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Digitized Content Breck Girls Collection
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Creators:
Williams, Ralph William
Breck Company.
Dial Corporation.
American Cyanamid Company
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Dates:
circa 1936-1995
Size:
6.5 Cubic feet (16 boxes, 188 pieces of original artwork)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0651
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the development and evolution of the Breck Girl, a highly successful and long-lived advertising campaign whose hallmark was its vision of idealized American womanhood through correspondence, photographs, paintings, and print advertisements.

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Digitized Content Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 7: Sports
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Creators:
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Dates:
1834-1983
Size:
11 Boxes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0300.S07
Repository:
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 7: Sports contains 1,254 pieces of sheet music and song folios. Most of the sheet music is either piano or piano/ vocal arrangements. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.

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Digitized Content United States Exploring Expedition Collection
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Creators:
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
Dates:
1838-1885
Size:
4.37 cu. ft. (6 document boxes) (1 half document box) (1 12x17 box) (1 16x20 box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7186
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Several reports covering the scientific work of the expedition were made, and most were published. One of the exceptions was the ichthyology report, which Charles Pickering was originally assigned to prepare. It was delayed, however; and by the middle of 1849, Jean Louis Agassiz had been placed in charge of the work. Due to the pressures of hi...

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Audiovisual Recordings
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Creators:
National Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs
Dates:
circa 1995-2010
Size:
1.5 cu. ft. (3 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 12-552
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of audiovisual recordings featuring the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and its staff, activities, events, research, exhibitions, and objects. Some materials were created by NMNH and others were created by news media and radio, television, and video production companies. Included in this accession are int...

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Digitized Content The People of India A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan
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Creators:
Watson, J. Forbes (John Forbes), 1827-1892.
Kaye, John William, Sir, 1814-1876
Dates:
1868
London, C. Whiting Beaufort House, Strand, 1868-1875
Size:
8 Items
Collection ID:
FSA.A1990.03
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Photographers represented include J.C.A. Dannenberg, R.H. DeMontmorency, E. Godfrey, W.W. Hooper, H.C. McDonald, J. Mulheran, G. Richter, Shepherd & Robertson (later as Bourne & Shepherd), B. Simpson, B.W. Switzer, H.C.B. Tanner, C.C. Taylor, and J. Waterhouse.

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Administrative Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
Dates:
2002
Size:
10 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 09-087
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records that document the administrative activities of Lawrence M. Small during his third year as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The records document issues with regard to the Institution's museums, exhibitions, research, fundraising, programs, and special events. Materials include correspondence, memorand...

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Oral history interview with Robert Powell Coggins
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Creators:
Coggins, Robert P., 1924-1989
Kirwin, Liza
Dates:
1985 September 26
Size:
2 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
16 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.coggin85
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview with Robert Powell Coggins conducted 1985 September 26, by Liza Kirwin, for the Archives of American Art.

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Charles W. Smiley and William V. Cox, Fishery Statistics
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Dates:
circa 1880
Size:
5 bound volumes.
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7206
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This collection consists of five bound volumes of statistics, compiled by Smiley and Cox, on the exportation and importation of fishery products, 1731-1880. Apparently these statistics were compiled for use by the Fisheries Division of the Tenth Census, 1880.

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Oral history interview with Emmet Gowin
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Creators:
Gowin, Emmet, 1941-
Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967-
Dates:
2010 May 13-14
Size:
7 Items (Sound recording, master: 7 memory cards (6 hr., 3 min.), secure digital, 1.25 in.)
81 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.gowin10
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Interview of Emmet Gowin, conducted by Frank Goodyear for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution at the Gowins' home in Danville, Virginia, on May 13-14, 2010.

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Museum of the Cherokee Indian photograph collection
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Creators:
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Dates:
undated
Size:
100 Copy prints (circa)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R82-1
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Mostly images of Cherokee Indians, including informal portraits, group portraits, and views of Cherokee Indians engaged in agriculture, food preparation, craft, and games. There are also several images of the town of Cherokee, including the museum building, a school, homes, and the main street, as well as Cherokee artifacts. Numerous photographs d...

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