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Science Service
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1920-1979
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41.04 Cubic feet (114 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0125
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Science Service was founded in 1921 by newspaper publisher Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) and the zoologist William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) as a news service for the purpose of disseminating information on scientific progress to the public, and to "present facts in readable and interesting form." The Science Service Astronomy and Astronautics files in the National Air and Space Archives consists of papers, news releases, articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and technical papers pertaining mainly to astronomy and astronautics and dating from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.
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National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Space History
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
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Ongoing
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270 Cubic feet (Ongoing)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.O
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.
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FY 1979
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4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 84-099
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of fiscal year budget files for 1979. Records are organized by Smithsonian office or bureau, and include budget calls, justifications, and other working papers.
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1902-1965
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268.55 cu. ft. (79 record storage boxes) (372 document boxes) (2 12x17 boxes) (3 3x5 boxes) (3 5x8 boxes) (2 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7091
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The bulk of this collection was processed by Jane Livermore, a devoted and tireless volunteer in the Smithsonian Institution Archives between 1995 and 2004. Livermore is a former Science Service employee. She worked in the organization's library, oversaw the educational project "THINGS of Science," and served as Assistant to the Director. ...
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Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906
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1891-1914
bulk 1891-1900
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24.28 Cubic feet (64 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0494
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes information about Samuel P. Langley and his colleagues, as well as documentation of Langley's work. The collection includes biographies of Langley and his assistant Charles Manly, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts regarding Langley's aircraft, photographs and drawings, work requisitions for the Aerodromes, a sketchbook, specifications and measurements for Langley's experiments, the Langley Memoirs on Mechanical Flight and the Langley "Waste Books."
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United States National Museum. Office of the Director
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1925-1963 and undated
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8 cu. ft. (16 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 89
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists primarily of files created by Kellogg during his tenure as Director of the United States National Museum, 1948-1962. It includes smaller amounts of records kept by Kellogg as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1958-1962, and as Assistant Curator and Curator in the Division of Mammals, USNM, 1928-1948....
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1890-1929
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57.93 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (104 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (1 12x17 box) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 45
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the growth and management of the Smithsonian from 1890 to 1929. Of special interest is the Institution's entry into the field of the fine arts through the creation of the National Gallery of Art and the Freer Gallery of Art. The Smithsonian continued to pursue a wide variety of other interests as well. Thus, the...
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1973-1975
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23 cu. ft. (46 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 257
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records are the official administrative files of the Office of the Director of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), 1973-1975. Porter M. Kier was appointed to that position on January 14, 1973. For an administrative history of the Office of the Director, see Record Unit 155.
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1968-1984
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7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 85-009
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of memoranda, budget summary sheets, and proposed budgets from Smithsonian Institution (SI) bureaus; and proposed budget publications.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
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1965-1991
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41 cu. ft. (41 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 372
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist entirely of newspaper clippings concerning the Smithsonian Institution. Arrangement generally follows an alphabetic file plan. Clippings concerning the Sea-Link submarine disaster, the Smithson Bicentennial, and, in recent years, the Festival of American Folklife, were kept separately, but have been combined here with ...
