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Ortner, Donald J.
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1963-2013
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44.37 Linear feet (96 boxes, 3 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2014-07
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National Anthropological Archives
The Donald J. Ortner Papers, dated 1963 to 2013, document his research and professional activities while working in the Division of Physical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. They primarily deal with his contributions to the field of paleopathology and his work with specimens from Bab edh-Dhra, Jordan and Chichester, England. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, files related to Ortner's publications, specimen observations and analysis, and photographs.
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National Zoological Park. Office of the Director
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2003-2004
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3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-294
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession documents the National Zoological Park's (NZP) submissions to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2003 and 2004. The NAS was requested by the United States Congress to review animal care and management at NZP facilities following a number of highly publicized animal deaths. Materials include background and briefing materia...
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Cole, Leon J. (Leon Jacob), 1877-1948
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1941
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0.43 cu. ft. (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7244
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of an album of photographs taken by Cole in Alaska in 1941. The album also contains memorabilia collected by Cole. The photographs are in chronological order and are labeled.
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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Division of Physical Anthropology
- Dates:
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undated
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1 Print (engraving)
2 Prints (chalk manner lithograph)
3 Prints (etching)
23 Photomechanical prints (halftone, photogravure, and collotype)
152 Photographic prints (silver gelatin and albumen)
8 Copy prints
6 Copy negatives
1 Print (offset lithography)
1 Print (probably chromolithograph)
11 Negatives (acetate)
3 Drawings
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.4822
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs relating to physical anthropologists from the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the United States. Many of the photographs depict Smithsonian staff, particularly Ales Hrdlicka and T. Dale Stewart, as well as people and artifacts relating to physical anthropology throughout history. Some of the portraits are signed and the collection...
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Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
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circa 1885-1900
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13 Mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.78-42
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs documenting physical anthropology techniques for measuring and photographing skulls for comparison, as practiced by scientists of the Army Medical Museum. Photographs are mounted on unbound pages from an album and have been annotated to describe the technique depicted.
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LaVoy, Merl
- Dates:
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circa 1910-1920
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254 copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.R92-40
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Copies of photographs made by Merl Lavoy in modern Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, and Turkey diring the first World War. They document soldiers (mostly British, French, and Serbian) and war machinery, as well as images of cities and villages, and local people (Transylvanians, Macedonians, Serbs, and Turks). The collection also includes a series...
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circa 1877-1881
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6 Prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.6B
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs of skulls, which were sent by Stuart Eldridge of Yokohama, Japan, to the Army Medical Museum in November 1876. They include front and profile images of skulls of "Botan" warriors from the island of Formosa (Taiwan) and of an adult male from Manila, Philippines.
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Ocana, Gilberto, interviewee
- Dates:
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1989
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2 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9576
- 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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Conservation of Endangered Species Videohistory Collection
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- Dates:
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1990
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13 videotapes (Reference copies). 39 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9553
- Repository:
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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...
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Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
- Dates:
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1912
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1 Copy negative
135 Prints (circa, silver gelatin and albumen)
2 Copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.9
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Front and profile images of Apache, Kiowa, Omaha, Osage, Teton, and Yankton people made for Ales Hrdlicka's use in preparing busts and physical anthropological exhibits for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915. Accompanying the photographs are notes produced under the supervision of Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme; these include the tribe, age, sex, ...