Alexander Liberman papers
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Liberman, Alexander, 1912-1999
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circa 1912-2003
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59 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.libealex
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of sculptor, painter, and publishing executive Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman date from circa 1913-2003 and measure 59 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; correspondence with family, galleries, museums, and many artists; numerous recorded interviews and transcripts with and by Liberman, including one of Walter Hopps; writings and writing project files; extensive subject files maintained by Liberman; exhibition files; printed materials; scattered drawings; and extensive photographs of Liberman's artwork, exhibitions, Liberman, and of Liberman with notable artists, dealers, collectors, and critics. Many of the photographs were taken by noted photograhers. Also found within the papers are unidentified sound and video recordings. Additional sound and video recordings have been integrated into other series.
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Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
Doud, Richard Keith
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
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1964 Dec. 30
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19 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.parks64
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Gordon Parks conducted 1964 Dec. 30, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art, in New York, N.Y.
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Muray, Nickolas, 1892-1965
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1910-1992
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1.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.muranick
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of photographer Nickolas Muray measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1910 to 1978. Found within the papers are biographical materials; business and personal correspondence, including a handful of letters from Frida Kahlo; writings; teaching files, primarily of photography courses taught at New York University; printed material; artwork; and photographic materials of Muray, his family and friends, and his work. There is a 0.6 linear feet Unprocessed Addition which includes biographical material, correspondence, photographs, research notes and a diary about Africa, and a subject file on the book The Revealing Eye, Personalities of the 1920s, written by Paul Gallico with photographs taken by Muray, 1967.
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Bagby, Robert, d. 1972
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1919 - 1970
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0.12 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1185
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Robert Bagby was a professional photographer and professor of photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. These slides depict the photographer himself, models, monuments in the Washington, DC area, and countryside scenes.
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Kidder, Priscilla C. (costume designer)
Priscilla of Boston.
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1940-1996
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4 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0557
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection includes letters, sketches, style books, publicity photographs, tearsheets, articles and clippings, scrapbooks, and business documents relating to Priscilla Kidder, the Priscilla of Boston Company, and the American wedding industry. This collection is extraordinarily useful in documenting the development of wedding fashion during the last half of the 20th century. It also illustrates how a small, family-owned, woman-run business grew into a large, nationally known operation.
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Paulin, Frank
Silverstein, Bruce
Silverstein, Silke
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1950s-1994
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1373
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photoprints of city scenes, mostly taken during the 1950s, but including a few later images. Most of the images were made in New York City, Chicago, and New Orleans. One photograph was taken in Seville, Spain. The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson appears in two of the photographs, photographing the Saint Patrick's Day parade; evangelist Billy Gra...
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Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975
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1908-1971
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13 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.chamsamu
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Personal and business correspondence; photographs; etchings; drawings; sketches; writings; biographical material; and clippings.
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Doggett, Drew
- Dates:
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February 2011
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1 Photographic print (b&w; matted, 12 x 18 in. (print); 21 x 24 in. (matted))
1 Photographic print (b&w; matted, 10 x 12 in. (print); 16 x 18 in. (matted))
18 Photographic prints (b&w; matted, 12 x 18 in. (print); 18 x 24 in. (matted))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-009
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of twenty matted black and white photographs taken in February 2011 that were used in Doggett's series, Omo: Expressions of a People (2012). These artistic photographs were taken in Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and depict Suri, Hamar, Dhassanac and Karo peoples.
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Cotton Museum (Memphis, Tennessee)
National Cotton Council
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1939-1994
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38 Cubic feet (90 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1176
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Maid of Cotton (MOC) beauty pageant was sponsored by the National Cotton Council, Memphis Cotton Carnival, and the Cotton Exchanges of Memphis, New York, and New Orleans from 1939-1993. The contest was held annually in Memphis, Tennessee until the National Cotton Council and Cotton Council International moved to Dallas, Texas. Beginning with the 1985 pageant (held December 1984) the competition was held in Dallas. The pageant was discontinued in 1993 due to lack of funds, a sponsor, and changes in marketing strategies. The records include files on contestants, photographs, and scrapbooks.
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Weston, Frederick, 1946-
Kerr, Theodore
- Dates:
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2016 August 31-September 5
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4 Items (sound files (5 hrs., 28 min.), digital, wav)
130 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.weston16
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview with Frederick Weston, conducted 2016 August 31 and September 5, by Theodore Kerr, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Weston's home in New York, N.Y.