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Smithsonian Institution. Office of American Studies
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1962-1987
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21.5 cu. ft. (21 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 609
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the operations of OAS. They also contain records from an organizational predecessor, the Department of American Studies, Museum of History and Technology, which had been chaired by Washburn. OAS records deal with the work of the Office and its involvement with other Smithsonian offices and bureaus; its work with num...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Printing and Photographic Services
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1982
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4 Prints (silver gelatin)
5 Negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.94-33
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National Anthropological Archives
Group portraits of Henry Bascom Collins and a St. Lawrence Island dance group, made by a Smithsonian photographer on June 22, 1982. The photographs were taken at the opening of the "Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo" exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
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1869, 1881-1903, 1953, 1966 and undated
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1.25 cu. ft. (2 document boxes) (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7268
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of Watkins' official and personal correspondence concerning the efforts of the Smithsonian to obtain federal appropriations for the establishment of a section of steam transportation in the USNM, the construction of ship models for an exhibit at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Watkins' research on the ...
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I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection
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Integrated Circuit Engineering Corporation.
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1970-1997
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164 Cubic feet (224 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0600
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the 30 year history of Integrated Circuit Engineering Corporation which provided consulting expertise in the field of integrated circuits and semiconductors.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Grants and Risk Management
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1953-1980
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85 cu. ft. (85 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 484
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the fiscal administration of grants received by the Smithsonian Institution. They consist of correspondence, memoranda, budgets, and reports. Many of these records were kept by Phillip H. Babcock, who became an accountant in the Fiscal Division in 1964, chief of the Contracts and Grants Section in 1966, chief of the...
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Mason, Brian (Brian Harold), 1917-2009
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1953-2001
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-194
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the papers of Brian Harold Mason, Curator Emeritus, Meteorites Division, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History. Mason curates and classifies the more than 700 meteorites recovered each year from Antarctica under a joint Smithsonian-National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-Nati...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
Sims, George W.
National Anthropological Archives
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1896-1981.
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0127
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. It includes forty-one notebooks, 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, forty-one stereo view cards, and three boxes of personal papers and ephemera. While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places and provide biographical information on Sims.
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Kost, William Elvidge
Kost, William Cassell, (farmer), 1917-1989
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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1939-1989
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17.66 Cubic feet (53 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0481
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of the Kost family farm, Vermont, Illinois. The farm consisted of 120 acres where small grains, hay, and cattle were raised.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
- Dates:
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1954-1979
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25.58 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box) (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 503
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records were primarily created by the Office of Exhibits, 1954-1969; the Office of Exhibits Programs, 1969-1973; and the Office of Exhibits Central, 1973-1979. They document a period of intense exhibition activity at the Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus. Especially well represented are permanent and special exhibitions at the...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Costume
Shaver, Dorothy, 1893-1959
Shaver, Elsie
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circa 1920-1959; undated
bulk 1945-1959
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14 Sound recordings
32 Cassette tapes
1 Electronic discs (CD)
6 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0631
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Dorothy Shaver, one of the best-known female executives in the 1950s; Shaver became the first female president of Lord & Taylor in 1945.