John Burbidge and Cile Bellefleur-Burbidge Wedding Design Collection
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- Creators:
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Bellefleur-Burbidge, Cile
Priscilla of Boston.
Burbidge, John (costume designer)
- Dates:
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1951-2006
- Size:
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1.6 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0562
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes Burbidge's design drawings for wedding gowns while employed by the Priscilla of Boston firm, and scrapbooks documenting Cile Bellefleur-Burbidge's wedding cakes.
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Smith-Howard, Kendra
Strange, Susan B.
Thompson, Anthony Mills
Toda, Mitchell
More … - Dates:
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1945-2010
- Size:
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1.15 Cubic feet (4 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1131
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An artificial collection of diverse archival materials relating to weddings, at present organized according to donor. Contents include wedding photographs; invitations; gift registries; contracts; invoices and receipts for expenses incurred; guest lists.
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Hancock, Samuel
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
- Dates:
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1850-1860 ?
- Size:
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5 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3455
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
In Mr Hancock's writing, accompanied by a letter of transmittal addressed to Governor "Steavens" (Stevens).
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- Dates:
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circa 1960
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1 Film reel (14 minutes, color silent; 497 feet, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1999.08
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Edited film documents a celebration of Nigerian independence attended by British royalty (possibly Queen Elizabeth). Pageantry includes processions of various leaders and their tribal members and dances. Film also includes street scenes in Lagos with a parade of Catholics and Protestants adults and children, school children in their uniforms, a fun...
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- Creators:
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Kidder, Priscilla C. (costume designer)
Priscilla of Boston.
- Dates:
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1940-1996
- Size:
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4 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0557
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection includes letters, sketches, style books, publicity photographs, tearsheets, articles and clippings, scrapbooks, and business documents relating to Priscilla Kidder, the Priscilla of Boston Company, and the American wedding industry. This collection is extraordinarily useful in documenting the development of wedding fashion during the last half of the 20th century. It also illustrates how a small, family-owned, woman-run business grew into a large, nationally known operation.
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Donoho, Gaines Ruger, 1857-1916
- Dates:
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1864-1915
- Size:
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1 Linear foot
- Collection ID:
- AAA.donogain
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of landscape painter Gaines Ruger Donoho measure a linear foot and date from 1864 to 1915. Found within the papers are certificates of award; invitations and correspondence; a clipping; photographs, including two cyanotypes of Donoho; artwork by Donoho; a wedding dinner sketch in honor of Donoho's wedding signed by 19 friends, including Kenyon Cox and William Merritt Chase; and etchings from other artists, including Adolphe Appian and Maxime Lalanne.
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- Creators:
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Cohen, Stuart
- Dates:
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2000
- Size:
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0.02 Cubic feet (1 box)
49 Photographic prints (Silver gelatin on paper, 16 x 20)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0804
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These photographs depict various scenes in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as photographed in the year 1999, including views of the town and its environs, commerce, and activities of people, especially families. The photographs are part of a self-assigned project, through which Stuart Cohen intended to survey the state of the town as it prepared to greet the new millennium.
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Hill, Richard W., Sr.
- Dates:
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circa 1972-1978
- Size:
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25 Prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.83-35
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Informal photographic portraits depicting Iroquois, Seminole, and other Native American people. Images document the preparation of fry bread, a lacrosse player, a corn-husk doll maker, an Iroquois dancer, a longhouse wedding party, a Seneca wood carver making a water drum, a Seneca basketmaker, and a Seneca flute maker.
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Goodstein-Aue, Justin H.
- Dates:
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2011
- Size:
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12 Photographs (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1302
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twelve color prints documenting the Priscilla of Boston dress shop in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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Bunnag, Surapong
- Dates:
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1959-1965
- Size:
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800 Negatives (circa, 35 mm)
800 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.74-35
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs documenting villages, people, ceremonies, and activities of Thai hill tribes, including the Akha, Karen, Lahu, Lawa, Lisu, Meo, Tai Luc, and Yao. Some photographs are duplicated in an album with captions by Bunnag.
