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8603 records — Page 438 of 861
John B. Reeside, Jr., Papers
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Creators:
Reeside, John B. (John Bernard), 1889-1958
Dates:
1916-1958 and undated
Size:
2.5 cu. ft. (4 document boxes) (2 half document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7326
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The 1879 act establishing the United States Geological Survey (USGS) declares "And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, and fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer need...

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Edward Beatty Rowan papers
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Creators:
Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946
Dates:
1929-1946
Size:
3.2 Linear feet ((on 4 microfilm reels))
Collection ID:
AAA.rowaedwa
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence, printed material, photographs, business records and a diary.

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Casimir Zagourski photographs
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Dates:
between 1924-1935
Size:
120 postcards ((silver gelatin prints), black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
3 photographic prints ((silver gelatin), black & white, 26.5 x 19.7 cm. or smaller)
3 drawings (visual works) (black & white, 29.8 x 22.7 cm. or smaller)
Collection ID:
EEPA.2002-005
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

The photographs belong to the series of 417 images, entitled "L'Afrique qui disparaît", which Casimir Zagourski (1883-1944), a Polish photographer who lived in Léopoldville, created in the years between 1924 and 1935. He edited the series in different forms. One of the postcards includes a mistake in the captioning which could occur in the printing...

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1983 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 23-July 4, 1983
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1983
Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

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Jean W. Seele Rural Photographs
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Creators:
Seele, Charline
Seele, Jean W. (Jean Warren), 1924-1993
Dates:
1963-1983
Size:
0.6 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0759
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Approx. 1,065 color photographs (chromogenic prints), negatives and slides of rural scenes, mostly in Kansas.

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Hilda Pertha papers
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Creators:
Pertha, Hilda, 1911-2011
Dates:
1940-2011
Size:
8.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.perthild
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of painter Hilda Pertha measure 8.2 linear feet and date from 1940-2011. Included is biographical material consisting of artist's statements; correspondence with friends, family, galleries, and employers; writings including journals and studio notes by Pertha; project files; photographs and slides of Pertha, her work, exhibitions, home, ...

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Records
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Creators:
Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Department of Membership and Programs
Dates:
1973-1978
Size:
8 cu. ft. (16 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 284
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of correspondence with prospective donors for cash donations or donation of items for auctions; invitations to the auction and auction-related events; photographs of items for auction; drafts for auction catalogues; invitations and announcements; auction bids; expense statements; sale receipts; and newspaper and jour...

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Alexander Parker Rogers papers relating to John Rogers
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Creators:
Rogers, Alexander Parker
Dates:
1875-1966
Size:
0.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.rogealex
Repository:
Archives of American Art

3 versions of Alexander P. Rogers' typescript "John Rogers - The Man," and correspondence with magazines regarding it's publication, 1950; typescripts "Recollections of my father, John Rogers (sculptor)," and "Recollections of my mother, Harriet Frances Rogers (1841-1927)," 1940; a handwritten list of John Rogers' finished and unfinished bronzes in...

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Oral history interview with Michael Spafford and Elizabeth Sandvig
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Creators:
Spafford, Michael, 1935-
Karlstrom, Paul J.
Sandvig, Elizabeth, 1937-
Dates:
1992 September 2-4
Size:
99 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.spaffo92
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Michael Spafford and Elizabeth Sandvig conducted 1992 September 2-4, by Paul Karlstrom, at their home in Seattle, Washington, for the Archives of American Art. Spafford and Sandvig discuss their marriage and their separate careers, and the controversy and trial resulting from Spafford's "Labors of Hercules" murals at the Washington ...

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Photographs of Charles Alexandre Lesueur sketches relating to American Indians
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Creators:
Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846
Dates:
circa 1816-1837
Size:
18 Copy prints
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R4534
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs of sketches made by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1816-1837 documenting archeological sites in Indiana and Kentucky, Choctaw Indians of the Mississippi River in Tennessee and Louisiana, and Plains Indian artifacts, probably seen and sketched at St. Louis, Missouri.

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