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Walter Shropshire Papers
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Creators:
Shropshire, Walter
Dates:
circa 1960-1985
Size:
3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 87-009
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting Shropshire's career as Assistant Director of the Radiation Biology Laboratory, and his research as a biophysicist.

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Walter Shropshire Papers
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Creators:
Shropshire, Walter
Dates:
circa 1965-1986
Size:
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 87-017
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting Shropshire's biophysics research and professional activities. Materials concern his work with the International Solar Energy Society and his activities as coordinator and editor for the Smithsonian's Einstein Colloquium, "The Joys of Research."

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Walter Shropshire Papers
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Creators:
Shropshire, Walter
Dates:
1951-2003
Size:
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 08-119
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession documents Walter Shropshire's career as Assistant Director of the Radiation Biology Laboratory (RBL) and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (when RBL merged with the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies), and his research as a biophysicist. Materials include correspondence, photographs and clippings.

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James A. E. Halkett Papers
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Creators:
Halkett, James A. E. (physicist)
Wesolowski, Sigmund A.
Dates:
1948-1951.
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0220
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Halkett and Wesolow(ski) materials show the process of technological innovation through laboratory protocols. They also demonstrate the various alternatives explored in the search for effective artificial circulation by using materials which would not damage or clot blood and that could be sterilized. The evolution of the pumping mechanism and powe...

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Betty Bernice Faust photographs of Maya peoples in Campeche
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Creators:
Faust, Betty Bernice
Dates:
1985-1997
Size:
41 Prints (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.98-11
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Betty Bernice Faust in Campeche, Mexico, documenting Maya peoples and ceremonies. The collection also includes images of logging trucks and the Temple of Five Stories at Edzna, as well as two photographs by Bret Diamond.

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Soviet Space Medicine Videohistory Collection
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Dates:
1989
Size:
6 videotapes and 1 audiotape (Reference copies). 7 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9551
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...

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Medical Imaging Videohistory Collection
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Dates:
1989
Size:
9 videotapes and 3 audiotapes. 11 digital video .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9544
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...

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Digitized Content Walter Shropshire Oral History Interviews
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Creators:
Shropshire, Walter, interviewee
Dates:
1998-2000
Size:
18 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9597
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...

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The History of the Cell Sorter Videohistory Collection
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Dates:
1991
Size:
7 videotapes (Reference copies). 12 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9554
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...

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Digitized Content Robert Ledley Papers
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Creators:
Ledley, Robert S.
National Biomedical Research Foundation. Georgetown University
Dates:
1972-1990
Size:
3 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1135
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Robert Ledley Papers document the development of the first whole-body diagnostic imaging system, the Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial (ACTA) X-ray Scanner by Ledley in 1973. Also included is material relating to Ledley's company, Digital Science Information Corporation (DISCO), as well as the public and medical communities' reactions to the scanner.

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