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Oral history interview with Alison Knowles
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Creators:
Knowles, Alison, 1933-
Richards, Judith Olch
Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
Dates:
2010 June 1-2
Size:
86 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.knowle10
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Alison Knowles conducted 2010 June 1-2, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project, at Knowles' home and studio, in New York, N.Y.

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Oral history interview with Barbara Bloom
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Creators:
Bloom, Barbara, 1951-
McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
Dates:
2012 October 18-2013 January 31
Size:
9 Items (Sound recording: 9 sound files (6 hr., 12 min.), digital, wav)
132 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.bloom12
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Barbara Bloom conducted 2012 October-2013 January 31, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at Bloom's home and studio, in New York, New York.

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Oral history interview with Allan Sekula
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Creators:
Sekula, Allan
Panzer, Mary
Dates:
2011 August 20-2012 February 14
Size:
12 Items (Sound recording: 12 sound files (6 hr.,14 min.), digital, wav)
143 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.sekula11
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview with Allan Sekula conducted 2011 August 20-2012 February 14, by Mary Panzer, for the Archives of American Art at Sekula's studio and home in Los Angeles, California and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York.

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Digitized Content Worthington Corporation Records
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Creators:
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Holly Manufacturing Company
Worthington Corporation
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Dates:
1840-1982
Size:
18 Cubic feet (54 boxes, 1 map folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0916
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection documents the products and business activities of the Worthington Corporation, its predecessors and its subsidiaries. The records focus on the products that the Worthington Corporation produced, including steam pumps, hydraulic pumps and gas engines.

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Digitized Content F. C. Brown Papers
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Creators:
Brown, F.C. (Fay Cluff)
Dates:
1902 - 1964
Size:
4.5 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0693
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

F.C. Brown was a physicist and inventor who created and supervised the development of education exhibits, most notably as organizing director of the New York Museum of Science and Industry (part of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1926-1931. He was also curator of physics exhibits at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, 1932-1937. Much of Brown's scientific research focused on the element selenium. He invented the phonopticon, an improvement on the optophone (invented by Fournier d'Albe, 1912). Material focuses on Dr. Brown's professional life: correspondence, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, and ephemera from the positions he held and research he conducted. Very little personal information is included.

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Digitized Content Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records
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Creators:
Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Parke, Davis Company
Dates:
1867 - 1971
Size:
179 Cubic feet (177 boxes, 21 map folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0001
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Includes engineer's files of equipment used in the Detroit plant; blueprints and linen drawings of the Detroit plant, including building floor layouts, equipment & placement, and computer readouts of the linen drawings; plant operating manuals from the Detroit factory; incomplete sets of the "Parke-Davis Review" and "Parke-Davis Notes"; photographs...

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Records
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Creators:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of the Deputy Director
Dates:
1974-1995
Size:
35 cu. ft. (35 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 96-084
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records were created between 1974 and 1995 by Stephen E. Weil during his tenure as Deputy Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG). The records consist of correspondence with other international and national museums and art institutions; correspondence concerning policies and legal questions raised by the public and ot...

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Digitized Content Photographs and Biographical Information
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Creators:
Systematic Entomology Laboratory
Dates:
1797-1988 and undated
Size:
9.19 cu. ft. (17 document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7323
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This collection was created by combining two separate accessions of biographical information on and photographs of entomologists. Series 1 consists mostly of biographical materials on dipterists (entomologists who specialize in the study of flies) but also includes information about other entomologists and scientists in general. The material,...

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Nam June Paik Papers
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Creators:
Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006
Dates:
1832-2008
bulk 1960-2000
Size:
55 Linear feet
Collection ID:
SAAM.NJP.1
Repository:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Research and Scholars Center

The archive is comprised of the papers of the artist (his writings, notes, scores, plans and designs, photographs and assorted print ephemera), his library (books, magazines, trade catalogs, etc.), as well as three dimensional artifacts from his studio (objects, toys, televisions, radios, the artist's desk, etc.) and over 200 videotapes (the artist's single-channel videotapes, installation videotapes, and videotape records of performances and interviews).

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Society for the History of Technology Records
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Creators:
Society for the History of Technology
Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995
Dates:
1956-2017
Size:
353 Cubic feet (378 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0400
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Society for the History of Technology Records (SHOT) consists of documents relating to SHOT from its inception in 1958- [0ngoing]. The collection is divided into two subgroups: Subgroup I, General Records, 1956-2009 which consist of papers generated and received by Melvin Kranzberg in his various roles as an officer of SHOT, as well as papers of other SHOT officers. Subgroup II,Technology and Culture Records, 1958-2009, consists of documents relating to the Society's journal, Technology and Culture. T & C is a quarterly publication containing articles of interest to and written by historians and students of technology. The records consist of material generated by Melvin Kranzberg in his role as editor-in-chief, 1959-1981 and by succeeding T&C editors.

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