United States Women in Aviation through World War I
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Oakes, Claudia M.
- Dates:
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circa 1909-1978
bulk 1904-1920
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0.74 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0424
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of research material used by National Air and Space Curator Claudia Oakes to prepare the publication United States Women in Aviation through World War I (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978).
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National Portrait Gallery, Office of Public Affairs
- Dates:
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circa 1962-1983
- Size:
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14.04 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 554
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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National Portrait Gallery, Office of External Affairs
- Dates:
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1979-1990
- Size:
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-212
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting National Portrait Gallery exhibitions in the press. Materials include clippings, press releases, black and white photographs, brochures, and postcards advertising exhibitions.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
- Dates:
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1976-1995
- Size:
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11.6 cu. ft. (20 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-052
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of contact sheets for photographs of events occurring mostly in the Washington, D.C., area. Many of these images were created for the annual exhibit "History as Seen from the National Museum of American History," later renamed "The Year in Pictures: As Seen from the National Museum of American History." Events incl...
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National Museum of American Art and Portrait Gallery. Library
- Dates:
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circa 1910-1986
- Size:
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10.43 cu. ft. (20 document boxes) (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 333
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists primarily of brochures, booklets, and books cataloging single exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, the National Collection of Fine Arts, the National Museum of American Art, and the Renwick Gallery. Also included are a few catalogs from exhibitions of SITES. There are catalogs from exhibitions staged by the ...
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Singer Manufacturing Company
Singer Company (The), (Fairfield, New Jersey)
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1927-1983
bulk 1960-1977
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11 Cubic feet (3 oversize folders, 20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0169
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The bulk of the collection consists of renderings of sewing machines and related products by industrial designers such as Henry Dreyfuss, Robert P. Gersin, Eliot Noyes, and Malcolm S. Park; by designers of Singer's in-house design department; and by consultants to the firm. Materials include decals, photographs, negatives, patents, and renderings and sketches. This collection documents the influence of industrial design on Singer sewing machines as well as other household products such as vacuum cleaners.
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National Museum of American Art. Department of Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
- Dates:
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circa 1961-1980
- Size:
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29 cu. ft. (29 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 458
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the work of the Department and its curators in the late 1960s and in the 1970s, with some material dated as early as 1961. The files include correspondence concerning proposed and rejected works of art, some administrative actions, and the Department's relationship with other museums. The majority of the records con...
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National Museum of American Art. Office of Exhibition and Design
- Dates:
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1947-1983
- Size:
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4.93 cu. ft. (2 16x20 boxes) (37 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 452
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of approximately 800 posters, which primarily document exhibitions, programming, and collections at the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) and later, the National Museum of American Art (NMAA). Several posters serve as advertisements for the museum, incorporating imagery from artists' works within the collection....
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Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906
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1891-1914
bulk 1891-1900
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24.28 Cubic feet (64 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0494
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes information about Samuel P. Langley and his colleagues, as well as documentation of Langley's work. The collection includes biographies of Langley and his assistant Charles Manly, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts regarding Langley's aircraft, photographs and drawings, work requisitions for the Aerodromes, a sketchbook, specifications and measurements for Langley's experiments, the Langley Memoirs on Mechanical Flight and the Langley "Waste Books."
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National Air and Space Museum. Department of Aeronautics
- Dates:
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1965-1986
- Size:
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36.5 cu. ft. (73 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 330
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the history of the Department of Aeronautics from 1966-1986, a period marked by intensive planning for the new museum, its construction and opening in July 1976, and the emergence of the National Air and Space Museum as a large and important bureau of the Smithsonian and the most visited museum in the world. At the begi...