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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Office of the Director
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1971-1987
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30 cu. ft. (30 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 437
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the administration and scientific programs of SAO under the leadership of Field, 1973-1983, and Shapiro, 1983-1987. A small amount of material was created during Whipple's tenure as director. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, proposals, reports, budgets, publications, and related materials documenting ...
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1948, 1954-1994
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39.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (77 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7334
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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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2016-2021
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9637
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) 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. Progra...
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Binns, Charles Fergus, 1857-1934
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1875-1934
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6 Microfilm reels
- Collection ID:
- AAA.binnchar
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Archives of American Art
Biographical materials, including an autobiographical sketch, brief biographies by family members, and certificates of naturalization and membership; correspondence, 1897-1931, with family members, ceramic manufacturers, potters, art educators, museum curators and administrators, and former students; subject files on: the American Ceramic Society, ...
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Riesenberg, Saul H.
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1932-1976
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10 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2017-23
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection is made up almost entirely of material gathered by Saul H. Riesenberg, anthropologist and ethnologist, during a year's research (1955-1956) in American Samoa. Throughout his professional career, Riesenberg was principally interested in Ponape, in the Caroline Islands. In the 1950's, however, stimulated by the work of graduate studen...
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Leuman Maurice Waugh collection
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Waugh, Donald.
Waugh, Leuman Maurice, 1877-1972.
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1909-1963
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2.1 Linear feet ((5 boxes; 1 map case drawer))
1,749 Photographic prints
1,035 Lantern slides
1579 Negatives (photographic)
80 Film reels (16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.003
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Leuman Maurice Waugh collection contains papers, photographs, and film holdings that were created by Waugh during his dental research expeditions to indigenous communities in Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada and in Arctic Alaska.
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circa 1945-1987 and related records, 1920-1930
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103.51 cu. ft. (100 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box) (7 tube boxes) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 334
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the tenures of Frank A. Taylor, John C. Ewers, and Robert P. Multhauf as Directors of the Museum of History and Technology (NMHT); of Daniel J. Boorstin, Brooke Hindle, and Roger G. Kennedy as Directors of the National Museum of History and Technology; and of Roger G. Kennedy as Director of the National Museum of Am...
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Philadelphia Typewriter Company
Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
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1886-1902
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0123
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Chiefly correspondence of John E. Watkins, a key organizer and officer of the Philadelphia Typewriter Company.
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Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
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1868-1897
- Size:
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4.75 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.XXXX.0330
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The records consist mainly of memoranda prepared by the AMM staff and letters and notes which document the specimens. There are also invoices, lists, labels, and printed items. Indexed are names of correspondent, collectors, and donors. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and cu...
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1912-1965
- Size:
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28.5 cu. ft. (57 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 312
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 312 was transferred from the National Museum of American Art (NMAA) Archives to the Smithsonian Institution Archives in October 1984. The NMAA Archives, which was created in January 1975, and located in the Fine Arts and Portrait Gallery Building, came under the daily administration of the NMAA, with technical supervision and ...
