Luther Davis Papers
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- Creators:
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Davis, Luther
Davis, Joan Bassie
- Dates:
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1916-2007, undated
bulk 1936-2007
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14 Cubic feet (40 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1148
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Luther Davis (1916-2008) was an awarding winning writer, playwright and screenwriter. He won a Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award in 1954 for the musical Kismet. He was the playwright for Lady in a Cage, and Grand Hotel and many other productions.
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1984-2002
- Size:
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-029
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes the records of Laura T. Schneider, Audio-Visual Production Specialist, primarily documenting her work on "Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden," an educational film to acquaint American audiences with the historical and cultural significance of Japanese Gardens and their importance to Japan's landscape; and ...
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Smithsonian Channel
- Dates:
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2007-2009
- Size:
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1.25 cu. ft. (1.25 non-standard size boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-011
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of programs created for the Smithsonian Channel that cover a range of topics including aeronautics, astronautics, science, nature, and American culture and history. Series and programs include "Aerial America" "All Dolled Up;" "America Wild and Wacky;" "America's Greatest Monuments;" "America's Hangar;" "America's ...
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1979-1997
- Size:
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7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-096
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the marketing activities of Smithsonian Productions, with earlier records dating back to when the office was known as the Office of Telecommunications. Materials include the correspondence and memoranda of Denise Freeland, Marketing Coordinator, and Martha Knouss, Marketing Manager; budget su...
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1991-1999
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-189
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of press kits for a variety of radio productions including "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was;" "River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi River;" "Guitar: Electrified, Amplified, Deified;" "Jazz Smithsonian;" "Spirits of the Present: The Legacy of Native America;" "Folk Masters at the Barns of Wolf T...
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- Creators:
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Guillaume, Robert
- Dates:
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circa 1960-2000
- Size:
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14 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-048
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from circa 1960-2000, documents the career of actor Robert Guillaume. Materials include scripts from various television shows (including Benson, Soap and Sports Night), postcards, promotional material, VHS and Beta tapes, audiocassettes and compact discs, reel-to-reel recordings, certificates, photographs, correspondence, clippings, magazines, illustrations and posters.
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Basie, Count, 1904-
Smith, Ernie
Webster, Ben
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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1894-1979
- Size:
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30 Cubic feet (352 film reels , 16 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0491
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
More than 300 reels of 16mm black and white and color film, silent and sound, fiction and documentary motion picture film documenting jazz and related musical performances, social and popular dance styles and performances, jazz musicians, performance locales, and documentation of African-American popular culture. A list of featured performers in the collection is shown below. The films are frequently compilations produced by Smith for lectures.
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Gentry, Herbert, 1919-2003
- Dates:
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1985
- Size:
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1 Item (videocassette of 1 (VHS) (5 min), sd., col., 1/2 in.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.gentherb
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
A brief video segment of painters Romare Bearden and Herbert Gentry discussing the relationship between jazz music and abstract expressionist painting. They make a collaborative painting while listening to jazz.
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Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
- Dates:
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1987-2015
- Size:
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13 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-173
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the marketing and publicity of recordings produced by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, part of the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The majority of the records were created by Brenda Dunlap, Marketing Director, 1994-2001, and Richard Burgess, Marketing Director, ...
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Dates:
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1981-1991, 1996, 1999
- Size:
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15.5 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-084
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of videotapes and audiotapes created during the production of "Here At The Smithsonian" ("HATS"), an eight volume series of television productions. The series was conceived by Nazaret Cherkezian, Director, Office of Telecommunications (1976-1986) and produced by Ann Carroll (Volumes I-IV) and John P. Meehan (Volumes V-V...