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Lott, Juanita Tamayo
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1942-2005
bulk 1950-1970
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0925
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists mostly of photographs of a Filipino American family in San Francisco, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s documenting family gatherings, vacations, and church and school events. Also includes photographs of residents of the International Hotel in San Francisco where many older low income Filipino immigrants lived.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1844-1966
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3.68 Cubic feet (consisting of 8 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Tours
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photograph Album
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Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, 1899-1984 (policeman)
Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, Mrs.
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1935 - 1940
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0139
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of a disassembled photograph album, featuring images from the travels of Stauffer and his wife.
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Challinor, Joan R.
Challinor, David, 1920-2008
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1956-1965
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1 Cubic foot (7 films, Reels AC1233-OF0001 and AC1233-OF0002 are composite reels created by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, the former comprising "Children Summer, Fall, and Winter, 1956-1957" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1957" and the latter comprising "Guilford, 57-58" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1959", 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1233
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
David Challinor served the Smithsonian Institution in an official capacity for 30 years, eventually becoming the assistant secretary to Sidney Dillon Ripley. Joan R. Challinor became an historian and advocate of library sciences and education. In 1956, however, they were busy with their young family. David only returned to university for graduate school in 1957, in his late 30s. They both went on to have successful careers and active family lives. This collection includes 7 home movie films that document thte Challinor family.
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China. Chihli Minister of Education
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1912
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1 Sheet (43.5x51.4 cm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7174
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
According to the passport, Mrs. Palmer (Pa-Mu̇-Er̆, on the document) was a teacher of English at the Chihli Normal College and the passport was issued for her travel to the capital cities of Henan, Xi'an, Chengdu, Wuchang, and Hankou during summer vacation. The passport bears official seals and is decorated with the wave border design in blue.
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Smithsonian Institution
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1916-1933
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0.3 linear meter.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 298
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Local Notes contains personal notes on deaths, illnesses, marriages, births, vacations, retirements, honors and awards in and out of the museums, notes on official travel, discoveries, accessions, promotions, organizational changes, and exhibits.
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Teweles, Hugo
- Dates:
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1929
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1 film reel (8mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.128
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains one 8mm silent film that was shot by Hugo Teweles presumably while he and his wife Alice Heller Teweles and their children Lawrence, Richard, and Marie, were on vacation in New Mexico and Arizona. Included in the film is footage of an Apache Fire Dance, possibly by the White Mountain Apache dancers in Arizona. The film can...
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Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, 1879-1965
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circa 1900-1969, 2000
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-254
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the travels and family of Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, ornithologist and entomologist specializing in bird lice. His association with the Smithsonian Institution began in 1940, when he collected birds in Vera Cruz, Mexico, for the United States National Museum (USNM). From 1941 to 1952, Carr...
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Foerste, Aug. F. (Aug. Frederic), 1862-1936
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1887-1933 and undated
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4.25 cu. ft. (8 document boxes) (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7242
- 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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Payne, James E., 1941-
- Dates:
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1973-1977
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325 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1988-006
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by James E. Payne while on vacation in East Africa of Coptic Christians in Ethiopia and the daily life of the Nuba and people in the Sudan. Images of Christians, mostly taken in the village of Lalibel, show various activities such as celebrations during the Timkat festival, cooking, Bible study and washing. Also depicted are art objects to include crucifixes and illuminated manuscripts. Images of the Nuba in Sudan, many from the Kordofan region, illustrate activities such as boat building in Omdurman, celebrating an Islamic festival in Omdurman, buying and selling in markets, and wrestling. Portraits depict body art and costumes. Also included are structures such as burial mounds and decorated houses.