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Cook Labs
Cook, Emory, 1913-2002
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1908-2002, bulk 1948-1965
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6.3 Cubic feet (Phonograph albums)
63.5 Cubic feet (Open-reel tapes)
8.75 Cubic feet (Business records)
78.55 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.COOK
- Repository:
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Cook Labs records, which date from 1939-2002, document the activities of audio engineer Emory Cook and his label Cook Labs. The contents include business records, materials relating to recording artists, photographs, and production materials, as well as phonograph records, master recordings and unpublished recordings produced by or associated with the Cook Labs label. The collection also contains two interviews conducted with Emory Cook in 1990: one by Jeff Place and one by Anthony Seeger and Nicholas Spitzer. There are several physical objects relating to Cook Labs including a bag of powdered vinyl, a binaural playing arm, and a condenser microphone.
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Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology
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ca. 1860s-1960s
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14,500 Items
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.97
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Consists of photographs collected by the United States National Museum (USNM) Division of Ethnology and later by the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology (SOA). Coverage is worldwide outside North America. Most of the items are photographic prints, some in albums. There are also negatives, photomechanical prints, artwork, and newsclippings. For the m...
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Stillman, Michael, 1915-2003
Rubin, Rose N.
Monitor Records
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undated
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43.7 Cubic feet (Audiotapes)
6.8 Cubic feet (Phonograph records)
57.5 Cubic feet (Paper records)
108 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.MONI
- Repository:
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
This collection contains the original master tapes, commercial recordings, and paper business records of the label Monitor Records. Materials include audiotapes, phonograph records, contracts, correspondence, photographs and other items.
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Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
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circa 1910-1970
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192 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
The Myron Bement Smith collection consists of two parts, the papers of Myron Bement Smith and his wife Katharine and the Islamic Archives. It contains substantial material about his field research in Italy in the 1920s and his years working on Islamic architecture in Iran in the 1930s. Letters describe the milieu in which he operated in Rochester NY and New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s; the Smiths' life in Iran from 1933 to 1937; and the extensive network of academic and social contacts that Myron and Katharine developed and maintained over his lifetime. The Islamic Archives was a project to which Smith devoted most of his professional life. It includes both original materials, such as his photographs and notes, and items acquired by him from other scholars or experts on Islamic art and architecture. Smith intended the Archives to serve as a resource for scholars interested in the architecture and art of the entire Islamic world although he also included some materials about non-Islamic architecture.
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
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1840s-1960s
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18,000 Items (ca. 18,000 items)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.24
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collections consists mostly of original and copy prints. There are also some negatives, artwork, photographs of artwork, and printed materials. Included is a large miscellany of ethnological, historical, and some archaeological subjects collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology from a wide variety of sources. To these have been added some p...
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1903 - 1989
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400 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0301
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.