Still Prints of Asia: The Residency, Lucknow
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Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
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1858
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1 Print (albumen, image 23 x 29 cm., mounted 38 x 41 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1999.28
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
One albumen print by Felix Beato, mounted on card, with "Residency" inscribed in black ink below the print. View of the shelled remains of the Residency in Lucknow, with two men sitting in the foreground, circa 1858.
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Sedgwick, Mabel Cabot
Lee, James S.
Gardner, John L.
Manning, J. W.
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circa 1900-1907
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1.25 Cubic feet (120 glass plate negatives.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.SDG
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Archives of American Gardens
The Mabel Cabot Sedgwick Collection consists of approximately 120 glass negatives of images used in Sedgwick's book, The Garden Month by Month, published by the F.A. Stokes Company in New York, 1907. The book, which describes the appearance, color, cultivation and blooming dates for various plants, contains half-tone engravings taken from these photographs of growing plants.
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between 1958-1972
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178 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2003-003
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Allan L. Pitcher, a Foreign Service officer working and traveling in Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, Ghana and Upper Volta. Images include individual and group portraits of men, women and children, leaders and village elders. There are numerous images of markets to include close-ups of market stalls and street views. Also included are images of rites, ceremonies and various dance performances in Liberia, among the boys about to enter the initiation camp, women of Sande society and dances performed in conjunction with government ceremonies. Another focus of the photography are industry and economic activities. Slides show rubber production in Firestone Rubber plantation (Liberia), mining and dam construction. Among the most important images are architectural shots, which include African residences as well as official buildings. Pitcher also photographed the Esso station with the screens by Adebisi Akanji and a shrine in Oshogbo.
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Canisius, Kathryn L., 1906-1943
Canisius, Elizabeth, 1882-1977
- Dates:
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1918-1930
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1 photograph album (7 x 12 in.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.026
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Canisius family photograph album was primarily compiled by Elizabeth Canisius (1882-1977) of Indianapolis, Indiana, and contains photographs made from about 1918 to 1929 by her and various members of her immediate and extended family. Evidently not arranged in chronological order, the photographs document a burgeoning German-American family and...
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Ethnogeographic Board (Washington, D. C.)
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1942-1946
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16.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (29 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 87
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection includes records concerning the Board's projects, general correspondence, committee and organization work and information concerning specialized data and special subjects. Postwar regional administration records, geographic reports, country information files, photographs and uncompleted project records are also included, a...
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- Dates:
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bulk 1960s
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0.37 Cubic Feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2017.0002
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists .37 cubic feet of the following items: a binder (divided into three folders) of Apollo program astronaut photographs (some autographed) as well as philately, a patch, and documentation relating to Apollo 15; material relating to the Apollo 8 launch including photographs, invitation, and viewing stand pass; a volvelle, "Apol...
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Brecher, Samuel, 1897-
- Dates:
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undated
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2 Paintings (oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, 25.4 x 20.3 cm., or smaller, one in wood frame measuring 32 x 26.8 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.brecsamu
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
One framed painting is a still life with a vase of flowers and fruit and one is a portrait of a moustached man. Both paintings are signed.
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Knowles, Joseph, 1869-1942
- Dates:
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undated
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1 Print (etching, platemark 23 x 15 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.knowjose
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Shows the silhouette of a man on a sailboat, holding a coil of rope.
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Jacquez, Albert, 1895-1962
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circa 1945
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4 Chromolithographs
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.4561
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National Anthropological Archives
Reproductions of Albert Jacquez watercolor paintings relating to Stoney and Blackfoot people, painted in 1945. They depict a Sun dance camp and the process of erecting a Sun dance tree, a Stoney man named Dog Tail in winter dress, and a Blackfoot man named Tom Turn Up Nose.
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Vasquez, John G.
- Dates:
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1942 - 2005
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0942
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document independent inventor John G. Vasquez. The papers include drawings, sketches, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, and prototypes for two of Vasquez's inventions.