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Digitized Content United States Department of Agriculture photographs relating to sugar expedition to Papua New Guinea
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Creators:
United States. Department of Agriculture
Dates:
1928-1929
Size:
2 Acetate negatives
3 Nitrate negatives
100 Prints (ca. 100 prints: silver gelatin)
120 Prints (ca. 120 glass negatives)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.91-8
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Images of settlements, people (including Negritos), artifacts, agriculture (especially sugarcane), headdresses, tattooing and body marking, members of the expedition, and the expedition's plane. This collection contains photographs by every member of the expedition. Other images are from Frank Hurley's documentary, "Pearls and Savages", or were m...

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Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea
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Creators:
United States. Department of Agriculture
Brandes, E. W. (Elmer Walker)), b. 1891
Peck, Richard K.
Dates:
1929
Size:
Film reels (black-and-white silent, 35mm)
116 Photographs (Lantern slides)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1982.07
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Edited film made by the United States Department of Agriculture during an expedition to locate disease resistant varieties of sugar cane in the Territory of Papua and Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Footage was shot during 57 flights in what was ostensibly the first European exploration of sites in the interior. Locations and documentation includ...

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Digitized Content Oral history interview with Howard Ben Tré
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Creators:
Ben Tré, Howard, 1949-2020
Shea, Josephine, 1958-
Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
Dates:
2007 July 7
Size:
63 Pages (Transcript)
3 Sound discs (Sound recording (4 hr., 3 min.), digital, 2 5/8 in.)
Collection ID:
AAA.bentre07
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Howard Ben Tré conducted 2007 July 7, by Josephine Shea, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the artist's studio, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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Curatorial Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
Dates:
1976-2009
Size:
3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 10-058
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the records of Pete Daniel, Curator, and document his curatorial and professional activities in the Division of Work and Industry, and during the years when that Division was known as the Division of Industry and Technology, the Division of the History of Technology, and the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resour...

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Records
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Creators:
Science Service
Dates:
1907-1970
Size:
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 18-137
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of Science Service subject files pertaining primarily to agriculture, farming, plants, animals, forest and forestry, fishes, mining, chemical technology, manufacturing, the National Park Service, and food. The subject files are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system. E - America HV - Pover...

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Digitized Content Lewis Cotlow films
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Creators:
Cotlow, Lewis, 1898-1987
Dates:
1949-circa 1969
Size:
Film reels (8 hours 16 minutes, color sound; 17,400 feet, 16mm)
Linear feet
Collection ID:
HSFA.1985.11
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Original film, prints, elements, sound materials and associated texts from the following films produced by explorer Lewis Cotlow: SAVAGE SPLENDOR, ZANZABUKU, VANISHING AFRICA, TWIGHLIGHT OF THE PRIMITIVE, PRIMITIVE PARADISE, JUNGLE HEADHUNTERS, HIGH ARCTIC, IN SEARCH OF THE PRIMITIVE. Please note that the contents of the collection and the lang...

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Digitized Content Landor Design Collection
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Creators:
Landor Associates
Landor, Walter
Dates:
circa 1930-1994
Size:
146 Cubic Feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0500
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection documents the career of designer Walter Landor and the significant body of commercial imagery and packaging produced by Landor Associates design firm. Contains corporate and business records of Landor Associates, personal papers of Landor, oral history interviews, films, videotapes, and other audiovisual resources.

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Digitized Content Father Bernard Hubbard collection
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Creators:
Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Dates:
1928-1960
Size:
Film reels (16mm)
Sound recordings
Collection ID:
HSFA.1993.01
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Films and sound recordings made in Alaska between 1928 and 1960 consisting of outtakes, trims, and edited films. Also footage of other locations around the world consisting of edited films and trims. Collection contains supplementary material: associated texts and annotations (recorded narratives). Please note that the contents of the collection...

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Curatorial Correspondence
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Creators:
National Museum of Natural History. Department of Entomology
Dates:
1924, 1952-2017, and undated
Size:
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 19-132
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of correspondence created or maintained by Donald R. Davis, Curator, 1961- , and Chair, Department of Entomology, 1976-1981. Topics covered include Lepidoptera (moths, butterflies) research, specimen identification and loans, and professional activities. Some materials predate 1963, when the department was the Divi...

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Digitized Content Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection
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Creators:
Archivo General de Puerto Rico
Dates:
1955-2005, undated
Size:
1 Cubic foot (32 folders 378 posters)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0615
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection consists of 378 posters documenting important public service issues including education, health and safety, and cultural programs. These posters were widely displayed throughout the island and reflect key trends in the social history of Puerto Rico for nearly fifty years.

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