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Beakes, William Edgar
Harris, Charles Cohill, 1898- (radio engineer)
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1904-1961
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0049
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, notes, articles, and photographs assembled by Harris on the history of the United Fruit Company and Tropical Radio Telegraph Company (TRT), 1904-1961. Also includes manuscript histories of companies; material on the application of teletypewriters to radio circuits; blueprints, schematics, reports, and manuals concerning the technica...
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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
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1902-1922
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 224
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Material contains official outgoing letterpress correspondence from Paul Carpenter Standley, United States National Museum, Division of Plants, 1902-1922, regarding identification, examination, and reports of specimens sent to the Division; exchange and purchase of national collections; explorations and collecting expeditions; botanical s...
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Barnard, J. Laurens (Jerry Laurens), 1928-1991
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circa 1952-1991
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 93-015
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists mostly of professional correspondence of J. Laurens Barnard, a Curator in the Division of Crustacea, National Museum of Natural History, and an authority on amphipods. Also included are research proposals, picture postcards, black-and-white photographs, and illustrations.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bird and Mammal Laboratories
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1942-1963, with materials from 1897
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T89020
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence and memoranda. Most of the correspondence is with John W. Aldrich, Section of Distribution and Migration of Birds, Branch of Wildlife Research, within the Bird and Mammal Laboratories.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
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1984-1993
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-029
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists primarily of Office of Public Affairs photographs, contact sheets, and slides of Robert McCormick Adams taken during his tenure as Ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The materials include portraits of Adams, as well as photographs of the Secretary at important events; a paper Adams gave before the Task Forc...
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National Museum of Natural History. Biodiversity Program
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1989-1998
- Size:
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-048
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the professional activities and official travel of the Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Biodiversity Program, Don E. Wilson, 1990-2000. Records created prior to 1990 were created and transferred by Wilson upon his assumption of the Directorship. Materials include meeting and conference ...
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Lemelson Center
- Dates:
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1997-2005
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-014
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which primarily document the exhibition Nobel Voices: Celebrating 100 Years of the Nobel Prize, which explored the motivation and vision of Nobel laureates and the history of Alfred Bernhard Nobel and his prize. The exhibition celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize and was developed in colla...
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Bequaert, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), 1886-1982
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circa 1922-1949
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8 cu. ft. (16 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7302
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist mostly of manuscripts, drawings, research notes and bibliographical citations documenting Bequaert's study of wasps, especially the family Vespidae.
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Archives Center Postcard Collection
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Eudaily, Daniel
Flautt Antiques. Calvin R.
Fogel, Byron J.
Franklin, Sue
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20th-21st centuries
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0483
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Postcards, arranged by geographical area or by the subjects. Collection includes two boxes of "GoCards" (freely distributed commercial postcards) as well.
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National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals
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1934-1939, 1956-2017
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26.99 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 blueprint storage box) (4 16x20 boxes) (3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-100
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of curator emeritus Richard W. Thorington (1937-2017), who specialized in systematics, evolution, anatomy, and functional morphology in mammals, especially of primates and squirrels. The records primarily document Thorington's curatorial activities in the Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natu...
