Elizabeth Ridout Collection
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Ridout, Elizabeth
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undated
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1 Album (Accordion album with 24 albumen prints; 24 postcards)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2010.01
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Items presented to the Archives by collector Elizabeth Candida Ridout (1938-2015). Includes a small Japanese accordion album with brocade covers and 24 hand-tinted albumen photographs, ca. 1880s. One side of the album shows studio constructs and portraits of Japanese women, either alone or in groups posed in daily activities; the other side shows p...
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ANONYMOUS
- Dates:
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Nagasaki, Japan, Toshimaya, 1778
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1 Page (64 cm x 91 cm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7157
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The document is a street map that shows Nagasaki, nearby topological features, and foreign ships in the harbor. Also shown is Deshima and the Chinese settlement. The map is oriented to the northwest. Included is a table that shows distances by land and sea to various places in Japan from Nagasaki.
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Jones, William
- Dates:
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bulk 1943 - 1946
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0.49 Cubic feet (1 box.)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0067
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of William Jones' World War II scrapbook.
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Manhattan Project
- Dates:
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1987-1990
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29 videotapes (Reference copies). 75 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9531
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
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- Dates:
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1945
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0.53 Cubic feet (20 by 24 by 1 inch flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2020.0029
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of an 18 inch by 21 inch spiral book, entitled, The Atomic Bomb, which was created by the United States Army Air Forces in 1945 to commemorate the success of the atomic bombs and the end of World War II.
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United States. Office of War Information
- Dates:
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bulk 1945
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.05t Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2016.0018
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of three bombing leaflets; two are 5.5 by 8.25 inches and the other is 4.25 by 5.25. The two larger leaflets contain messages in Japanese, accompanied with either images of Japanese leaders or of U.S. Bombers dropping bombs, while the smaller leaflet contains only a message in Japanese. This collection also includes a snaps...
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ANONYMOUS
- Dates:
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1750?
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1 Page (65 cm x 120 cm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7153
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The document presents a bird's-eye view of Nagasaki harbor. Included are topological features, foreign ships, and other water vessels. Identified by color are such things as temples, shrines, streets, the restricted Chinese quarter, and Deshima, the Dutch factory.
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National Air and Space Museum. Office of Public Affairs
- Dates:
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2003
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-064
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of signed petitions and correspondence from the Japanese cities, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, directed to the Director of the National Air and Space Museum, John R. Dailey. These petitions request that in the displaying of the Enola Gay bomber at the Udvar-Hazy Center "the text not only provide historical background but...
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Lanza, Kenneth
Lanza, Anthony, 1925-1995
- Dates:
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1925-1946
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bulk 1940-1946
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1.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0910
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
World War II personal papers, photographs, and printed material of Anthony R. Lanza, who served in the U.S. Army in Japan between 1944 and 1946.
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Japan. Ministry of Education (compiler and publisher)
- Dates:
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1875
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7352
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Has interlineal transcription into romanized Japanese and translation into English.