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Digitized Content Website Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution
Dates:
2017-2018
Collection ID:
Accession 19-239
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of 6 official Twitter accounts maintained by the Movement of Life Initiative, the Office of International Relations, the Lemelson Center at the National Museum of American History, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the Phoebe Waterman Haas Pub...

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Harry Brosius World War II Photograph Collection
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Creators:
Brosius, Harry, 1921-[ca.1986]
Dates:
1945
Size:
0.23 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal document box))
Collection ID:
NASM.1990.0049
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of 49 photographs taken by Brosius during his World War II career. The prints cover the following topics: the Japanese Surrender Delegation, Ie Shima, 1945, (with Douglas C-54 and Mitsubishi G4M in background); scenes from occupied Japan; derelict Japanese aircraft; nose art on Consolidated and North American aircraft; and ...

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Architectural Drawings
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Dates:
1959-1974
Size:
7 oversize folders.
Collection ID:
Accession 05-111
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records that document exhibition and building planning of the Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering for the Hall of Tools, the Hall of Heavy Machinery, the Hall of Power Machinery, offices, and work space in the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). Some ...

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Director's Correspondence
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Services
Dates:
1988-1991
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 94-113
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Office of Facilities Services is responsible for various aspects of planning the construction and equipping of new buildings, as well as renovation and repair of existing buildings. Such efforts may range from discussions of possible space acquisitions such as the old General Post Office Building and the Patent Office Building, to tes...

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Project Files
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Design and Construction
Dates:
1976-1982
Size:
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 84-015
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of the Central Files of the Office of Design and Construction. The files are identified by project number and title. Included are projects related to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the Renwick Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum ...

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Research Records
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Creators:
National Museum of History and Technology. Section of Mathematics
Dates:
1968-1974, 1980
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 17-068
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records that document projects and exhibitions managed or created by the Section of Mathematics. Topics covered include the Computer History Project (CHP), the Technological Augmentation of Cognition conferences, and the exhibitions: 1876: A Centennial Exhibition and Theorems in Color. The Computer History Project w...

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MS 1966 Notes relating to laws governing the preservation of antiquities; notes on museums and their resources in foreign countries; and bibliographies of anthropological publications
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Creators:
McGuire, Joseph D. (Joseph Deakins), 1842-1916
Dates:
1904
Size:
1,650 Items (Approximately 1650 cards)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1966
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contents: Notes on "miscellaneous papers relating to laws for the preservation of antiquities," 200 cards. Notes on "laws relating to the preservation of ruins and monuments and works of art of Mexico, Hesse, France, Turkey, Italy, Sweden, [and] Spain," 500 cards. "Information relating to museums. . . in foreign countries and the sums annually appr...

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Aircraft Photographs [Stead]
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Dates:
bulk 1940-1949
Size:
0.45 Cubic Feet ((1 box))
Collection ID:
NASM.1997.0012
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of 77 copy prints of Luftwaffe and American World War II aircraft, including: Dornier Do 17; Heinkel He 111; Focke-Wulf FW 200; Junkers Ju 88; Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress; Martin B-26 Marauder; Northrop P-61A Black Widow; Douglas A-20 Havoc; and Consolidated B-24 Liberator. There are also a large number of nose art images. ...

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Melville Herskovits photographs
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Creators:
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
Dates:
1928-1934
Size:
736 negatives (photographic) (+contact prints (5 v.), black & white, 3 x 4 in.)
736 Photographic prints ((6 v.), black & white, 3 x 4 in.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1986-029
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Melville J. Herskovits during his trips with his wife, Frances Shapiro Herskovits, to Surinam (1928-29); Dahomey, now Republic of Benin (1931); Haiti (1934); and Brazil (1941-42). From 1928 to 1943 Melville Herskovits and his wife, Frances Herskovits (nee Shapiro) traveled together throughout West Africa and the Americas to collect evidence of the legacy of African culture. The contributions of Frances Herskovits to her husband's research were fully recognized in an exhibition held by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, from April 2-August 9, 1998. Entitled, "Living Tradition in Africa & the America: The Legacy of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits," the brochure noted, "On each trip, Frances was a full partner in the research...Until Melville's death in 1963, they worked together on the analysis of their data and the writing of books and articles; and after he died, she edited a collection of his papers."

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Digitized Content Scurlock Studio Records
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Creators:
Custom Craft
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
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Dates:
1888-1996
Size:
200 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0618
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection includes approximately 250,000 photonegatives, photoprints, color transparencies from the photographic business founded by Addison Scurlock in Washington, DC. Collection also includes business records and ephemera.

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