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bulk 1961-1964
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1.68 Cubic Feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2017.0006
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the following manuals, many of which are annotated by Captain Carl E. Pruett, MC USN: MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Project Mercury Familiarization Manuals (3 manuals); Project Flight Controller Handbook; Operations Plan: Bioastronautic Support for Project Mercury; Project Mercury Familiarization M...
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Bohumil Shimek Papers
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Shimek, Bohumil, 1861-1937
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1878-1936
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8.51 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes) (1 3x5 box) (1 5x8 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7082
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of correspondence with conchologists, naturalists, and shell collectors pertaining to shell collections and exchanges, and responses to Shimek's questionnaires on Pomatiopsis lapidarias and other shells; notebooks listing personal names of those to whom Shimek sent his publications on loess, geology, and botany; a not...
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McElvare, Rowland Robbins, 1893-1976
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1936-1967
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7236
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection documents McElvare's activities in the field of lepidopterology. Of principal interest is the correspondence between McElvare and numerous amateur and professional lepidopterists, both in this country and abroad. These letters deal predominantly with insect collection and exchange, as well as the sharing of information on ...
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Kennéy, Michael, 1904-1982
Kennéy, Lona B. Mrs., 1896-1994
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1933-1939
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89 negatives (photographic) (black & white, 12 x 9 cm. or smaller)
1 film reel (1 reel (89 interpositives), black & white, 70 mm.)
2 volumes
16 photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 32 x 25 cm. or smaller)
237 photographic prints ((contact prints), black & white, 8x10 in. or smaller)
8 postcards (black & white, 8 x 12 cm.)
237 photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 8x10 in. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1997-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken or collected by Dr. Michael Kennéy while serving as a colonial medical officer in the Belgian Congo from 1933-1939. Eight images are portrait photographs. They are numbers 103, 104, 105, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114
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Viditz-Ward, Vera
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circa 1990
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48 photographic prints (black and white , 11 x 14 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1992-021
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection contains 48 matted black and white photographs, measuring 11 x 14 inches, taken by photographer and art professor Vera Viditz-Ward. These prints comprised the exhibition Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone, which was on display at the National Museum of African Art from November 1990 through September 1991. The images consist of portraits of paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone and include ceremonial clothes and headcovers, jewelry, handheld objects, drums, staffs and ivory trumpets. Culture groups depicted include the Yalunka, Limba, Koranko, Kono, Kissi, Mende, Krim, Vai, Lokko and Temne peoples.
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Dushman, Saul, (electrical engineer), 1883-1954
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1924-1954
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7.3 Cubic feet (23 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0101
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document Dushman's work at the Research Laboratory of General Electric Company (GE).
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Green, Mary E.
Extractive Industries, Division of.
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1883-1980
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2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes and 1 oversize folder
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1061
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Over a period of approximately 25 years, Dr. Mary Eloise Green of Ohio State University collected a wide variety of materials pertaining to food preservation and home canning techniques. She acquired associated pamphlets, manuals, and recipe booklets from companies as well as governmental agencies.
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Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946
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1905-1970
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2.9 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 3 reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.steljose
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Biographical material, letters, photographs, sketches and drawings, notes and writings, financial records, and printed material.
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Coudert, George C.
- Dates:
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1924
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14 Negatives (photographic)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.133
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographs made by George C. Coudert among the Tenharim and ParintintÃn (Parintintin) communities in Brazil during a 1924 expedition.
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Durant, Margery.
- Dates:
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bulk 1931-1932
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0.69 Cubic Feet ((5 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2011.0023
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection includes 188 glass lantern slides that Durant shot during the tours; the slides were hand-colored by the photographer Edward Van Altena. There are thirteen reels of motion picture film, including "A Safari of Twenty Five Thousand Miles through Ten Countries in Silver Wings", a film on Durant's African flights. The collections include...