Hazen Collection of Band Photographs and Ephemera
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- Creators:
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Hazen, Margaret Hindle
Hazen, Robert M.
- Dates:
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circa 1818-1931
- Size:
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13.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0253
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Large collection of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera, and music related to the brass band movement in the United States: includes 8 ambrotypes, 36 tintypes, 59 stereographs, 66 cabinet prints, 90 cartes-de-visite, 150 large photoprints, and 874 picture postcards; also posters, concert programs, instrument manufacturers' advertisemem...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Dates:
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circa 1914
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8 Prints (cyanotype)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.87-2K
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs depicting American Indian musical instruments in the Crosby Brown Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including Northwest Coast reed instruments and rattles.
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Gray & Wynkoop
- Dates:
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ca. 1900.
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0194
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection is a photoprint of an early recording session taken about 1900.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Musical History
- Dates:
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circa 1954-1994
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64.08 cu. ft. (49 record storage boxes) (26 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 485
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of curatorial and staff correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the Tower Concert series, exhibitions at the Hall of Musical Instruments, staff research and publications, organ building, acquisition of musical instruments, and funding for seminars and musical performance recordings. Also included are inquiries ...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Music, Sports, and Entertainment
- Dates:
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1958-2005
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19 cu. ft. (19 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-142
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Cynthia Adams Hoover (CAH), Curator Emeritus at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), and document her curatorial activities, professional interests, and publications over the years as Assistant Curator of Musical Instruments, 1961-1963; Associate Curator, 1964-1974; and Curator, 1975-2004. ...
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Servais, Joseph
Servais, Adrien-Francois, 1807-1866 (musician)
Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1842-1884.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0195
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Five letters of Adrien-Francois Servais, describing his personal experiences as he traveled and gave concerts, including three from his son Joseph Servais (1850-1885), dated September 7, 1871, June 7, 1877, and December 30, 1884. Also includes a photograph of Adrien-Francois Servais with cello with an endpin and a lithograph of Francois Servais, si...
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Worch, Hugo, 1855-
- Dates:
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undated
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40 Cubic Feet (82 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1452
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes photographs of pianos and other keyboard instruments.
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Northlight of Colorado, Inc.
Jacobson, Jake
- Dates:
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1996-2000
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8 framed print
3.42 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0866
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of photoprints and other materials created by Jacob Jacobson for the "Heart & Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America" exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), from April 2000 to early 2004.
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Génin, Auguste, 1862-1931
- Dates:
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circa 1920
- Size:
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37 mounted prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.86-25B
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs relating to a Mexican natural history collection, including archeological, ethnographic, physical, entomological, ornithological, conchological, and paleontological collections. The photographs are mounted in an album entitled "Collections de Auguste Genin," where they are divided according to discipline and have accompanying typewritte...
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Challis, John, 1907-1974
Frayer, William W.
Truesdale, Ephraim
- Dates:
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circa 1900-1974
- Size:
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24 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1375
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the Challis Harpsichord business, and the lives of Mr. Challis and his partner, Ephraim Truesdale. The collection contains correspondence, both personal and business; business records, including ledgers and journals; drawings, including design drawings for harpsichord decorations and elements; client files; subject files, e...