Video Game Pioneers Oral History Collection
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
2017-2018
- Size:
-
45.6 Gigabytes (19 .wav files)
12 Documents (12 .pdf files)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1498
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Born-digital audio interviews and transcripts with individuals involved in the early development of video games.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Dates:
-
2005-2013
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-182
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two websites and one blog maintained by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as they existed on February 25, 2013. The Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery website features general information for visitors and educational resources as well as collections, research, conservation, program, and donation i...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Dates:
-
2011
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-044
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the informational website for the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition, The Art of Video Games. The website, crawled on July 21, 2011, was launched well ahead of the physical exhibition which was on view from March 16 through September 30, 2012. In the spring of 2011, the public was asked to vote for video...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Baer, Ralph H., 1922-2014
- Dates:
-
1943 - 2015
- Size:
-
16 Cubic feet (44 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0854
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ralph H. Baer was a German-born ordnance specialist, inventor, and engineer. He was a pioneer of early videogame technology. The papers include autobiographical materials; firearms notes, manuscripts, and photographs; and videogame and television engineering notes, diagrams, schematics, and video documentation.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Baer, Ralph H., 1922-2014
Harrison, William
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
-
August 15, 2009
- Size:
-
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1179
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
In a moderated conversation about his life and work, Baer reenacts, with his partner William Harrison, the first time he played "Oddyssey", the first home video game for the consumer market, which he invented, and answers questions from the audience.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Swanson, Jackie
Swanson, Janese
- Dates:
-
1998
- Size:
-
1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes,)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0642
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Janese Swanson developed video game software, a website, and an array of toys and gadgets aimed at making technology more accessible to girls. The collection contains approximately six hours of original and reference video footage of Swanson's Innovative Lives Presentation, in which she discussed her background and demonstrated her inventions with her daughter, Jackie. The material also includes a brief interview.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs
- Dates:
-
circa 1982-1988
- Size:
-
2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 90-018
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of videocassettes of training and educational programs. Programs in this accession include "Beyond the Ocean, Beneath the Leaf;" "Of Myths and Men: The American Presidency;" "Museum Careers;" "Museum Bracketmaker;" "Lights Beneath the Sea;" "Children in the Museum;" and "Docents on Tour." Also included are supplemental ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Information Technology Office
- Dates:
-
2004-2009
- Size:
-
1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-001
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document activities related to revisions and additions to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's (SAAM) website, as well other web projects, exhibition related content, podcasts, blogs, the SIguide Project, and alternate reality games. People documented in the collection include Michael Edson, Chief ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1987
- Size:
-
2 videotapes (Reference copies). 11 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9533
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Mosconi, William
Mosconi, Willie, 1913-1993
Mosconi, Gloria
- Dates:
-
1924 - 2000
- Size:
-
0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0744
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting the life and career of the 15-time world champion billiard player. Includes photographs, business papers, letters, videos of Mosconi in action, printed material, and signed affidavits attesting to his record-setting plays.