Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection
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Garland, Ed
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Morton, Jelly Roll, d. 1941
Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007
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1880 - 2010
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42.5 Cubic feet (110 boxes, 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1222
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Floyd Levin was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. The collection consists of research materials including biographical files. In addition, there are numerous photographs that were taken and collected by Levin.
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Gerber, H. Joseph, 1924-1996
Gerber Scientific Instrument Company (Hartford, Conn.).
- Dates:
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1911 - 1999
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75 Cubic feet (182 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0929
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records document the Gerber Scientific Instrument Company, Hartford, Connecticut, and its four subsidiaries: Gerber Garment Technology, Inc., Gerber Scientific Products, Inc., Gerber Systems Corp., and Gerber Optical, Inc. Gerber Scientific designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services computer aided design and computer aided CAD/CAM systems. The records include correspondence, memoranda, product literature, trade literature, patent records, instruction manuals, proposals, engineering records, photographs, technical reports, drawings, press releases, and newspaper clippings.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Dates:
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1860-1961
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66 cu. ft. (132 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7176
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists primarily of reports, notebooks, notes, photographs, maps, and related materials documenting field research conducted by staff naturalists of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and its predecessor, the Bureau of Biological Survey. The reports, which primarily concern biological surveys conducted in the Un...
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Sultner-Welles, Donald H. (Sultner, Donald Harvey), 1914-1981
Janus, Allan
Hanfstaengl, Erna
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circa 1790-1981
bulk 1945-1980
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87.6 Cubic feet (318 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0145
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is primarily the work of one individual, Donald Harvey Sultner, known professionally as Donald Sultner-Welles (1914-1981). The collection forms a written and visual record of Sultner's family, life, and career from 1913-1980. Its major strength is Sultner's photographic documentation of the world during his travels, ca. 1950-1980. W...
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Hedges, Jimmy, 1942-2014
- Dates:
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1969-2016, bulk 1991-2013
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23.5 Linear feet
15.63 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hedgjimm
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Archives of American Art
The papers of art collector and dealer Jimmy Hedges and the records of his Rising Fawn Folk Art Gallery measure 23.5 linear feet and 15.63 GB and date from 1969-2016, with the bulk of the material dating from 1991-2013. The collection documents Hedges's career as a dealer of outsider art and as an advocate for self-taught artists. Records include administrative and sales records, correspondence, artist files, collector and gallery files, exhibition and art fair files, regional files, printed and digital material, photographic material, and unidentified sound and video recordings. The bulk of the collection consists of artist files and color photographs documenting hundreds of artists that Hedges visited at their homes and studios, including Georgia Blizzard, Howard Finster, Homer Green, Bessie Harvey, Danny Hoskinson, Paul Lancaster, A.J. Mohammed, Charlie Simmons, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, and Purvis Young, among many others.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1841-1986, undated
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98 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S11
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 11: Entertainment contains more than 12,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards entertainers and entertainment in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Robbins, Warren M.
- Dates:
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circa 1927-2009
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83.1 cu. ft. (80 record storage boxes) (4 12x17 boxes) (2 16x20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-001
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers document the life and work of Warren M. Robbins, covering a wide swath of his life, from his early career in the Foreign Service to his work in cross cultural communications and African art. A prolific writer, Robbins correspondence with such people as Maya Angelou, Ernie Barnes, Saul Bellow, Eliot Elisofon, Otto Fried, Buckminste...
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Office of the Registrar
- Dates:
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1958, 1975-1987
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14.35 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 541
- 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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Engman, David
Simmons, David
Society for Industrial Archeology
Starbuck, David, Dr.
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1965-2017
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40 Cubic feet (99 boxes, 7 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0688
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of the records of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, including officers' files; grant files, journals, newsletters, editorial files, films, photographs, and posters.
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Ellington, Edward
Richardson, Deborra A.
Ellington, Gaye
- Dates:
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1899-1981
- Size:
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9.5 Cubic feet (32 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0704
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the activities of the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of both Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington and his son Mercer Ellington. Materials include music manuscripts, business records, lyrics, scripts, and other writings, magazine articles, newspaper clippings and photographs.