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DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
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1987-2010
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-179
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials documenting the professional activities of David H. DeVorkin, Curator in the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, 1981- . DeVorkin specializes in the origins and development of modern astrophysics and the space sciences. Activities documented primarily include lectures, presentations...
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
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circa 1979-2002
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-137
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials documenting the professional activities of David H. DeVorkin, Curator of Astronomy, National Air and Space Museum. Materials primarily document DeVorkin's editing of a book for the National Geographic Society titled Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe, preparation of his own books and manuscripts such a...
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
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circa 1930s-1960s
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1.35 Cubic feet (3 legal document boxes)
1.26 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1997.0034
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the photographs used in Race to the Stratosphere: Manned Scientific Ballooning in America and collected by David DeVorkin for research. It also includes a few engineering drawings of balloon gondolas.
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United States. Office of Naval Research
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[ca. 1940s-1960s]
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2.18 Cubic Feet ((2 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1993.0050
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of photographs, correspondence, reports, clippings and press kits, mostly centering on the following ballooning topics: Project Skyhook, Project Helios, Stratoscope I and II and Stratolab. There is also material on general ballooning events, the Vanguard satellite and the VTOL.
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U.S. Army Air Corps
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1935
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0.17 Cubic feet (2 reels)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0071
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Launched on November 11, 1935, from the Stratobowl near Rapid City, South Dakota, "Explorer II" carried Captain Albert Stevens, Captain Orvil Anderson, and an assortment of instruments to a world record altitude of 22,066 kilometers (72,395 feet). This collection consists of two reels of 16mm silent motion picture film relating to "Explorer II."
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Krainik Ballooning Collection
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Krainik, Cliff
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1859-1934
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3.19 Cubic feet (2 shoeboxes; 3 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1990.0009
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This 19th and 20th century ballooning memorabilia collection contains the following items, which have been meticulously inventoried: 112 stereoscopic photographs; 107 photographs; 84 postcards, trade cards, valentines, and similar items; 80 prints; and 23 miscellaneous items.
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Kendall, Evelyn Way
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1783-1969
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4.41 Cubic feet (8 boxes; 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2015.0053
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Evelyn Way Kendall Early Aviation and Balloon Collection documents early aeronautical history from the 18th century to the 1960s in art, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, and ephemera.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
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1982-1989
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36.54 cu. ft. (58 document boxes) (7.54 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-132
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Here At The Smithsonian was a series of short features for television created and produced by the staff of the Smithsonian's Office of Telecommunications between the years 1982 and 1989. The series was designed for public dissemination of information about Smithsonian exhibition and research activities. Each year had a volume number [1982...
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Science Service
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1920-1979
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41.04 Cubic feet (114 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0125
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Science Service was founded in 1921 by newspaper publisher Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) and the zoologist William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) as a news service for the purpose of disseminating information on scientific progress to the public, and to "present facts in readable and interesting form." The Science Service Astronomy and Astronautics files in the National Air and Space Archives consists of papers, news releases, articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and technical papers pertaining mainly to astronomy and astronautics and dating from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
- Dates:
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1889-2011
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20.5 cu. ft. (20 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-376
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the papers of David H. DeVorkin, Curator in the Space History Division at the National Air and Space Museum, 1981- , with earlier records dating from when he was assistant professor of astronomy at Central Connecticut State College, as well as during the years he attended high school and college. DeVorkin specializes...