Website Records
This accession consists of records documenting Twitter accounts maintained throughout the Smithsonian Institution (SI). Twitter is a third-party site used for public micro-blogging by SI staff. In addition to general SI-wide accounts, many of which are managed by the Office of Public Affairs, the accession documents the accounts of the …
Project Files
This accession consists of laserdiscs created by the Exhibits Media Office for use in exhibitions. Exhibitions include All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture; Ancestral Memories: A Tribute to Native American Survival; The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama; Memory and …
James Graham Cooper Papers
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Francis John McComas papers
Scrapbook, catalogs, photographs, and clippings.
Major Leland W. Miller Scrapbook
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings relating to Leland Miller's professional accomplishments in the early 1920s, as well as the social activities of his wife and friends.
MS 2008-12 Matthew Stirling manuscript on the history of anthropology
Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-1973
This collection is comprised of a 20-leaf typed manuscript of an article tracing the history of anthropology in America. A title has been added in blue ink, presumably by Stirling, which reads "The History of Anthropology in America with Special Reference to the Smithsonian Institution." Also present is a letter …
Verna G. Patterson Comic Book Collection
Collection includes several turn of the century favorites, predominantly consisting of Buster Brown comics but containing other examples as well.
Bruno Louis Zimm papers
A letter from Karl Bitter with a sketch of a male figure (1908) praises Zimm's relief sculpture at "the League room". Photographs show Zimm, his studio, home, and works of art (ca. 1923-1940), and Hasbrouck Zimm (ca. 1946). Other materials consist of a biographical account written by Zimm's son (1985) and 3 clippings (1907-1982).
Chester Beach papers
bulk 1895-1999
The Chester Beach papers measure 7.32 linear feet and date from 1846 to 1999, with the bulk ot the material dating from circa 1900 to 1999. The work and professional activities of Beaux Arts sculptor Chester Beach (1881-1956) and his family's efforts to exhibit and sell work from the estate are documented by project files, business records, correspondence, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs. The papers also include many artist-designed Christmas cards sent and received by the Beach family, and artwork by Chester Beach and others.
Larry Zim World's Fair Collection
Zim, Larry (Larry Zimmerman), 1931-1987
Memorabilia of fairs and World's Fairs throughout history, both in the United States and abroad, including photographs, stereographs, panoramas and slides; printed materials; postcards; sheet music; philatelic material; stationery and greeting cards; menus and food service items; posters; shopping bags; motion picture films; and other items.
