Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection
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- Creators:
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Garland, Ed
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Morton, Jelly Roll, d. 1941
Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007
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1880 - 2010
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42.5 Cubic feet (110 boxes, 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1222
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Floyd Levin was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. The collection consists of research materials including biographical files. In addition, there are numerous photographs that were taken and collected by Levin.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Dates:
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2001
- Size:
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11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-145
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the administrative activities of Lawrence M. Small during his second year as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The records document issues with regard to the Institution's museums, exhibitions, research, fundraising, programs, and special events. Materials include correspondence, memoranda...
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
- Dates:
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Ongoing
- Size:
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54 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.M
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.
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Naff, Alixa, 1919-2013
- Dates:
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1875 - 2004
- Size:
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120 Cubic feet (295 boxes )
2,000 Photographs
450 Cassette tapes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0078
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is the result of research conducted by Dr. Alixa Naff relating to the study of the early Arab immigrant experience in the United States from about 1880-World War II. The study began with oral history interviews in 1962 and became a major project in 1980 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It documents the assimilation of Arabic speaking immigrants in the United States.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Dates:
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2004
- Size:
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11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-299
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the administrative activities of Lawrence M. Small during his fifth year as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The records document issues with regard to the Institution's museums, exhibitions, research, fundraising, programs, and special events. Materials include correspondence, memorand...
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National Museum of American History. Office of the Director
- Dates:
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circa 1985-1992
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-072
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document administrative activities in the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Materials include the outgoing and incoming correspondence and memoranda of Roger G. Kennedy, Director, 1980-1992; records pertaining to budgets, exhibition planning, and other administrative issues of the departments and divisions under NMAH; ...
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Whitehead, Henry P. (Prenton), 1917-2002
- Dates:
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1843-2010
bulk 1940-1986
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156.91 Linear feet (178 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-042
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The papers of historian Henry P. Whitehead measure 156.91 linear feet and date from 1843 to 2010 (bulk 1945-1986). The collection documents Whitehead's careers, as well as his family and personal life. The collection also includes the personal papers of Tomlinson D. Todd, Elizabeth B. Delaney and the Howard Theatre Foundation. The combined collection is comprised of black theatrical memorabilia; materials relating to civil rights activities in the District of Columbia; and the African American experience in general. Included are playbills, sheet music, admission tickets, newspapers, magazines, books, photographs, clippings, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, sound recordings, research files, and other material.
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Dates:
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2003
- Size:
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9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-289
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the administrative activities of Lawrence M. Small during his fourth year as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The records document issues with regard to the Institution's museums, exhibitions, research, fundraising, programs, and special events. Materials include correspondence, memoran...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1817-1982
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19 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S05
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 5: Politics and Political Movements contains circa 1,565 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the political history of the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Special Events and Protocol
- Dates:
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2002-2007
- Size:
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24 cu. ft. (24 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-305
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document planning of special events at the Smithsonian Institution, such as conferences, meetings, lectures, exhibition openings, receptions, and award presentations. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; proposals; budget summaries; event schedules; meeting agendas and minutes; progra...