Query: Railroads -- Surveying
George Eastman House copies of photographs of Native Americans
Creators:
George Eastman House
Dates:
mid-19th - early 20th century
Size:
248 Negatives (circa, 35mm)
248 Copy prints (circa)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R79
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Copies of photogaphs selected from the George Eastman House collection by Bureau of American Ethnology archivist Margaret Blaker in 1962. Many of the photographs are individual or group portraits of American Indians and some highlight pottery, baskets, and cradleboards. There are also images of American Indian dwellings, including tipis and hogans …

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Copies of photographs in the Benjamin Stone collection
Creators:
Stone, Benjamin, 1838-1914
Dates:
circa 1862-1907
bulk circa 1862-1871
Size:
170 Items (circa 170 enlarged prints from microfilm)
1 Roll (microfilm)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R4859
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Microfilm of the Benjamin Stone collection of photographs relating to Britain and Europe, North America, South America, Africa, India, and Australasia. Prints made from the microfilm are mostly of portraits of American Indians and some field images relating to delegations, expeditions, dwellings, and the 1862 Sioux uprising in Minnesota. They include …

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Waldo L. Schmitt Papers
Dates:
1907-1978
Size:
79.56 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (121 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (4 12x17 boxes) (60 3x5 boxes) (3 5x8 boxes) (2 film boxes) (oversize material)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7231
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The papers of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt provide comprehensive documentation of his professional career, 1907-1977. They also illustrate, to a lesser degree, his personal life. Particularly well represented in the papers is material concerning Schmitt's carcinological research, his curatorial and administrative careers at the United States National Museum (USNM), his career as …

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Jan Wolff Collection of New York City Photographic Postcards
Creators:
Rotary Photo
Frange, William
Fairchild Aerial Surveys
Brown Bros.
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Dates:
circa 1927-1930
Size:
0.33 Cubic feet (1 box, 53 items)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1165
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Photographic postcards collected by Dr. Rudolf Wolff, a pediatrician from Krefeld, Germany during a trip to the United States in the early 1930's and brought back to America when the family immigrated in 1936.

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Richard Rathbun Papers
Dates:
1873-1877 and undated
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 16-211
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of field notes of Richard Rathbun (1852-1918), a geologist and paleontologist. Most of these notes occurred during his time as a geologist with the Geological Commission of Brazil. Materials also include scientific illustrations and a few pressed plants.

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Fielding B. Meek Papers
Creators:
Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876.
Dates:
1843-1877 and undated
Size:
5.69 cu. ft. (10 document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7062
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The collection consists of correspondence 1849-1876, mostly incoming, concerning specimens and geological observations; notebooks, 1846-1872 and diaries, 1871-1875, resulting from Meek's field work; manuscripts and original plate illustrations; and miscellaneous personal papers, including a catalogue of the Meek library made soon after his death.

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Bartley Crucible and Refractories Co. Records
Creators:
Bartley Crucible and Refractories Co.
Dates:
1909-1972
Size:
1.8 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 12 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0348
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection is arranged into three series. Series 1: Series 2: Series 3:

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Collected Notebooks, Manuscripts, Drawings, Photographs, and Correspondence on Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology
Dates:
circa 1850-1940 and undated
Size:
5.91 cu. ft. (5 document boxes) (4 16x20 boxes) (1 5x8 box) (2.85 cu. ft. oversize material)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7264
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This collection consists of field notes, manuscripts, photographs, and related material of the Divisions of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology. Additional material can be found in the manuscript collections of former curators at the United States National Museum and geologists associated with the United States Geological Survey. The records of the …

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James E. Taylor scrapbook of the American West
Creators:
Taylor, James E., 1839-1901 (artist and collector)
Dates:
circa 1863-1900
Size:
4 Tintypes
3 Chromolithographs
3 Lithographs (3 chalk-manner lithographs)
1 Print (photogravure)
118 Pages (Scrapbook)
685 Prints (circa, albumen)
80 Items (circa 80 relief prints (including woodcuts and wood engraving))
30 Items (circa 30 intaglio prints (including etchings and engravings))
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4605
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Scrapbook entitled "Our Wild Indians in Peace and War: Surveys, Expeditions, Mining and Scenery of the Great West," compiled by James E. Taylor, possibly as a source for his own illustrations.

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Robinson and Via Family Papers
Creators:
Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
Dates:
1838-2023, undated
bulk 1872-1985
Size:
31.1 Cubic feet (93 boxes, 3 map-size folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0475
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, by 1949.

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