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National Museum of the American Indian. Exhibits Media Office
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1992-2001
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2.56 cu. ft. (2.56 non-standard size boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-294
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of laserdiscs created by the Exhibits Media Office for use in exhibitions. Exhibitions include All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture; Ancestral Memories: A Tribute to Native American Survival; The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama; Memory and Imagination: The Legacy of Ma...
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National Museum of the American Indian. Exhibits Media Office
- Dates:
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1992-1999
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-242
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual recordings created for exhibitions as well as recordings of performances, conferences, or lectures done in conjunction with exhibitions. Exhibitions documented include: Pathways of Tradition: Indian Insights into Indian Worlds; Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the Na...
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National Museum of the American Indian. Office of Exhibitions and Public Spaces
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1987-2007
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22 cu. ft. (22 record storage boxes) (4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-030
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials related to the development, research, and production of exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), both at the Mall museum site and at the George Gustav Heye Center (GGHC) in New York, New York. Exhibitions covered include The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna o...
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Jopling, Carol F.
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1981-1984
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74 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (including some mounted for exhibition))
442 Negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
326 contact prints (326 contact prints (on proof sheets))
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.98-37
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Carol F. Jopling documenting the Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi Indians of Panama, as well as the Panama Canal and scenery. Jopling's photographs depict Choco and Kuna dwellings (including their construction), Choco people waiting to receive vaccinations from Navy personnel, agriculture (including coconut harvesting), boats in the Pana...
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Edholm, Camilla S.
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1934-1938
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18 copy negatives
10 Postcards
6 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.157
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Negatives, postcards, and photographic prints made and acquired by Camilla S. Edholm in the San Blas Islands and Darién Province in Panama circa 1934-1938. These include images of Guna [Guna Yala], Chucunaque Guna (Kuna), and Emberá (Choikoi) community members.
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Hopkins, Peter, 1911-1999
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1823-2001
bulk 1935-1994
- Size:
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2.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hopkpete
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Peter Hopkins papers measure 2.4 linear feet and date from 1823-2001, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1935-1994. Writings, letters and diaries make up most of the collection. Printed materials relate to exhibitions of Hopkins' artwork and theatrical performances of his wife, Gertrude Beach Hopkins. There also are writings by both Hopkins and his wife that appeared in the Christian Science Monitor. Of particular interest is a group of vintage family photographs and family papers dating from the 19th century, as well as diaries Hopkins kept while traveling and working in a mental hospital in inland China in the mid 1930s.
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Lee-Smith, Hughie
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circa 1890-2007
bulk 1931-1999
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33.7 Linear feet
0.381 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.leeshugh
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter and educator Hughie Lee-Smith measure 33.7 linear feet and 0.381 GB and date from circa 1890 to 2007, with the bulk of the material dating from 1931 to 1999. The collection documents Lee-Smith's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence, writings by Lee-Smith and others, personal business records, exhibition files, organization records, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, a small amount of artwork, numerous interviews, and recordings for a documentary film on Lee-Smith. Also found are the papers of artist Rex Goreleigh, a friend of Lee-Smith.
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Liebman, Aline Meyer, 1879-1966
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1906-1978
- Size:
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1.3 Linear feet
0.4 Linear feet (Addition)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.liebalin
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, photographs, business and financial records, printed matter, scrapbooks, and exhibition catalogs document Mrs. Liebman's acquisition of modern American art, European painting and decorative arts, her interest in and support of photography, her encouragement of individual artists, the inception and early history of the Museum of Mode...
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WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- Dates:
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1979
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1 videocassettes (u-matic) ((30 min), sd., col., 3/4 in.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wnettelv
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Describes the 1972 discovery and later conservation of Arshile Gorky's murals "Aviation" at the Newark, N.J. International Airport, executed in 1937 by Gorky as part of the Work Projects Administration art project. Art historian Ruth Bowman, N.J. Port Authority employees Saul Wenegrat and Stephen Staempler, and conservator Carroll Wales of Oliver B...
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Springs Improvement Society
- Dates:
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1962-1980
- Size:
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0.4 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.spriimpr
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, lists of paintings exhibited, price lists, exhibition announcements, invitations, and press releases.