Joseph Bruhl Territory Band Collection
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Bruhl, Joseph R., 1909-
- Dates:
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1925-1938
- Size:
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1.33 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0869
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily consists of photographs and a scrapbook documenting Joseph Bruhl's experiences playing with territory bands from the early 1920s through the late 1930s. There are also some materials that relate to his personal life.
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Ewin, James Lithgow (inventor)
- Dates:
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1873, 1874, 1879.
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0051
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection includes an English patent paper #2126 for improved vulcanizable water-proof gum, 1873, to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills; a U.S. patent paper #151,109 for improvement in the art of manufacturing horseshoes, 1874; and an English patent paper #1194 for improvement in street-lighting apparatus.
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Driggs, Frank, 1930-
Office of Printing and Photographic Services (later, Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photography), Smithsonian Institution
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1923-1972
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0389
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of 157 8" x 10" black-and-white photographic copy prints of photographs in Frank Driggs's collection: Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Some copy prints have Smithsonian negative numbers.
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DePasquale, Dolores
Ventura, Charlie, 1916-1992
- Dates:
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19XX
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1308
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and career of jazz saxophonist Charlie Ventura.
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Bress, Chuck
Bress, Pat
- Dates:
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1984-1990
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1219
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily black-and-white photographic prints and photographic negatives created by Pat Bress and Chuck Bress in the late 1980s. The photographs depict jazz musicians and singers performing at two Washington, D.C. night clubs, Charley's Place and Blues Alley, in challenging lighting situations. Also, a box of correspondence and miscellaneous writte...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Dates:
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circa 1993
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-044
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the production of the compact disc-interactives (CD-I), "Downhome Blues" and "Uptown Blues." These titles, produced in cooperation with Philips Interactive Media of America, were part of the commercial CD-I series, "Treasures of Smithsonian." "Downhome Blues" and "Uptown Blues" featured rural ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Dates:
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1993
- Size:
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-017
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audio and video elements created during the production of the compact disk-interactives (CD-Is) "Downhome Blues" and "Uptown Blues." These titles, produced in cooperation with Philips Interactive Media of America, were part of the commercial CD-I series "Treasures of Smithsonian." "Downhome Blues" and "Uptown Bl...
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National Museum of the American Indian, Exhibits Media Office
- Dates:
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1973, 1992-1996
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23 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-281
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual recordings created by the Exhibits Media Office for the exhibition "This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity." This inaugural exhibition was installed at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), George Gustav Heye Center (GGHC) in New York, New York (NY) ...
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National Museum of American History. Program in Black American Culture
- Dates:
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circa 1976-1987
- Size:
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-136
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Bernice Johnson Reagon, former Director of the Program in Black American Culture, 1982-1988. The material consists primarily of Reagon's correspondence and memoranda concerning the program and its administration; information on projects such as "Music of the Black American Composer" and "Voice of ...
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Herman, Woodrow Charles "Woody", -1987
Siefert, Jack William, 1918-
- Dates:
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1913-1990.
- Size:
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16 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0659
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sound recordings, business records, photographs, correspondence, and concert posters documenting the career of Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman.