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Smithsonian Institution. Libraries
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1964-1979
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 82-016
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence, awards, memoranda, meeting agendas, reports, Smithsonian Institution Libraries budgets, surveys and studies, materials concerning recruitment and staff development and space, and architectural drawings.
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Natalie Knight and Suzanne Priebatsch collection
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Knight, Natalie
Priebatsch, Suzanne
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circa 1970s-2011
bulk 1974-1978
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1,305 Slides (color, 35 mm)
325 Negatives (photographic) (color, 35 mm)
331 Photographic prints
3 electronic_discs_dvd
19 Folders (manuscript materials)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2012-010
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes (1,305) 35mm color slides, (325) 35mm color negatives, (331) photographic prints, (3) DVDs and manuscript materials. The images were produced between circa 1970s and 1999 and most depict the Ndebele peoples of South Africa in their kraals (homesteads) making bricks, thatching roofs, and performing other daily activities; ar...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Museums
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circa 1967-1988
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 91-005
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, proposals, sketches, architectural drawings; photocopied newspaper articles; published and unpublished manuscripts; pamphlets; photographs; and testimonies.
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National Institute for Conservation of Cultural Property
- Dates:
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1983-1986
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 89-058
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of annual reports, contracts, and financial reports concerning the National Institute for Conservation of Cultural Property activities.
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Arnold, Cheney & Co.
Moore, Ernst D. (importer, trader)
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1888-1932
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1.6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0321
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Moore's work as an ivory trader employed by Arnold, Cheney and Co. Includes copies of his diary entries while working as an ivory trader, financial documents, price lists, his writings on the subject of ivory, articles, a map, and photographs.
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Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
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1987 October - 1988 October
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27.63 Linear feet (63 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-036
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on the growth of African American churches in the eastern United States. The exhibit was organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and held there from October 1987 to October 1988. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, press coverage, education packets, loan agreements, floor plans, and catalogues.
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Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
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1886-1997
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108 Cubic feet (257 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0666
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company supplied most of the typesetting machines used in the printing industry, both in America and worldwide. As changing technology ended the usefulness of the linotype machine the company pioneered new computer-driven, photo typesetting machines.
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National Museum of Natural History. Department of Entomology
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circa 1963-1988, with related records from 1934
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18.5 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 430
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of administrative subject files and professional correspondence documenting the administration and activities of the Department of Entomology. Most of the records were created during the tenures of Chairmen Paul D. Hurd, Jr., 1971-1976; Donald R. Davis, 1976-1981; and Wayne N. Mathis, 1981-1987. A smaller portion of ...
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GSS Printing Equipment Company.
Graphic Arts Collection (NMAH, SI)
Information Technology and Communications, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
Harris Automatic Press Company, Dayton, Ohio
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2003 - 2003
1889 - 1995
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6.5 Cubic feet (13 boxes and 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0928
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the Harris Automatic Press Company, manufacturers of a printing press with an automatic feed primarily through drawings and photographs.
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Curtiss-Wright Corporation
- Dates:
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1868-1972
bulk 1925-1949
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146 Cubic feet (228 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0067
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the corporate records of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Included in the collection are technical and engineering reports of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division's operations in St. Louis (Robertson), MO (1935-1945) and Buffalo, NY, (1932-1945), as well as AAS Material Division and AAF Air Technical Services Command memorandum reports collected by Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis and Buffalo technical reference libraries. The collection also contains the files of Curtiss-Wright's Patent Department, which hold records of patents filed by Curtiss-Wright and patent-infringement cases involving Curtiss-Wright. Also included in the collection are specifications issued by and photos commissioned by the Keystone Aircraft Corporation (Huff-Daland Airplanes, Inc. until March 1927), which had been acquired by Wright in 1928 along with Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp., and formed the Keystone Division of Curtiss-Wright until 1932 when Keystone's Bristol, PA factory closed its doors. The collection also contains financial records of the Curtiss-Wright Airports Corporation, which was liquidated in 1936, as well as an extensive negative collection featuring Curtiss-Wright aircraft from the 1930s and 1940s, concentrated especially on the war years.