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Watkins, C. Malcolm interviewee
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1992, 1994-1995
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15 audiotapes (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9586
- 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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Watkins, C. Malcolm
- Dates:
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1935-1979 and undated
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3.6 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7322
- 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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1898-1962
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1 copy negative
9 copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.39
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of copy prints depicting Smithsonian anthropologists, including group portraits of the staff of the United States National Museum Department of Anthropology and mounted individual portraits of department heads in 1904, 1931, 1952, 1959, and 1962. The photographs were possibly made as part of a 1969 event, "The Anthropology ...
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National Museum of History and Technology, Dept. of Cultural History
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1968-1979 and undated, some from 1954, 1961-1964
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1.6 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 331
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The records of the Department of Cultural History contain a variety of document types. These range from correspondence, memoranda, reports, proposals, minutes of meetings, and manuscripts of papers and lectures, to photographs and printed documents such as brochures or journal articles. The records relate to administrative topics such as perso...
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Kent, Mary P. (farmer)
Kent, H. M. (farmer)
Watkins, Malcolm, Mrs.
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1879-1933.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume and 34 receipts.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0036
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records of Mrs. Mary P. Kent, Burke Co., North Carolina, and H.M. Kent, Coldwell and Burke Counties, North Carolina, consist of an account book with survey data, general financial transactions, farming notes, 1879-91, and tax receipts, 1884-1933.
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National Museum of History and Technology, Dept. of Cultural History
- Dates:
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1957, 1964-1975
- Size:
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1.6 linear meter.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 251
- 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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National Museum of History and Technology, Division of Cultural History
- Dates:
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1952-1967 and undated
- Size:
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0.1 linear meter.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 258
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of the administrative files of the Division of Cultural History as well as records from the Division of Ethnology relating to cultural history activities. Included are annual reports of these divisions; budget estimates and plans of operations of the Division of Cultural History, including estimates and plans for the...
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National Museum of History and Technology, Division of Domestic Life
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circa 1955-1977 and undated
- Size:
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1.6 linear meter.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 261
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records, primarily from the Division of Preindustrial Cultural History and, to an extent, its predecessors, as well as the Department of Cultural History and the Division of Domestic Life, include administrative files consisting of annual reports for some of the above administrative units; a fourth floor plan of NMHT; memoranda conc...
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Rattner, Abraham
- Dates:
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1891-1986
- Size:
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26.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.rattabra
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Abraham Rattner and Esther Gentle papers measure 26.3 linear feet and date from 1891 through the 1980s. The collection documents Rattner's life and career as an artist through interviews, extensive correspondence, gallery files, studio notebooks, writings, notes, date books and diaries, photographs, and works of art.
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J. Scott Odell folk music collection
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Musical History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Odell, Scott, 1935-
- Dates:
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1964-1977
- Size:
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18 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.ODEL
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The J. Scott Odell folk music collection (1945-2016, inclusive) contains AV recordings, photographs, correspondence, writings, and other materials relating to Odell's career at the Smithsonian as a musical instrument conservator and researcher of American music traditions. The collection largely consists of materials relating to Odell's research trips (often combined with personal visits) throughout the Eastern United States. Research strengths of the collection include the history of the Appalachian dulcimer and banjo, the Smithsonian Folkways project "Black Banjo Songsters," musician and poet Burt Porter, and the Bread and Puppet Theater.