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Darby, S. Newman, 1928-2016 ((inventor))
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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April 9, 1999
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18 Videocassettes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0838
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Presentation by Newman Darby discussing windsurfing and his invention and development of the sailboard. Materials include original, master and reference videotapes and photographs.
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Dawn V. Rogala Circus Photographs and Papers
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Rogala, Dawn V.
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1992-1999
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4 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1427
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection, compiled and photographed by Dawn Rogala, documents daily life in traveling, tented circuses in America, including: Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers, Circus Vargas, Sterling & Reid Brothers, Culpepper and Merriweather, Carson and Barnes, Vidbel's Olde Tyme Circus, Big Apple Circus, Carson and Barnes Circus, Culpepper and Merriweather Circ...
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Daniel, Pete
National Museum of American History (U.S.)
McGovern, Charles
Meehan, John P.
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1992 and 1999
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20 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0879
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
In 1990, curators at the National Museum of American History began a project to develop a traveling exhibition about American music, and in the course of research, curators repeatedly returned to the Mississippi Delta area and Memphis, Tennessee to conduct interviews. A group in Memphis organized to raise the funds to complete the research, to acquire objects and artifacts, and the project ultimately became the Smithsonian-affiliated Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum, which opened in 2000 at 191 Beale Street.
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Harlander, Leslie
Gibson, Andrew
Donovan, Arthur
Cushing, Charles
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1995-1998.
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0639
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Original audio cassettes and transcripts of oral history interviews with individuals involved in the transportation industry known as containerization: Arthur Donovan, interviewer.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Madhani, Akhil
Berger, Sondra
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1999.
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 Box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0709
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents inventor Akhil Madhani and his invention, the Black Falcon, a teleoperated surgical instrument.
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Young, Martha
Wilson, Nancy, 1937-
Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-
Wells, Audrey
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1981-1982.
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2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0899
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-four tapes of radio shows Wells did on radio station KJAZ in San Francisco on the subject of women in jazz. Some of the sessions featured interviews, while others featured recorded music. The performers and interviewees are listed below.
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Zackheim, Michele
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1976-2012
bulk 1980-2000
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2.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.zackmich
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of artist Michele Zackheim measure 2.3 linear feet and date from 1976 to 2012, bulk 1980-2000. The collection documents her career in the visual arts through correspondence, interviews, writings, project files, teaching files, printed material, and photographic material.
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Rutgers University. Institute of Jazz Studies
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1971-1986.
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1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0328
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of twenty-five (25) 7-inch reel-to-reel audiotapes of nine (9) radio interviews documenting the career of Duke Ellington as composer and musician.
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Berger, Sondra
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Townes, Charles, Dr., 1915-
- Dates:
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1998
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0673
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Videotaped interview with Charles Townes, inventor of the MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation). The interview was part of the "Innovative Lives" public program series. Videotapes include VHS and Beta Cam SP formats.
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Harari, Hananiah, 1912-2000
Stavitsky, Gail, 1954-
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1992 Sept. 24-Oct. 15
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2 Sound cassettes (Sound recordings (3 hours))
76 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.harari92
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Hananiah Harari conducted 1992 Sept. 24-Oct. 15, by Gail Stavitsky, for the Archives of American Art. Harari discusses his work as he shows examples to the interviewer; mural sketches he completed for the WPA (1936-1941); his background; the N.Y. art scene in the 1930s; his political cartoons; writing a monthly column in the magazin...