American Gardens Collection
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circa 1920-
- Size:
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6.75 Cubic feet (35mm slides; file folders; glass negatives; plans.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.AGC
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The American gardens collection, a component of the Archives of American Gardens (AAG), includes holdings not associated with other major collections in the archives. The slides, photographs, plans, and files in this collection come from various private donors. Individual sub-units typically depict a single garden.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Education Department
- Dates:
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1976-1988
- Size:
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 92-079
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Although an Education Department was not formally established at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum until 1991, these records document educational activities and outreach in the Museum, and were maintained by the newly established Department. These records consist of files on tours and lectures offered by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum from 1976 to 1988....
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation
- Dates:
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circa 1960-2000
- Size:
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24.5 cu. ft. (49 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-007
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of information files, original reports and correspondence, papers and articles, and other background material on Smithsonian buildings. Most records document the Smithsonian Institution Building ("Castle"). There are a few files on the Arts & Industries Building and other Smithsonian facilities. These records were ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Assistant Secretary for History and Art
- Dates:
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1965-1985
- Size:
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24.7 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 477
- Repository:
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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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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture
- Dates:
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1988-1998
- Size:
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 99-158
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the program activities of the Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture (SFMC). Materials include correspondence and memoranda; historical information about SFMC; meeting minutes, including audiotape recordings of selected meetings; reports; articles; budget summaries; and planning group information ...
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- Creators:
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Myhra, David
- Dates:
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1913 -1998
bulk 1982-1988
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7.91 Linear Feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0065
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains interviews with Reimar and Walter Horten that were recorded by David Myhra.
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Curtiss-Wright Corporation
- Dates:
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1868-1972
bulk 1925-1949
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146 Cubic feet (228 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0067
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the corporate records of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Included in the collection are technical and engineering reports of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division's operations in St. Louis (Robertson), MO (1935-1945) and Buffalo, NY, (1932-1945), as well as AAS Material Division and AAF Air Technical Services Command memorandum reports collected by Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis and Buffalo technical reference libraries. The collection also contains the files of Curtiss-Wright's Patent Department, which hold records of patents filed by Curtiss-Wright and patent-infringement cases involving Curtiss-Wright. Also included in the collection are specifications issued by and photos commissioned by the Keystone Aircraft Corporation (Huff-Daland Airplanes, Inc. until March 1927), which had been acquired by Wright in 1928 along with Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp., and formed the Keystone Division of Curtiss-Wright until 1932 when Keystone's Bristol, PA factory closed its doors. The collection also contains financial records of the Curtiss-Wright Airports Corporation, which was liquidated in 1936, as well as an extensive negative collection featuring Curtiss-Wright aircraft from the 1930s and 1940s, concentrated especially on the war years.
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Wodell, Helen Page
Cottrell, Lois Page
Poinier, Lois W.
- Dates:
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circa 1920-1999
- Size:
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154 lantern slides
1 Album
2,243 color slides
2.25 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.PNR
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Lois W. Poinier Collection documents the work of Lois W. Poinier, a self-taught garden designer who designed scores of gardens, most of them in New Jersey.
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Princeton University
- Dates:
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1863-1950
- Size:
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135 Cubic feet (10,690 posters)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0433
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily war-related posters.
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- Creators:
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
- Dates:
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Ongoing
- Size:
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240 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.A
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.