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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Management. Horticulture Services Division. Office of the Director
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1989-2003
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-245
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of the subject files of Nancy J. Bechtol, Director, Horticulture Services Division (HSD), 1995-2002, and document her work as director and her relationship with other offices and museums throughout the Smithsonian Institution, her involvement in special events, her association with professional associations, and her ...
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National Air and Space Museum. Department of Aeronautics
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1965-1986
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36.5 cu. ft. (73 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 330
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the history of the Department of Aeronautics from 1966-1986, a period marked by intensive planning for the new museum, its construction and opening in July 1976, and the emergence of the National Air and Space Museum as a large and important bureau of the Smithsonian and the most visited museum in the world. At the begi...
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Apollo Flight Guidance Computer Software Collection [Hamilton]
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Hamilton, Margaret Heafield, 1936-
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1965-1986
bulk 1965-1972
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1.22 Cubic Feet (2 legal document boxes; 1 slim legal document box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0158
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Apollo Flight Guidance Computer Software Collection [Hamilton] consists of reports, memoranda, and related material documenting the Apollo flight guidance software developed by Margaret Hamilton's team at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (CSDL) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection also includes Hamilton's 1986 handwritten notes on selected documents.
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Crouch, Tom D.
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1942-1946, 1962-2016
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3.03 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-201
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the personal papers of Tom D. Crouch, a senior curator of aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Crouch joined the curatorial staff at NASM in 1974 to assist with preparing exhibitions for the opening of the museum in 1976. In 1985, he transferred to the National Museum of American History (NMAH) ...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
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circa 1947-1990, with related records from 1926
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14 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 428
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records primarily document the operation of the Department of Botany under Head Curators Ellsworth Paine Killip, 1947-1950, and Jason Richard Swallen, 1950-1964, and Chairmen William L. Stern, 1965-1967, Mason E. Hale, Jr., 1967-1970, Edward S. Ayensu, Dieter C. Wasshausen, Mark M. Littler, and Laurence E. Skog. Records created prior ...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
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1954-2004
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-226
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Bernard S. Finn, Curator Emeritus of electricity collections, which document his curatorial and professional activities in the Division of Information Technology and Society, and during the years when the division was known as the Division of Electricity and Modern Physics, the Division of Electricity ...
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Hardesty, Von, 1939-
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1876-2006
1876-2006
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26 Linear feet
30.81 Cubic feet (53 legal-size document boxes, 1 slim legal-size document box, 1 flat box )
26 Linear feet
30.81 Cubic feet (53 legal-size document boxes, 1 slim legal-size document box, 1 flat box )
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0034
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Russian Aeronautical Collection is a mix of technical, historical, and cultural reference materials, including originals or copies of articles, documents and other historical materials relating to Russian and Soviet aviation from the Tsarist period through the Soviet era. The collection focuses on key events, personalities and aircraft designs, and certain subject areas are covered in depth, including the life and career of Igor Sikorsky, the transpolar flights of the 1930s, Soviet aviation in the Spanish Civil War, and the operational history of the Soviet Air Force in World War II.
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United States. Army. Signal Corps
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1908 to circa 1921; bulk date 1921
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0.05 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1992.0040
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains two groups of photographs. The first group, mounted on pages removed from a photo album, contains views of aircraft and facilities at the United States Army Air Service Fairfield Intermediate Air Depot, Fairfield, Ohio, circa 1921. The second group consists of loose photographs of aircraft, most of which are historic views of early Aerial Experiment Association and Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company aircraft by photographer Harry M. Benner.
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June 12, 1939, through April 22, 1940
bulk June 28, 1939, through July 4, 1939
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 scrapbook)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0309
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a scrapbook, "To Europe By Air," assembled by railroad executive William J. Eck to document his trip June 28 to July 4, 1939, on Pan American Airways' (PAA) first transatlantic passenger flight on the Boeing Model 314 Clipper "Dixie Clipper" flying boat and containing information on its crew, passengers, and ports of call.
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
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circa 1976-1998
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11.5 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 92-122
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of an installment of the papers of David H. DeVorkin, Curator, Space History Division, National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Materials mostly concern the STARS gallery which went up at NASM in 1983.