BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection
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- Creators:
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Broadcast Music, Inc.
- Dates:
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1860-1868
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1258
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains sheet music themed in support of the Confederacy. Many pieces were printed within the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865). It also contains one Confederate bond and early twentieth century facsimiles of Confederate broadsides from the Chicago Historical Society.
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Hines, Felrath, 1913-1993
- Dates:
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1954-2002
- Size:
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1.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hinefelr
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of abstract artist and art conservator Felrath Hines measure 1.3 linear feet and date from 1954 to 2002. The bulk of the papers include project files concerning his work as a conservator. These files may include correspondence; condition and treatment reports; financial records, photographic materials, and printed material. Also found is scattered biographical material, general correspondence, and photographs of conserved works--many of which are unlabeled.
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Allen, Florence W. (Florence Wysinger), 1913-1997
- Dates:
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1920-1997
- Size:
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0.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.alleflor
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The collection measures 0.5 linear feet, dates from 1920 to 1997, and documents the career of artist's model Florence Allen. Found within the papers are biographical material, letters, notes and writings, artwork, and printed material. Of particular interest are a wide variety of photographs, including 19th century photographs of Allen family members, photographs of Florence Allen posing for artists, socializing with famous friends such as Paul Robeson, Harry Belefonte, Paul Newman, Allen Ginsberg, and participating in protest marches. There is also an autographed photo of Bob Hope.
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Adams, Samuel
- Dates:
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1862-1933
bulk 1862-1865
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1310
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Samuel Adams Papers document a surgeon's perspective on several major battles and events occurring during the United States Civil War.
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Waddington's Antique Auction House (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
- Dates:
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1912
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1031
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A photograph album documenting an irrigation project on the Snake River in Arizona, precise location unknown. The images depict a dam, construction camp, excavation, ferries, cranes, pumping stations, canals and personnel.
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Plowden, David
- Dates:
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1970-1976
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1019
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs Plowden took of bridges, aqueducts and viaducts all over the United States and a few in Canada. The photographs are of various types of bridges: truss, suspension, covered. Some photographs feature close-up details of architectural elements, such as arches, chains, towers and ornamentation.
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Treloar, Elmer, 1902-
- Dates:
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1970-1973.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1078
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of negatives of photographs documenting railroad stations in the United States and Canada. The majority of the slides are of stations in the Midwestern U.S.
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Western Electric Company.
- Dates:
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1925.
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1036
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This album, prepared for a Bell System conference in Chicago, 1925, contains black-and-white photographs of the Hawthorne, Illinois Works of the Western Electric Company including views of buildings and grounds, offices, laboratories, shops, and the rod and wire mill.
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Meigs, John
- Dates:
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1900-1905.
- Size:
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4.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1095
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photoprints and negatives documenting the construction of several Washington, D.C. bridges. The Washington Aqueduct Bridge is the subject of most of the images. The Washington Channel Bridge, the Potomac Highway Bridge, and the 11th Street Bridge are also included among the images. Additionally, there is a letterpress book, an employee time book, a...
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Browne, Secor Delaney, 1916-
- Dates:
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1966-1980
bulk 1969-1972
- Size:
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6.54 Cubic feet ((6 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0140
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the files of Browne during his stint as chairman for the Civil Aeronautics Board and afterwards until 1980. The collection includes the following types of material: correspondence, magazines and newspapers, tapes of speeches given by Browne, both cassette and reels, conference and meeting proceedings, and notes and telep...
