Helen May Butler Collection
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Young, Helen May Butler
Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Dates:
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1899-1937
bulk 1902-1902
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, one oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0261
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The materials cover the career of a woman bandmaster with an all women's traveling military band from 1898-1913, with the bulk of the material ca. 1902. Contents include clippings, photographs, programs, sheet music, hand noted music, posters, post cards, advertising fliers, letters, telegram, biographical article announcing candidacy for U.S. Sena...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Dates:
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1841-1986, undated
- Size:
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98 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S11
- 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 11: Entertainment contains more than 12,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards entertainers and entertainment 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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Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
- Dates:
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1663-2004
- Size:
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6,500 Items (estimated)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CL.XXXX-0014
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Libraries
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa.
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Hazen, Margaret Hindle
Hazen, Robert M.
- Dates:
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circa 1818-1931
- Size:
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13.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0253
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Large collection of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera, and music related to the brass band movement in the United States: includes 8 ambrotypes, 36 tintypes, 59 stereographs, 66 cabinet prints, 90 cartes-de-visite, 150 large photoprints, and 874 picture postcards; also posters, concert programs, instrument manufacturers' advertisemem...