African Postcard Collection
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1898-[ongoing]
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61 Volumes
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-014
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection includes postcards from 45 African countries. Subjects include agriculture; animals; artists; body arts; cityscapes; cultural landscapes; dance; education; expeditions; flora; industry; leaders; marketplaces; medicine; military; missionaries; music; portraits; recreation; rites and ceremonies; and transportation, among many other topics.
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Collins, Henry Bascom, 1899- interviewee
- Dates:
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1985
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7 audiotapes (reference copies). 14 digital .mp3 files (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9528
- 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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Greenwich Workshop, inc.
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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4 Cubic Feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2004.0010
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the following source material, generated for the film "The Men who Brought the Dawn:" fifty-one 16 mm reels; seventy-one Betacam-SP cassettes; fifty-one VHS cassettes; three D2 digital tapes; twenty-four ¼ inch reel to reel tapes; four cassettes; and five DATs.
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1976, 1985-1999
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-265
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual materials created during the production of "Monumental Propaganda;" "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Visions of the Future on Film;" "300 Years of American Papermaking;" "Woody Guthrie's Legacy;" "Phone Philm;" "Men of Greatness, Feats of Daring;" "Covering the Environment: Front Page or Yesterday's News?;" "...
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- Dates:
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circa 1905-1978 (bulk 1905-1920)
bulk 1900-1920
- Size:
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147 photographs
3 volumes (books)
43 postcards
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection contains 147 photographic prints and 43 postcards from East Africa (circa 1907-circa 1914), especially Kijobe, which depict the activities of the Africa Inland Mission; Theodore Roosevelt's safari in 1909; views of Nairobi, Mombasa, Port Said, Lake Victoria and other landscapes; and portraits of Maasai, Kikuyu, Kamba, Kavirondo, Akawba, Gikuyu, Somali and Swahili coast peoples. Missionaries pictured include Hetz, Hurlburt, and Wallace, who is listed as photographer on many of the prints. The collection also contains 3 paperback books, published by Africa Inland Mission, which describe the history of the organization and the experiences of its missionaries: Faster Beats the Drum (1978), Another Hand on Mine (1975) and Gardens of Miracles (1976).
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United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
- Dates:
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1870-2010
bulk 1962-1985
- Size:
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39 slides (photographs)
35 negatives (photographic)
257 Photographic prints
14 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.072
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Indian Arts and Crafts Board accession records collection includes documents and photographs related to works of art accessioned into the IACB collection from it's inception in 1935 to 1999. The collection also includes docuements related to objects accessioned into the IACB's run Southern Plains Indian Museum. The collection is nearly comprehensive and includes works of art from Alaska Native artists to Catawba pottery, and includes artwork from several renowned artists including, Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), James Kivetoruk Moses (Inupiaq), and Don Morse "Lelooska" Smith (Cherokee).
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Assistant Director, Finance and Administration
- Dates:
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1986-1997
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-002
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the development and financing of all aspects of exhibitions. The records were created and maintained by Sarah Newmeyer, Assistant Director, Administrative Division. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, exhibit proposals, funding proposals, budgets, publicity materials, meeting agendas, exhibition schedules, cont...
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Gerson, Otto
Gerson, Ilse, 1901-1980
- Dates:
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1933-1980
- Size:
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3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.gersotto
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of New York art dealers and gallery owners Otto and Ilse Gerson measure 3 linear feet and date from 1933 to 1980. This collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, exhibition files, artists' files, collectors' files, business records, inventory and stock records, printed materials, and photographs.
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Mattachine Society of Washington
- Dates:
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1978-2013, undated
- Size:
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4.1 (13 boxes) Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1428
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers and publications collected by the Mattachine Society of Washington, DC relating to the gay to straight conversion therapy program known as Love in Action (LIA) and director of the Memphis, Tennessee LIA, John J. Smid and author Garrard Conley.
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- Dates:
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1909
- Size:
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1.6 Linear feet (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-012.4
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection of The Weekly News newspaper spans from August 7, 1909 to December 11, 1909, and measures 1.6 linear feet. The Washington, DC-based paper was "Devoted to the East Section of the Anacostia River," with the stated motto of "A Paper in Every Home." The Weekly reported on church news and society events, contained advertisements for neighborhood businesses, and listed places of interest, such as the Frederick Douglass Home and the Fort Stanton Civil War Fort.