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Smithsonian Institution, Director General of Museums, Afro-American Cultural History Project
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1967-1970
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-011
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes program records of the Afro-American Cultural History Project (AACHP), which reported to the Director General of Museums and was located in the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT). In later years AACHP would evolve into the Program in African American Culture. Materials include the correspondence and m...
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Pineau, Roger, 1916-1993
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1966-1985
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 89-010
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Roger Pineau was the Managing Editor of the Smithsonian Institution (SI) Press and an officer (retired) of the U.S. Navy. The Pineau Papers contain documentation on his curatorship of the Smithsonian exhibition "The Japan Expedition of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, 1852-1854," held at the National Museum of Natural History in November-Dec...
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National Portrait Gallery, Office of the Director
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1978, 1986-1997
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-123
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the Director's involvement in many aspects of exhibition development at the National Portrait Gallery during the tenure of Alan Maxwell Fern (1982-2000). Materials include loan requests, correspondence, memoranda, agreements, scripts, catalog manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.
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National Portrait Gallery, Office of the Director
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1983, 1992-2006
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-099
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the Director's involvement in many aspects of exhibition development at the National Portrait Gallery during the tenures of Alan Maxwell Fern (1982-2000) and Marc Pachter (2000-2007). Exhibitions documented include "Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs;" "A Brush with H...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Community Life
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1971-1989
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-163
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the planning for and installation of the exhibition A Nation of Nations, which opened at the National Museum of History and Technology in 1976. Materials include the correspondence, memoranda, and notes of Carl H. Scheele and Richard E. Ahlborn, Co-chairmen of the exhibition; and Ellen Rone...
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circa 1970
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124 Photographic prints ((1 box), black and white, 8 x 10 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1995-016
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Ed Brennan of African art objects collected by Gaston T. deHavenon from 1950 through 1970. The art objects were displayed in a loan exhibit held at the opening of the museum's enlarged galleries, 1971. The photographs were published in a one volume catalog entitled, The deHavenon Collection," by the Museum of African Art (now National Museum of African Art) and printed by S.D. Scott Printing Co., Inc., 1971.
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National Museum of Natural History, Division of Lepidoptera
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1963-1990, with related records from 1942
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7 cu. ft. processed holdings.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 427
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of professional correspondence and administrative files documenting the activities and research of the Division of Lepidoptera. The correspondence for the most part concerns the loan, acquisition, identification, and distribution of insect specimens. A small amount of the correspondence dates to before the 1963 establishm...
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National Museum of Natural History, Division of Neuropteroids and Diptera
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1963-1989, with related records from 1938
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2.1 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 422
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Curators represented by these records include Grace E. Glance (Associate Curator, 1948-1957), Oliver S. Flint, Jr. (Associate Curator, 1961-1965; Curator, 1965- ), and Richard W. Baumann (Associate Curator, 1972-1975). These records consist of professional correspondence and administrative files documenting the research and activities of the ...
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National Museum of History and Technology, Division of Graphic Arts
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1887-1978
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2.4 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 413
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include Division of Graphic Arts records dating from its establishment, including the work of curators Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Jacob Kainen, and Peter C. Marzio. Also included are lecture notes and papers of curators Ruel P. Tolman, Kainen, and Marzio; inventory lists of Graphic Arts objects; working outline for "The Steam E...
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undated
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1 copy print
3 Pages (Press release :)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.93-15B
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National Anthropological Archives
Image of Powhatan's mantle made from four skins sewn together and decorative shell beads. The photograph is accompanied by a news release from the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, November 17, 1989, concerning the mantle's loan from the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University to be displayed at Jamestown. Photograph probably made by either the Ashmol...