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Photographs and a catalog of Lenard Kester
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Creators:
Turney, Catherine
Dates:
[ca. 1958]
Size:
3 Items
Collection ID:
AAA.turncath
Repository:
Archives of American Art

This collection consists of two black and white photographs of artist, Lenard Kester, actor and director Gilmor Brown (founder of the Pasadena Playhouse), and gallery owner, Joan Ankrum, taken during a party at the home of actor Paul Langton in the late 1950s. Also included is a 1958 catalog of Kester's show at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Nort...

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Digitized Content Luther Davis Papers
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Creators:
Davis, Luther
Davis, Joan Bassie
Dates:
1916-2007, undated
bulk 1936-2007
Size:
14 Cubic feet (40 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1148
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Luther Davis (1916-2008) was an awarding winning writer, playwright and screenwriter. He won a Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award in 1954 for the musical Kismet. He was the playwright for Lady in a Cage, and Grand Hotel and many other productions.

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Meyer P. and Vivian O. Potamkin papers
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Creators:
Potamkin, Meyer, 1909-2001
Potamkin, Vivian, 1915-2002
Dates:
[ca. 1950-2002]
Size:
9.4 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.potameye
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence; files on works of art; photographs; writings; printed material; audio-visual material; and miscellany regarding the Potmakin's collection of 19th and 20th century American art.

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Oral history interview with Ted Gilien
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Creators:
Gilien, Ted, 1914-1967
McGlynn, Betty Hoag
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
Dates:
1965 Mar. 3
Size:
2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 3 in.)
35 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.gilien65
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Ted Gilien conducted 1965 Mar. 3, by Betty Hoag, for the Archives of American Art. Gilien speaks of his background and education; getting on the WPA Federal Art Project; starting out as an assistant mural painter on Ellis Island; his military service in World War II as a combat artist; working in New York City and then in California...

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Oral history interview with Doug Wheeler
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Creators:
Wheeler, Doug, 1939-
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter
Dates:
2017 April 4
Size:
1 Item (Sound recording: (5 hrs., 40 min.) digital, wav)
146 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.wheele17
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview with Doug Wheeler conducted 2017 April 4, by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, for the Archives of American Art, at Drohojowska-Philp's home, in Los Angeles, California.

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Digitized Content Groucho Marx Collection
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Creators:
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
Marx, Groucho (Julius Henry), 1890-1977 (comedian)
Dates:
1911-1978
Size:
12 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0269
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Series 1: Correspondence, 1932-1977 is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. In 1965, Marx gave the Library of Congress a portion of his correspondence with well-known personages. The majority of the correspondence in this collection dates from the post World War II era (Marx's early correspondence is located at the Library of Congress.) Th...

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Audiotapes
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Creators:
Smithsonian Associates
Dates:
1997-2006
Size:
5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 07-190
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of master cassette audiotapes of educational programs and meetings presented by the various program offices within the Smithsonian Associates (TSA).

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Digitized Content Jorge Prelorán collection
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Creators:
Preloran, Jorge, 1933-2009
Dates:
1954-circa 2008
Size:
50 Film reels (50 completed films and 1 film series; 110,600 feet of original film outtakes (51 hours); 412 hours of audiotape; 31 digital books)
22 Linear feet (Papers and photographs)
Collection ID:
HSFA.2007-10
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Documentary filmmaker Jorge Prelorán was best known for his intimate approach to ethnographic film, a style known as "ethnobiography." The majority of Prelorán's films were shot in rural areas of Argentina, particularly the Andean highlands and the Pampas (plains), often in communities of mixed Indian and Spanish heritage. Prelorán documented a wide range of subjects, including art, folk crafts, agriculture, ranching, markets, religious rituals and festivals, and social and cultural change. This collection contains edited films and videos, film outtakes, audio tapes, photographic prints and transparencies, digital books, correspondence, production files, scripts, project files, and press clippings spanning 1954-2008.

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Digitized Content Eleanor Munro papers
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Creators:
Munro, Eleanor, 1928-
Dates:
circa 1880-2011
bulk 1950-2011
Size:
36.7 Linear feet
0.001 Gigabytes
Collection ID:
AAA.munrelea
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of writer and art critic Eleanor Munro measure 36.7 linear feet and 0.001 GB and date from circa 1880-2011, bulk 1950-2011. The collection documents Munro's life, career, and research on women artists, through biographical and family material, correspondence, writing projects, diaries, dream journals and notebooks, subject and research files, printed and digital material, and photographic material.

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Digitized Content Eliot Elisofon Field collection
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Creators:
Elisofon, Eliot
Dates:
circa 1935-1978
Size:
14000 negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35mm)
30000 slides (photographs) (color)
80,000 Photographic prints (b&w, 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1973-001
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

This collection is comprised of photographic and manuscript materials, primarily created by Eliot Elisofon to document his travels and work. The images portray many aspects of African life and culture including agriculture, wildlife, archaeology, architecture, art and artisans, children, cityscapes and landscapes, leaders, markets, medicine, recreation, ritual and celebration, and transportation. The manuscript materials include correspondence, essays, clippings, puobligations, notes, research, and itineraries.

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