Frank Kenjockety and Louis Belmont Newell Native American Entertainers collection
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Newell, Louis Belmont
Kenjockety, Frank
- Dates:
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1886-1940
- Size:
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2 Linear feet
39 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.025
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Frank Kenjockety and Louis B. Newell Native American Entertainers collection includes ephemera, documents and photographs from two prominent Native American [entertainers] Frank Kenjockety (Cayuga), also known as "Chief Strong Fox" and Louis Belmont Newell, also known as "Rolling Thunder". Kenjockety's collection contains photographs, ephemera and a small amount of personal records from his career as a circus troupe leader and lecturer from 1909-1940. Newell's collection contains ephemera from his career as a traveling Medicine Man and entertainer including remedy and ointment packaging as well as broadsides and flyers.
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Arquin, Florence
- Dates:
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1923-1985
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8.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.arquflor
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Florence Arquin measure 8.2 linear feet and date from 1923 to 1985. The papers document Arquin's career as a painter, photographer, educator, writer, and critic through biographical material, correspondence, writings, teaching and project files, printed material, photographs, artwork, and scrapbooks. Additionally, the papers relate to her personal relationships with her husband Samuel Williams and friends, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Teaching and project files include material from Arquin's work with the Federal Art Project at the Art Institute of Chicago and as director of the U.S. State Department's Kodachrome Slide Project, which was part of an effort to provide educational agencies with visual aids to support Latin American Studies.
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Sports, Entertainment and Leisure, Division of, NMAH, SI
Bartel, Jean
- Dates:
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1943-1970, undated
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0902
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of Jean Bartel during the Miss America Pageant in 1943 and her activities during her reign.
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Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912
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1858-1984
bulk 1858-1955
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3.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.millfran
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers measure 3.3 linear feet and are dated 1858-1984, with a few scattered early eighteenth-century items, such as legal documents and printed matter. The bulk of the materials dates from 1858 to 1955. Found are biographical materials, diaries/journals, family letters, notes and writings, art work, printed matter, miscellaneous records, and photographs documenting Millet's wide-ranging artistic and writing career and personal life, including his death aboard the Titanic. Also of interest are approximately twenty ink caricatures attributed to John Singer Sargent.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
- Dates:
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1953-2008
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-149
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting staff exhibition planning, development, and production of photographic history collections, as well as works by renown contemporary American photographers, at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) and the Arts and Industries Building. Earlier records date back to when the photographic ...
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Donnald, Morrill
Torrence, Vernon Keith, 1921-1946
Kansas Wesleyan University
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1940-1942
- Size:
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0.8 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0717
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, a Kansas Wesleyan University yearbook (with personal messages and inscriptions), diplomas, correspondence regarding Torrence's disappearance, newspaper clippings, his memorial service booklet or program, and a diary which he kept during a week-long adventure as a "hobo" in Kansas.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
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1973-1980
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 83-054
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of scripts maintained by the Office of Exhibits Central pertaining to Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service projects.
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Ralph Redford
- Dates:
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undated
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0.4 Cubic feet (Color, 35mm)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2015.11
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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Blackwelder, Richard E.
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1926-1964
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-099
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Richard E. Blackwelder received a doctorate in entomology from Stanford University in 1934. The following year he received the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to conduct field work on the beetles of the West Indies from 1935 to 1938. These papers consist of journals from Blackwelder's field work in the West Indie...
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Smithsonian's America/Japan Project
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circa 1991-1994
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-146
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the creation of The Smithsonian's America: An Exhibition on American History and Culture for the American Festival Japan 1994. Materials include correspondence with sponsors such as the Media International Corporation and the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, also known as NHK; staff memoranda; ...