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Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983
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circa 1925-1940
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146 Color slides (circa)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2003-12
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall while missionaries on the China-Tibet border. The photographs document Tibetan, Chinese, and Vietnamese people, ceremonies, dances and musicians, shrines, traders, boats, towns, agriculture, and scenery. The collection also includes images of the Ekvalls and other missionaries and a map of...
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Longcope, Janet, ca. 1886-1974
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1954-1971
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600 Mounted prints (circa 600 mounted prints, silver gelatin)
4,000 Color slides (circa)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.75-26
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Janet Longcope during trips to countries around the world. They depict landscapes, buildings, markets, dances, agriculture, arts and crafts, ceremonies, children, cooking, musicians, and transportation. Locations depicted include Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Easter Island, Egypt, Et...
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Emlong, Jennie V. interviewee
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1980
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2 audiotapes (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9518
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
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Mille Gade Corson Collection
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Stoyanoff, Esther
Corson, Mille Gade , 1898- (swimmer)
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1920-1930.
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0063
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Three scrapbooks and two albums containing photographs of Corson; news clippings about the swim; a Certificate of Life Membership in the Danish American Athletic Club; a certificate from the American Red Cross; sheet music; a tribute to her which contains a picture of her and her children; programs with images of her; advertisements; and a Navy cha...
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Ludgin, Earle, 1898-1981
Ludgin, Mary, 1894-1962
Betty Parsons Gallery
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1930-1983
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2.2 Linear feet ((on 6 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.ludgearl
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence; financial records; writings; photographs; sketches; inventories of art works; and printed materials.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1841-1986, undated
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98 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S11
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 11: Entertainment contains more than 12,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards entertainers and entertainment in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Shurr, Robert L.
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
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1928
1948 - 1948
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0132
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of a photograph, several letters written by Handy, and several pieces of music which he published. Handy remains among the most influential of American Blues songwriters. Handy is credited with giving Blues, its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a reg...
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Smith, Suzanne Mullett
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1923-1989
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3 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 3 reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.smitsuza
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Primarily research material compiled by Smith for her MA Thesis on Arthur Dove (1944, American University), and for the American Art Research Council, and papers relating to Smith's personal life and career as a painter.
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Drewal, Henry John
- Dates:
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1997
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1,442 Slides (color, 35mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2010-010
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Series 1 is comprised of photos taken by Dr. Henry Drewal while traveling in Morocco from May 29, 1997 to June 21, 1997. The series includes images taken in Casablanca, Rabat, Salé, Fès al Bali, Meknès, Sijilmassa, Rissani, Marrakech, and Essaouira. Subjects include architecture, market scenes, craftsmen and artisans at work, musicians, landscapes ...
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Burch-Brown, Carol
- Dates:
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1997-2003
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0857
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents a working class "gay" bar, the Shamrock Bar, Bluefield, West Virginia, 1997-2000, through photographs and oral history interviews.