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Anderson, Harold M.
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1948-1952
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1 Item (1 reel.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1197
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black Wall Street was a vibrant African American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filmed between 1948 and 1952 Reverend Harold Anderson's Black Wall Street Film documents many of the neighborhood's businesses including barber shops, bakers, taxi companies, jewelers, and other stores. Reverand Andserson also captured its citizens in church, at school, participating in parades, and walking around the area. The film includes footage Richard and Pat Nixon as they campaigned in Black Wall Street, the first vice-presidential candidate to visit the African American neighborhood.
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 19: Art and Literature
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1830-1983
undated
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12 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S19
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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 19, Art and Literature contains approximately 860 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting popular attitudes towards art and literature in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Textiles
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circa 1947-1982
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 472
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
For the most part, this record unit documents curatorial and staff activities of the Division of Textiles after the creation of the Museum of History and Technology in 1957; however, some records also date from the time the Division was a Section of the Division of Crafts and Industries in the United States National Museum. These records cons...
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
McGee, W J, 1853-1912
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
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Ca. 1877; and 1903-1911
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1 Portfolio
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3898
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National Anthropological Archives
Folder 1: Powell to Whitney, July 17, 1877 (Copy) Whiteney to Powell, July 25, 1877 (Draft) Powell to Whitney, July 31, 1877 (Draft) List of vowel and consonant symbols, with definitions, from Whitney (so identified in George Gibb's hand--MCB); undated copy of draft of Whitneyʹs manuscript which is also in the Yale manuscripts. It was subsequently ...
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National Museum of American History. Program in African American Culture
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1982-2002
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-116
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of the Program in African American Culture (PAAC) which document planning for conferences, symposiums, concerts, and special events. Some earlier records date back to when PAAC was known as the Program in African American History and the Program in Black American Culture, respectively. Materials incl...
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
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circa 1947-1990, with related records from 1926
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14 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 428
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records primarily document the operation of the Department of Botany under Head Curators Ellsworth Paine Killip, 1947-1950, and Jason Richard Swallen, 1950-1964, and Chairmen William L. Stern, 1965-1967, Mason E. Hale, Jr., 1967-1970, Edward S. Ayensu, Dieter C. Wasshausen, Mark M. Littler, and Laurence E. Skog. Records created prior ...
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Cirillo, Dexter
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1991-1998
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-165
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Dexter Cirillo received her B.A. and M.A. in English from San Diego State University and a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her early career focused on teaching and researching the literature and culture of minority groups in the United States. In 1981, Cirillo left the world of academia and pursued...
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Lowry, Janice Ann, 1946-2009
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1957-2009
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18 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lowrjani
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Archives of American Art
The papers of collagist and painter Janice Lowry measure 18.0 linear feet and date from 1957 to 2009. Lowry's career as an artist in Arizona and California is documented through biographical material, printed material, teaching files, and photographs. The bulk of the papers consist of six diaries; thirteen morning journals; 126 art journals which include both written text and artwork in the form of sketches, paintings, and collages; hand-made artist books; nine notebooks with sketches; and one sketchbook.
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Ruth, Clarence M.
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1937
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51 Pages (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4409
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes: (1) Research among the Ancient Chumash Village Sites of Northwestern Santa Barbara County. 1936. 102 pages, illustrated. (2)"Research of Sudden Site No. 2, A Typical Chumash Village Site of the North Santa Barbara County Coast."
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Bentley, William J.
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
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February 21, 1906
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6 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4694
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National Anthropological Archives
Also carries marginal notations by James Mooney.