Academy of Washington Records
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Taylor, T. Frank
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bulk 1956-2017, undated
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14.2 Cubic feet (44 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1458
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of the Academy of Washington, an incorporated organization devoted to drag performance and recognition of drag performers and entertainment. These records also include the personal records of Carl Rizzi ("Mame Dennis").
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King, D. Ward
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1902-2005
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0.75 Cubic feet ( 2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1332
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, publications and correspondence related to D. Ward King's invention the King Road Drag, or the Split-Oak drag, which improved rural travel in the early 20th century by introducing a simple design and low-effort system for grading poor-quality roads. The King Road Drag was promoted heavily across the United States and Canada via the "Good Roads Campaign" originally sponsored by the railroad companies in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Miller, Kenneth C., 1901-1974
Sinclair, David
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
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1938 January
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56 Photographic prints
18 negatives (photographic)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.057
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographs of the Hidatsa Delegation at the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in New York, City and visiting the White House in Washington, D.C. for the repatriation of a Water Buster Bundle in 1938. Hidatsa Delegation members included elders Drags Wolf and Foolish Bear.
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McNally, George E.
LaClair, Beatrice M.
McNally, Neva Satterlee, -1909
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circa 1889-1964
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0760
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of photographs, commercially published sheet music, and original music manuscripts from the McNallys' vaudeville careers. Materials include minstrel show and blackface material; photo of Albert Tovell, once the master of ceremonies for Frances H. "Peaches" Browning; and a photograph of "Gov. Jordan," a blackface female impersonator.
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Browning, Bil
Davis, Jerame
Davis, Jerame Joe, 1975-
Browning, William Dale, 1972-
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1972-2015, undated
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3.15 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1334
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bil Browning and his husband, Jerame Davis were activists for LGBT issues, locally in Indiana as well as nationally in Washington, D.C.
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Horstman, Dorothy, 1930-1999
Cline, Patsy
Horstman, Madi
Horstman, Fritzi
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1959-1999.
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11 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0723
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Tape recordings containing oral history and radio show recordings of country and western music, collected and produced by Dorothy Horstman.,Recordings include such musicians as Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Hank Snow, and Roy Acuff.
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Garden Club of America
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circa 1920-present
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37,000 Slides (35mm slides)
33 Linear feet ((garden files))
3,000 lantern slides
- Collection ID:
- AAG.GCA
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Archives of American Gardens
This collection contains over 37,000 35mm slides, 3,000 glass lantern slides and garden files that may include descriptive information, photocopied articles (from journals, newspapers, or books), planting lists, correspondence, brochures, landscape plans and drawings. Garden files were compiled by Garden Club of America (GCA) members for most of the gardens included in the collection. Some gardens have been photographed over the course of several decades; others only have images from a single point in time. In addition to images of American gardens, there are glass lantern slides of the New York Flower Show (1941-1951) and trips that GCA members took to other countries, including Mexico (1937), Italy, Spain, Japan (1935), France (1936), England (1929), and Scotland. A number of the slides are copies of historic images from outside repositories including horticultural and historical societies or from horticultural books and publications. The GCA made a concerted effort in the mid-1980s to acquire these images in order to increase its documentation of American garden history. Because of copyright considerations, use of these particular images may be restricted.
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Burch-Brown, Carol
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1997-2003
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0857
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents a working class "gay" bar, the Shamrock Bar, Bluefield, West Virginia, 1997-2000, through photographs and oral history interviews.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1847-1975
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251 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S04
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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 4: Songwriters: A "songwriter" for this series is defined as a composer, a lyricist, or both. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Wagstaff, Samuel J.
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circa 1932-1985
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6.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wagssamu
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Archives of American Art
The Samuel J. Wagstaff papers, circa 1932-1985 comprise 6.4 linear feet of correspondence, writings, miscellaneous records, printed material, and photographs documenting Wagstaff's professional and personal relationships with artists and photographers, his career as an art curator, and his position as an important collector of paintings and photographs. Correspondence with artists and others such as curators, arts organizations, galleries, and museums, reflects the diversity of contemporary American art and includes individuals associated with the abstract expressionist, Fluxus, pop, earth, conceptual, and minimalist art movements.