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8601 records — Page 489 of 861
Joseph R. Woodwell letters
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Creators:
Woodwell, Joseph R., 1843-1911
Dates:
1862-1868
Size:
17 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
Collection ID:
AAA.woodjose
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Letters to Woodwell, undated and 1862-1868, from friends from Woodwell's student days in Paris, including: Albion Harris Bicknell, Joseph Foxcroft Cole, Daniel Ridgway Knight, August Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Frank H. Smith, Cephas Thompson, J. Ware, Jean ?, and a fragment of a letter from an unknown person.

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1982 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 24-July 5, 1982
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1982
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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Digitized Content Thomas Carr Howe papers
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Creators:
Howe, Thomas Carr, 1904-1994
Dates:
1932-1984
Size:
4.4 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.howethom
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The Thomas Carr Howe papers measure 4.4 linear feet and date from 1932 to 1984. Howe was director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco for nearly 40 years, and he served as one of the Monuments Men in the Monuments, Fine Art and Archives (MFAA) Section of the U.S. Army during World War II. The collection documents Howe's MFAA work in Germany and Austria locating and recovering cultural artifacts and artwork stolen by the Nazis. There is significant correspondence with friends and colleagues, as well as fellow Monuments Men such as Samson Lane Faison, Edith Standen, and George Stout. The papers also includes reports, inventories of stolen artwork, maps, annotated photographs, a scrapbook, and photographs. The papers also document Howe's later work at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.

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Project Management and Projects Files
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Creators:
National Museum of the American Indian. Office of the Deputy Director
Dates:
circa 1990-2003
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 04-173
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records pertaining to specific National Museum of the American Indian projects, such as the Cultural Resources Center move to Maryland, special exhibits, and archiving plans. Materials document the tenure of Deputy Director Doug Evelyn, and include planning proposals, correspondence, agreements, and minutes of meetin...

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Beniamino Bufano papers
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Creators:
Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
Dates:
[1930s-1970]
Size:
3.9 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.bufabeni
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Ten notebooks containing newspaper and magazine articles, pictures, letters, telegrams, and brochures; as well as numerous loose clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, photographs, and correspondence.

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Oral history interview with Harold Tovish
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Creators:
Tovish, Harold, 1921-2008
Brown, Robert F.
Dates:
1974 February 7-1977 March 17
Size:
3 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
67 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.tovish74
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Interview of Harold Tovish, conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution on June 24, 1974 and March 17, 1977.

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Digitized Content Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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Dates:
1865–1872
Size:
7 Reels
Collection ID:
NMAAHC.FB.M742
Repository:
National Museum of African American History and Culture

This collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 7 rolls of microfilm described in NARA publication M742. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872. This collection contains seven volumes of letters sent, six volumes of endorsements sent, one volume of circulars issued, and one volume of special orders issued by the Commissioner. Also included are fourteen volumes of indexes. These records relate to the general operation of the Bureau.

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Digitized Content Burton Ashley photographs
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Creators:
Ashley, Burton E., 1908-
Dates:
1930-1952
Size:
665 negatives (photographic) (black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
520 negatives (photographic) (duplicate negatives; black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
10 postcards (black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
157 slides (photographs) (color)
338 photographic prints (+ contact prints , black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
1 photographic print ((panograph), black & white, 6.3 x 20 cm.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1979-001
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

The photographs are cityscapes and landscapes taken by Burton E. Ashley in Egypt, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia during the early 1930s and early 1950s. The images include views of Cape Town, South Africa; Cairo, Egypt; Port Said, Egypt, and Mozambique. Architecture depicted includes buildings in Tanzania, a mission in Zambia and the Mohammed Ali Mosque in Cairo. Additionally, there are images of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and rivers and waterfalls including the Luangwa, Nile, Zambezi and Victoria Falls. The collection also includes photos of animals, geological features and vegetation.

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Samuel Adler papers
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Creators:
Adler, Samuel, 1898-
Dates:
1902-1979
Size:
2 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
Collection ID:
AAA.adlesamu
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence, writings, art works, scrapbooks, phtoographs, sound records, and printed material reflect Adler's career as a painter and teacher.

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John S. Monagan papers relating to Naum Gabo
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Creators:
Monagan, John S.
Dates:
1969-1982
Size:
0.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.monajohn
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence with Miriam Gabo and others regarding Naum Gabo, his sculpture, and exhibitions, 1966-1991; notes by Monagan from a meeting with the Gabos', March 19, 1971; newspaper clippings, (includes obituaries) 1968, 1977; and 33 photographs, all taken by Monagan, includes: 16 b&w photos of Naum, Miriam, and daughter Nina Gabo, Charles and Mich...

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