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David Henshaw Collection
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Creators:
Henshaw, David
Dates:
1920s
Size:
32 photographs (b&w.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.2015-002
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

The collection consists of 32 black and white photographs taken in northern Nigeria in the 1920s. They primarily focus on the Henshaw missionary family, their work, and their community in proximity to the city of Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.

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Charles Rosen papers
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Creators:
Rosen, Charles, 1878-1950
Dates:
1896-1971
Size:
0.8 Linear feet ((on 4 microfilm reels))
Collection ID:
AAA.rosechar
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence, sketchbooks, diaries, writings, printed material, photographs, and scrapbooks.

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Digitized Content Stephen A. Douglas World War Two Envelopes
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Creators:
Douglas, Stephen A., 1912- (World War II soldier)
Dates:
1942-1945
Size:
0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0755
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection is divided into two series. Series 1: Illustrated Envelopes contains envelopes drawn by Stephen Douglas and mounted on mat boards. This type of painted envelope is also called "patriotic." See Lawrence Sherman, United States Patriotic Envelopes of World War II, 2006. Series 2: Unit History, documents the engineers in the South We...

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Victor Higgins papers
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Creators:
Higgins, Victor, 1884-1949
Dates:
1910-1975
Size:
1 Item (partial microfilm reel)
Collection ID:
AAA.higgvict
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Resumes, a bibliography; legal documents including a lease, a voter registration card and a file on a lawsuit Higgins was involved in; correspondence, 1912-1975, with Robert Macbeth and Inslee Hopper; financial records; clippings and articles about Higgins; exhibition announcements and catalogs; loan agreements for an exhibition of Higgins' work at...

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Annita Delano papers
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Creators:
Delano, Annita, 1894-
Dates:
circa 1900-1975
Size:
2.7 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.delaanni
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of painter and educator Annita Delano measure 2.7 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to 1975. Found are biographical material, personal and professional correspondence, writings and notes, printed material, photographs, and artwork. Writings consist of lecture notes and extensive analytical writings about European artists and works of art.

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Digitized Content Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 3: African-American Music
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Creators:
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Dates:
circa 1828-1980
Size:
79 Boxes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0300.S03
Repository:
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 3: African-American Music, contains circa 7,800 pieces of sheet music and folios dating from the 1820s to the 1980s; most of the material dates from after 1890. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.

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Neil Juhl Larsen research material on Charles Biederman
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Creators:
Larsen, Neil Juhl
Dates:
circa 1927-2011
Size:
9.4 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.larsneil
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The Neil Juhl Larsen research material on Charles Biederman measures 9.4 linear feet and dates from circa 1927-2011. The material was compiled primarily by Neil Juhl Larsen in preparation for his biography, Charles Biederman (Hudson Hills Press, 2011). Also included is a small amount of material compiled by art historian Susan Larsen (no relation to Neil), who completed the book after Neil Larsen's death in 2006. The bulk of the research material consists of original papers belonging to Charles Biederman, including biographical material, correspondence, writings, personal business records, printed material, and photographs. These papers were given to Neil Juhl Larsen by Biederman and his daughter Anna Biederman Brown.

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Penoyer L. Sherman photographs of Philippine people
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Creators:
Sherman, Penoyer L., Jr
Dates:
1900
Size:
38 Negatives (glass)
47 Mounted prints (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.106A
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Anthropometric photographs of Philippine peoples, made for the Pan-American Exposition by Penoyer L. Sherman on commission from Frank F. Hilder. Depicted are front, side, and back views of largely nude individual. Represented are Vicol (Bicol), Pangasinan, Ilocano, Tagalog, Visayan, Pambango peoples, and indivifuals of Chinese-Tagalog ancestry and ...

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Oral history interview with Thomas M. Messer
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Creators:
Messer, Thomas M.
Cummings, Paul
Dates:
1970 Sept. 22
Size:
35 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.messer70
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Thomas M. Messer conducted 1970 Sept. 22, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Messer speaks of his childhood in Czechoslovakia; his early interest in art and music; coming to the United States; his education at Boston University; directing a museum, in Roswell, N.M., for three years; going to the American Federation ...

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Hyman Kaitz papers relating to Louis Eilshemius
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Creators:
Kaitz, Hyman B. (Hyman Benjamin), 1916-1996
Dates:
1933-1978
Size:
5 Items ((on a partial microfilm reel))
Collection ID:
AAA.kaithyma
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Two letters, 1933 and undated, from Eilshemius in response to Kaitz's "fan letter" to Eilshemius. One letter is illustrated with a pen and ink sketch of a nude falling into a stream, and is titled "Flop! in." Also included are an undated clipping about Eilshemius; a review, 1970, written by John Canaday reviewing an Eilshemius exhibition at the Sid...

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