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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Office of the Director
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1971-1987
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12.3 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 437
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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Superconducting Super Collider Collection
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Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1985-1992
bulk 1987-1989
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4 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0538
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection was assembled by Museum curators and documents the efforts of persons in eight states to have the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a particle accelerator, built in their state. Also documents efforts in each state to oppose locating the SSC in their state. The collection contains correspondence, press kits, posters, signs, bumper stickers, leaflets, handbills, clippings, photographs, and a videotape.
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Mr. Wizard Studios (Firm)
Herbert, Don (Donald Jeffry), 1917-2007
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1906-2008
bulk 1951-1995
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26 Cubic feet (57 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1326
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents, through printed materials, photographs, audio and moving image, Don Herbert's career as a science educator under the persona of "Mr. Wizard" from 1951 until the 1990s.
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Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896
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before 1876
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4 Drawings (2 leaves, graphite and colored pencil, 16 x 24 cm.-16 x 29 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS176622
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Four drawings of warfare on two loose pages torn from a ledger book. Other drawings from the same ledger were pasted into the donor's diary, which is now in the Special Collections Library at the US Military Academy at West Point. Bourke records there that the book was captured in June 1876 from a camp then believed to be Sioux. This encounter is n...
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Arias, Irwin M.
American Institute Science Laboratory
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1939-2006
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1380
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the American Institute Science Laboratory and the students who conducted research in it.
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Schmidling, David, Dr.
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 1816-1892
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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1846-1884
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0364
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Lewis M. Rutherfurd's work related to astronomy.
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National Zoological Park. Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics
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1964-2014
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12.5 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-051
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the research activities and professional files of National Zoological Park (NZP) research scientist and population manager, Dr. Jonathon D. Ballou. Dr. Ballou's research for the NZP Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, and its predecessors, the Office of Zoological Research (circa ...
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Eigenmann, Rosa Smith, 1858-1947
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1845, 1884-1939, 1970, 1973
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-106
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Rosa Smith Eigenmann, one of the first female ichthyologists, was born in Monmouth, Illinois in 1858, the youngest of nine children. Her family later moved to California where Rosa finished her secondary schooling at Point Loma Seminary. In California she took an interest in the natural history of the area and joined the San Diego Society ...
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Dates:
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2009-2014
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-059
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of three websites and four blogs maintained by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) as they existed on January 2, 2014. The primary SERC website includes information about SERC's mission, facilities, research, and school and public programs. It also includes press releases. The "Shorelines: Life and Science...
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Pywell, Wm. R. (William Redish), 1843-1886
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1873
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13 Photographic prints (silver gelatin contact prints)
10 glass negatives (collodion stereo negatives)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.166
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by William R. Pywell documenting the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873. They comprise images of the expedition's camps, transportation, and members including George Armstrong Custer and Bloody Knife. The collection contains images of human remains.