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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Advancement
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2015
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-077
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the "Smithsonian Summer Showdown" website and selected associated social media. The Smithsonian Summer Showdown was a competition for which many of the museums, research centers, and zoo chose one "seriously amazing" item, experience, or piece of knowledge to be voted upon by the public. Competitors included the ...
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Keen, Helen Boyd, b. 1899
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1936-1986
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1.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.keenhele
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter Helen Boyd Keen measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1936 to 1986. Found are scattered biographical materials, correspondence, writings and notes, subject files on colleagues, printed material, photographs, one scrapbook, sketches, and one sketchbook.
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Smithsonian Institution. International Center
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1983-1984
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 86-157
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document development of the International Center and includes correspondence with individuals and institutions interested in the activities of the Center; related background materials and articles on African, Near Eastern, and Asian subjects; original statements on the Center; and booklets in various ...
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Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
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1876-1931
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131 Linear feet (29 architectural drawings)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs.
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Smithsonian Productions
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1967, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1991, 1994-1995, 1998, 2001, undated
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-082
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual materials created during the production of "Enormous Egg;" "National Zoo: Think Tank;" "As They Really Are;" "Big Cats and How They Came to Be;" "Bengal Tiger;" "Changes: The Story of Evolution and Speciation;" and "First Look at Kumari." "Enormous Egg" is a story for children about a pet dinosaur. T...
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Bertholf, Ellsworth Price, 1866-
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1901
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117 Prints (including duplicates, silver gelatin and albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.130
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Ellsworth Price Bertholf in Siberia. Most document his trip by sledge from Irkutsk to Yakutsk, Okhotsk, and Ola. Subjects include sleds and other means of transportation, towns, reindeer herds, and people that Bertholf encountered along the way including Cossacks, Russians, Tunguses, Yakuts, and Chukchi at Anadyr. Also include...
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Frick, Frank, 1828-
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circa 1896-1897
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150 Prints (albumen)
1 Print (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.82-44
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs in albums made by Frank Frick documenting architecture, people, agriculture, and scenery in India. Photographs are annotated with descriptions and dates that apparently relate to Frickʹs visits. Some photographs were made by Raja Deen Dayal (also known as Lala Deen Dayal) and Samuel Bourne. The collection also includes one loose photogr...
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Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988
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1930 - 1988
1930 - 1988
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36 Linear feet
36 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2012.01
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Aschwin Lippe was a research fellow and later curator in the Department of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The collection includes his early research and writings on East Asian art, particularly Chinese paintings. It has substantial material on his involvement in selecting the paintings and writing the catalog for the 1961 Chinese Art Treasures Exhibition. He later shifted his research focus to medieval Indian sculpture. The collection includes journals kept during several years of field research in India as well as his extensive photo-documentation of Indian temples and religious sculpture.
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circa 1920s
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1 Item (75 pages of typescript)
79 Items (silver prints, black and white)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1996.02
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Detailed account recalling travel to and in Outer Mongolia along three routes that led to Urga (now Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), with descriptions of the travel conditions, modes of transportation, trade practices, the Russian, Mongolian, and Chinese people of the region, an encounter with the "Andrews expedition" (likely the Central Asiatic Expedition ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Interdisciplinary Studies
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1984-1999
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-148
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the work of John Whittington Franklin in the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies (OIS). Franklin was a Program Specialist in OIS from 1987-1992 and as such was responsible for planning lectures, symposia, and other public programs for OIS. Franklin also served as the Chair for Asian Pacific Amer...