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Ilse Getz papers
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Creators:
Getz, Ilse, 1917-
Dates:
1928-1999
Size:
3.4 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.getzilse
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of collage artist Ilse Getz measure 3.4 linear feet and date from 1928 through 1999, with the bulk of the papers dating from circa 1947-circa 1990. Her personal life is reflected through biographical material including a genealogy of the Bechhold family; marriage and death certificates; and writings that include journals, artist statement, poems and notes. The collection contains letters from friends, artists, collectors, and museum and art gallery representatives; exhibition files; and printed material relating to Getz's exhibitions. Also found are photographs, slides and transparencies of artwork.

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Richard J. Powell papers
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Creators:
Powers, Preston, 1842 or 1843-1904
Dates:
1971-1992
Size:
1 Linear foot
Collection ID:
AAA.powerich
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The Richard J. Powell papers date from 1971 through 1992 and mostly concern Powell's research and writings on painter William H. Johnson. Found is correspondence with curators, scholors, arts administrators, and U.S., Danish, and Scandinavian museums and associations. The papers also include two of Powell's illustrated research and travel journals from 1984 and 1985, printed materials concerning the exhibition Powell curated in 1991 at the National Museum of American Art Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-America, 1938-1946, research files that contain photocopies of original Johnson archival documents from various research repositories, and photographs (copy prints) of Johnson and his artwork.

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Memorial Art Gallery exhibition catalogs
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Creators:
University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery
Dates:
1913-1962
Size:
1 Linear foot ((254 items))
Collection ID:
AAA.univroch
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Catalogs for exhibitions held at the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1962, including the Inaugural Exhibition. Incomplete runs of annual exhibitions of the Rochester International Salon of Photography, 1929-1958, the Rochester Camera Club, 1943-1950, the Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibitions, 1938-1958, and the National Ceramic Exhibition, 1938-1952, are a...

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Bureau of American Ethnology collection of photographs relating to exhibitions
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Dates:
undated
Size:
50 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (some made from original glass negatives))
2 Transparencies
59 Prints (copy prints and enlargements)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.4322
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Exhibition photographs depicting Native Americans (including studio portraits), as well as scenery and material culture. Includes material made for the Century of Progress exhibit as well as mounted photos and text used in the Regents' exhibit on the 1947 restoration program for the BAE's glass negatives. Photographs for the Century of Progress exh...

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Hirshhorn photographs
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Dates:
1960-1987
Size:
29 photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1987-023
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs of Benin art objects in the Hirshhorn Museum that were intended to transfer to the National Museum of African Art. Also included in the collection of photographs are four installation shots. Two of these images, taken by O.E. Nelson of New York, NY, are of a Benin exhibition in the Carlebach Gallery in 1960. The remaining two installation shots were taken by Jahn & John Thomson of Los Angeles, California, of an exhibit at the African Art Center, Inc., in Los Angeles, CA.

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American Red Cross posters: African American HIV/AIDS program series with African proverbs
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Creators:
Smith, Damballah Dolphus
American Red Cross
Dates:
1992
Size:
5 Posters (28 x 24 inches)
Collection ID:
ACMA.10-004.11
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

Proverb 1 "He who upsets a thing should know how to rearrange it" (Sierra Leonean) -- Proverb 3 "The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people" (Ghanian) -- Proverb 4 "He who does not cultivate his field will die of hunger" (Guinean)-- Proverb 5 "When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion" (Ethiopian)-- and Proverb 6 "He who conceals hi...

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Janette Saquet photograph of John Wesley Powell exhibit
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Creators:
Saquet, Janette (exhibit creator and possible photographer)
Dates:
1981
Size:
1 Print (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.81-53
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Image of exhibit summarizing the anthropological work of John Wesley Powell. The exhibit was installed in a single case in the north entry hall of the National Museum of Natural History. The photograph was taken in spring 1981, probably by Saquet.

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English and French Caribbean Music in Washington, D.C.
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Creators:
Anacostia Community Museum
Dates:
1996
Size:
1 Binder
Collection ID:
ACMA.03-080
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

This show explored the history of English and French Caribbean music in the District of Columba and surrounding areas from the 1940s to the 1990s. Curated by Kimberly Freeman, the exhibition sought to broaden the general public's understanding of the role music plays in maintaining cultural identity for Caribbean immigrant communities in the metrop...

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Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American Art. Office of the Deputy Director
Dates:
circa 1967-1983
Size:
15 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 444
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of files maintained by Harry Lowe in his positions as Curator of Exhibits and Assistant, Acting, and Deputy Director.

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Dada and Surrealism in America : a symposium in honor of Man Ray, symposium records
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Creators:
National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Dates:
1988
Size:
0.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.natiaasy
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An audiotape recording (3 cassettes) of "Dada and Surrealism in America: A Symposium in honor of Man Ray," sponsored by the National Museum of American Art, December 3, 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition, "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray." Also included is a videotape (VHS 118 min.) of the afternoon session of the symposium, a list of spe...

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