Joseph Lindon Smith papers
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Smith, Joseph Lindon, 1863-1950
- Dates:
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1647-1965
bulk 1873-1965
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8.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.smitjose
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Boston and New Hampshire painter Joseph Lindon Smith date from 1647-1965, with the bulk of papers dating from 1873-1965, and measure 8.8 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from family members, artists, museums, and art patrons; seven diaries by Smith and two by his wife Corinna, personal business records, notes and writings, files concerning charitable theatrical productions, one sketchbook and other art work, a scrapbook, printed material, photographs, and sound recordings of radio interviews and a radio program on Smith.
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Little Egypt Enterprises (Lithographic printers: Houston, Tx.)
- Dates:
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1965-1979
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300 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.littegyp
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Working files of Little Egypt Enterprises: artists' files, including correspondence, business records, photographs, sketches and printed material pertaining to exhibitions at Little Egypt Enterprises; and a resume and other papers of owner David Folkman, the owner of Little Egypt Enterprises. Artists include Jack Boynton, Robert Camblin, Patty Beck...
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Dates:
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1999, 2002-2003
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-019
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of publications published by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and written by its staff. Publications include "Mr. Whistler's Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition," by Kenneth Myers; "ARS Orientalis;" "Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930," edited by Frederick Nathaniel...
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Browning, Augustus
- Dates:
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1982-1985
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226 postcards (black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller.)
1 box
120 postcards (color, 8 x 10 in. or smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1992-019
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Postcards of Lower and Upper Egypt published in the first decade of the 20th century. The majority of the postcards are unused, but some of them had been posted between 1900 and 1906.
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Higbee, Edwin Converse
- Dates:
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1929
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6 Film reels (reels (1 hr 49 min), silent, black & white, 16 mm. 2348 ft )
7 Film reels (reels (2 hr 3 min), silent, black & white, 16 mm. 2793 ft)
126 Photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 7 x 13 cm.)
126 Photographic prints (dupe prints (2 v.), black & white, 7 x 13 cm. )
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1989-011
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs and film taken by Edwin Converse Higbee during his trip from Capetown to Cairo in 1929 aboard the S.S. Corinthia. The trip was sponsored by the Raymond & Whitcomb Co., a travel service based in Boston, Massachusetts, and promoted as a Round Africa Cruise. Images reflect a variety of people, countryside and architecture.
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Frith, Francis
- Dates:
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undated
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6 Prints (albumen, tipped into album leaves with printed captions on verso)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2016.02
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
6 albumen prints, dated 1857 on the negative and on the album page, of Egyptian antiquities and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. All are from a disassembled copy of Frith's publication, "Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and Described by Francis Frith. in Two Volumes" Photograph titles are: Rock Tombs and Belzoni's Pyramid, Gizeh; The Granite Pylon, ...
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Bonfils, Félix, 1831-1885
- Dates:
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undated
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4 Albumen prints (unmounted)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2017.07
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Four 19th century prints: 1 unmounted albumen print of the Great Pyramid entrance by Maison Bonfils. 28 x 21.5 cm.; 1 albumen print of Egyptian fruit sellers by the Zangaki Brothers, mounted on paper. 27 x 21 cm.; 1 unmounted albumen print of a Damascus fountain by Tancrède Dumas. 28.5 x 22.9 cm.; 1 albumen print of Karnak by Felix Bonfils, mounted...
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Ballance, Georgette
Ballance family
- Dates:
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circa 1970
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72 slides (photographs) (color, mounted, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1978-004
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Frank and Georgette Ballance during their travels through Tanzania, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco during the early 1970s.
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Ederheimer, Guy, Jr
- Dates:
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1930-1931
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70 photographic prints ((2 boxes), black & white, 40 x 50 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1986-015
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Guy Ederheimer from 1930 to 1931 in Egypt and South Africa. Images taken in South Africa are portraits and include a Zulu wedding dance. Pictured are the best man, the bride, dancers, mothers with their children. The Egyptian images show Cairo and the Nile River.
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Hare, Raymond A.
- Dates:
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1930s -1960s
- Size:
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6 Linear feet (2300 photographs)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1989.03
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Ambassador Raymond A. Hare (1901-1994) created this collection to document the architecture, cities, and landscapes of the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine, Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.A photograph album of 90 silver-gelatin photographs depicts minarets in Cairo, Egypt, with annotations in Arabic and English describing the date and title of each minaret. Two portfolios of photographs presented to Ambassador Hare in 1965 by the senior staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Turkey to commemorate his service as Ambassador to Turkey from 1961-1965. Included are 52 matted photographs, many signed by the photographer Ara Guler and dated and captioned, documenting the art and architecture of the Seljuks and the Armenians at the Armenian center of Ani. The slides, 1930s - 1960s, created by Hare document Islamic architecture and people and place views of North Africa, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria.
