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McCrum, L. L. (store owner)
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1879-1880.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0142
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A daybook from a general store in Aurora, West Virginia.
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Septima V. Koehler collection
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Koehler, Septima, 1848-1918
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1890-1905
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39 Photographic prints
0.4 Linear feet (1 Document Box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.319
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Septima Koehler collection includes photographic prints, correspondence and student papers that document Septima's work as a mission teacher for the Episcopal Church in South Dakota from around 1895 to 1905. Koehler taught Sicangu Lakota students at St. Mary's Mission School on the Rosebud Reservation and Hunkpapa Lakota students at St. Elizatbeth's Mission School on the Standing Rock Reservation.
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Bellcomm, Inc.
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1959-1972
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81.71 Cubic feet (222 letter document boxes, 1 slim letter document box, 4 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0093
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains the non-book portion of Bellcomm's Technical Library. The material in the collection consists of technical reports prepared by NASA subcontractors and/or NASA facilities during the first decade of space exploration (1960-1970). The collections also includes some reports issued by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Pasadena, CA, including Space Program and Research Summaries, as well as technical and engineering documents.
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Porter, Russell W.
Ingalls, Albert G., 1888-1958 (astronomer, editor)
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circa 1920-1956
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8.7 Cubic feet (27 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0175
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Albert G. Ingallsrole as an editor for the "Scientific American" (specifically a column on amateur astronomy) primarily through correspondence and other publications.
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American Academy in Rome
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1855-2012
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65.9 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.ameracar
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Archives of American Art
The records of the American Academy in Rome measure 65.9 linear feet and date from 1855 to 2012. The collection documents the history of the institution from its inception in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome, through the end of World War II, and chronicles the contributions the academy has made to America's cultural and intellectual development. Nearly one-half of the collection consists of an unprocessed addition received in 2014 containing records that mostly post-date World War II and include correspondence and subject files of officers and executives based in the New York office of American Academy in Rome.
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Garrett, John W. (John Work), 1820-1884
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry), 1807-1878
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1827-1987
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33 Cubic feet (76 boxes, 46 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1086
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of correspondence, invoices, drawings, photographs, and negatives and other printed literature documenting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from its inception in 1827 to its merger with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the 1960s.
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Paleobiology
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1923-2004
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-140
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession documents the work of Museum Specialist Robert W. Purdy. Materials include correspondence and records documenting collections management, exhibitions, websites, specimen loans, media productions and related activities of the Department of Paleobiology. Some materials are in electronic format.
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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1919-1986
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23 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-018
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Freer Gallery of Art Central Files are comprised mostly of the documentation of routine office procedures. Included in the daily routine were: filling orders for facsimiles of photographs, responding to reference requests seeking information about art and artifacts falling under the domain of the Freer's expertise, the Freer granting ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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October 8-13, 1980
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1980
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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d'Arazien, Arthur
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circa 1930-2002
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11 Cubic feet (28 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0314
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes Arthur d'Arazien's professional work in industrial photography from the late 1940's through about 1981; personal creative photography and other types of professional work were retained by Mr. d'Arazien or placed elsewhere. Thus this collection is a very cohesive, unified body of work, which documents primarily American (and...
