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Lopez Negrete Communications (Houston, Texas)
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1988 - 2015
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14 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1413
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The López Negrete Communications Advertising Collection showcases the successful print advertising campaigns the communications agency undertook with major clients like Goya Foods, NationsBank, and Walmart. The advertising posters in this collection exemplify the agency's creativity in building on U.S. Latinos' everyday experiences to market American products and services. Alex and Cathy López Negrete, the founders of López Negrete Communications, made it their mission to use ethnographic approaches to better understand the U.S. Latino market which led to their success as the largest independently-owned Latino advertising agency in the country.
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Danske filminstitut
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circa 1915-1986
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10 Cubic feet (23 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0543
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains primarily black-and-white silver gelatin photographic prints, produced by film studios and distributors for advertising and theater lobby display purposes. The films are mostly American, although the collection includes some European and Japanese films. Some films are accompanied by small booklets in Danish.
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Henry S. Bukowski Big Band Collection, [primarily photoprints]
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Bukowski, Henry S., 1922-
Community Life, Div. of (NMAH, SI)
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ca. 1930s-1940s
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0678
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs and postcards of entertainers, mostly jazz musicians and leaders of dance bands, etc., and related memorabilia.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1790-1980s
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260 Cubic feet (approximately 1244 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily published sheet music, plus some related ephemera. Originally included 781 boxes of American sheet music and assorted clippings, articles, photographs, etc.; also 93 boxes of 33-1/3 RPM phonograph records, 30 boxes of 45 RPM records, and 20 boxes of 78 RPM records
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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October 8-13, 1980
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1980
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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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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1828-1980
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79 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S03
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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 3: African-American Music, contains circa 7,800 pieces of sheet music and folios dating from the 1820s to the 1980s; most of the material dates from after 1890. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Baer, Ralph H., 1922-2014
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1943 - 2015
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16 Cubic feet (44 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0854
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ralph H. Baer was a German-born ordnance specialist, inventor, and engineer. He was a pioneer of early videogame technology. The papers include autobiographical materials; firearms notes, manuscripts, and photographs; and videogame and television engineering notes, diagrams, schematics, and video documentation.
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Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
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1987-2015
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13 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-173
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the marketing and publicity of recordings produced by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, part of the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The majority of the records were created by Brenda Dunlap, Marketing Director, 1994-2001, and Richard Burgess, Marketing Director, ...
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Registrar's Office
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1998-2008
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 12-491
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting outgoing loans of works of art. Materials include correspondence, requests for loans, loan agreement forms, outgoing loan receipts, bills of lading, certificates of insurance, insurance register transaction forms, images of objects, facilities reports, condition photographs, and related mater...
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Registrar's Office
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2001-2009
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-059
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting outgoing loans of works of art. Materials include correspondence, requests for loans, loan agreement forms, outgoing loan receipts, bills of lading, certificates of insurance, insurance register transaction forms, images of objects, facilities reports, condition photographs, and related mater...