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Grant, George B. (George Barnard), 1849-1917
Philadelphia Bank Note Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bollée, Léon, 1870-1913
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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1873-1896
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1 Volume (approximately 70 leaves, ill., 34 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-DL.MSS001780B
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Smithsonian Libraries
Scrapbook compiled by George Barnard Grant (inventor of Grant's calculating machine), a businessman based in Lexington and Boston, Massachusetts, containing printed ephemera, machine manuals, handwritten and typescript notes and correspondence, photographs, patent applications, and other papers relating to calculating machines, inventors, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and Grant's patent dispute with Léon Bollée in the 1880s. Some of the other inventions and companies referenced in the scrapbook include: Baldwin's calculating machine; Reliance Machine Works (B.F. Quimby); Baldwin's arithmometer; Teasdale's calculating machine; American Type Machine Co. (Westcott type casting and setting machine); Babbage's difference engine; Warren on the Thomas De Colmar calculating machine; Warren Bros. calculating engine; Tendollaradder (Grant Calculating Machine Co.); tabulating machine of G. & E. Schuetz; the Pidgin Electric Calculating Machine Co.; Webb's adding machine; Sir William Thomson's harmonic analyzer; L. Bollée's calculating machine; Grant's ciphering hand-organ; and Hattersley composing and distributing machines.
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Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, 1908-1985
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
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1936-1938
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285 Photographic prints (albumen)
122 Negatives (photographic) (acetate)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.019
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Includes images of the indigenous people of Ecuador, primarily the Tsatchela (Tsachila, Colorado) of Pichincha province and the Shuar-Achuar of Oriente province. Also includes 51 images of the indigenous people of Honduras, primarily the Xicaque and Maya.
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Galey, Thomas M.
Parsons, G. W.
Sawyer
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undated
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14 Prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4460
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Prints from negatives by Thomas M. Galey, Independence, Kansas, including original stereoscopic views made 1921-1930, and copies by Galey from older commercial photographs.
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circa 1860-1920
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19 Copy negatives (glass)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.73-26G
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National Anthropological Archives
Copy negatives made from negatives depicting Native Americans, dwellings, and ceremonies. There are images of Hopi people at Walpi and Oraibi pueblos and other Puebloan people, as well as portraits of Apache, Osage, Navajo, Blackfoot, Brule, Nez Perce, Rogue River, Taos, Pawnee, Oto, Caddo, Arapaho, and Delaware people and the Ute Chief Ouray. So...
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O' Sullivan, Timothy H.
Moran, John
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
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undated
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40 Mounted prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4801
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National Anthropological Archives
Contains: Photos relating to the Darien Expedition [1870, 1871, 1873] (28 prints); by W, H. Jackson on the Hayden Survey [1870's] (5 prints); and by others (6 prints).
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National Zoological Park. Department of Zoological Research
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1972-1990
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12.66 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (9 document boxes) (6 5x8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-227
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Devra G. Kleiman, documenting research and breeding programs at the National Zoological Park as well as programs in which the National Zoological Park was partially involved. The majority of the records document behavioral studies of giant pandas, the mating of Hsing-Hsing and L...
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Administrator
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1962-1988
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7.21 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 545
- 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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Bedini, Silvio A.
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1952-1996
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25.43 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-187
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession primarily consists of Bedini's correspondence and memoranda with Smithsonian colleagues, scholars, professional organizations, publishers, and the general public documenting his research activities for special projects and publications including a project related to Thomas Jefferson. Also included are Bedini's publications; ...
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1996-2001
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14.14 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (4.14 non-standard size boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-211
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials documenting three Smithsonian Productions projects that celebrated the 300th anniversary of the piano: "People and Pianos: 300 Years," "Piano 300," and "Piano Grand!" The documentary, "People and Pianos: 300 Years," was filmed in various locations across Europe, the United States and in Japan, and featured...
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Downtown Gallery records
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Downtown Gallery
- Dates:
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1824-1974
bulk 1926-1969
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109.56 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.downgall
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Archives of American Art
The records of the Downtown Gallery date from 1824 to 1974 (bulk 1926-1969) and measure 109.56 linear feet. The records present a comprehensive portrait of a significant commercial gallery that operated as a successful business for more than forty years, representing major contemporary American artists and engendering appreciation for early American folk art. There is an unprocessed addition to this collection dating circa 1970 of a single financial/legal document.