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Fireman, Edward L., 1922-1990
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circa 1950-1990
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25.53 cu. ft. (24 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (3 3x5 boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7463
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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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United States. Army. Air Corps
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1945
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0846
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of three 5.5 x 8.5 inch leaflets, printed on both sides. They contain text in Japanese as well as images. Caption information from an unknown source is provided for some of the leaflets. Leaflet No. 2101 reads, "This is a message from the President of the United States, Harry Truman, to the people of Japan. The only way to ...
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NASM Files
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National Air and Space Museum. Office of the Director
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1971-1978 and undated
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10.12 cu. ft. (18 document boxes) (1 12x17 box) (1 16x20 box) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 306
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of the official files of Michael Collins as director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 1971-1978. To a large extent, the files concern the planning and funding of the new NASM building, its construction, the preparation of exhibits, and the opening of the Museum on July 1, 1976. On day-to-day administrative ...
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Ride, Sally, 1951-2012
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1970-2012
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24 Cubic feet (63 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0025
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Sally K. Ride Papers consists of over 23 cubic feet of papers, photographs, certificates, and film, created or collected by Sally Ride and chronicling her career from the 1970s through the 2010s. The papers document Ride's lifetime of achievements and include material relating to her astronaut training and duties; her contributions to space policy; her work as a physicist; and her work as an educator, including Sally Ride Science and related STEM projects.
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
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Ongoing
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270 Cubic feet (Ongoing)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.O
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.
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Thread Waxing Space (Gallery)
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1980s-2001
bulk 1991-2001
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36.7 Linear feet
3.86 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.threwaxs
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Archives of American Art
The records of the New York City gallery Thread Waxing Space measure 36.7 linear feet and 3.86 GB and date from 1980s-2001 (bulk 1991-2001). Exhibitions and events held at the gallery are documented through correspondence, artists' bios, printed and digital materials, shipping records, photographic materials, audiovisual materials, and other administrative records. Also found are a handful of artist research files, clippings, and press books.
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Ehricke, Krafft, 1917-1984
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1949-1984
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124.9 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2003.0025
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection is composed of Krafft Ehricke's files including Ehricke's published and unpublished papers as well as papers and works by others that Ehricke gathered, presumably as reference material.
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Brown, David M.
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1970-2005
bulk 1980-2002
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11.76 Cubic feet (33 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0013
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The David M. Brown Papers consist of almost twelve cubic feet of archival material documenting his career as a U.S. Navy flight surgeon, naval aviator, and NASA astronaut. It includes Brown's diaries, manuals, checklists, certificates, workbooks, notebooks, and related training materials.
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Science Service
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1920-1979
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41.04 Cubic feet (114 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0125
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Science Service was founded in 1921 by newspaper publisher Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) and the zoologist William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) as a news service for the purpose of disseminating information on scientific progress to the public, and to "present facts in readable and interesting form." The Science Service Astronomy and Astronautics files in the National Air and Space Archives consists of papers, news releases, articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and technical papers pertaining mainly to astronomy and astronautics and dating from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.
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El-Baz, Farouk
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1927-2012
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88.891 cu. ft. (80 record storage boxes) (14 tall document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-262
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Farouk El-Baz (1938- ) was born in Zagazig, Egypt. He received a B.S. in Chemistry and Geology in 1958 from Ain Shams University, Cairo. In 1960 he came to the United States, where he earned an M.S. in geology at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1961 and a Ph.D. in geology at the University of Missouri in 1964. After teaching ...