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Digitized Content Japanese American Documentary Collection
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Creators:
Tanaka, Peter, Dr.
Tsukamoto, Mary
McGovern, Melvin
Nitta, Eugene T.
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Dates:
1900s-1993
Size:
1 Cubic foot (3 boxes and 1 oversized folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0305
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection is an assortment of souvenirs and memorabilia, which have survived the years since World War II. Many of them, Christmas cards, high school graduation programs, notes to friends, snapshots, and photographic prints in the form of dance programs reflect the interests and concerns of all teenagers. There are camp newsletters and Japan...

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Digitized Content Charles Lang Freer Papers
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Creators:
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
Dates:
1876-1931
Size:
131 Linear feet (29 architectural drawings)
Collection ID:
FSA.A.01
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs.

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McIntosh, Seymour and Company Records
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Creators:
McIntosh, Seymour and Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Dates:
circa 1886-1939
Size:
93.6 Cubic feet (174 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0985
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The records document the design, manufacture, and operation of steam and diesel engines by McIntosh, Seymour and Company of Auburn, New York.

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No-Fee Consultants Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Office of Human Resources
Dates:
1960-1988
Size:
3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 90-166
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of appointment letters, curricula vitae, personnel papers, and related materials for Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory No-Fee Consultants.

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Willis Wagner Wirth Papers
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Creators:
Wirth, Willis Wagner
Dates:
circa 1939-1984
Size:
7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7412
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence primarily documenting Wirth's career at the USDA and his research on Diptera. Also included are small amounts of correspondence concerning his work with the United States Public Health Service and his tenure as a Fulbright Research Scholar in Australia, 1956-1957. The correspondence ...

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Donald J. Ortner Papers
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Creators:
Ortner, Donald J.
Dates:
1963-2013
Size:
44.37 Linear feet (96 boxes, 3 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NAA.2014-07
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The Donald J. Ortner Papers, dated 1963 to 2013, document his research and professional activities while working in the Division of Physical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. They primarily deal with his contributions to the field of paleopathology and his work with specimens from Bab edh-Dhra, Jordan and Chichester, England. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, files related to Ortner's publications, specimen observations and analysis, and photographs.

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Creators:
National Museum of Natural History. Division of Lepidoptera
Dates:
1963-1990, with related records from 1942
Size:
7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 427
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of professional correspondence and administrative files documenting the activities and research of the Division of Lepidoptera. The correspondence for the most part concerns the loan, acquisition, identification, and distribution of insect specimens. A small amount of the correspondence dates to before the 1963 establishm...

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Creators:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Office of the Director
Dates:
circa 1964-1994
Size:
35 cu. ft. (35 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 98-078
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of materials documenting the administration of Irwin I. Shapiro, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Director. Materials include correspondence, publications, memoranda, paper reviews, calendars, prospectuses, project files, budget files, personnel files, and directories.

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Digitized Content Jacob Kainen papers
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Creators:
Kainen, Jacob
Kainen, Ruth Cole.
Dates:
1905-2009
bulk 1940-2001
Size:
33.3 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.kainjaco
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of painter, printmaker, and curator Jacob Kainen measure 33.3 linear feet and date from 1905 to 2009, with the bulk of the material from 1940-2001. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence/subject files including personal correspondence to and from friends and family members and professional correspondence and records concerning Kainen's activities as an artist, curator, teacher, and art collector. The collection also contains biographical material, writings, diaries, calendars, inventories, interview transcripts, printed material, photographs, works of art by other artists, and nine scrapbooks.

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1986 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 25-July 6, 1986
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1986
Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

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