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Reingold, Nathan,1927-
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1947
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0.31 cu. ft. (0.31 non-standard size boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-266
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of motion picture stills and a black-and-white photograph from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie, "The Beginning or the End" (1947), directed by Norman Taurog, with original story by Robert Considine and screenplay by Frank W. Wead, and starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Walker. These materials were used by Nathan Reingold ...
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Joseph Lindon Smith papers
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Smith, Joseph Lindon, 1863-1950
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1647-1965
bulk 1873-1965
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8.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.smitjose
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Boston and New Hampshire painter Joseph Lindon Smith date from 1647-1965, with the bulk of papers dating from 1873-1965, and measure 8.8 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from family members, artists, museums, and art patrons; seven diaries by Smith and two by his wife Corinna, personal business records, notes and writings, files concerning charitable theatrical productions, one sketchbook and other art work, a scrapbook, printed material, photographs, and sound recordings of radio interviews and a radio program on Smith.
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Heinrich, Carl
- Dates:
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1916-1919, 1927, 1929
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7125
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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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Schiedt, Duncan P.
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1900-2012, undated
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65 Cubic feet (124 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1323
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Duncan Schiedt (1921-2014) was a jazz scholar, writer, photographer, film maker, researcher and pianist. He authored four books relating to jazz history. Many of his photographs and articles were featured in magazines, periodicals and documentaries. Schiedt also collected the work of other photographers on the subject of jazz. The collection primarily consists of photographs created by or collected by Mr. Schiedt.
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Citizens' Committee for Government Arts Projects
- Dates:
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1941
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0.4 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.citicomf
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Citizens' Committee for Government Arts Projects records are dated 1941 and comprise 0.4 linear feet. The records contain correspondence between Committee member and co-founder, Aline Davis Hays, and various organizations, artists, and museum professionals concerning support for the Committee in its efforts to preserve the continuation of the government arts projects under the WPA. The records also include writings about the importance of the WPA as well as a synopsis of the WPA from 1940 to 1941.
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Niemeyer, G. Charles, Dr. (Grover Charles)
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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ca. 1960-1990.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0679
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
G. Charles Niemeyer was a Broadway actor and later a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. In the 1960s he began to research and write a new history of motion picture technology entitled From Shadow Play to Photoplay. It was never published.
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Daytime TV Magazine.
Becker, Joyce
Sugarman, Allan
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1977-1983
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0107
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of issues of Daytime TV, from 1977 to 1983. Daytime TV was a magazine devoted exclusively to soap operas and soap opera actors.
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Wood, Grant, 1891-1942
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1930-1983
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0.2 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.woodgrap
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Grant Wood papers measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1930 to 1983. Included are three newspaper obituaries for Grant Wood and six letters to art educator, Zenobia Ness, discussing his exhibition plans, paintings, Stone City Art Colony, and the Federal Public Works of Art Projects. The collection also contains two letters, including a Stone City brochure, to Walter Pritchard Eaton, Professor of Drama at Yale University. Also found are writings, newspaper clippings containing articles on Wood, and other printed material. Photographs in the collection, some of which are signed, are of Wood in his studio and at the Artist Camp at Stone City, and various works of art.
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Blocki, Jim
Cook, Fielder
Durante, Al
Green, Chester
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1947-1992
- Size:
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4.3 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0464
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Oral history interviews with fourteen former Kraft and J. Walter Thompson executives chart the evolution of Kraft's approach to television, from its pioneering efforts in the medium's infancy to the search to maintain identity in an increasingly competitive and fragmented media landscape. Casting, directing, and production of the live dramas and the commercials are discussed at length. Kraft's philosophy of advertising, its relationship with J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and NBC, and consumer outreach are also featured.
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Maltsby, Portia
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
- Dates:
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1979-1986
- Size:
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100 cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0408
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Audio and video documentation of concerts, lectures, seminars, and colloquia on African American historical and cultural topics including gospel music, African American religion, jazz music, and the civil rights movement. Photographs are primarily documentation of the programs, rather than earlier, historic images. Includes archival original, magn...