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Perkins, James Secor
Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972
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1907-2000
bulk 1911-1924
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5 Cubic feet (19 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0803
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of glass plate slides (negative and positive), photo prints, and stereographs documenting the work undertaken by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth from 1910 to 1924 in the fields of motion study, shop efficiency, and factory organization. Also included are slides dcoumenting the Gilbreth Family, their travels, residences, and friends. The collection also contains the film "The Original Films of Gilbreth The Quest for the One Best Way," 1968 by James S. Perkins.
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1887-1986
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2 Photographic prints (color)
6,859 Postcards (color, 10 x 15 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2001-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Picture postcards collected by Stephen Grant, Education Official, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while serving in Africa.
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Giacconi, Riccardo
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1955-2002
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82.13 cu. ft. (80 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (1 blueprint storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7416
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document Riccardo Giacconi's professional career, and consist of papers illustrating his scientific work and administrative records relating to the institutions at which he worked. There is extensive documentation of Giacconi's professional activities, including meetings attended, papers presented (and published), his services a...
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American Academy in Rome
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1855-2012
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65.9 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.ameracar
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Archives of American Art
The records of the American Academy in Rome measure 65.9 linear feet and date from 1855 to 2012. The collection documents the history of the institution from its inception in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome, through the end of World War II, and chronicles the contributions the academy has made to America's cultural and intellectual development. Nearly one-half of the collection consists of an unprocessed addition received in 2014 containing records that mostly post-date World War II and include correspondence and subject files of officers and executives based in the New York office of American Academy in Rome.
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 8: Geography
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1794-1987
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100 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S08
- Repository:
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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 8: Geography is divided into three sections: the United States, Foreign Countries, and Natural Features. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Orth, Edward J.
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
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1900 - 1989
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130 Cubic feet (417 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0560
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. Also includes materials on other world's fairs, the Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (ECHO), New York City tourism and Disney.
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Ottenberg, Simon
Ottenberg, Simon
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between 1978-1992
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3145 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2005-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection primarily includes photographs of Limba peoples taken by anthropologist Simon Ottenberg during field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, and Guinea, from October 1978 through July 1980. The collection also includes photographs taken while conducting field research at an Afikpo village-group, in southeastern Nigeria, from January 30, 1988 to February 5, 1988 and in 1992.
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Hauber, Joseph R.
Stubblebine, Donald J., 1925-2010
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1866-2009, undated
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285 Cubic feet (600 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1211
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One of the most comprehensive collections of material relating to musical stage and film productions, the collection consists of an assortment of material including sheet music written specifically for or included in stage and screen musicals, television programs, Big Band performances, and radio. Some productions may have been produced under more ...
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- Dates:
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1996
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160 audiotapes (originals). 15 audiotapes (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9594
- Repository:
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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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Hazen, Margaret Hindle
Hazen, Robert M.
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circa 1818-1931
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13.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0253
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Large collection of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera, and music related to the brass band movement in the United States: includes 8 ambrotypes, 36 tintypes, 59 stereographs, 66 cabinet prints, 90 cartes-de-visite, 150 large photoprints, and 874 picture postcards; also posters, concert programs, instrument manufacturers' advertisemem...