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Shurr, Robert L.
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
- Dates:
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1928
1948 - 1948
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0132
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A photograph, letters written, and pieces of music by African American composer William Christopher "W.C." Handy (1873-1958) sometimes called the "Father of the Blues".
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McWillie, Judith
- Dates:
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circa 1984-1986
- Size:
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0.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.mcwijudi
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The videos and slides on African American folk artists Dilmus Hall, Mary T. Smith, and J.B. Murry measure 0.4 linear feet and date from circa 1984 to 1986. The collection includes recorded interviews conducted by art historian Judith McWillie with the artists about their lives and work, and color slides of Dilmus Hall and Mary T. Smith with their work.
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Robinson and Via Family Papers
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Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
- Dates:
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1838-2017, undated
bulk 1872-1985
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23.1 Cubic feet (71 boxes, 3 map-size folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0475
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, by 1949.
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Becker, Dolores
Becker, Frank E.
Indian Association of America
- Dates:
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1943-1968
- Size:
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9 Sound discs
9 Photographic prints
3 Linear feet
1 Sound cassette
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.075
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Frank and Dolores Becker papers contains materials from the Indian Association of America, Inc. as well as material regarding Frank Becker's work with Navajo Soldiers in the Army Air Corps during World War II. This includes a full run of the Indian Association of America's publication Smoke Signals, personal scrapbooks as well as a collection of phonographic records.
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Gordon, Elizabeth, 1906-2000
- Dates:
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1958-1987
- Size:
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3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1988.03
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Papers, 1959-1987, of Elizabeth Gordon, editor of the periodical, House Beautiful from 1941-1964, mostly related to her research for the August and September 1960 issues of House Beautiful regarding the Japanese aesthetic concept of "shibui", and the subsequent travelling "shibui exhibition" from 1961-1964. Included are correspondence, some photocopies, 1959-1963; notes; drafts for articles and lectures; printed material including magazine and newspaper clippings, 1959-1987; 2 books, and exhibition announcements; drawings of paper and foil art; a photo album containing photos of exhibition installations; and photographs, slides, color transparencies, and lantern slides depicting people, sites, and objects reflecting the "shibui" aesthetic.
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Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
- Dates:
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1833-1889
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39.3 cu. ft. (74 document boxes) (3 half document boxes) (5 3x5 boxes) (oversize material)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7002
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Spencer F. Baird Papers are the combination of several different deposits. One group was originally labeled "Private" by the Smithsonian Institution Archives at the time they were received. Another group came to the Smithsonian from Lucy Hunter Baird (Baird's daughter), or from her estate after her death.
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Barnett, H. G. (Homer Garner), 1906-1985
- Dates:
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1934-1973
- Size:
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7.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.1975-17
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The Homer Garner Barnett papers, 1934-1973, consist of papers, photographs, slides, maps, and periodicals primarily documenting his ethnological work among American Indians, Palauans, and the people of Netherlands New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
