Bermuda Kite Photographs
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circa 1967-1968
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0.01 Cubic feet (1 folder, 6 gelatin silver print photographs, 5 negatives)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1218
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
There is a long-standing tradition in the Bermuda Islands of building and flying kites as part of Easter celebrations occurring on Good Friday. This collection consists of six black and white photographs prepared circa 1967-1968 by the Bermuda News Bureau for a story on Bermuda kite flying showing the final preparation, blessing, and launch of a very large hexagonal kite from a hilltop in Bermuda.
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Smithsonian Associates. Administrative Office
- Dates:
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1979-1992
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 95-119
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the planning and execution of the Smithsonian Institution's annual Kite Festival. Materials include budget estimates, correspondence, memoranda, volunteer information, requests for services, miscellaneous notes, invoices, brochures, photographs, magazines, and press releases.
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bulk 1886-1897
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0.05 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0752
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of photographs relating to the work of aerial kite photography pioneer William Abner Eddy (1850 - 1909).
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- Dates:
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1755-1963
bulk 1755-1919
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3.28 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0923
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 3.28 cubic feet of early periodicals, articles, pamphlets, and other publications relating to various aspects of aviation including kites; balloons; events relating to aviation; personalities involved in aviation; aerial navigation; airships; airplanes; aerial combat; models; and aerial photography. The majority of writings in the collection date to the time period from 1755 through 1919, but there some later pieces dating to the 1920s through the 1960s. Most of the items in the collection are in English, but there are also some writings in French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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Garber, Paul Edward, 1899-1992
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1824-1992
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241.95 Cubic feet (488 boxes plus flat files)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1991.0063
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Paul E. Garber Collection documents Paul Edward Garber's life, both personal and professional, prior to and during his 72-year tenure at the National Air and Space Museum.
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Garber, Paul Edward, 1899-1992, interviewee
- Dates:
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1974
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8 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9592
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
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Beals, Jessie Tarbox
- Dates:
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January 13-20, 1906
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 folder, 19 gelatin silver print photographs)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0902
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Sixteen photographs by Jesse Tarbox Beals of the aeronautical exhibits at the Automobile and Aero Clubs of America Joint Show held January 13-20, 1906, in the third-floor gymnasium of the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City.
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Kress, Wilhelm, 1836-1913
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1880-1883
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0862
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Wilhelm Kress (1836--1913) was an inventor, writer, and lecturer. This collection contains one of Kress' German patents, patent number 8706, for one of his flying machine models; a letter from 1883, in German, signed by Kress; and a description, in English, of the flying machine written by Arnold Samuelson (who lists his title as "Chief Engineer").
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Claudy, C. H. (Carl Harry), 1879-1957
- Dates:
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1906-1910
- Size:
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1.95 Cubic feet (1 legal document box; 2 flat boxes; 13 clamshells)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0549
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of nearly 250 glass plates, several folders of prints, and two boxes of glass plate envelopes affixed with small prints of the image formerly contained within them. The subject matter of the photography is primarily concerned with Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral experiments of 1906, flights of the Thomas Baldwin dirigible and the United States Signal Corps SC-1 free balloon (1908), and the Wright Flyer Army Trials at Fort Meyer, Virginia (1908 and 1909).
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- Creators:
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Kisan
- Dates:
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undated
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22 Sheets
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7356
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes: 1. Court officials in military dress; 2. Korean dancing boy; 3. Hunters on snow shoes; 4. Kite flying; 5. Rope walking; 6. Top spinning; 7. Spade shoveling; 8. See-saw; 9. Swinging; 10. Kicked shuttlecock; 11. Boys playing blind man's bluff; 12. Girls playing blind man's bluff; 13. Girls playing jacks with coins; 14. Bowmaker and archer; ...
