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National Museum of American History
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2008-2012
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-041
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two websites and a blog maintained by the National Museum of American History. The main National Museum of American History website, crawled in several pieces on October 4, 5, 17, and 18 and November 14, 2011, includes information about visiting, exhibitions, departments, staff, donating, internships, fellowships, a...
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Zisfein, Melvin B.
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1947-1995 and undated
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3.43 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-002
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Included in this collection are articles, reports, notebooks, photographs, slides, and certificates and awards. There is very little personal correspondence, but papers written by Zisfein contained in this collection seem to represent some of his major writings. Of special note are 15 notebooks kept by Zisfein at NASM, which contain notes ...
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 25-July 6, 2003
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2003
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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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Smithsonian Institution
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1847-1942
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19.6 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 93
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include ledgers, account books, bills, daybooks, journals, receipted vouchers, records of payment, requisitions, cash books, and other fiscal records documenting the Smithsonian's congressional appropriations. These records deal with the financial affairs of the following Smithsonian bureaus: United States National Museum, A...
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Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
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circa 1919-1921
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45 Prints (silver gelatin and photostat)
3 sketches on graph paper
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.30
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs, drawings, and maps relating to Jesse Walter Fewkes' excavations in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Photographs depict the ruins and paths through the park before and after excavation and repair. There are also original photographs by George L. Beam made for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Some of the drawings are original ...
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Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Administrative Officer
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1971-1978
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 350
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the administrative and financial activities of the Exhibits Design and Production Laboratory during its planning, construction, and first years of operation. Records contain feasibility studies of the project, and correspondence and agreements about the acquisition of land for the facility. Also included are copies ...
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ANONYMOUS
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1869-74 ?
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36 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4538
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National Anthropological Archives
With this, Dr Pope presented a copy of Washington Matthews, "Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa," New York, 1873. The latter was inscribed from Washington Matthews to C. C. Gray, Surgeon, U. S. Army, in 1874, and from Martha Gray Wales to Gustavus D. Pope in 1920. The manuscript had evidently been kept with the printed volume for...
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Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
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circa 1885-1900
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13 mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.78-42
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs documenting physical anthropology techniques for measuring and photographing skulls for comparison, as practiced by scientists of the Army Medical Museum. Photographs are mounted on unbound pages from an album and have been annotated to describe the technique depicted.
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Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957
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circa 1940
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2 Posters (approximately 25 x 37 inches)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2009-18
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National Anthropological Archives
This collection consists of two posters, each measuring approximately 25 x 37 inches and illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, circa 1940. The first poster, entitled Art Forms of the Pacific Area, is a full-color map of the Pacific Rim with illustrations depicting examples of indigneous art from various countries. A second poster, Peoples of the Pacif...
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Gray, Cleve
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1933-2005
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9.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.grayclev
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Archives of American Art
The Cleve Gray papers, 1933-2005, measure 9.2 linear feet. Papers include biographical material, alphabetical files, writings, artwork, audio/visual records, artifacts, printed material, and photographs. Extensive alphabetical files contain personal and professional correspondence as well as subject files relating to projects and interests. Especially well-documented are: Gray's involvement with the Vietnam protest movement; and Threnody, his best-known work composed of fourteen large panels lamenting the dead of both sides sides in Vietnam, commissioned by the Neuberger Museum of Art.