Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1990 Festival of American Folklife
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 27-July 8, 1990
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1990
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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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Hollander, Bernard
Bernhard, Lucian
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1920s-2000
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0.6 Cubic feet (1 box, 3 rolled items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1161
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents Bernhard's career as an REM advertisement artist in the 1920s as well as his pursuit of canvas painting following his retirement. It contains REM advertisements and materials from posthumous exhibitions of Bernhard's paintings, as well as writings from Bernhard himself and researchers.
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Pringle, Robert, 1936-
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circa 1980-1989
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2,136 slides (photographs) (color , 35mm.)
829 negatives (photographic) (color , 35mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2006-006
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection contains 2136 color 35mm slides and 829 color 35mm negatives taken by Robert Pringle, former Ambassador to Mali, between 1980-1989. The images were taken in Mali, Burkina Faso and Kenya, and depict masquerades, vernacular architecture (including Dogon doors and granaries), mosques, marketplace scenes, pottery, masks (including plank and leaf masks), weaving, art in situ, animals and landscapes. Culture groups represented in the collection include the Tuareg, Lobi, Maasai, Mossi, Dogon, Fula and Bobo (Bwa) peoples. Ambassador Pringle traveled with photographer Christopher Roy and some of Pringle's images depict Roy at work with his own camera.
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Rohrmann, G. F. (George F.)
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1970-1975
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129 color slides (35mm)
622 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2018-003
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection depicts the everyday life and architecture of Basotho, Hausa, Makonde, Matabele, Pedi, Swazi, and Xhosa peoples in Nigeria, Southern Africa, and Tanzania.
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Jordan, Patricia M., 1937-1989
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1870
1949-1984
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2.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.jordpatr
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Archives of American Art
The papers of San Francisco based Beat photographer Patricia Jordan measure 2.3 linear feet and date from 1870, 1949-1984. The papers include correspondence, much of it illustrated and with Beat artists and poets, writings, exhibition files, printed materials, photographs, and artwork.
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circa 1920
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6 postcards
1 map
1 pamphlet (descriptive leaflet)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2013-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
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1910
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68 lantern slides ((1 notebook), b&w, 10 x 13 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-015
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Lantern slides and accompanying notebook of photographic images taken by Missionary Ernest Goddhun in Southern Cameroon prior to the First World War.
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Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
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circa 1871-1874
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37 mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.87-2N
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of photographs depicting Ute and Paiute Indians, mostly informal portraits, with some individuals holding baskets, bow and arrows, and rifles. The photographs may have been made on a Powell expedition. Many of the prints are the same as those normally used to make stereographs, and the mounts appear to be pages removed from ...
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Kienbusch, William, 1914-1980
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1958-1977
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0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.kienwill3
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Archives of American Art
The William Kienbusch letters to Francis and Sydney Hamabe measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1958 to 1977. Found in this collection are 93 letters and postcards in which Kienbusch discusses his work as a landscape painter and art instructor in New York and Maine, family business, activities with the Hamabes, their mutual friends, and other artists. Included as letter attachments are newspaper clippings and three catalogs for Kienbusch exhibitions at Kraushaar Gallery from 1959, 1969, and 1975.
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Christopher, William R, 1924-1973
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circa 1920s-circa 1973
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8.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.chriwill
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Archives of American Art
The William Christopher papers measure 8.2 linear feet and date from circa 1920s to circa 1973. Materials include biographical materials, correspondence, writings and notes, five diaries, subject/project files, printed materials, photographs, numerous sketches and eleven sketchbooks, and five short film reels containing amateur footage of New York City. The subject/project files include correspondence, printed materials, and two additional diaries about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.