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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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2016
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4.4 Terabytes (4050 videos, 1301 photographs, born digital)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.TNP
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project collection contains 4.4 terabytes of born digital video and photographic material collected by four teams in four traditionally Tibetan counties in three provinces in Western China. The materials document traditional nomadic life: herding, gender roles, the making of household items like bas...
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Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
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1978-1984
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 567
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of records that document the administrative and program activities of the Kennan Institute under Abbott Gleason and John Glad. They include some budget material, files of ongoing projects, correspondence, and files on events such as conferences and dialogues.
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National Museum of American History. Project Management Office
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1981-1997
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4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-294
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the Project Management Office's work in managing exhibitions and projects at the National Museum of American History. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, grant proposals, scripts, schedules, budget records, visitor surveys, reports, floor plans, drawings, clippings, and other related ...
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Smithsonian Institution
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1867-1940
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60.45 cu. ft. (91 document boxes) (7 half document boxes) (15 12x17 boxes) (3 16x20 boxes) (2 cu. ft. large oversize box) (67 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 70
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The exposition records of this collection provide an account of the Smithsonian's involvement in twenty-two domestic and foreign expositions between 1876 and 1908. The depth of coverage in the records is uneven, but they still convey a wealth of information about Smithsonian participation in expositions, chiefly during the last quarter of...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Special Events
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1965-1975
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 93-031
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of files pertaining to Smithsonian Institution events, such as luncheons, meetings, exhibition openings, dedications, receptions, and the American Folklife Festivals. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, programs, guest lists, and invitations.
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Alan Harwood Papers
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Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016
Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1915-2001
Harwood, Alan
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circa 1940s-2001
bulk 1953-2001
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27 Linear feet (60 boxes, 2 manuscript folders), 8 sound recordings, 35 computer disks, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 1 map drawer)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2006-25
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National Anthropological Archives
Alan Harwood is a Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Boston in the Anthropology Department. Trained in social anthropology he has studied illness and healing in Tanzania and communities in New York City and Boston. Harwood was the founding editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (new series, 1986-1991) and series editor of Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (1999-2004) The bulk of this collection is composed of Alan Harwood's 1962-1964 ethnographic research among the Safwa in Tanzania (then known as Tanganyika); his research on health beliefs and medical practices of residents in a low-income area of the Bronx, New York (1967-1970); and his research in Boston, Massachusetts on different ethnic groups' conceptions of health (1994-1995). Also among his papers are materials from his involvement in the Centers for Disease Control and American Anthropological Association (AAA) Workgroup on "The Use of Race & Ethnicity as Scientific Categories" at the 1994 AAA meeting.
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 23-July 4, 1999
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1999
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Kyriazis, Dimitrios, 1933-2001
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between 1950-1974
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3,797 negatives (photographic) (black & white, 35 mm.)
12 negatives (photographic) (color, 35 mm.)
1,590 slides (photographs) (color)
5,407 items (contact images (2 v.), black & white)
20 items (transparencies (framed), color, 4 x 4 cm.)
794 negatives (photographic) (black & white, 6 x 6 cm.)
399 negatives (photographic) (color, 6 x 6 cm.)
764 items (transparencies, color, 6 x 6 cm.)
1 manuscript (document genre) (1 v., 8 x 10 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1999-005
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Dimitri Kyriazis while at the Institute for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, from ca. 1950 through the end of the reign of Emperor Halie Selassie I in 1974.
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology
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1967-2004
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4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-112
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence and project files of Brian Frederick Kensley, Research Zoologist in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology from 1978-2004. Kensley specialized in the systematics of decapod and isopod crustaceans, and was chairman of the Department from 1991-1995. A significant portion of these records document Ke...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Entomology
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1962-2002
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15 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 12-060
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of the central files maintained by the Department of Entomology primarily during the tenures of Chairmen Wayne N. Mathis (1981-1987), Ronald J. McGinley (1987-1992), Jonathan A. Coddington (1992-1997), and Robert K. Robbins (1997-2000). Materials include correspondence, memoranda, news clippings, reports, photographs, ...