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1954-2012
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-093
- Repository:
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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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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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1845, 1884-1939, 1970, 1973
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-106
- Repository:
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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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circa 1860s-1870s
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12 Mounted prints (albumen)
1 Stereograph (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.76-114
- Repository:
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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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Blackmun, Barbara Winston
- Dates:
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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
- Repository:
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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 people. There are some full-length portraits of Apaches and...
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Centennial Photographic Co.
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
- Repository:
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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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Renk, Merry, 1921-2012
Fisch, Arline M.
Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Dates:
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2001 January 18-19
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49 Pages (Transcript)
1 Item (sound file (4 min. 15 sec.) Audio excerpt, digital)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.renk01
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Merry Renk conducted 2001 January 18-19, by Arline M. Fisch, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Renk's home and studio, San Francisco, California.
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Sternberg, Harry, 1904-2001
Yard, Sally
Hoehn, Robert
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1999 March 19-2000 January 7
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70 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sternb99
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Harry Sternberg, conducted 1999 March 19-2000 January 7, by Sally Yard, for the Archives of American Art, in Sternberg's studio and nearby restaurant in Escandido, California.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Zim, Larry (Larry Zimmerman), 1931-1987
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1841-1988
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46 Cubic feet (123 boxes and 150 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0519
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Memorabilia of fairs and World's Fairs throughout history, both in the United States and abroad, including photographs, stereographs, panoramas and slides; printed materials; postcards; sheet music; philatelic material; stationery and greeting cards; menus and food service items; posters; shopping bags; motion picture films; and other items.
