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Stillman, Michael, 1915-2003
Rubin, Rose N.
Monitor Records
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undated
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43.7 Cubic feet (Audiotapes)
6.8 Cubic feet (Phonograph records)
57.5 Cubic feet (Paper records)
108 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.MONI
- Repository:
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
This collection contains the original master tapes, commercial recordings, and paper business records of the label Monitor Records. Materials include audiotapes, phonograph records, contracts, correspondence, photographs and other items.
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Andriote, John-Manuel
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1976-2001
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1184
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
John-Manuel Andriote interviewed several individuals and entertainers involved with the disco era for his book, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco. This collection contains his interview tapes, transcripts, and materials related to the research and writing of his book.
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circa 1930
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Film reels (50 minutes, black-and-white silent reversal; 1,345 feet, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1983.01
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Footage shot during a hunting expedition to east Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, and the Sudan. Footage includes: shipboard ritual of "crossing the equator," passage through the Suez Canal, a local ceremony staged for visitors by Acholi tribesmen, Kikuyu dance, monumental Egyptian sculpture and architecture, and various hunting activities an...
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 18: Dance
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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undated
1812-1978
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49 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S18
- 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 18, Dance contains approximately 3,330 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards dance 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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Rockwell, David Hadley
- Dates:
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1980-2004, undated
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3.2 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1342
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An extensive collection of advertisements, club cards, ephemera, and invitations publicizing venues and events at entertainment clubs and venues in New York City, New York, New Jersey, and Florida. The materials make use of a variety of graphic arts styles.
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GeĢnin, Auguste, 1862-1931
- Dates:
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circa 1920
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37 Mounted prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.86-25B
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs relating to a Mexican natural history collection, including archeological, ethnographic, physical, entomological, ornithological, conchological, and paleontological collections. The photographs are mounted in an album entitled "Collections de Auguste Genin," where they are divided according to discipline and have accompanying typewritte...
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Owen Murphy Productions
Murphy, Owen
Office of Tibet (New York, N.Y.)
- Dates:
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circa 1970
- Size:
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1 Film reel (color sound; 522 feet, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1981.04
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Edited film from footage of unknown origin depicting the investiture and procession of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet in 1958 and 1959. Procession, including mounted horsemen, people on foot, and the Dalai Lama in a palanquin, is shown beginning outside Lhasa and continuing to the site of the investiture. Music and dance are performed ...
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Breidenbach, Martha
- Dates:
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1975
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Film reels (color silent, 2,000 feet, 16mm)
Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1977.02
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Full film record of a weekly ritual performed every Friday in several hundred churches throughout Ghana. This church--known as the Church of the Twelves Apostles in Ghana and the Harrist Church in Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)--is a modern African religious movement begun in 1913 by Liberian prophet William Wade Harris. Although Harris was an educate...
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Chesrow, Richard
- Dates:
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circa 1950
- Size:
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2 Film reels (1 hour 13 minutes, color sound; 2,628 feet, 16mm)
Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.2012.12
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Edited film was made with the intention of showing the old and the new of India and the people, their customs and beliefs. Filmed in wide screen the film includes Bombay, Madras, Mahabalapuram (rock hewn temples and the Hill of the Holy Eagles), Mysore, Bangalore, Madura, Bhubaneshwar, Konarak, Darjeeling, Taj Mahal and the Itmad-ud-Daulah, Jaipur,...
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Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
Usaka
Kekhhoal
- Dates:
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ca. 1877
- Size:
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2 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1326
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Contents: Religious Song of the Ballo-Kai-Pomo. Dancing Song of the Ballo-Kai-Pomo, Potter Valley. Acorn Song, (Huchnom) [Yukian], sung by Usaka, a woman. Song of the Huchnom, Sung by old Kekhhoal (blind). Dancing Song of the Karok, Klamath River. Konkau [Maiduan] Dancing Song.
