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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Krause, Bernie
Deutsch, Herbert
Hemsath, Bill
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1996-2000
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1 Cubic foot (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0640
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of over thirty hours of 7" open reel-to-reel master tapes, compact discs (DVDs), and transcripts for oral histories documenting the invention and development of the analogue music synthesizer.
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Blake, Eubie (James Herbert), 1883-1983
Dwyer, Lawrence
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1969 - 1969
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1400
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of one letter and six music manuscripts by James H. "Eubie" Blake.
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 17: The Human Condition, Physical, Mental, Behavioral
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1833-1987, undated
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9 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S17
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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 17, The Human Condition--Physical, Mental, Behavioral contains approximately 1,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards the human condition in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1830-1983
undated
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12 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S19
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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 19, Art and Literature contains approximately 860 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting popular attitudes towards art and literature in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1831-1984, undated
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40 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S12
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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 12: Plants and Animals contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards plants and animals in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1834-1983
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11 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S07
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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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Young, Helen May Butler
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Musical Instruments
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1899-1937
bulk 1902-1902
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, one oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0261
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The materials cover the career of a woman bandmaster with an all women's traveling military band from 1898-1913, with the bulk of the material ca. 1902. Contents include clippings, photographs, programs, sheet music, hand noted music, posters, post cards, advertising fliers, letters, telegram, biographical article announcing candidacy for U.S. Sena...
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Leary, Ella
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
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undated
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4 Inches
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7556
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National Anthropological Archives
Consists of cards with bibliographic data, Library of Congress call slips, notes, and a brief bibliograph on a Bureau of American Ethnoloyg letterhead. Most of the notes are in either the handwriting of Hodge or that of Leary and the LC call slips and a few notes have Leary's name of them.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1790-1980s
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260 Cubic feet (approximately 1244 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily published sheet music, plus some related ephemera. Originally included 781 boxes of American sheet music and assorted clippings, articles, photographs, etc.; also 93 boxes of 33-1/3 RPM phonograph records, 30 boxes of 45 RPM records, and 20 boxes of 78 RPM records
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Tucker, Irma
Tucker, Bobby, 1923-2008
Eckstine, Billy
Jones, Quincy, 1933-
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1883-2007, undated
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36 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1141
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and musical career of Robert "Bobby" Tucker. The collection particularly emphasizes Tucker's close collaboration with Billy Eckstine over a forty-year period from approximately 1949-1990, and includes original orchestrations of arrangements by Tucker and other arrangers, a complete set of commercial recordings by Eckstine for which Tucker served as arranger, and ephemeral material including photographs, concert programs and news clippings.
