Roche collection
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- Creators:
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Roche, John P.
Roche, Mary Alice
- Dates:
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circa 1954-1970
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
28 Transparencies (col. , 4 x 5 in.)
62 Photographic prints (b&w , 8 x 10 in.)
1 Photographic print (col. , 2.5 x 3.5 inches)
3 Transparencies (col. , 120mm)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.ROC
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Roche Collection documents some of the work of John and Mary Alice Roche, garden photographers who photographed numerous gardens throughout the United States. Several of the Roches' images appeared in popular gardening magazines and books on flower arranging from the 1950s and 1960s.
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- Dates:
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circa 1870-1910
- Size:
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1.75 Cubic feet
807 Stereographs (black and white, color ;, 3 1/2 x 7 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.STR
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Historic Gardens Stereograph Collection includes 807 stereographs that depict various public gardens, parks, and tourist attractions throughout the United States, with an emphasis on features related to horticulture and landscape design, including plants, garden furniture, and topiaries. Most, but not all views, show exterior features. A number of stereographs indicate the photography studio on the recto or verso, as well as a series or image number. Many include a brief caption; some include a lengthy description on the verso. Few are dated.
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Hiller, John
- Dates:
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circa 1920-1930
- Size:
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0.75 Cubic feet (216 lantern slides:, color autochromes; , 3.25 x 4 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.HIL
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The John Hiller Lantern Slide Collection contains 216 glass autochromes dated circa 1920-1930 documenting homes and gardens, house interiors, scenes from domestic and foreign travel, flower arrangements, and people in Europe and unidentified locations.
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Schaeffer, Rudolph
- Dates:
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1880s-1997
- Size:
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13.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.scharudo
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The collection measures 13.3 linear feet, dates from the 1880s-1997 and documents the life and varied career of Rudolph Schaeffer, artist, designer, teacher, writer, collector of Asian art, and pioneer in the field of color study who founded the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco in 1926. The papers include biographical information, correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries, journals, artwork, scrapbooks, sound recordings, and photographs.
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- Dates:
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1943-1944
- Size:
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0.19 Cubic Feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2003.0063
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a Japanese World War II diary (1943-1944); two small pocket calendars/notebooks; a small black and white photograph showing mountainous scenery; and a post card.
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Tucker, Irma
Tucker, Bobby, 1923-2008
Eckstine, Billy
Jones, Quincy, 1933-
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1883-2007, undated
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36 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1141
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and musical career of Robert "Bobby" Tucker. The collection particularly emphasizes Tucker's close collaboration with Billy Eckstine over a forty-year period from approximately 1949-1990, and includes original orchestrations of arrangements by Tucker and other arrangers, a complete set of commercial recordings by Eckstine for which Tucker served as arranger, and ephemeral material including photographs, concert programs and news clippings.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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circa 1850-1957
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55 Boxes (approximately.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S02
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. Series 2 materials include cinema lobby cards, fire insurance maps, photographs and scrapbooks of liquor and wine labels. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Dates:
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1831-1984, undated
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40 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S12
- 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 12: Plants and Animals contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards plants and animals 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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H. Weber & Sons Co.
- Dates:
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circa 1879-1962
- Size:
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7 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- AAG.WBR
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The H. Weber & Sons Co. records document the professional activities of The H. Weber & Sons Company, a florist business consisting of a florist shop and greenhouse which was located in Oakland, Maryland. The collection contains business records, photographs, horticultural medals and wire frames used for floral displays.
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Dixon, Ralph L.
Dixon, Hetty G.
- Dates:
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1924-1960
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12 leaves (gathered matter components) (24 x 31 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CL.MSS001783B
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Libraries
Album with seventeen specimens of flowering plants that were collected, dried, and arranged by Ralph L. Dixon and his wife, Hetty G. Dixon. The album contains specimens of 17 plants that were gathered by the Dixons, mostly in the vicinity of Washington D.C. (Georgetown, Great Falls, and the C. & O. Canal towpath) in 1924. Two of the final group of specimens were gathered in Montana and the Rocky Mountains in 1960.