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11678 records — Page 1080 of 1168
Digitized Content Permanent Administrative Files
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Creators:
United States National Museum
Dates:
1877-1975
Size:
337.16 cu. ft. (672 document boxes) (116 microfilm reels)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 192
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Records prior to 1907 consist mostly of incoming correspondence (outgoing correspondence can be found in record unit 112). After 1907 the records contain both incoming and outgoing correspondence. Much of the material consists of routine public inquiries. In addition, these records document museum accessions and Smithsonian expeditions and ...

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Digitized Content Moses and Frances Asch Collection
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Creators:
Asch, Moses
Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
Folkways Records
Dates:
1926-1986
bulk 1948-1986
Size:
841 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
CFCH.ASCH
Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

This collection, which dates from 1926-1986, documents the output of Moses Asch through the various record labels he founded and co-founded, and includes some of his personal papers. The Asch collection includes published recordings, master tapes, outtakes, business records, correspondence, photographs, and film.

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Program Files
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Museum Programs
Dates:
1972-1980
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 92-100
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession primarily documents the Native American Training Program in which Jane R. Glaser was Training Program Manager and James A. Hanson served as Training Program Coordinator. The purpose of the program was to assist Native American communities with establishing tribal museums and to provide guidance in regard to museum management, ...

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Meeting Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Collections Information Systems Management Committee
Dates:
FY 1992-FY 2001
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 08-138
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the meetings records of CISMC and includes meeting agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence and memoranda regarding meeting topics, drafts of the CISMC charter, and other related CIS materials.

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Productions
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
Dates:
1976
Size:
11.14 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (3 film boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 05-056
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of film and sound used to create the film "Celebrating a Century: The 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition." This film accompanied the exhibition "1876: A Centennial Exhibition," which opened in the Arts and Industries Building in 1976, and documents the history of the Philadelphia Exhibition. It was narrated by James Whitmore....

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Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Design and Construction
Dates:
1964-1985
Size:
7.5 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 640
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records were maintained by James M. Murphy. He served as Chief Engineer, Engineering and Construction Branch, BMD, 1964-1974; Chief, Engineering and Design Branch, OFPES, 1974-1977; Chief, Facilities Data Branch, OFPES, 1978-1980; Supervisory Engineer, ODC, 1981; and Quality Control Senior Engineer, ODC, 1982- . This record unit primar...

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Henry Wurtz Papers
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Creators:
Wurtz, Henry, 1828-1910
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
Dates:
1861-1885
Size:
2 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0006
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Wurtz's scheme, presented in a report to the stockholders, was a new method for the dry distillation of non-caking coal to obtain liquid oils and paraffin. Included in this box are: the report to the stockholders of the Union Chemical Manufacturing Co., 1883; patent specifications, 1881; correspondence with the Patent Office, prospectus on coal distillation, 1885; a notebook of minutes from meetings of Union Chemical Manufacturing Co., 1881-1883.

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Digitized Content Mark Segal Papers
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Dates:
1960-2018, undated
Size:
14.1 Cubic feet (43 boxes and one map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1422
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The personal and business papers of longtime, gay civil rights activist, editor, and publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News (PGN), Mark Segal.

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Digitized Content Cyrus W. Field Papers
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Dates:
1835 - 1897
Size:
3.5 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 15 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1386
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents Cyrus W. Field's efforts to lay the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1866. The materials include photographs, correspondence, resolutions, maps, charts, and printed publications about Field and the transatlantic Cable.

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Digitized Content Sterling Drug, Inc. Records
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Creators:
Sterling Drug, Inc.
Winthrop Chemical Company
History Factory (Chantilly, Virginia)
Bayer Company
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Dates:
1867-1993
Size:
120 Cubic feet (261 boxes, 16 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0772
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection contains domestic and foreign advertising for both pharmaceutical and consumer health care products; sales and marketing materials for pharmaceuticals aimed at physicians, such as brochures, package inserts, reports, catalogs, price lists, manuals; the company's business and administrative papers, including annual reports, news relea...

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