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Princeton University Press photographs
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Dates:
1950-1960
Size:
47 prints (visual works) ((1 box), black & white, 11 x 14 cm. or smaller)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1985-002
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

The photographs document a variety of art works created by Africans. Objects depicted include boxes, bracelets, figures, gold weights, headrests, heads, masks, pendants, stools, and trumpets. Peoples and kingdoms represented include Anyi, Asante, Bamum, Bangwa, Baule, Benin, Chokwe, Fang (Pahouin), Fon, Ife, Lega, Luba, Mende, Nok, Pende and Yoruba. Princeton University staff assembled the collection to illustrate the publications entitled, African Folktales & Sculpture, ed. by Paul Radin (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952). Photographers represented include Ina Bundy, Eliot Elisofon, Walker Evans and Man Ray.

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Ruth Barnes film and photographs
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Creators:
Barnes, Ruth
Dates:
1969-1971
Size:
161 slides (photographs) (1 volume + background notes , color)
2 film reels (8 mm.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1979-003
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs and film taken by Ruth Barnes in Somalia and Kenya during her assignment in Somalia with the U.S. Information Agency from 1969 to 1971.

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Hirshhorn photographs
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Dates:
1960-1987
Size:
29 photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1987-023
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs of Benin art objects in the Hirshhorn Museum that were intended to transfer to the National Museum of African Art. Also included in the collection of photographs are four installation shots. Two of these images, taken by O.E. Nelson of New York, NY, are of a Benin exhibition in the Carlebach Gallery in 1960. The remaining two installation shots were taken by Jahn & John Thomson of Los Angeles, California, of an exhibit at the African Art Center, Inc., in Los Angeles, CA.

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Wellington H. Cleaver photographs
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Creators:
Cleaver, Wellington H.
Dates:
circa 1944
Size:
306 photographic prints ((8 albums), black & white, 5.5 x 8 cm.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1993-025
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Technical Sergeant Wellington H. Cleaver while on military tour in Western Africa, circa 1944.

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Janet Stanley Ghana photographs
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Creators:
Stanley, Janet
Dates:
1967
Size:
14 slides (photographs) (color)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1998-004
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Janet Stanley while working with the Ghanaian Youth Workcamp Association, from mid-June through mid-August, 1967. During this time, she served at two work camps, the first being in Awundome-Tsito, Ho District, Volta Region, where most of the slides were taken. The other photographic images were taken at Accra, her point of entry.

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MS 892 Shoshone, Wasco, and Piute texts and grammatical notes
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Creators:
St. Clair, Harry Hull
Dates:
1901
Size:
4 Volumes
Collection ID:
NAA.MS892
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Volume contents: Volume 1. Shoshoni texts (coyote tales and other myths), with interlinear translation. Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, 1901, pages 1-60. Volume 2. Shoshoni texts, continued, pages 61-120. Volume 3. Shoshoni texts, concluded, pages 121-165. Wasco (Chinookan) texts, with interlinear translation, Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon...

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A. Stanley Rand Papers
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Creators:
Rand, A. Stanley (Austin Stanley), 1932-2005
Dates:
1961-1985
Size:
5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 17-092
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of film footage taken by A. Stanley Rand, a biologist specializing in the ecology and behavior of tropical reptiles and amphibians. After receiving his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1961, Rand served as a zoologist at the Departamento de Zoologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1964, he was hired as a biologist at ...

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Digitized Content Charles Frederic Girard Papers
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Creators:
Girard, Charles Frederic
Dates:
circa 1846-1860 and undated
Size:
3 cu. ft. (6 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7190
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

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Project Fire Slides and Lantern Slides
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Creators:
Republic Aviation Corporation
Dates:
bulk 1960s
Size:
0.02 Cubic feet ((2 boxes))
Collection ID:
NASM.2006.0027
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of thirty-one black and white three by four glass lantern slides and sixty film slides of Republic's work with Project Fire.

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MS 4057 Copies of "Relation or Journal of the voyage of Father Gravier, of the Society of Jesus, in 1700, from the Country of the Illinois To the Mouth of the Mississippi River"
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Creators:
Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708
Dates:
undated
Size:
14 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4057
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Letter was "written to Father de Lamberville and sent from Fort Mississipi [sic], 17 Leagues from its discharge into the Mexican Gulf or sea, on The 16th of February, 1701." Published in "The Jesuit relations and allied documents; travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the original French, Latin, and Italian ...

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