Waldo L. Schmitt Papers
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1907-1978
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79.56 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (121 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (4 12x17 boxes) (60 3x5 boxes) (3 5x8 boxes) (2 film boxes) (oversize material)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7231
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt provide comprehensive documentation of his professional career, 1907-1977. They also illustrate, to a lesser degree, his personal life. Particularly well represented in the papers is material concerning Schmitt's carcinological research, his curatorial and administrative careers at the United States Nat...
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Walther, Henry
- Dates:
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July 1, 1886 - June 30, 1894
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74 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7114
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National Anthropological Archives
Entries are arranged numerically. Most consist of Museum catalog numbers, brief identifications of specimens, locality, and collector or donor. Accession numbers and Bureau of Ethnology numbers are included in several lists; a few give only Bureau of Ethnology number.
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Vetter, David, 1971-1984
Texas Children's Hospital
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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1971-1986
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4.6 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1133
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document David Vetter, a Texas boy with a rare disease known as Severe Combined Immune Deficiency. His life in a special isolation unit received widespread publicity.
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Hasse, John Edward, 1948-
Willard, Patricia
- Dates:
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1988-1990
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0.4 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0431
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of original cassettes, open-reel master, and reference cassette audiotapes of two oral history interviews about the life and career of Duke Ellington. Leonard Feather's oral history interview has a transcript. In separate interviews jazz critic Leonard Feather and Sam Woodyard discuss their relationships with and knowledge of Ellington and his music.
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1929-1979 and undated
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8 cu. ft. (16 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7338
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists mostly of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting Cartwright's research on Coleoptera. Also included are records concerning his curatorial work at the Division of Insects, USNM, and the Department of Entomology, NMNH; field work; and professional activities. Smaller amounts of correspondence were written durin...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
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1942-2001
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16 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-276
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the planning, development, and installation of Science in American Life, a major permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). This exhibition demonstrates how science has changed the way Americans have lived over the past 125 years. Opening on April 27, 1994, Sci...
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Felton, Samuel Morse, 1809-1889 (civil engineer)
Felton, Samuel Morse, 1853-1930 (son)
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1841-1930, undated
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0170
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers of Samuel Morse Felton, civil engineer and railroad president, and his family.
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum
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1875-1902
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16.5 cu. ft. (33 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 201
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of two of the special files maintained by the Department of Correspondence and Documents. In 1902 a new system for maintaining records was established. Descriptions of the records are included as part of the series descriptions.
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Dodge, W.C.
Clark, Alexander Melville
- Dates:
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1877
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1017
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A British patent issued to Alexander Melville Clark for an improved process for preventing the accumulation of carbon in retorts used for the distillation of carbureted hydrogen. There is a wax seal attached to the end of the patent.
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United States National Museum. Office of the Director
- Dates:
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1937-1968 and undated
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 88
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists primarily of records created by Kellogg during his tenure as Director of the United States National Museum, 1948-1962. Also included are files kept by Kellogg in his capacity as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1958-1962, and Research Associate in Vertebrate Zoology, 1962-1968. Records prior to ...
