Myron Bement Smith Collection
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- Creators:
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Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
Blake, Marion Elizabeth
- Dates:
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circa 1910-1970
- Size:
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192 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.04
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
The Myron Bement Smith collection consists of two parts, the papers of Myron Bement Smith and his wife Katharine and the Islamic Archives. It contains substantial material about his field research in Italy in the 1920s and his years working on Islamic architecture in Iran in the 1930s. Letters describe the milieu in which he operated in Rochester NY and New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s; the Smiths' life in Iran from 1933 to 1937; and the extensive network of academic and social contacts that Myron and Katharine developed and maintained over his lifetime. The Islamic Archives was a project to which Smith devoted most of his professional life. It includes both original materials, such as his photographs and notes, and items acquired by him from other scholars or experts on Islamic art and architecture. Smith intended the Archives to serve as a resource for scholars interested in the architecture and art of the entire Islamic world although he also included some materials about non-Islamic architecture.
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Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
- Dates:
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circa 1969-1990
- Size:
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36.08 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 487
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibition files, arranged by exhibition. The files contain varying amounts of information, including itineraries, shipping and insurance papers, press releases, lists of items, correspondence with lenders, and occasional photographs.
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
- Dates:
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1979-1998
- Size:
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22 cu. ft. (22 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-204
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the organization, design, and promotion of exhibits. Major exhibitions represented include Ocean Planet, Seeds of Change, and Tropical Rainforests: A Disappearing Treasure. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, planning documents, exhibit proposals, research notes and materials, lett...
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service
- Dates:
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circa 1979-1995
- Size:
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40 cu. ft. (40 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 95-161
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of files of Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibitions. Varying amounts of material are included, such as itineraries, slides, news clippings, scripts, news releases, shipping documents, correspondence, photographs, lists, brochures, videotapes, audiotapes, etc. The same show may be documen...
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- Creators:
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Underwood & Underwood
- Dates:
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1895-1921
- Size:
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160 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0143
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The major part of the collection, series 1-4, contains nearly 28,000 glass plates, including original stereoscopic negatives, interpositives, and both negative and positive non-stereoscopic plates used to produce lantern slides and paper prints. The photographs were taken all over the world. The majority are from the Underwood & Underwood active fi...