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undated
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 99-056
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of advertising leaflets from the Singer Sewing Machine Company showing Washington, D.C., buildings and monuments. Historical descriptions of each image are printed on the back of the advertisements.
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Mosher, Robert
- Dates:
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1971-1972, 2003
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1203
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of nine black and white silver prints by Robert Mosher of monuments in Washington, DC and Arlington, Virginia with a focus on the visitors.
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Kates, Arnold D.
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1929-1931, undated
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1 Film reel
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0259
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Arnold D. Kates was an officer in the Association of Young Advertising Men of New York in the 1930s. As an officer, he visited Washington, D.C., to attend the annual meeting of the Advertising Federation of America and took home movies of the capital, including a formal reception at the White House, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial. Additional film footage includes scenes on a ship, cityscapes and industrial landscapes of New York City.
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circa 1898-1978
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239 Postcards (black and white, color)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.PTC
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Historic Gardens Postcard Collection includes nearly 250 postcards of historic views of various public gardens, parks, monuments, and buildings throughout the United States and some foreign countries including Canada, France and Cuba. Some private gardens and estates and several sites in Washington, D.C. are also represented. Roughly half of the postcards were mailed; the remaining postcards were not written on or posted. Areas represented include Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. About a dozen cards feature various views of Smithsonian Institution museums along the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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W. L. Armstrong Washingtoniana Glass Negative Collection
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Minor, Frank (photographer)
Armstrong, W. L., Mrs.
- Dates:
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1865-1885
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0183
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 8" x 10" and 10 4" x 5" glass photonegatives, some marked "1885", one marked "1865" and "Libby Prison"), but most seem from ca. 1885; silver gelatin except two silver collodion plates, one of which bears the "1865." The large plates were stored in a nineteenth-century wooden, grooved plate box (now stored separately). Images depict buildings and...
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Sterling, Craig
- Dates:
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1990-1996
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box, 16" x 20" x 1")
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0805
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black and white photoprints by photographer Craig Sterling, made in the 1990s as part of an ongoing series depicting familiar buildings, monuments, and other sites in Washington, D.C., including the U.S. Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Arboretum.
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917
Talman, Hugh (photographer)
MacCormack, Forrest (intern)
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circa 1888-1899, 1906, 1993
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0416
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twenty glass plate negatives and reference copy prints of the images taken between the late 1880s and the early 1900s by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas W. Smillie. The images depict the skyline of Washington D.C., views from the 1893 World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, blueprints for the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, and an unidentified orchestra.
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Aitken, Robert, 1878-1949
- Dates:
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circa 1900-1960
- Size:
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0.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.aitkrobe
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of California-born sculptor Robert Aitken measure 0.5 linear feet and date from circa 1900-1960. The collection primarily consists of photographs of Aitken in his studio and photographs of his sculpture including fountain figures, mausouleum doors, medallions, refliefs, and portrait busts. Also found is a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt at the dedication of the Navy Monument in Union Square, San Francisco, in 1902. The collection also includes one 1904 letter from Benjamin Wheeler to Robert Aitken thanking Aitken for a bust of George Washington, and scattered clippings and postcards reproducing works of art by Aitken.
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Myers, Denys Peter, 1916-2003
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1945-1951
- Size:
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0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.myerdeny
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Administrative records pertaining to Denys Peter Myer's WWII service including war damage reports of the Wurzburg Residence in Germany that he was tasked to inspect, and seven essays written by Myers while at Columbia University on the subject of art history.
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Bier, Lionel D., 1942-2004
- Dates:
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1975-1992
- Size:
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1.2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2004.05
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Drawings, field notes, photogoraphs, and correspondence documenting Lionel Bier's work at a number of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iranian architectural monuments, in 1975 and 1976. Focus primarily is on Sassanian sites. Sites covered include: Bishapur, Firuzabad, Istakhr, Masjid-i Sang, Sarvistan, and Shari-i Ij.
