165 mounted prints (circa 165 mounted prints, albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.161
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs collected by Emma A. Koch documenting the people and natural and built environments of India, South Asia, and Australia. The collection largely consists of images of East Indian peoples, structures, scenery, and activities, including tea making and entertainment; areas of India most commonly depicted are Assam, Bengal, and the Andaman...
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Longcope, Janet, ca. 1886-1974
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1954-1971
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600 mounted prints (circa 600 mounted prints, silver gelatin)
4,000 color slides (circa)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.75-26
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Janet Longcope during trips to countries around the world. They depict landscapes, buildings, markets, dances, agriculture, arts and crafts, ceremonies, children, cooking, musicians, and transportation. Locations depicted include Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Easter Island, Egypt, Et...
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Koelz, Walter, 1895-1989
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1936-1941, 1948
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7274
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The itinerary, compiled in 1948, documents Koelz's plant explorations in Ceylon, India, Afghanistan, and Iran from 1936 to 1941.
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UNESCO
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circa 1961-2006
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27 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.UNES
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
This collection, which dates from circa 1961-2006, contains audiorecordings from the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World, as well as related business records. Includes recordings of tradition and sacred music from Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Peru, Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, China, Korea, the Solomon Islands, India, Bali, Java, Japan, Laos, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Oman, Syria, and Turkey.
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Cooke, Hereward Lester
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1969
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3.44 Cubic Feet ((7 legal document boxes, 1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2002.0031
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Hereward Lester Cooke (1916-1975), a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, was extremely interested in the moon landing as well as in stamp collecting. He acquired over five hundred stamps relating to the 1969 lunar landing from countries including: Afghanistan, Algeria, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, China, C...
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Sanford, Robert S., 1897-1981
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bulk 1917-1970
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0.55 Cubic feet ((1 box, 1 folder in oversized box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2004.0063
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material relating to both Robert Sanford's World War I service and his work in Alaska with the US Bureau of Mines. The material relating to his service with the 139th Aero Squadron includes the following: a series of over 100 letters from Sanford to his family from 1917-1919, chronicling his entry into the military, trai...
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 8: Geography
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1794-1987
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100 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S08
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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 8: Geography is divided into three sections: the United States, Foreign Countries, and Natural Features. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.