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Digitized Content Cook Labs records
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Creators:
Cook Labs
Cook, Emory, 1913-2002
Dates:
1908-2002, bulk 1948-1965
Size:
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
Repository:
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to recording artists, photographs, and production materials, as well as phonograph records, master recordings and unpublished recordings produced by or associated with the Cook Labs label.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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Digitized Content Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 11: Entertainment
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Creators:
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Dates:
1841-1986, undated
Size:
98 Boxes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0300.S11
Repository:
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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Digitized Content Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 21: Musical Instruments
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Creators:
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Dates:
undated
1824-1981
Size:
75 Boxes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0300.S21
Repository:
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 20, Newspapers contains approximately 4,900 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards the playing of music 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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Administrative Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Business Management Office
Dates:
1975-1988
Size:
7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 90-005
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of trust fund payroll cost reports, visitor expenditures and count statistics, blueprints, construction agreements, financial investment analyses, articles, inventory listings, requisition forms for supply or services, protection blotters, sales budget reports, payroll estimates for food service proposals, report of ...

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1996 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 26-July 7, 1996
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1996
Repository:
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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Program Recordings
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Creators:
Smithsonian Associates. $a Campus on the Mall
Dates:
1978-1995 and undated
Size:
7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 96-022
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of recordings of Campus on the Mall courses, classes, and lectures. Materials include audio, video, and film recordings as well as slides.

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Robert G. Stewart research materials
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Creators:
Stewart, Robert G. , 1931-2005
Dates:
1952-2004
bulk 1970-1990
Size:
3 Linear Feet
Collection ID:
NPG.CAP.00002
Repository:
National Portrait Gallery

Research material gathered by Robert G. Stewart on Robert Edge Pine, Auguste Hervieu, Henry Benbridge, James Earl, and other artists, including correspondence, printed matter, notes, and photographs.

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Digitized Content Una Hanbury papers
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Creators:
Hanbury, Una, 1904-1990
Dates:
1910-1994
Size:
5.3 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.hanbuna
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of Una Hanbury measure 5.3 linear feet and date from 1910 to 1994, with the bulk of the material from 1966 to 1990. The collection documents the sculptor's career and the dispersal of her estate through business records, project files, subject files, printed material, and photographs. There is also a small amount of material relating to her personal life including correspondence with friends and family and photographs from various stages of her life.

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Product Development and Licensing Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Product Development and Licensing
Dates:
circa 1974-1999
Size:
39 cu. ft. (39 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 00-112
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of Smithsonian Institution Engagement Calendar correspondence, design concepts, solicited bids, and production information; product development and marketing information, licensing contracts, and royalty agreements with private manufacturers; records documenting the American Pacific Enterprises quilt controversy; p...

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Digitized Content Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American Art. Office of Program Support
Dates:
1947-1981
Size:
146.04 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (280 document boxes) (1 5x8 box) (1 film box) (2 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 321
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The records of the Office of Program Support, National Museum of American Art, 1965-1981, with related records from 1947, were received in the Archives from 1981 through 1994.

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