Virgil Whyte "All-Girl" Band Collection
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Kovan, Florice Whyte
Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)
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1942-1948, 1991-1993
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0503
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes 7 VHS videotapes and 1 audio tape produced by Florice Whyte Kovan, containing interviews and recollections by some band members. Studio portraits and snapshot photographs in 3 scrapbooks, which also contain display advertisements and newspaper clippings from about the band, 1940s. Snapshots include documentation of the band's travels and l...
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King, D. Ward
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1902-2005
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0.75 Cubic feet ( 2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1332
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, publications and correspondence related to D. Ward King's invention the King Road Drag, or the Split-Oak drag, which improved rural travel in the early 20th century by introducing a simple design and low-effort system for grading poor-quality roads. The King Road Drag was promoted heavily across the United States and Canada via the "Good Roads Campaign" originally sponsored by the railroad companies in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Community Life, Div. of (NMAH, SI)
Alland, Alexander, Sr. (Alexander Landschaft), 1902-1989
Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies )
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circa 1920-1975
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4.3 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0161
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of 4.3 cubic feet of manuscript, print, and photographic materials created or collected by Carl de Wendler-Funaro (1898-1985) in pursuit of his interest in Gypsy life and culture. (Carlos de Wendler-Funaro used several forms of his name; he wrote mostly as Carl de Wendler-Funaro.) The -collection was brought to the attentio...
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Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
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1850-1853
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1 Microfilm reel (207 items on one microfilm reel)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bartjohn
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Archives of American Art
The microfilmed John Russell Bartlet papers contain 31 watercolors and drawings by Henry Cheever Pratt; as well as 139 drawings, 2 sketchbooks, and 1 drawing book by John Russell Bartlett, all of which were created between 1850 and 1853 when Bartlett and Pratt were on expedition in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Also included...
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Seymour, Frank
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1852 - 1957
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1232
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents firefighting and fires in American history through newspaper and magazine illustrations, ephemera, and photographs. The emphasis is on large urban fires (New York City and Chicago) and industrial fires in the northeastern United States. There are some illustrations of cartoons, rescues, poems, fires on ships and clippings about great floods in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
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Jacobs, William Rigby, 1906-1957
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1942-1945, 1998-1999, 2004
bulk 1942-1945
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0.27 Cubic feet (1 small flatbox, 1 VHS tape)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2003.0050
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one scrapbook and some additional materials relating to Dr. William R. Jacobs and his service in the Alaskan Air Transport Command (Arctic Search and Rescue Unit) during World War II.
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Golding, Melody
- Dates:
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2006-2012
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 5 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1166
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collections documents the work of photographer, Melody Golding and two projects: Hurrican Katrina and Panther Tract. The Hurrican Katrina photographs document some of the devastation along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the towns of Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pearlington, Mississippi. The Panther Tract material documents a 2011 book titled ...
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McDonald, David N.
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ca. 1880
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2 Volumes (100 drawings, graphite, colored pencil, and ink, 21 x 32 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4452A
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National Anthropological Archives
Vol. 1: 46 drawings of war scenes on leaves of ruled and numbered paper from a ledger book, now disbound, covers retained. Inside of cover inscribed D.N. McDonald, US Army. Vol. 2: 54 drawings on leaves of ruled and numbered paper from a ledger book, now disbound, covers not retained. Scenes are primarily of warfare, but also include horse raids, c...
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Hanbury, Una, 1904-1990
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1910-1994
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5.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hanbuna
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Una Hanbury measure 5.3 linear feet and date from 1910 to 1994, with the bulk of the material from 1966 to 1990. The collection documents the sculptor's career and the dispersal of her estate through business records, project files, subject files, printed material, and photographs. There is also a small amount of material relating to her personal life including correspondence with friends and family and photographs from various stages of her life.
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Robrecht, Jack
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1852 - 1983
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1.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1231
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains primarily photographs and postcards relating to firefighting. Many of the photographs are of firefighting vehicles and apparatus, both horse-drawn and gasoline-powered. The cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore are especially well documented, though other cities are represented, including Hamilton, Ohio; Camden, New Jersey; D...