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1887-1986
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2 Photographic prints (color)
6,859 Postcards (color, 10 x 15 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2001-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Picture postcards collected by Stephen Grant, Education Official, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while serving in Africa.
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Division of Medical Sciences, NMAH
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circa 1930s-1960s
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36 Cubic feet (81 Films, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0222
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films vary in subject, production source, and intended audience. Includes both silent and sound black-and-white, and color films with sound.
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Basie, Count, 1904-
Smith, Ernie
Webster, Ben
Armstrong, Louis, 1900-1971
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1894-1979
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30 Cubic feet (352 film reels , 16 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0491
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
More than 300 reels of 16mm black and white and color film, silent and sound, fiction and documentary motion picture film documenting jazz and related musical performances, social and popular dance styles and performances, jazz musicians, performance locales, and documentation of African-American popular culture. A list of featured performers in the collection is shown below. The films are frequently compilations produced by Smith for lectures.
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Hanson, James A.
Conner, Stuart W.
Dempsey, Hugh A.
Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997
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1945-1993
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97 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.1998-35
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National Anthropological Archives
The John Canfield Ewers Papers document his wide ranging anthropological interests from early White depictions of Native Americans to the material culture of the Plains tribes through correspondence, exhibit catalogs, field notes, illustrations, lectures, maps, photocopies of archival materials, photographs, and writings. The collection includes ma...
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Walter Pach papers
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Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
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1857-1980
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20.7 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.pachwalt2
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Archives of American Art
The papers of New York artist, critic, historian, writer, art consultant and curator Walter Pach, measure 20.7 linear feet and date from 1857-1980. The collection documents Pach's promotion of modernism through his role in the landmark 1913 Armory Show, his relationships with artists and art-world figures and his extensive writings on art. Records include biographical material, correspondence with family, friends and colleagues including noted artists, handwritten and edited versions of manuscripts by Pach, diaries and journals, business records, printed material, scrapbooks, sketchbooks and artwork by Pach and others, and photographs of Pach and his family, friends, and colleagues. The collection also includes 12 linear feet of selections from Walter Pach's library.
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Hazen, Margaret Hindle
Hazen, Robert M.
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circa 1818-1931
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13.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0253
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Large collection of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera, and music related to the brass band movement in the United States: includes 8 ambrotypes, 36 tintypes, 59 stereographs, 66 cabinet prints, 90 cartes-de-visite, 150 large photoprints, and 874 picture postcards; also posters, concert programs, instrument manufacturers' advertisemem...
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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1919-1986
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23 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-018
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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 ...
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Jones, Caroline Robinson, 1942-2001 (advertising executive)
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1942 - 1996
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15 Sound tape reels
4 motion picture films
54 Cubic feet (127 boxes; one oversize folder)
129 video recordings
70 cassette tapes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0552
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Caroline R. Jones (1942-2001), an African-American advertising executive, worked for a number of prominent New York ad agencies and and founded her own firm in 1986. She is best known for her work in assisting clients in marketing to minority consumers. The collection includes client files, print advertisements, and radio and television commercials created for a wide range of commercial and public service campaigns.
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Underwood & Underwood
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1895-1921
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160 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0143
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The major part of the collection, series 1-4, contains nearly 28,000 glass plates, including original stereoscopic negatives, interpositives, and both negative and positive non-stereoscopic plates used to produce lantern slides and paper prints. The photographs were taken all over the world. The majority are from the Underwood & Underwood active fi...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1831-1984, undated
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40 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S12
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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 12: Plants and Animals contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards plants and animals in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.