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11677 records — Page 1044 of 1168
Digitized Content John Jay Ide Collection
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Creators:
Ide, John Jay, 1892-1962
Dates:
1911-1962
bulk 1920-1945
Size:
10.81 Cubic feet (9 records center boxes, 1 scrapbook)
Collection ID:
NASM.XXXX.0070
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection primarily documents Ide's affiliation with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Particularly noteworthy are his correspondence, war notebooks, and intelligence reports. The war notebooks contain technical information on British aircraft and U.S.-built aircraft in service in Britain during World War II. Researchers are ad...

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Production Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution
Dates:
1937-1942, 1980-1981, 2002-2003
Size:
1 cu. ft. (2 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 05-124
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of scripts for various "The World is Yours" radio shows broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. radio network. A joint project of the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Education, and the Works Progress Administration, the half-hour programs aired once a week on topics r...

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Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Disbursement Clerk
Dates:
1882-1907
Size:
5.66 cu. ft. (9 document boxes) (2 tall document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 165
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records include copies of disbursement vouchers, statements, abstracts of disbursements, monthly disbursement statements, cash vouchers, and summary balance and debit statements; also correspondence regarding the history of the disbursement clerk position. Disbursement of funds included both the private and federal side of the Smithsonia...

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Robert Joseph Flaherty photographs of Arctic peoples
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Creators:
Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951
Dates:
circa 1914-1922
Size:
1 Print (platinum)
13 Prints (possibly aquatint)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.90-17
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs relating to Arctic peoples that were part of a set made in connection with Robert Joseph Flaherty's documentary, Nanook of the North. They consist primarily of portraits of Arctic peoples, as well as images of a kayak in Hudson Bay, an man in the ice fields, and a close up image of a husky dog.

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Digitized Content Collection on Frederick Douglass materials
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Dates:
circa 1850 - 1871
Size:
1.27 Linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
ACMA.06-046
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

This collection, which dates from circa 1850-1971, contains materials relating to abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It includes 3 books (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, LIfe and Times of Frederick Douglass, and My Bondage and My Freedom), a carte-de-visite, various portraits of Douglass, including an etching and lithograph, clippings from Harper's Weekly and the Evening Star, and photographs of Douglass in various settings, including one of Douglass in Key West with members of the Santo Domingo mission.

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Digitized Content Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
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Creators:
Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
Ueno, Hikoma, 1838-1904
Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
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Dates:
1860 - ca. 1900
Size:
616 Items (approximate count)
Collection ID:
FSA.A1999.35
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Assembled by collectors Dr. Henry D. Rosin and Nancy Rosin to document nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century photography of Japan. Includes albumen prints, portions handcolored, some signed and numbered in the negative. Taken by photographers Felice Beato (b. ca. 1825), Baron Raimon von Stillfried (1938-1911), Kusakabe Kimbei (active 1880s...

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Digitized Content Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Division of Musical History
Dates:
circa 1954-1994
Size:
64.08 cu. ft. (49 record storage boxes) (26 tall document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 485
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This record unit consists of curatorial and staff correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the Tower Concert series, exhibitions at the Hall of Musical Instruments, staff research and publications, organ building, acquisition of musical instruments, and funding for seminars and musical performance recordings. Also included are inquiries ...

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Digitized Content Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Division of Armed Forces History
Dates:
circa 1952-1989 with related materials from 1883
Size:
14.5 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 94-112
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of exhibition records of the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Division of Armed Forces History, as well as material dating back to the Division of Naval History before it merged with the Division of Military History to form the Division of Armed Forces History in 1985. The records primarily include the s...

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Wilcomb E. Washburn Papers
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Creators:
Washburn, Wilcomb E.
Dates:
1946-1989
Size:
3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 06-258
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of materials documenting aspects of the career of Wilcomb E. Washburn, historian and teacher of American political and cultural history. He held positions at the National Museum of American History, Division of Political History and later at the Smithsonian Institution, Office of American Studies. Much of the mater...

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Digitized Content Doc Cheatham Papers
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Creators:
Cheatham, Doc, 1905-1997
Cheatham, Amanda
Dates:
1939-1998
Size:
11 Cubic feet (23 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0814
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers documenting Cheatham's career as a jazz trumpeter. The papers include passports, appointment and address books; photographs, both personal and professional; a transcript of an interview of Cheatham; sheet music, including parts for various instruments; home movies from Cheatham's travels; awards and certificates; printed material including posters, programs, clippings.

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