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United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board
- Dates:
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1870-2010
bulk 1962-1985
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39 slides (photographs)
35 negatives (photographic)
257 Photographic prints
14 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.072
- Repository:
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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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Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
- Dates:
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1870s-1880s
bulk 1879-1879
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40 mounted prints (circa, albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.143
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection primarily consists of photographs made by John K. Hillers for the Bureau of American Ethnology documenting pueblos, cliff and rock dwellings, and people in Arizona and New Mexico. The photographs depict Navajo, Zuni, Taos, Oraibi, Walpi, Tesuque, Sichomovi, Cochiti, Mishongnavi, and Shipaulovi Pueblo tribes. There are also pictures...
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Gerson, Otto
Gerson, Ilse, 1901-1980
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1933-1980
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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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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Design and Construction
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1969-1986
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 87-113
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of receipts, blueprints, correspondence, inspectors' logs, and specifications concerning Office of Design and Construction projects. Buildings and museums documented in this collection include: Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution Service Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Museum Support ...
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Exhibition Records
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National Museum of American History. Department of Exhibits
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circa 1959-1993
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40 oversize folders.
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-021
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of architectural blueprints of the National Museum of American History (NMAH), mostly of its interior, plus original exhibition floor plans of the Museum. Some of the floor plans date as early as 1959, when exhibition halls were being conceived for what was then called the Museum of History and Technology. The floo...
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Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
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circa 1872-1873
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9 mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.83-18
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs depicting a village, people, and rock formations in or near the Hopi village of Oraibi. The small albumen prints are the same as those normally used to make stereographs.
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Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964
- Dates:
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1934-1940
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0.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.davistua
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter Stuart Davis measure 0.8 linear feet and date from 1934 to 1940. The collection is comprised of correspondence that includes letters from Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arnold Blanch, Rockwell Kent, and others regarding Pablo Picasso's statement against the fascist dictatorship in Spain, as well as a letter from Davis to Picasso inviting him to speak at the 2nd Annual American Artists' Congress meeting. Also found are files from Davis's position as editor of Art Front magazine; membership files documenting Davis's activities with the American Artists' Congress, Fine Arts Federation of New York, the New York World's Fair Artists Committee, and other organizations; printed materials; a project file for the Federal Art Project; and editorials. Additional items include an article manuscript and a draft of a letter to Ben Shahn suggesting that Downtown Gallery artists provide funding to Edith Halpert in order to open another gallery.
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Guadagno, Carmelo
Krevolin, Lewis
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
- Dates:
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1973
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1402 negatives (photographic) (color, black and white, 35mm)
67 contact sheets
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.058
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photography taken by MAI staff photographer Carmelo Guadagno during a research project expedition with Lewis Krevolin on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in March of 1973. The project focus was pottery making techniques in various Indigenous settlements across Mexico in support of the 1976-1977 exhibition "Traditional Pottery of Mexico."
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Twardowicz, Stanley, 1917-
- Dates:
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1942-2009
- Size:
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1.1 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.twarstan
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter and photographer Stanley Twardowicz measure 1.1 linear feet and date from 1942-2009, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1942-1981. The papers contain biographical material, scrapbooks, letters, printed material, photographs, and audio and video recordings regarding the career of Stanley Twardowicz as a painter and photographer.
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Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Armstrong, John
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
- Dates:
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1883
- Size:
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4 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2204
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Text with interlinear English translation.