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Beatty, Donald Croom, 1900-1980
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circa 1931
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9 Negatives (nitrate)
150 Copy prints (circa)
237 Negatives (acetate)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.82-43
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of photographs depicting of South American Indigenous peoples, made during Donald Croom Beatty's South American expedition. It includes images of Jivaro (Shuar) people, as well as their boats, houses and villages. Additional photographs depict members of the expedition and the Amazon River.
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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
- Repository:
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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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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Biodiversity Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project
- Dates:
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1978-2002
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-098
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the administration, research, outreach, and programs of the Biodiversity Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, a bi-national collaborative research project between the Smithsonian Institution and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (National Institute for Research in the Amazon) in B...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Zoology
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1967-1971
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 534
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records primarily document the administration of the Belém Ecological Project. They consist of correspondence and memoranda between Philip S. Humphrey, Smithsonian administrators, and project staff including Thomas E. Lovejoy III; financial reports and fiscal records; and files on project personnel.
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Meggers, Betty Jane
Evans, Clifford, 1920-1981
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1893-2012
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129 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2013-01
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National Anthropological Archives
The Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans Papers document their research and professional activities from 1946-2012 and primarily deal with their archaeological and anthropological research in South America. Their work at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and their frequent collaboration with other researchers and professional organizations is also represented. In addition, this collection contains detailed records on South American research conducted by the Smithsonian Institution from the 1950s through the 2010s. The collection consists of research and project files, raw data and analysis, graphs and illustrations, photographs, correspondence, maps and charts, and administrative files.
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Ferdinand Anthony Stahl photographs from the Peruvian Amazon
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Stahl, Ferdinand Anthony, 1874-1950
- Dates:
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1925
1928
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3 Negatives (photographic)
18 Photographic prints
6 Copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.141
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographic prints and negatives taken by Seventh-day Adventist missionary Ferdinand Anthony Stahl amongst indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. These include the Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha), Yagua (Yahua) and Amahuaca communities.
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Kroehle, J. Charles, 1876-1902
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circa 1880s
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21 Mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.129
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs documenting Indigenous Peruvians, including Campa, Cashivo, Cunivo, and Piro communities; some images depict dwellings and weaponry. All or most of the photographs were made by Charles Kroehle and partner George Huebner, and probably collected by William E. Safford during his 1891-1892 expedition to Peru and Bolivia in connection with t...
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Cook Labs
Cook, Emory, 1913-2002
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1908-2002, bulk 1948-1965
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6.3 Cubic feet (Phonograph albums)
63.5 Cubic feet (Open-reel tapes)
8.75 Cubic feet (Business records)
78.55 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.COOK
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Cook Labs records, which date from 1939-2002, document the activities of audio engineer Emory Cook and his label Cook Labs. The contents include business records, materials relating to recording artists, photographs, and production materials, as well as phonograph records, master recordings and unpublished recordings produced by or associated with the Cook Labs label. The collection also contains two interviews conducted with Emory Cook in 1990: one by Jeff Place and one by Anthony Seeger and Nicholas Spitzer. There are several physical objects relating to Cook Labs including a bag of powdered vinyl, a binaural playing arm, and a condenser microphone.
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research
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circa 1963-1986
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114 cu. ft. (228 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 329
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the administration, under David Challinor, of the science bureaus of the Smithsonian Institution, c. 1975-1985. Also included are a few records from 1971-1974 and 1986. Series 1 consists of records of the offices reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Science, including the Center for the Study of Man and the National...
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United States. Works Progress Administration
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1936-1937.
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18.5 Cubic feet (79 volumes, 10 rolls)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0240
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is comprised of over 18 cubic feet of material generated during the course of the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey. The bulk of the collection consists of survey books and measured drawings. Other records include administrative papers relating to the project, an index and catalogue, and a listing of the names of vessels su...