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Smithsonian Institution. Management Analysis Office
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1949-1991
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25 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 486
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of Smithsonian Announcements, Office Memoranda, Special Memoranda, Staff Handbooks, and various forms used in Smithsonian offices. The records include correspondence, drafts and other background materials surrounding the creation of these documents. The Announcements concern office name changes, reorganizations, pers...
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 30-July 11, 2011
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2011
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 28-July 7, 1991
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1991
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Maltsby, Portia
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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1850-2004, undated
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100 Cubic feet (309 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0408
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily documents the activities of the National Museum of American History's Program in African American Culture (PAAC) dating from 1979 through 2004. The Program in African American Culture (PAAC) created public programs documenting the black experience in the United States, as well as, other countries. Archival materials include photographs, programs, administrative files, magnetic tape, audiocassettes, U-matic and VHS video cassettes.
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circa 1850-2006
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59 cu. ft. (59 record storage boxes) (10 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-225
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of information files, original reports and correspondence, papers and articles, and other background material on Smithsonian buildings. These records were compiled by the Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation (OAHP), research associates, and volunteers. Items in brackets describe cross-references ...
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1866-1906, with related records to 1927
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65.91 cu. ft. (98 document boxes) (6 12x17 boxes) (1 16x20 box) (88 3x5 boxes) (1 tube box) (oversize material)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 31
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the history of the Smithsonian from 1872-1927. Most of the records concern the tenure of Samuel P. Langley, the third Secretary, who served from 1887-1906. There is also some material dating from as early as 1866 to as late as 1927 in the collection. This record unit is the last to be based on a distinction between ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Business Ventures. Product Development and Licensing
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1971-2005
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42 cu. ft. (42 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-001
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the processes of Product Development and Licensing at Smithsonian Business Ventures. The unit's primary function is to generate revenue for the Smithsonian Institution through the licensing and development of products related to collections within the Smithsonian museums. Some of these pro...
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1902-1965
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268.55 cu. ft. (79 record storage boxes) (372 document boxes) (2 12x17 boxes) (3 3x5 boxes) (3 5x8 boxes) (2 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7091
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The bulk of this collection was processed by Jane Livermore, a devoted and tireless volunteer in the Smithsonian Institution Archives between 1995 and 2004. Livermore is a former Science Service employee. She worked in the organization's library, oversaw the educational project "THINGS of Science," and served as Assistant to the Director. ...
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Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978
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circa 1848-1983 and undated
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116.34 cu. ft. (206 document boxes) (10 half document boxes) (1 12x17 box) (2 16x20 boxes) (29 3x5 boxes) (13 5x8 boxes) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7006
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of Alexander Wetmore were received in the Smithsonian Archives in several different accessions between 1978 and 1987. The Archives would like to thank Mrs. Beatrice T. Wetmore for her help in transferring her husband's papers to the Archives. We also appreciate the assistance of the staff of the Division of Birds, National Museum ...
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- Dates:
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1919-1986
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23 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-018
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Freer Gallery of Art Central Files are comprised mostly of the documentation of routine office procedures. Included in the daily routine were: filling orders for facsimiles of photographs, responding to reference requests seeking information about art and artifacts falling under the domain of the Freer's expertise, the Freer granting ...
