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1984-1999
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18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-123
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting incoming loans for Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum exhibitions. Materials include condition reports, correspondence, loan agreements, color object photographs, object lists, shipping information, photocopies of images, catalogs, and contracts. A small portion of the records also document ...
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
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1976-2000
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12 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-117
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the installation, development, and publicity of exhibitions and visitor response to those exhibitions. Materials include installation photographs, object lists, label copy, scripts, press releases, memoranda, correspondence, and visitor comment books. An exhibitions list is found at the front ...
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1975-1995
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18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 99-015
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of exhibition files (arranged mostly in alphabetical order), including proposals, designs, planning and development files, exhibition scripts, photographs and slides of objects and installations, meeting minutes, catalogs, and floor plans. Records also include rejected and accepted exhibition proposals, exhibition ...
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Education Department
- Dates:
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1976-1993
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7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-097
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The bulk of these records document the activities of the Education Department from 1981 through 1992. They include materials describing the intern and fellowship program as well as programs held by the Department, such as lectures, seminars, courses, performances, package trips, tours, and workshops. These materials include program research ...
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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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circa 1935-1978
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14000 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35mm)
30000 Slides (photographs) (color)
80,000 Photographic prints (b&w, 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection is comprised of photographic and manuscript materials, primarily created by Eliot Elisofon to document his travels and work. The images portray many aspects of African life and culture including agriculture, wildlife, archaeology, architecture, art and artisans, children, cityscapes and landscapes, leaders, markets, medicine, recreation, ritual and celebration, and transportation. The manuscript materials include correspondence, essays, clippings, puobligations, notes, research, and itineraries.
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Larrabee, Constance Stuart
- Dates:
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1900-1997
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circa 11000 Negatives (photographic) (black and white and color, 2.5 x 2.5 inches or smaller)
circa 5000 Photographic prints (silver gelatin, black and white, 8 x 10 inches or smaller)
circa 20 Linear feet (Manuscript Materials)
5.4 Linear feet (Office Files)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1998-006
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection dates from 1900 to 1997 and mostly includes images taken in South Africa. The images document the peoples of South Africa, particularly the Loved, Ndebele, San, Sotho, Xhosa, and Zulu peoples. Locations photographed include Basutoland (now Lesotho), Bechuanaland (now Botswana), Johannesburg, Natal, Pretoria, Soweto, Swaziland, Transkei, Transvaal, the Umzimkulu Valley and Zululand. Manuscript and office files include clippings, correspondence, exhibition announcements, invitations and reviews, notes, essays, receipts, and other materials that document Larrabee's career, family history, and personal life.
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Ayer (N W) Incorporated.
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1817-1851
1869-2006
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270 Cubic feet (1463 boxes, 33 map-folders, 7 films)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0059
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of records documenting one of the oldest advertising agencies created in Philadelphia. The company then moves to New York and expanses to international markets. During its history NW Ayer & Sons acquires a number of other advertising agencies and is eventually purchased. The largest portion of the collection is print advertisements but also includes radio and television. NW Ayer is known for some of the slogans created for major American companies.
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Princeton University
- Dates:
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1863-1950
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135 Cubic feet (10,690 posters)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0433
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An extensive and comprehensive collection of posters from World War I and World War II.
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Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology
- Dates:
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ca. 1860s-1960s
- Size:
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14,500 Items
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.97
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National Anthropological Archives
Consists of photographs collected by the United States National Museum (USNM) Division of Ethnology and later by the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology (SOA). Coverage is worldwide outside North America. Most of the items are photographic prints, some in albums. There are also negatives, photomechanical prints, artwork, and newsclippings. For the m...