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Clippings
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Creators:
Lemelson Center
Dates:
1991-2002
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 03-113
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of clippings documenting activities, events, programs, and history of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Innovation, part of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Materials also include articles and advertisements pertaining to Jerome Lemelson and the Lemelson Center staff.

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Paul N. Perrot Papers
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Dates:
1976-1983
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 93-103
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This material consists of correspondence and copies of articles received in the course of Perrot's contacts with Theodore F. Kuper, an amateur of American history whom Perrot had known in his days at the Corning Museum; and with Grace Morley, head of the Asia Agency of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). See the May 5, 1993, letter ...

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Portrait of Nana Nanei
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Creators:
Harmer, Alexander Francis, 1856-1925
Dates:
May, 1883
Size:
1 Drawing
Collection ID:
NAA.MS363200
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Signed A. F. Harmer.

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MS 4589 Facsimiles of Chippewa mid'e charts
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Dates:
undated
Size:
3 Sheets (2= 18 in x 83 in; 1= 18 in x 27 in)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4589
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
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Project Files
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Dates:
1997-2001
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 16-302
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the records of Bruce Bernstein, Assistant Director, and cover such subjects as exhibition planning and the Mall museum building development. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, brochures, notes, meeting agendas and notes, schedules, budget records, exhibition scripts, and clippings.

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Digitized Content Pullman Palace Car Company Photographs
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Creators:
Pullman Palace Car Co.
Pullman-Standard
Dates:
circa 1882-1955
Size:
128.5 Cubic feet (147 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1175
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection consists of approximately 13,500 images (original photographs, copy prints, and film and glass plate negatives) for freight, passenger, private, and street and rapid transit cars manufactured by the Pullman Palace Car Company. The collection contains primarily early railroad Americana, including interior and exterior views of private and business cars as well as passenger and street cars. The collection is an important part of the historical record of the railroad car-building industry as well as the history of architecture and interior design.

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Digitized Content Louisan E. Mamer Rural Electrification Administration Papers
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Creators:
Mamer, Stuart M.
Mamer, Louisan E., 1910-2005
Dates:
1927-2002
Size:
10.1 Cubic feet (31 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0862
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Mamer collection includes a wide range of materials used to teach concepts and the usage of electricity to predominately rural audiences. Mamer kept many of her materials in labeled notebooks; other papers were filed loosely with no apparent order. The collection materials date pre-dominantly from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. There are some materials from the late 1930s. There is only one item from 1927 and one from 1999.

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Digitized Content Russell E. Train Africana collection
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Creators:
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
Dates:
1663-2004
Size:
6,500 Items (estimated)
Collection ID:
SIL-CL.XXXX-0014
Repository:
Smithsonian Libraries

Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa.

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Digitized Content James A. Peters Papers, and Records of the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians
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Creators:
Peters, James Arthur, 1922-1972
Dates:
1927-1973 (Papers), 1927-1966 (Records)
Size:
24.25 cu. ft. (48 document boxes) (1 half document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7175
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers include both personal and professional correspondence and documents relating to Peters' academic and curatorial careers. Also included are files of the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians maintained by Peters' predecessor, Doris Mable Cochran (1898-1968). Correspondents include Jorge W. Abalos, M. Acosta-Solis, Kraig Kerr Adl...

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Ivan Karp papers
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Creators:
Karp, Ivan
Dates:
circa 1945-2012
bulk 1969-2012
Size:
16.24 Linear feet (43 boxes and 2 sets of rolled maps)
0.21 Gigabytes
19 Sound recordings
Collection ID:
NAA.2013-30
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Ivan Karp (1943-2011) was a curator of African Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) from 1984 to 1993. He was also a professor at Emory University from 1993 to 2011. He conducted fieldwork among the Iteso (Teso) of Kenya and made significant contributions to the areas of African systems of thought, social theory, museum studies, and public scholarship. His collection contains his research on the Iteso of Kenya; his work at Emory University and the Smithsonian Institution; his reviews of manuscripts and books; recommendations that he wrote for his colleagues and students; his published articles and papers presented at conferences; and his project files on various topics including museum studies, African philosophy, public scholarship, agency and personhood, and the history of social anthropology.

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