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Banks, Richard C.
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1954-2012
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-093
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of papers documenting the career of ornithologist Richard C. Banks of the United States Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Materials that date prior to 1966 relate to his service with the United States Army Medical Service Corps; his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley; and ...
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E. Yale Dawson Papers
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Dawson, Elmer Yale, 1918-1966
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1934-1966
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10 cu. ft. (20 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7097
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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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circa 1860s-1870s
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12 mounted prints (albumen)
1 Stereograph (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.76-114
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs collected in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries that depict animal specimens, the Blackmore Museum in Salisbury England, and portraits of Thomas Ewbank, Ephraim George Squier, and Jose Sabino Uc. The collection also includes a stereograph depicting plantlife and a landscape, probably in San Diego, California.
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Eigenmann, Rosa Smith, 1858-1947
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1845, 1884-1939, 1970, 1973
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-106
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Rosa Smith Eigenmann, one of the first female ichthyologists, was born in Monmouth, Illinois in 1858, the youngest of nine children. Her family later moved to California where Rosa finished her secondary schooling at Point Loma Seminary. In California she took an interest in the natural history of the area and joined the San Diego Society ...
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Blackmun, Barbara Winston
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circa 1969-1994
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1,469 color slides
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2016-012
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes 1,469 color slides (35mm) which were taken in Nigeria from circa 1964-1994, and focus on ancestral altars; artists; art objects in museums, including bronze plaques and carved ivory tusks; ceremonies and festivals, including the Igue and Ewere Festivals, and the Emobo, Otue, Olokun, title-taking, and Blackmun's initation ceremonies; and people, including Oba Erediauwa and chiefs Eribo, Ero, Esogban, Ezomo, Ohanmu and Osaigeide; and street and landscape scenes in Benin City, Ife, Lagos, Ishiago, and Mbarri, Owerri, Owo, among other locations in Nigeria.
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Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
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1912-1917
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595 Negatives (circa, glass and nitrate)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.73-26B
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National Anthropological Archives
The bulk of the collection consists of photographs commissioned by Ales Hrdlicka for the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, collected 1912-1914. They include front and profile portraits of Mongols in Urga, Mongolia, as well as Apache, Teton, Hopi, Navajo, Omaha, Osage, and Pueblo Indians. There are some full-length portraits of Apaches an...
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Centennial Photographic Co.
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Roth, Rodris
Myers, Susan H.
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circa 1862-1920
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2 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0725
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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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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
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1885-1970
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14.66 cu. ft. (27 document boxes) (2 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 272
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of a variety of record and ledger books documenting loans, accessions, requisitions, and the mounting of specimens; annual and quarterly reports; files relating to World War II problems of loans and storage; exchange files including correspondence with other institutions; a botanical reference file of replies to public ...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
- Dates:
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1973-2008
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 10-152
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession documents the professional collaborations of the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, with numerous organizations-most notably the Association for Tropical Biology. Materials also include exhibition records, memoranda and correspondence. All records were created or maintained by W. John Kress.
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Levy, Robert I. (Robert Isaac), 1924-
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1947-2001, undated
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262 sound recordings
37.4 Linear feet (71 boxes, 5 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2014-11
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National Anthropological Archives
The Robert I. Levy papers document his field work, research and professional activities from 1949-2001 and primarily deal with his work studying social organization, culture, and their psychological effects in Tahiti and Nepal. The collection consists of correspondence, field notes, sound recordings of interviews with informants in Tahiti and Nepal, interview transcripts and analyses, language and culture research materials, maps, and color slides. Also included are files about his books, articles, essays, and lectures; course materials from his time as a professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD); and conference files.