Myron Bement Smith Collection
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- Creators:
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Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
Blake, Marion Elizabeth
- Dates:
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circa 1910-1970
- Size:
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192 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.04
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
The Myron Bement Smith collection consists of two parts, the papers of Myron Bement Smith and his wife Katharine and the Islamic Archives. It contains substantial material about his field research in Italy in the 1920s and his years working on Islamic architecture in Iran in the 1930s. Letters describe the milieu in which he operated in Rochester NY and New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s; the Smiths' life in Iran from 1933 to 1937; and the extensive network of academic and social contacts that Myron and Katharine developed and maintained over his lifetime. The Islamic Archives was a project to which Smith devoted most of his professional life. It includes both original materials, such as his photographs and notes, and items acquired by him from other scholars or experts on Islamic art and architecture. Smith intended the Archives to serve as a resource for scholars interested in the architecture and art of the entire Islamic world although he also included some materials about non-Islamic architecture.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Office of the Registrar
- Dates:
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1958, 1975-1987
- Size:
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14.35 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 541
- Repository:
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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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- Creators:
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Underwood & Underwood
- Dates:
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1895-1921
- Size:
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160 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0143
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The major part of the collection, series 1-4, contains nearly 28,000 glass plates, including original stereoscopic negatives, interpositives, and both negative and positive non-stereoscopic plates used to produce lantern slides and paper prints. The photographs were taken all over the world. The majority are from the Underwood & Underwood active fi...
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Department of Applied Arts and Industrial Design
- Dates:
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1978-1994
- Size:
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20.08 cu. ft. (19 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 95-170
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists primarily of files created by the Department of Applied Arts and Industrial Design for exhibitions held at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum from 1982 through 1991, particularly "Design in the Service of Tea," and "L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France, 1789-1989." Exhibition records include ...
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- Creators:
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of the Registrar
- Dates:
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1977-1987
- Size:
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10.58 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 542
- Repository:
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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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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
- Dates:
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1970-2006
- Size:
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2.76 cu. ft. (4 16x20 boxes) (103 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-080
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of drawings documenting the planning and design of exhibitions and other projects by the Office of Exhibits Central (OEC). OEC designs exhibitions for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service as well as for Smithsonian Institution museums and units without internal exhibition design offices or which need...
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- Creators:
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Dates:
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1976-2000
- Size:
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12 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-117
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the installation, development, and publicity of exhibitions and visitor response to those exhibitions. Materials include installation photographs, object lists, label copy, scripts, press releases, memoranda, correspondence, and visitor comment books. An exhibitions list is found at the front ...
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Princeton University
- Dates:
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1863-1950
- Size:
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135 Cubic feet (10,690 posters)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0433
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily war-related posters.