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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Exhibits Central
- Dates:
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circa 1988-2012
- Size:
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11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-079
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the development of exhibitions for the Arts and Industries Building, the Smithsonian Institution Building, and the International Gallery. The Arts and Industries Building, Office of Exhibitions was formed when Ellen Dorn was appointed as Director of Exhibitions for the Arts and Industries Building...
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Duke Ellington Collection
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- Creators:
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Musical History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Dates:
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1903 - 1989
- Size:
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400 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0301
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.
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Basie, Count, 1904-
Smith, Ernie
Webster, Ben
Armstrong, Louis, 1900-1971
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1894-1979
- Size:
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30 Cubic feet (352 film reels , 16 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0491
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
More than 300 reels of 16mm black and white and color film, silent and sound, fiction and documentary motion picture film documenting jazz and related musical performances, social and popular dance styles and performances, jazz musicians, performance locales, and documentation of African-American popular culture. A list of featured performers in the collection is shown below. The films are frequently compilations produced by Smith for lectures.