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Victor J. Evans collection of photographs of Phillipine peoples
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Creators:
Evans, Victor J.
Dates:
undated
Size:
2 Prints (hand-colored or lithographs)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.79-54
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs depicting a Moro boy with a sheathed knife and two Igorot girls carrying spears. The collection is part of the Smithsonianʹs Victor J. Evans collection.

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Digitized Content Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection
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Creators:
Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Dates:
1909-1937
Size:
1428 Negatives (photographic)
40 Photographic prints (black & white)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.032
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection includes portraits of individuals and families, as well as scenic shots and landscape views made between 1909 and 1937. Speck was an anthropologist and ethnographer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation collecting ethnographic materials across the Eastern United States and Canada. His collection of photographs includes materials from native communities ranging from Newfoundland to Ontario in Canada and from Maine to South Carolina in the United States.

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John and Devra Hall Levy Collection
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Creators:
Lincoln, Abbey, 1930 -
Adderly, Nat, 1931-
Wilson, Nancy, 1937-
Mbulu, Letta
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Dates:
1916-2010, undated
Size:
23.6 Cubic feet (96 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1221
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents Levy's short career as a musician, his longer career as a manager, and the careers of some of his clients. The client most well represented in the collection is Nancy Wilson, with recordings, photographs, correspondence, financial statements, and contracts included. Papers relating to other clients include business records ...

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Digitized Content David Vetter Collection
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Creators:
Vetter, David, 1971-1984
Texas Children's Hospital
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dates:
1971-1986
Size:
4.6 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1133
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers document David Vetter, a Texas boy with a rare disease known as Severe Combined Immune Deficiency. His life in a special isolation unit received widespread publicity.

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MS 4271 J.N.B. Hewitt Correspondence
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Creators:
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Chew, William
Cornplanter, Jesse J.
Haag, Mack
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Dates:
1886-ca. 1935
Size:
2 Boxes
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4271
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contents: 1. Letters received from other anthropologists and the public, with a few copies of letters sent, 1886- ca. 1933. Alphabetically arranged. 2. Letters received from Indians of the Onondaga, Tonowanda, and Tuscarora Reservations, with a few copies of letters sent, ca. 1902-ca. 1935. Alphabetically arranged. 3. Letters received from India...

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Digitized Content Untermyer Family Slide collection
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Creators:
Untermyer, Samuel, II
Lord And Burnham
Waring, John, b. 1820
Tilden, Samuel J., 1814-1886
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Dates:
circa 1940
Size:
0.25 Cubic feet (119 glass 35mm slides; 1 photographic print (2 1/2 X 3 1/2 in). , 2" x 2")
Collection ID:
AAG.UNT
Repository:
Archives of American Gardens

The Untermyer Family Slide Collection includes 119 glass 35mm slides documenting the grounds of Samuel Untermyer's estate, Greystone. In addition to general garden views, the images depict architectural features, vistas from the property, and interior shots of Greystone's greenhouse. The slides are not captioned or dated. The photographer was Samuel Untermyer II, the grandson of Samuel Untermyer.

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Digitized Content Hollerith Family slide collection
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Creators:
Hollerith family
Hollerith, Lucia Beverly, 1891-1982
Hollerith, Herman, 1860-1929
Hollerith, Nannie Talcott, 1898-1985
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Dates:
1952-1980
Size:
0.75 Cubic feet (approximately 2,500 35mm slides, 35mm)
Collection ID:
AAG.HOL
Repository:
Archives of American Gardens

The Hollerith Family Collection includes approximately 2,200 35mm slides dating from 1952 to 1980 that document the horticultural interests and travels of sisters Virginia and Nan Hollerith, members of the Georgetown Garden Club in Washington, D.C. The images primarily show private and public gardens, plantations, and historic sites in the mid-Atlantic and the southeast regions of the United States. Included in the collection are slides documenting the activities of the Georgetown Garden Club and various floral arrangements.

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Digitized Content Grace Jeffers Collection of Formica Materials
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Creators:
Jeffers, Grace
Formica Corporation.
Dates:
1913-2003
Size:
18 Cubic feet (59 boxes, 11 oversize folders )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0565
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Grace Jeffers Collection of Formica Materials consists of textual files, photographs, slides, negatives, drawings, blueprints, posters, advertisements, product brochures, newsletters, and informational pamphlets documenting the history of the Formica Corporation and the use of Formica brand plastic laminate.

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Digitized Content Mergenthaler Linotype Company Records
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Creators:
Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
Dates:
1886-1997
Size:
108 Cubic feet (257 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0666
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company supplied most of the typesetting machines used in the printing industry, both in America and worldwide. As changing technology ended the usefulness of the linotype machine the company pioneered new computer-driven, photo typesetting machines.

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Digitized Content Nike Advertising Oral History and Documentation Collection
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Creators:
Center for Advertising History, Archives Center
Nike, Inc.
Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Dates:
1958 - 1992
Size:
12 Cubic feet (25 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0448
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Nike Advertising Oral History and Documentation Collection is the result of a two-year study of advertising of Nike athletic shoes. The effort was supported in part by a grant from Nike, Inc. Thirty-one oral history interviews were conducted with advertising, marketing and product development executives at Asics, Nike, John Brown & Co., Chiat/Day/Mojo and Wieden & Kennedy. A variety of related materials were gathered by the Center for Advertising History staff. The objective of the project was to create a collection that documents, in print and electronic media, the history and development of the company and its advertising campaigns.

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