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Digitized Content Domestic Life Stereograph and Photograph Collection
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Creators:
Centennial Photographic Co.
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Roth, Rodris
Myers, Susan H.
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Dates:
circa 1862-1920
Size:
2 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0725
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Hundreds of stereographs and other photographic imagery, especially a large number of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; other subjects include: the World's Columbian Exhibition (1893); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Great Sanitary Fair; a large number on Massachusetts, including a set of images from Old Sturbridge; buildings and scenery; miscellaneous other subjects.

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Correspondence
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Costume and Furnishings
Dates:
1974-1977
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 01-026
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of correspondence documenting the research and activities of the Division of Costume and Furnishings during the tenures of Rodris C. Roth, Curator, 1972- ; and Claudia Brush Kidwell, Assistant Curator, 1969-1974, and Associate Curator, 1974- . Materials include curatorial responses to public inquiries, mostly pertaining...

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Costume and Furnishings
Dates:
1972-1976
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 16-343
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records that document the research, planning, and execution of the exhibition 1876: A Centennial Exhibition at the Arts and Industries Building. The exhibition recreates the Philadelphia Exposition from 1876 and featured over 25,000 objects. These materials were maintained by Rodris Roth, Curator. Materials incl...

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Chairman's Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Department of Social and Cultural History
Dates:
1975-1994
Size:
3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 06-137
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting the activities of the chairmen of the Department of Social and Cultural History and its predecessor, the Department of Social and National History. The records primarily include the correspondence, memoranda, and notes of Claudia Brush Kidwell, Chairman, 1979-1980; Anne Castrodale Golovin, Co...

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Division of Domestic Life
Dates:
1983-1991
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 03-072
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records that document planning for and installation of New & Different: Home Interiors in Eighteenth-Century America, a small, temporary exhibition supplementing the larger, long-term installation of After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780-1800 at the National Museum of American History. The exhibit...

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Preindustrial Cultural History
Dates:
1953-1975
Size:
9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 03-070
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession includes records that document planning for the exhibition "Growth of the United States," primarily during the years when the National Museum of History and Technology was known as the Museum of History and Technology. Materials include the correspondence, memoranda, and notes of Peter C. Welsh, Curator; Rodris C. Roth, Curator;...

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Records
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Domestic Life
Dates:
circa 1955-1977 and undated
Size:
4 cu. ft. (8 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 261
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records, primarily from the Division of Preindustrial Cultural History and, to an extent, its predecessors, as well as the Department of Cultural History and the Division of Domestic Life, include administrative files consisting of annual reports for some of the above administrative units; a fourth floor plan of NMHT; memoranda conc...

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Records
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Cultural History
Dates:
1952-1967 and undated
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 258
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of the administrative files of the Division of Cultural History as well as records from the Division of Ethnology relating to cultural history activities. Included are annual reports of these divisions; budget estimates and plans of operations of the Division of Cultural History, including estimates and plans for the...

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Records
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Department of Cultural History
Dates:
1957, 1964-1975
Size:
4 cu. ft. (8 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 251
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records of the Department of Cultural History and its predecessor, the Department of Civil History, consist of administrative files including memoranda and correspondence concerning exhibits, general museum and departmental policies, the acquisition of objects, and the search for a curator; general correspondence with donors, researchers...

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African-American Exhibits at the Smithsonian Interviews
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Dates:
1999, 2001
Size:
10 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9603
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...

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