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Smithsonian Institution, International Exchange Service
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1868-1988
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14.4 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 509
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, budgets, ledgers, day books, and other administrative materials concerning the operations of the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (SIES). Also included is a card index of employees who served between the 1880s and the 1940s. Please note: SIES maintained two or more sets o...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Fellowships and Grants
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1961-1982
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9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 86-116
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of Foreign Currency Program (FCP) project files arranged by countries. Included are reports, notes taken at meetings, correspondence, project proposals, and Department of State telegrams.
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Smithsonian Institution, Libraries
- Dates:
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1865-1951
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2.7 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 217
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records contain material concerning both the Smithsonian and United States National Museum (USNM) libraries and consist mostly of incoming and outgoing correspondence. Most of the correspondence is routine and deals with requests for publications, acknowledgments of publications received, the exchange of publications, employment inquirie...
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Animal Records
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National Zoological Park
- Dates:
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1887-1976
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19.03 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 16x20 box) (44 5x8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 386
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the manual record keeping system that tracked the animal collections at the National Zoological Park (NZP) before the introduction of the International Species Information System (ISIS) in 1975. Included are accession cards and ledgers containing the accession number, common and scientific name, date of accession (whethe...
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Purnell, Louis R., interviewee
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1993-1994
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13 audiotapes (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9578
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
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Smithsonian Institution
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1847-1942
- Size:
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19.6 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 93
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include ledgers, account books, bills, daybooks, journals, receipted vouchers, records of payment, requisitions, cash books, and other fiscal records documenting the Smithsonian's congressional appropriations. These records deal with the financial affairs of the following Smithsonian bureaus: United States National Museum, A...
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Smithsonian Institution, International Exchange Service
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1989-1992
- Size:
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 99-038
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence, invoices, shipping receipts, and related materials concerning the exchange of books among international and national organizations, societies, institutions and universities. The International Exchange Service was phased out in 1992. Related records exist in Record Units 502 and 509.
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Smithsonian Institution, International Exchange Service
- Dates:
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1849-1953
- Size:
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9.4 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 61
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records contain information about receipt of publications for the Smithsonian Library, distribution information, and substantial correspondence documenting the operation of the Exchange Service. See also record unit 27.
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Institution, International Exchange Service
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circa 1908-1971
- Size:
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10.3 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 502
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of the correspondence of the director of the International Exchange Service along with invoices and shipping instructions. The bulk of the correspondence relates to the exchange of printed matter between parties in the United States and abroad.
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Shimek, Bohumil, 1861-1937
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1878-1936
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8.51 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes) (1 3x5 box) (1 5x8 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7082
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of correspondence with conchologists, naturalists, and shell collectors pertaining to shell collections and exchanges, and responses to Shimek's questionnaires on Pomatiopsis lapidarias and other shells; notebooks listing personal names of those to whom Shimek sent his publications on loess, geology, and botany; a not...