Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Oman, Paul
- Dates:
-
circa 1930-1972
- Size:
-
4.5 cu. ft. (9 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7346
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence mostly documenting Oman's career as a research entomologist at the USDA and his study of leafhopper systematics. Most of the letters were exchanged between Oman and professional colleagues and concern the identification of specimens. Correspondence after 1950 was created primarily by...
Found In
Russell Hamilton Postcard and Photograph Collection
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Hamilton, Russell, d. 1911
- Dates:
-
circa 1895-1909
- Size:
-
193 Items (postcards and photographs, black and white and color)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2001.13
- Repository:
-
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Assembled by English petty officer Russell Hamilton (d. 1911) during his voyages made prior to 1909, likely for the British Merchant Marines, documenting images of China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kuwait, Oman, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. The items date from between the late 1890's and 1909.The 183 photog...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
-
2016
- Size:
-
1 Videodiscs (Blu-ray)
1 Videodiscs (DVD)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2017-007
- Repository:
-
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection consists of two copies of the DVD "Arts of the Monsoon," (2016) one standard and one Blu-ray. Produced in 2016 by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the film portrays how the dhows, in sailing across the monsoon winds of he Indian Ocwean between Oman and East Africa, brought cross-cultural influences along the coastal areas of Sur, Salalah, and Zanzibar.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Museum of African Art
- Dates:
-
2015
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-226
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the online exhibition "Sailors and Daughters: Early Photography and the Indian Ocean" as it existed on April 21, 2015. The exhibition is part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art's "Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean: From Oman to East Africa" project. Materials are in electronic format.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Kramer, James P.
- Dates:
-
circa 1937-1987
- Size:
-
3.5 cu. ft. (7 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7352
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of James P. Kramer consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting his career at the USDA from 1957 to 1987. Most of the letters concern the identification of specimens, but reviews of scientific papers and information about professional meetings are also included. A small amount of earlier correspondence, from 1937...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Sailer, R. I. (Reece Ivan), 1915-
- Dates:
-
1931-1963
- Size:
-
4.5 cu. ft. (9 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7136
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of Sailer's professional correspondence with colleagues about matters entomological and taxonomic, determinations, and a small quantity of research notes; mingled in these files are letters from some of Sailer's associates and successors, especially Richard Charles Froeschner, Harry Gardner Barber, and Peter Dunni...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Systematic Entomology Laboratory
- Dates:
-
1910-1973
- Size:
-
25 cu. ft. (50 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7309
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection contains the official correspondence of the Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, and its predecessors, 1925 to 1973. The correspondence, which is both incoming and outgoing, mostly concerns the identification of specimens sent to the USDA for determination. Smaller amounts of correspondence document research projects of...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
UNESCO
- Dates:
-
circa 1961-2006
- Size:
-
27 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.UNES
- Repository:
-
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
This collection, which dates from circa 1961-2006, contains audiorecordings from the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World, as well as related business records. Includes recordings of tradition and sacred music from Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Peru, Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, China, Korea, the Solomon Islands, India, Bali, Java, Japan, Laos, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Oman, Syria, and Turkey.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Dates:
-
June 23-July 4, 2005
- Size:
-
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2005
- Repository:
-
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Systematic Entomology Laboratory
- Dates:
-
1797-1988 and undated
- Size:
-
9.19 cu. ft. (17 document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7323
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection was created by combining two separate accessions of biographical information on and photographs of entomologists. Series 1 consists mostly of biographical materials on dipterists (entomologists who specialize in the study of flies) but also includes information about other entomologists and scientists in general. The material,...