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Columbian Institute
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1816-1841, with related papers, 1791-1800
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2.61 cu. ft. (3 document boxes) (1 half document box) (2 12x17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7051
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of records, mostly dated 1816-1830, concerning the founding and operation of the Columbian Institute by Edward Cutbush, Thomas Law, and others. Records document efforts to raise money for a building, publishing projects, and a botanical garden; and to collect natural history specimens. Also included are minutes of ...
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Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
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circa 1884-1885
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78 prints (circa, albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.6A
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National Anthropological Archives
Army Medical Museum photographs prepared under the supervision of John Shaw Billings and Washington Matthews, and created by superimosing images of several skulls for comparative purposes. Each image has a caption that includes tribal or racial identification, number of skulls photographed, photograph number, negative number, and data on photograp...
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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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Yoon, InBae, 1936-2014
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1970-2009
bulk 1973-2003
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13 Cubic feet (35 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1414
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
InBae Yoon was a Korean American inventor. He specialized in OB-GYN surgery, and his inventions aided in the safety of laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery. The papers include personal documents, corporate agreements and licenses, technical drawings, patent applications, correspondence, project proposals, and methods and procedures.
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National Museum of Natural History, Division of Reptiles and Amphibians
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1873-1968
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4.4 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 161
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of correspondence of the Division of Reptiles and Batrachians, a correspondence which was conducted by Yarrow, Stejneger, and Cochran. The correspondence of James A. Peters (1922-1972), who came to the United States National Museum in 1964 and was appointed Curator in Charge of the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians ...
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Haydon, Walton B.
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circa 1883
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11 prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.150
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National Anthropological Archives
Vignetted portraits of Cree, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Inuit Indians made by Walton B. Haydon, while he was stationed at Moose Factory on James Bay in Ontario, Canada. The prints are annotated with identifications and other information.
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Morrison, Joseph Paul Eldred
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1923-1973 and undated
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1.5 cu. ft. (3 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7376
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The largest portion of Morrison's papers consists of professional correspondence written and received between 1923 and 1973. It documents his research interests and the extent of his influence as an adviser and research editor to students and colleagues worldwide in malacological matters. In addition there are small groups of letters, not...
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Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
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probably 1870s-1880s
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100 Negatives (circa, glass)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.73-26C
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs of skulls in the United States Army Medical Museum collection, which appear to have been collected for physical anthropological purposes. Included are archeological remains and remains of historical American Indian tribes and some other ethnic groups. Other than tribe or location, data for the specimens include Army Medical Museum speci...
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Walker, Jerome
Walker, Cathy Jean
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1864-1917, undated
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1408
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Dr. Jerome Walker's papers discuss the United States Sanitary Commission, its creation, and its role during the Civil War. The papers also discuss Walker's meeting with Abraham Lincoln at the field hospital in City Point, Virginia.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Bath, Patricia, Dr., 1949-
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February 17, 2000 and March 1, 2000.
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0753
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Dr. Patricia Bath was born in 1949 in New York. She conceived of the Laserphaco Probe in 1981 and patented it in 1988 (US Patent # 4,744,360 for an "Apparatus for ablating and removing cataract lenses"). The collection contains original and reference video footage of Dr. Bath's Innovative Lives Presentation documenting her work in the field of ophthalmology and her work creating and patenting the LaserPhaco Probe, an instrument to remove cataracts. Also included is an interview with Dr. Bath at her home in Los Angeles and an interview with her daughter, Eraka Bath and supplemental documentation assembled by Dr. Bath. The documentation includes photocopies of articles, patents, biographical sketch material, and selected publications and references to related to lasers and surgery of Dr. Bath