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Digitized Content William Claxton Photographs
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Creators:
Claxton, William
Dates:
1955-1960.
Size:
1 Cubic foot (28 items)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0695
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Photographs consist of 16 x 20 inch silver gelatin; selenium-toned archival photographic prints of jazz musicians performing and recording music throughout the United States.

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Digitized Content William Russo Music and Personal Papers
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Creators:
Strayhorn, Billy (William Thomas), 1915-1967
Claxton, William
Kenton, Stan
Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010
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Dates:
1920-2002
Size:
87 Cubic feet (188 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0845
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers and audiovisual materials documenting Russo's career in music.

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James Arkatov Collection of Jazz Photographs
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Creators:
Arkatov, James, 1920-
Dates:
1995-2003
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1229
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection contains 326 photographs of jazz musicians taken by James Arkatov from 1995 to 2003.

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Digitized Content William A. Newcombe and George Gustav Heye photographs from British Columbia
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Creators:
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Newcombe, William A.
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
Dates:
bulk 1934-1938
1912-1913
1929
Size:
45 Photographic prints (Silver Gelatin DOP)
20 copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.051
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

Photographs shot by William A. Newcombe during three collecting trips to British Columbia with George Gustav Heye, director of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Between 1934 and 1938 Newcombe and Heye collected and photographed among the collecting ethnographic materials from the Saanich, Esquimalt, Cowichan, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo), and Nuxalk (Bellacoola) communities.

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program Collection
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Creators:
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Dept. of Public Programs
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
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Dates:
1992-2012
Size:
39 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0808
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Audiotapes, CDs and digital files: an ongoing project to interview and preserve the memories of people important in the jazz world, including jazz musicians, singers, dancers, producers, arrangers, and others. A list of interviewees and interviewers follows. The following is a list of the individuals who conducted the interviews. 1. Brown, Anthon...

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Digitized Content John Coltrane Music Manuscript
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Creators:
Guernsey's New York, New York
Coltrane, John, 1926-1967
Dates:
1964
Size:
1 Item (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0903
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The original manuscript for Coltrane's compositionA Love Supreme.

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Publishing
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
circa 1800-1966
Size:
6.07 Cubic feet (consisting of 13 boxes, 1 folder, 4 oversize folders, 6 map case folders.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Publishing
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Publishing forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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David Parrish papers
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Creators:
Parrish, David, 1939-
Dates:
1940-2009
bulk 1964-1998
Size:
3.1 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.parrdavi
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of Alabama photorealist painter David Parrish measure 3.1 linear feet and date from 1940 to 2009, with the bulk of the material from 1964 to 1998. Parrish's career is documented through scattered biographical material; correspondence with galleries, publishers, art organizations, and friends; photographs of Parrish, his studio, and artwork; original artwork by Parrish and others; and printed material.

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Sharpe, Weiss and Company Papers
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Creators:
Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Sharpe, Weiss and Company
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Dates:
1856-1889
Size:
4.75 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 map folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0399
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Invoices and letters from merchants and manufacturers with whom Sharpe, Weiss and Company, and their successors, did business; and two reels of microfilm of Sharpe and Weiss's account books.

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Leonard Carmichael Papers
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Creators:
Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-1973
Dates:
1758-1964
Size:
5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7007
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Leonard Carmichael (1898-1973) was the seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian, serving from 1953 to 1964. Most of Carmichael's papers are at the American Philosophical Society. This material has been retained because it relates to his work at the Smithsonian Institution.

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