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Digitized Content Florence Knoll Bassett papers
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Creators:
Knoll, Florence, 1917-
Dates:
1932-2000
Size:
2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.knolflor
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of architect and designer Florence Knoll Bassett, measure approximately 2 linear feet dating from 1932 to 2000. Through correspondence, sketches, drawings, designs, subject files, photographs, and printed material, the collection selectively documents Knoll Bassett's education, her work with Knoll Associates from the 1940s until her resignation in 1965, and projects undertaken since her retirement. It is an important source of information on the development of interior architecture and design from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Oral history interview with Faith Ringgold
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Creators:
Ringgold, Faith
Nadelman, Cynthia
Dates:
1989 September 6-October 18
Size:
349 Pages (Transcript)
15 Items (sound files (10 hr., 49 min.), digital)
Collection ID:
AAA.ringgo89
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Faith Ringgold conducted 1989 September 6-October 18, by Cynthia Nadelman, for the Archives of American Art.

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Oral history interview with Dorothy C. Miller
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Creators:
Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
Berman, Avis
Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project
Dates:
1981 May 14
Size:
30 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.miller81
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Dorothy Canning Miller conducted 1981 May 14, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.

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Digitized Content John Frederick Peto and Peto family papers
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Creators:
Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907
Dates:
1850-1983
Size:
2.1 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.petojohn
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of still life artist John Frederick Peto and his family date from circa 1850 to 1983 and measure 2.1 linear feet. Within the papers are scattered biographical materials, a few letters to and from Peto, and his daughter Helen Peto Smiley's correspondence with galleries, scholars, and others concerning Peto's artwork. Also found are news clippings, exhibition catalogs, and other printed material, photographs and glass plate negatives of Peto, his family, and his artwork, and one small oil sketch fragment. Much of the collection documents the mid-twentieth century renewed interest in Peto's artwork.

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Digitized Content Robert Alexander papers and Temple of Man records
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Creators:
Alexander, Robert
Temple of Man (Venice, Calif.)
Dates:
1938-2015
Size:
11.7 Linear feet
1.01 Gigabytes
Collection ID:
AAA.alexbob
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of poet, artist, and ordained priest Robert Alexander and the records of Venice, California's Temple of Man measure 11.7 linear feet and 1.01 GB, and date from 1938-2015. The papers and records document Alexander and the Temple of Man, which he founded in 1960 to serve as a meeting place for a community of artists, poets, and musicians. The collection contains biographical material pertaining to Alexander, Temple of Man administrative records, correspondence and artists files, project files, printed material, and photographic material.

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Philadelphia Typewriter Company Records
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Creators:
Philadelphia Typewriter Company
Mechanisms, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
Dates:
1886-1902
Size:
0.3 Cubic feet (1 box )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0123
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The records contain correspondence chiefly of John Elfreth Watkins, a key organizer and officer of the company. Watkins was also a curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and later "accepted a salaried position…building up the technological collections pertaining to the transportation industry." The corresponden...

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Herman J. Wechsler papers
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Creators:
Wechsler, Herman Joel, 1904-
Dates:
1913-1976
Size:
2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.wechherm
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of art historian and gallery director Herman J. Wechsler measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1913-1976. The collection primarily documents Wechsler's art historical publications and to a lesser extent the activities of F.A.R. Gallery. Records include business and personal correspondence, drafts of published and unpublished writings, personal business records, printed material, loose scrapbook pages, and photographs of Wechsler and his family.

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Digitized Content Diane Vogt O'Connor Photograph Collection
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Creators:
Vogt-O'Connor, Diane
Vogt-O'Connor, Diane
Stillfried, Raimund, Baron von, 1839-1911
Kusakabe, Kimbei, 1841-1934
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Dates:
circa 1878-1879
Size:
3 albumen prints (color, 8.5 x 10.5 in.)
Collection ID:
FSA.A1991.03
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Three handcolored albumen prints, one of Kamata Yashiki Garden in Tokyo; and two depicting Japanese women: one attributed to Baron Raimond Von Stillfired of Austria (1839-1911), circa 1879, depicting Japanese women in an architectural setting, and the other attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei (active 1880's), circa 1878, showing two seated Japanese women...

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Digitized Content Ed King Collection of Civil Rights Material
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Creators:
King, Ed
Dates:
1961-1970.
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0559
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The bulk of this collection contains affidavits and legal papers filed in civil action suits which document acts of violence committed against Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers between 1961 and 1964. All activity documented occurred in Mississippi, and much of the violence that occurred was inflicted by police and white civilians. ...

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Productions
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
Dates:
1991-2000
Size:
11.38 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 film box)
Collection ID:
Accession 05-231
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records consist of film, video, and audio elements which document the production of several documentary films that supplemented the National Museum of American History exhibition, "American Encounters." "American Encounters" is a permanent exhibition commemorating the Columbus Quincentenary that chronicles the experiences, struggles, ...

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