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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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1959-1990
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11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 10-060
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession documents the operation and administration of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Canal Zone and elsewhere in Panama. The majority of the records were created by Ira Rubinoff, Biologist and Assistant Director of Marine Biology, 1964-1970, Assistant Director of Science, 1970-1973, and Director, 1973-2008; Robe...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of the Director
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1959-1999
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20.58 cu. ft. (20 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-295
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Ben Read, Director, 1969-1973; James Billington, Director, 1973-1987; and Charles Blitzer, Director, 1988-1997. Materials include correspondence, program files, Board of Trustees member files, budget information, records documenting the legislative establishment of the center and the...
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Fosberg, F. Raymond (Francis Raymond), 1908-1993
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circa 1945-1993
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14 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-043
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of correspondence and project files documenting F. Raymond Fosberg's professional career as a botanist and biogeographer. Included are extensive files documenting his work on the Aldabra Research Subcommittee and the Flora of Ceylon Project. Also included is extensive correspondence with David R. Stoddart. T...
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Berdan, Jean Milton
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1943-1993
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4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-029
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers include USGS Examinations and Reports, project files, research notes, a small number photographs, and correspondence.
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National Portrait Gallery, Conservation Laboratory
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1980-1999
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-086
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the assessment of condition and proposed treatment for objects slated for exhibition. Objects represented in the collection come from within the National Portrait Galley collection and outside loans. Materials include condition and treatment reports, memoranda, checklists, photographs, notes and related materials.
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Alfred Victor Verville Papers
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Buhl (Buhl-Verville Aircraft Co, Buhl Aircraft Co)
Verville, Alfred V.
Verville Aircraft Company
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1886-1969
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53.375 Linear feet (102 containers: 89 legal size document boxes, 2 shoeboxes, 10 flatboxes, 1 large format folder)
5 Film reels (1 35mm, two 16mm, and 2 8mm films)
50.008 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0173
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains Verville's personal papers. The material relates mainly to his various aeronautical concerns as well as his involvement with military aviation. The collection includes a large number of photos tracing the development of Curtiss aircraft and Naval Aviation, and especially documenting the design, construction, and flights of a replica of the Navy's first aircraft, the Curtiss A-1 'Triad', built under Verville's direction by the Bureau of Aeronautics to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of Naval Aviation in 1961. Also included are a large number of blueprints and photos of Verville-designed aircraft, especially those developed by the Verville Aircraft Co. in 1928 - 1931
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United States Marine Mammal Program
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circa 1967-1973 and undated
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5.5 cu. ft. (11 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7229
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of files maintained in the office of the program director of the United States Marine Mammal Program concerning the administration of the Program. Records include administrative files; handwritten notes by the program director; general correspondence; research proposals; records of an international conference; newsletters...
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National Air and Space Museum
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1968, 1970, 1981-2006
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7.3 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (2 3x5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-100
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Martin Harwit, Director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 1987-1995, documenting plans to exhibit the Enola Gay and the resulting controversy. A script for The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War was released for commen...
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Sherman, John D., 1872-1960
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1886-1960
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4.5 cu. ft. (9 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7296
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of correspondence between Sherman and entomologists and other naturalists including Alexander Agassiz, William Harris Ashmead, Samuel Henshaw, Leland Ossian Howard, John Lawrence LeConte, Clinton Hart Merriam, Alpheus Spring Packard, John Bernhard Smith, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, ...
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National Museum of Natural History. Associate Director for Science
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1977-1998
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8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-251
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of subject files from the Office of the Associate Director for Science. Associate Directors represented in these materials include Daniel E. Appleman, 1989-1993; Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Acting Associate Director for Science, 1993-1995, David L. Pawson, 1995-1998, and Ross B. Simons, Acting Associate Director for Scie...