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National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of the Director
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1912-1965
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28.5 cu. ft. (57 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 312
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 312 was transferred from the National Museum of American Art (NMAA) Archives to the Smithsonian Institution Archives in October 1984. The NMAA Archives, which was created in January 1975, and located in the Fine Arts and Portrait Gallery Building, came under the daily administration of the NMAA, with technical supervision and ...
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Sachs, Charlotte Cramer, 1907-2004
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1905-2002
bulk 1940-2002
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4 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0878
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to Charlotte Cramer Sachs's life and career as an inventor mainly of food and household-related products: correspondence, photographs, business papers, awards, patents, printed materials, notes, and miscellany. The collection primarily consists of invention-related marketing materials including invention samples and prototypes, notes, clippings, business correspondence, and customer account records.
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Museum Computer Network
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1967-1988
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26 cu. ft. (26 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7432
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection contains the administrative files kept primarily by the executive directors. The records concern the daily operations of a nonprofit professional organization including preparation of the journal Spectra, planning for annual conferences and workshops, correspondence, grant proposals, annual reports, member surveys, and publicat...
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circa 1887-1947
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200 Postcards (black and white, color ;)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.PTC
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Archives of American Gardens
The Historic Gardens Postcard Collection includes 200 postcards of historic views of various public gardens, parks, monuments, and buildings throughout the United States and some foreign countries, including Canada, France and Cuba. Some private gardens and estates and many Washington, D.C. attractions are also represented. Roughly half of the postcards were mailed; the remaining postcards were not written on or posted. Areas represented include Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. Foreign views show gardens in Havana, Paris, and Canada. About a dozen cards feature various views of Smithsonian Institution museums along the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.)
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1959-1992
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15.7 Linear feet
0.523 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.washgall
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Archives of American Art
The records of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art measure 15.7 linear feet and 0.523 GB and date from 1959 to 1992. The records document the history of the gallery through Board of Directors meeting minutes, various committee meetings minutes and agendas, bylaws, and other trustee records; correspondence and other materials associated with each of the four gallery directors over the course of the gallery's existence; general correspondence; exhibition files, proposed exhibitions, collection files, and other curatorial and registrar records; financial records; development and membership records; tour guide information, gift shop finances and orders, and other museum services; and clippings, catalogs, and other printed and digital material.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Curatorial Department
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1988-1993
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3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-128
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials documenting the planning, development, installation, fundraising, and publicity of the exhibition Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers, created for the Columbus Quincentenary and curated by Valerie J. Fletcher. Materials include memoranda, correspondence, floor plans, budget informa...
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Tucker, Irma
Tucker, Bobby, 1923-2008
Eckstine, Billy
Jones, Quincy, 1933-
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1883-2007, undated
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36 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1141
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and musical career of Robert "Bobby" Tucker. The collection particularly emphasizes Tucker's close collaboration with Billy Eckstine over a forty-year period from approximately 1949-1990, and includes original orchestrations of arrangements by Tucker and other arrangers, a complete set of commercial recordings by Eckstine for which Tucker served as arranger, and ephemeral material including photographs, concert programs and news clippings.
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Rubenstein, Lewis W. (Lewis William), 1908-2003
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1923-1993
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5.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.rubelewi
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Journals, correspondence, writings, sketchbooks, interview, photographs and printed material document Rubenstein's painting career. A series of files relate to Rubenstein's longtime friendship with his teacher, Rico Lebrun.
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Chernow, Burt
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1930-2002
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21.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.cherburt
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Burt Chernow measure 21.8 linear feet and consist mainly of research materials gathered and produced in the course of writing Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Biography over an extensive period of close contact with the subjects, from the early 1980s until Chernow's death in 1997. Research materials for the biography include photocopies of personal documents of the Christos, hundreds of recorded interviews with Christo, Jeanne-Claude, their family members, and their associates, transcripts of interviews and research on interview subjects, other collected research material compiled chronologically, drafts of the biography written by Chernow, drafts of the biography and its epilogue produced after Chernow's death, and business records related to the book's production, which include significant correspondence with the Christos. Also found are the published German and U.S. editions of the biography, printed materials and photographs related to the book's subject matter, and fabric samples from five of the Christos' projects undertaken during Chernow's association with them. Chernow's career as an art critic, writer, educator, and arts advocate, primarily in Southern Connecticut, is documented in Chernow's other writings, organizational records, printed materials, and photographs.
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Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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circa 1880-1950
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220 Cubic feet (534 boxes, 25 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0055
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection forms a documentary record of over half a century of the history of radio, with the greatest emphasis on the period 1900-1935. The collection includes materials that span the entire history of the growth of the radio industry. It is useful for those historians and other researchers interested in technological development, economic history, and the impact of applications of technology on American life.