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Cox, Robert S.
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1908-1917
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7 drawings (pencil on paper)
0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)
113 Photographic Prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2016-09
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National Anthropological Archives
Album of photographs and sketches relating to voyages, primarily in the arctic. Includes photographs from the steamer Neptune's 1917 rescue of Donald MacMillan and other members of the Crocker Land Relief Expedition, as well as the Northern Ventures Expedition, ca 1912. Photographs depict Inuit men, women, and children from Greenland and Baffin Isl...
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National Museum of African Art
- Dates:
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2015
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-226
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the online exhibition "Sailors and Daughters: Early Photography and the Indian Ocean" as it existed on April 21, 2015. The exhibition is part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art's "Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean: From Oman to East Africa" project. Materials are in electronic format.
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Turner, Lynn
Applegate
Filson & Son
Bairstow, J. B.
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circa 1865-1918
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0210
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of two photograph albums and a number of individual photographs (tintypes and cabinet prints, all portraits), from the turn of the century to approximately 1918. The cabinet prints are from Pennsylvania and Ohio studios. Most of the snapshots seem to have been taken in and around Washington, D.C.
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ANONYMOUS
- Dates:
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n.d
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1 Page (48 cm x 69 cm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7145
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National Anthropological Archives
The document is divided into four parts. The lower left-hand portion shows two American "black boats," steamer-sail ships that were used by Perry. Annotations show the dimensions of the ships, the size of their crews, and other information. The rest of the lower portion is a map showing the region at which Perry landed, including the locations of J...
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Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999
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1945-1979
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0.02 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.cadmpaul
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Archives of American Art
The letters of Paul Cadmus to Webster Aitken measure 0.02 linear feet and date from 1945-1979. Found within the collection are letters, notes, and postcards from Cadmus to Aitken regarding music, composers, musicians, mutual friends, Cadmus's sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Kirstein, travels, and Cadmus's work, art processes, and personal reflections on life events.
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Systematic Entomology Laboratory
- Dates:
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1910-1973
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25 cu. ft. (50 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7309
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection contains the official correspondence of the Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, and its predecessors, 1925 to 1973. The correspondence, which is both incoming and outgoing, mostly concerns the identification of specimens sent to the USDA for determination. Smaller amounts of correspondence document research projects of...
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Osborn, Henry Leslie, 1857-1940
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circa 1879-1881
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7387
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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bulk 1912-1915
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0.15 Cubic Feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2005.0016
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This 12 1/2 by 9 1/2 inch black-paged photograph album, with captions in Russian, comes from the estate of Alexander de Seversky. It contains aerial photographs; images of the Russian officers and sailors; hangars and shipyards; and various floatplanes, some equipped with pontoons for use on ice. Aircraft seen in the photographs include the Sikorsk...
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1843-1957
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1 Boxe
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S32
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 32 contains materials documenting Christopher Columbus in popular culture. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Anderson, Poul
Kallesoe, Line
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1866
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 folder; 2 letters, 27.5 cm. x 22 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0042
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two letters from Line Kallesoe, a Danish immigrant in Philadelphia, to her sister Emma in Denmark, discuss Line and her children's poverty after the death of her husband.