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circa 1900
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18 Negatives (glass)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.73-26F
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs of baskets in the collection of Charles P. Wilcomb. They include baskets of the Pomo Indians and Indians of Tulare County. The photographs may have been made by a Smithsonian photographer.
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Smithsonian Institution,Office of Quincentenary Programs
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1984-1993
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37.86 cu. ft. (37 record storage boxes) (2 12x17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-149
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the activities which the Office of Quincentenary Programs coordinated or organized to mark the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492. The Quincentenary programs began in 1985 under the coordination of Smithsonian's Directorate of International Activities, Magali ...
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Wright, A. Gilbert, (Arthur Gilbert), 1909- interviewee
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1983
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9 audiotapes (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9523
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection
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National Association of Cilivian Conservation Corps Alumni
Ward, C.E.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Bidwell, Timothy
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1853-2009, undated
bulk 1933-1942
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155 Cubic feet (330 boxes, 57 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0930
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Archival collections of the National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCCA) donated in 2006. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created as part of the New Deal legislation initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, was a public work relief program for unemployed men designed to reduce high unemployment during the Great Depression. The CCC carried out a broad natural resource conservation program on national, state, and municipal lands from 1933 to 1942. This collection contains papers, photographs, and ephemera collected and created by alumni of the CCC and donated to the NACCCA archives.
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North American Orchid Conservation Center
- Dates:
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2015
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-019
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the "Go Orchids" website, maintained by the North American Orchid Conservation Center (NAOCC) as it existed on August 12, 2015. NAOCC is a coalition of organizations dedicated to conserving orchid heritage. Established as a collaborative effort by the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Botanic Garden, ...
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circa 1920-
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6.75 Cubic feet (35mm slides; file folders; glass negatives; plans.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.AGC
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Archives of American Gardens
The American gardens collection, a component of the Archives of American Gardens (AAG), includes holdings not associated with other major collections in the archives. The slides, photographs, plans, and files in this collection come from various private donors. Individual sub-units typically depict a single garden.
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Mowbray, H. Siddons (Harry Siddons), 1858-1928
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1872-1976
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7.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.mowbharr
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter and muralist Harry Siddons Mowbray (1858-1928) and the Mowbray family measure 7.5 linear feet and date from 1872 to 1976. The papers document Mowbray's career as a painter and decorative muralist as well as his activities with the Commission of Fine Arts, the American Academy in Rome, and the Sculpture Commission of Connecticut. The papers include biographical materials, scattered correspondence, nineteen diaries, personal business records, commission files, organization files, writings and notes, printed materials, three scrapbooks, photographs, and artworks. There are scattered family papers of Helen Mowbray, Florence Mowbray, George Mowbray, and George Siddons Mowbray.
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Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States.
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1893-1980 and undated
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22.67 cu. ft. (45 document boxes) (1 3x5 box) (1 microfilm reel)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7294
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the history, operation, and activities of the ANS (before 1960, the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia). They also help to illustrate the evolution of the local and national conservation movement; environmental legislation and issues supported by ANS; the development of environmental education; and the natural ...
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Norris, Philetus W. (Philetus Walter), 1821-1885
Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911
Middleton, James D.
Thing, L.H.
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undated
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89 Pages
108 Drawings
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7094
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National Anthropological Archives
The catalog, which has many missing pages at the beginning and end, lists, describes, and illustrates with small drawings attached to the text, geographically arranged collections of stone, clay, horn, and bone artifacts, plant remains, and faunal and human bones, gathered in many cases from Indian mounds in the Mississippi Valley area. Some items ...
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Ladd, Harry Stephen, 1899-
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circa 1915-1982 and undated
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2.58 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7396
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers document Ladd's career with the USGS and his research on the geology of Pacific Islands. They include incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting field work, USGS matters, research and the publication of papers, and professional activities; diaries and field notes, mostly documenting his investigations in the Pacific; sc...