Domestic Life Stereograph and Photograph Collection
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Centennial Photographic Co.
Roth, Rodris
Myers, Susan H.
- Dates:
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circa 1862-1920
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0725
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Hundreds of stereographs and other photographic imagery, especially a large number of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; other subjects include: the World's Columbian Exhibition (1893); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Great Sanitary Fair; a large number on Massachusetts, including a set of images from Old Sturbridge; buildings and scenery; miscellaneous other subjects.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Cultural History
- Dates:
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1872-1874
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0291
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This 433-page ledger is leather-bound (deteriorating); each page is filled with hand-written entries recording sales of merchandise and payment receipts by customer name. This is apparently the daily account journal of a general hardware store (name, location, and recorder's name unknown). Sales amounts are recorded in the right column; receipts (b...
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John Herron Art Institute
- Dates:
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1929-1936
- Size:
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0.2 Linear feet ((on 1 microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.johnherr
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence of director Wilbur D. Peat. Many of the letters are from well-known artists of the 1920s and 1930s relating to their contributions to an exhibition of American paintings which Peat was assembling in 1932-1933. [Microfilm title: The Herron Museum of Art]
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National Museum of American History. Division of Ceramics and Glass
- Dates:
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1961-1992
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-238
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document planning and funding for the publication "Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection: Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei (Volume I)" and subsequent volumes about the collection that were never published. The first volume was authored by Hans C. Syz, J. Jefferson Miller, and Rainer Ruckert. Volumes two ...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Social History
- Dates:
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1965-1975, 1992-1997
- Size:
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-237
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting curatorial activities in the Division of Social History and, prior to 1994, in the Division of Ceramics and Glass at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), and when the museum was known as the National Museum of History and Technology and the Museum of History and Technology, respectively...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Ceramics and Glass
- Dates:
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1966-1984
- Size:
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-236
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting exhibition planning, development, and production in the Hall of Ceramics at the National Museum of American History, and when the museum was known as the National Museum of History and Technology and the Museum of History and Technology, respectively. Staff represented in these records include ...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Ceramics and Glass
- Dates:
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circa 1938-1987, with related records from 1914
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16 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 406
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include the correspondence and memoranda of Paul V. Gardner, J. Jefferson Miller II, and Susan H. Meyers pertaining to private donations, loans, exhibition planning, identification of ceramic and glass pieces, conferences and seminars, staff research, and administrative matters. Also included are inquiries from collectors, museum...
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- Dates:
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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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- Dates:
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2003-2004
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37 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9616
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) 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. Progra...
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- Creators:
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Aero Club of America
- Dates:
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1909
- Size:
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0.31 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0324
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This scrapbook is one of three prepared by the Aero Club of America in honor of the presentation of the Aero Club of America medals to Orville and Wilber Wright by President William Howard Taft. The book consist of photos, editorials, articles, and cartoons published on 16 June 1909, the day of the presentation, and given to the club for inclusion ...
