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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
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1965-1991
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41 cu. ft. (41 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 372
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist entirely of newspaper clippings concerning the Smithsonian Institution. Arrangement generally follows an alphabetic file plan. Clippings concerning the Sea-Link submarine disaster, the Smithson Bicentennial, and, in recent years, the Festival of American Folklife, were kept separately, but have been combined here with ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Administration
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circa 1976-1988
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13 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 90-124
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the administrative records of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration during the tenure of John F. Jameson, also includes budget and fiscal records.
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Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
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1964-1990
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5 cu. ft. ( record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-133
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution's governing body, the Board of Regents, during the tenures of S. Dillon Ripley, eighth Secretary of the Institution (1964-1984), and Robert McCormick Adams, ninth Secretary of the Institution (1984-1994). There is a very small portion of records ...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
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1954-2004
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-226
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Bernard S. Finn, Curator Emeritus of electricity collections, which document his curatorial and professional activities in the Division of Information Technology and Society, and during the years when the division was known as the Division of Electricity and Modern Physics, the Division of Electricity ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Symposia and Seminars
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1978-1986
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 497
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include correspondence, memoranda, purchase orders, budget reports, addresses, invitations, brochures, lectures, fundraising information, announcements, lecturer files, and program plans for the following symposia: "The Muses Flee Hitler;" "Man and Beast Revisited;" "Festival of India;" and "Road after 1984: High Technology ...
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National Science Resources Center Department of Communications and Publications
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1988-1998, 2001
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-007
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of publication records which document the publishing activities of the Department of Communications and Publications at the National Science Resources Center (NSRC). Particularly well documented is the publication of Discovery Deck. A Discovery Deck was a freestanding packages of resource cards designed to suppleme...
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Krainik Ballooning Collection
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Krainik, Cliff
- Dates:
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1859-1934
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3.19 Cubic feet (2 shoeboxes; 3 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1990.0009
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This 19th and 20th century ballooning memorabilia collection contains the following items, which have been meticulously inventoried: 112 stereoscopic photographs; 107 photographs; 84 postcards, trade cards, valentines, and similar items; 80 prints; and 23 miscellaneous items.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Under Secretary
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1992-1999
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16 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-066
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Constance Berry Newman, which document her activities as Under Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The records consist of correspondence and memoranda; institution-wide museum and departmental information; budgetary files; legislation; and information pertaining to the traveling exhibition A...
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Weiss, Helena M., 1909-2004, interviewee
- Dates:
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1987
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8 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9587
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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October 3-8, 1979
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1979
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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.
