Art Thieme Folk Music Slides
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Thieme, Art
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circa 1960s-1990
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459 Slides
0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1239
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Art Thieme was a noted folk singer who recorded many traditional ballads and folk songs from midwestern states. This collection is a series of 459 color slides documenting folk musicians and folk music, in both concert settings and informal portraiture, all taken by the donor.
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Seele, Charline
Seele, Jean W. (Jean Warren), 1924-1993
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1970s-1980s
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0.6 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0759
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approx. 1,065 color photographs (chromogenic prints) of rural scenes, mostly in Kansas. Also 2 boxes of color slides.
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Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1928-1989
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3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
23 film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0801
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films, videos, tape recordings, and slides on fashion and clothing.
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National Cotton Council
- Dates:
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circa 1945-1999, undated
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28 Cubic feet (48 boxes)
224 motion picture films
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1177
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primaily of photographs and films created by the National Cotton Council (NCC) to document cotton production and use and to support the advocacy and educational work of the organization.
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Chamberlain, Robert G.
- Dates:
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1954-1984
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3.5 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
2 motion picture films
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0527
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Chamberlain's review of his work in the field of numerical control is detailed in his personal "Recollections of a Pioneer Numerical Control Programmer," which comprises Series 1. This is a roughly chronological summary of his career, presenting his major work experiences and accomplishments at Gidding & Lewis from his initial employment there in ...
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Farber, Joan C., Dr.
Farber, Joseph C., 1903-1994
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circa 1930-1990
bulk 1962-1990
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15 Cubic feet (71 boxes, Color transparencies and negatives on film; silver gelatin on photonegatives, 11" x 14")
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0520
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black-and-white negatives, black-and-white prints, and color transparencies, mostly created for specific book projects, articles in Antiques magazine, etc. Generally, color was used for magazine articles, while black-and-white images were intended for books. Collection also includes photographs of personal or family significance, and some early art...
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SpectraMetrics (Burlington, Massachusetts)
Elliott Laboratories (Andover, Massachusetts)
Elliott, William G., 1932-2014
Elliott, Mark
More … - Dates:
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circa 1958-1988
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6.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1361
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Elliott's work in developing the SpectraSpan Spectrometer and related technologies including the use of echelle gratings and argon plasmas with the spectrometer. It also documents his companies, SpectraMetrics, and Elliott Laboratories. The collection contains correspondence; photographs, including lantern slides; business ...
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Jones, James C. (James Clyde), 1944-
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1977-1979
1988
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910 slides (photographs) (color, 35mm)
2 Sound cassettes
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.110
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection includes slides (photographic) and audio-cassettes created by James Jones during research trips to San Ingnacio de Moxos, Beni, Bolivia in 1977-1979 and 1988. Jones was conducting research to complete his dissertation in anthropology and photographed many indigenous Moxo (Mojo) community members he interviewed during the course of his research, as well as local festivals and agricultural activities.
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Ottenberg, Simon
- Dates:
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between 1951-1960
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1068 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2000-007
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Simon Ottenberg in Southeastern Nigeria within the Afikpo Village Group, at the time a group of 22 Eastern Igbo villages (sometimes considered part of the Cross River Igbo grouping) in southeastern Nigeria, while on a pre-doctoral Social Science Research Grant from December of 1951 through March of 1953 and during field research from September of 1959 to December of 1960. Also included are photographs taken from June of 1960 to December of 1960 of Abakaliki, a town and the administrative center of the northestern Igbo people, north of Afikpo. According to Dr. Ottenberg in his publication about masked Afikpo rituals, "The Afikpo belong to an Igbo subgroup called Ada or Edda (Forde and Jones 1950, pp. 51-56), which includes the Okpaha, Edda, Amaseri, and Unwana village-groups, all of which border on the Afikpo, and the Nkporo and Adaeze, both short distances away" (Masked Rituals of Afikpo, 1975, p. 3).
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Stansbury, Jacqueline
Stansbury, Benjamin H., 1935-1996
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1955 - 1995
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5 Cubic feet (15 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1350
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the inventing and design work of Benjamin Stansbury.