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Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation ethnographic film collection
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Creators:
Cadzow, Donald A., 1894-1960
Cattell, Owen
Coffin, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), b. 1883
Ford, James B., 1844-1928
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Dates:
1917-1938
Size:
147 Motion picture films
25 Videocassettes (Digital Betacam)
58 electronic_discs_dvd
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.001
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection of films produced and acquired by the Museum of the American Indian (MAI) contains materials created by and for the MAI as ethnographic studies and as documentation of its own activities (including archaeological expeditions and cultural exchanges) between 1917 and 1938. Tribes represented include: Arikara, Crow, Navajo, Pilaga, Pue...

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Digitized Content Singer Industrial Design Collection
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Creators:
Singer Manufacturing Company
Singer Company (The), (Fairfield, New Jersey)
Dates:
1927-1983
bulk 1960-1977
Size:
11 Cubic feet (3 oversize folders, 20 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0169
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The bulk of the collection consists of renderings of sewing machines and related products by industrial designers such as Henry Dreyfuss, Robert P. Gersin, Eliot Noyes, and Malcolm S. Park; by designers of Singer's in-house design department; and by consultants to the firm. Materials include decals, photographs, negatives, patents, and renderings and sketches. This collection documents the influence of industrial design on Singer sewing machines as well as other household products such as vacuum cleaners.

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Elmer E. Higley collection
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Creators:
Higley, Elmer Ellsworth
Dates:
bulk circa 1900-1968
Size:
534 Lantern slides
0.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.228
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection consists of 534 glass lantern slides depicting Indigenous groups throughout North America. It also includes a small number of publications written by Elmer E. Higley and others about Native Americans and missionary work during the early twentieth century.

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Digitized Content Dane Coolidge photographs from Mexico
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Creators:
Coolidge, Dane, 1873-1940
Dates:
1932
Size:
0.01 Linear feet
6 Photographs
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.202
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection contains 3 photographic prints (and 3 copy negatives) depicting a Seri man in Mexico, photographed by Dane Coolidge in 1932.

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Digitized Content Scientists and Inventors Portrait File: photoprints
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Creators:
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
Dates:
undated
Size:
10 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0315
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Although the obvious intention of the organizers of this file was to produce a comprehensive, alphabetical file of images of important scientists, inventors, engineers, and other figures in the history of science and technology, the resulting representation of significant subjects is somewhat haphazard. Also, there are some portraits of subjects o...

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MS 2401 Religious works in Spanish and Timucua
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Creators:
Pareja, Francisco de, -1628
Movilla, Gregorio De Fr
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Dates:
undated
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2401
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contents: Pareja, Francisco. Catechismo, y Breve Exposicion de la Doctrina Christiana. Muy util y necessaria asi para los Espanoles, como para los Naturales, en Lengua Castellana, y Timuquana, en modo de preguntas, y repuestas, Copuesto por el P. F. Francisco Pareja de la Orden de N. Seraphico P. S. Fracisco, Padre dela Custodia de S. Elena de la F...

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Digitized Content Andrew Meyer photographs from Colombia
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Creators:
Meyer, Andrew
Dates:
1929
Size:
49 Photographic prints
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.259
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection consists of 49 black and white photographic prints of images of village life as well as pre-Columbian stone carvings and statues photographed by Andrew Meyer in Colombia in 1929.

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Digitized Content Jay A. Bisno Collection of Sevruguin Photographs
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Creators:
Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
Dates:
1969-1985
Size:
18 albumen prints (b&w)
Collection ID:
FSA.A.15
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Antoin Sevruguin managed and operated one of the most successful commercial photography studios in Tehran in the late 19th century. Born in the 1840s in Iran, Sevruguin's mother returned with her children to her hometown of Tbilisi after his father Vassil, a Russian diplomat in Iran, died in a horse riding accident. Trained as a painter, Sevruguin ...

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MS 794-b Wintun myths and legends
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Creators:
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Dates:
ca. November 1880
Size:
205 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS794B
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Partly in Powell's handwriting, most in hand of a clerk. Also 21 pages vocabularies and notes in Powell's hand, apparently Wintun, found with Curtin's Karok myths (Number 269) and added to this file (4/60).

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G. Edward Montgomery papers
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Creators:
Montgomery, G. Edward
Dates:
1951-1976
Size:
0.83 Linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.011
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Montgomery Papers consists of research collected by Dr. G. Edward Montgomery on his 1973 research trip to study the Machiguenga people of Lima, Peru. This material includes information regarding his pre-trip activities, data collected on his trip and research collected for use in various publications based on his research.

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