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News Media Issues Files
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Creators:
National Zoological Park. Office of Public Affairs
Dates:
2001-2010
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 17-173
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting responses to issues and crises in the news media related to the National Zoological Park. The bulk of these records document a particularly active period of high-profile animal deaths and investigations by several regulatory bodies and news agencies during the tenure of Lucy H. Spelman, Director, ...

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News Media Issues Files
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Creators:
National Zoological Park. Office of Public Affairs
Dates:
1983-2003
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 08-062
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting responses to issues and crises in the news media related to the National Zoological Park (NZP). The bulk of these records document a particularly active period of high-profile animal deaths and investigations by several regulatory bodies and news agencies during the tenure of Lucy H. Spelman, ...

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Subject Files
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Creators:
National Zoological Park. Office of the Director
Dates:
1972, 1979-2015
Size:
19 cu. ft. (19 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 18-142
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting the administration of the National Zoological Park. The bulk of these materials were created and maintained by Lucy H. Spelman, Director, 2000-2004; Morrell John Berry, Director, 2005-2009; and Dennis W. Kelly, Director, 2010-2017, with a smaller amount of material created by acting, deputy, ...

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News Media Issues Files
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Creators:
National Zoological Park. Office of Public Affairs
Dates:
2000-2008
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 18-030
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting responses to issues and crises in the news media related to the National Zoological Park (NZP). The bulk of these records document a particularly active period of high-profile animal deaths and investigations by several regulatory bodies and news agencies during the tenure of Lucy H. Spelman, ...

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Digitized Content Beverly Buchanan papers
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Creators:
Buchanan, Beverly, 1940-
Dates:
1912-2017
bulk 1970s-1990s
Size:
18.3 Linear feet
1.07 Gigabytes
Collection ID:
AAA.buchbeve
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of African American sculptor, painter, and land artist Beverly Buchanan measure 18.3 linear feet and 1.07 gigabytes, and date from 1912 to 2017 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1970s to the 1990s. The collection contains biographical material; correspondence; writings; and exhibition and project files, including audiovisual documentation from Bernice Steinbaum Gallery/Steinbaum Krauss Gallery. Material related to professional activities; personal business records; printed material; scrapbooks; photographic material, including photograph albums; and artwork are also found in the collection.

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Biographical Information File
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution
Size:
12.5 cu. ft. (5 file cabinet drawers)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7098
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Biographical Information File contains biographies of individuals associated with the Smithsonian as either administrative officers, curators, collectors, donors, regents, or research associates. Occasionally biographies of individuals less closely associated with the Institution are included.

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Digitized Content Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.5: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by job number
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Creators:
Custom Craft
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005
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Dates:
1928-1994
Size:
320 Boxes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0618.S04.05
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The materials document the orders placed by the clients of the Scurlock Studio. The photographs primarily depict individual portrait sittings but there are also portraits of children, groups, and other subjects.

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Audiovisual Recordings
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Creators:
National Zoological Park. Office of Public Affairs and Communications
Dates:
circa 1972-2011
Size:
13.5 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 13-244
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of audiovisual recordings featuring the National Zoological Park (NZP) and its animals, staff, activities, events, research, and exhibitions. Some materials were created by NZP and others were created by news media and radio, television, and video production companies. Included in this accession are news segments, ...

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Subject Files
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Creators:
National Zoological Park. Office of Public Affairs
Dates:
circa 1977-2003
Size:
7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 09-038
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting the activities of the National Zoological Park (NZP), Office of Public Affairs, especially those activities related to publicity, outreach, and education. Materials include educational activities, biographical files, clippings, press releases, publications, memoranda, correspondence, brochures, ...

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Digitized Content Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection of African American Sacred Music
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Creators:
Richardson, Deborra
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
Dates:
circa 1822-1994
Size:
6.55 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0653
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the customs and culture of black gospel song and its performance in 19th- and 20th-century America. Dr. Reagon collected photographs, sheet music, and other primary and secondary sources chronicling the development and legacy of this medium, from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, from blues to Gospel to classical to jazz. Among the subjects included in this collection are trailblazers such as Charles Tindley, Thomas A. Dorsey, Rosetta Tharpe, Duke Ellington, and Nathaniel Dett. Noted performers are the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Harmonizing Four, the Hampton University Choir, and the Chick Webb Orchestra.

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