Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1884-1917, undated
1884-1917
- Size:
-
0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1466
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes assorted printed materials and ephemera on "Wild West" shows.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Bogert, Charles M. (Charles Mitchill), 1908-1992
- Dates:
-
1952-1965
- Size:
-
79 Sound tape reels (1.6 cubic feet)
Tapes are in original boxes.
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.BOGE
- Repository:
-
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Five boxes containing sixty-four 5 inch and fifteen 7 inch open reel tapes recorded primarily by American herpetologist Charles M. Bogert from 1953-1965. This collection has two parts: the first focusing mainly on traditional music and liturgical music from several regions in Mexico: Oaxaca, Jalisco, Nayarit. Also included is music recorded in the Southwestern United States. The second portion of the collection contains amphibian, bird, and insect calls and choruses, mostly from these same regions in Mexico, the Southwestern, Western, and Southern United States, and Sri Lanka.
Found In
William "Cat" Anderson Collection
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Anderson, William "Cat", 1916-1981 ((musician))
- Dates:
-
1940-1981
bulk 1963-1977
- Size:
-
5 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0630
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily audiotapes, sheet music, and photographic images. Also: correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, itineraries, awards, and ephemera.,Of particular interest are recordings or photographic images, including the personalities listed below, and President and Mrs. Tubman of Liberia; also, two interviews and three recordings of Ca...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Carter, Benny, 1907-2003
- Dates:
-
1928-2000
- Size:
-
67.5 Cubic feet (182 boxes, 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0757
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The majority of the material in the Benny Carter Collection is dated from the late 1920s through the later half of the 1990s. Donated to the Smithsonian Institution in December, 2000, the bulk of the collection is comprised of original music manuscripts (full scores and parts), band books, and published sheet music from Benny Carter's prolific care...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Holman, Bill, 1927-
Kenton, Stan
Monk, Thelonious
Basie, Count, 1904-
More … - Dates:
-
1951-2000
- Size:
-
12 Cubic feet (68 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0733
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Bill Holman Collection consists of original music compositions and arrangements, posters, performance contracts and a photograph dating from 1952 to 1999. The collection is organized into two series: Series 1: Music Manuscripts; and Series 2: Photographs and Business Records.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Museum of American History. Division of Cultural History
- Dates:
-
1976-2009
- Size:
-
1.93 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box) (1 12 x 17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-081
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of program records created and maintained by Gary Sturm, Assistant Chair, Division of Cultural History, that document his work on the planning and execution of programs, concerts, festivals, symposiums, workshops, and performances at the National Museum of American History and other venues. Sturm studied mathematics ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Museum of American History. Division of Cultural History
- Dates:
-
1979-2006
- Size:
-
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-080
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of exhibition records created and maintained by Gary Sturm, Assistant Chair, Division of Cultural History, that document his work on the planning and execution of exhibitions at the National Museum of American History and other institutions. Sturm studied mathematics at Beloit College and pursued European Studies at ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Collection of Recordings (Organization)
- Dates:
-
circa 1979-1998
- Size:
-
9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-057
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of Smithsonian Collection of Recordings products. The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings was a part of the Division of Performing Arts until 1982, when it became a division of Smithsonian Institution Press which, in 1996, was reorganized as Smithsonian Press/Smiths...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Museum of American History. Department of Conservation
- Dates:
-
1961-2003
- Size:
-
2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-221
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Scott Odell, head conservator at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) from 1978-1993 and previous to that conservator in the Division of Musical History, previously the Division of Musical Instruments, from 1963-1978. In 1963 Odell planned and established the first conservation lab for histor...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Museum of American History. Division of Culture and the Arts
- Dates:
-
1988-2006, 2013
- Size:
-
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-062
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Dwight Blocker Bowers, Curator, documenting his exhibition planning, development and production activities in the Division of Culture and the Arts, including records that date from when he was public programs specialist, 1995-1997, and historian of theater and film, 1997-2012, in the Division of C...