Shaker authority Faith Andrews answers questions from the audience at the Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, N.Y. Moderating the discussion is James C. Thomas, director of the Shaker Village, Pleasant Hill, Ky. Andrews provides reminiscences of the Shakers, and her and her husband's accomplishments preserving Shaker culture.

Photographs possibly made by George McGhee depicting people, dwellings, carvings, masks, and ceremonies in Papua New Guinea. The collection also includes an album of photographs portraying artifacts purchased by McGhee from dealers in New Guinea; McGhee's collection of artifacts was donated to the National Museum of Natural History along with thes...

Edited drafts and master galley for Howlett's book, The Sculpture of Donald De Lue: Gods, Prophets, and Heroes (Boston: David Goodine, 1990); a draft for an article, "American Figurative Sculpture of the Thirties: A Rebirth in Bronze"; and a 2-page typescript by Alastair Duncan, "Jose de Creeft: A Master of Direct Carving," with corrections by Howl...

This record unit consists of the research files of Robert P. Multhauf, Curator in the Division of Physical Sciences. The records contain scripts for Hall of Chemistry exhibitions; historical information and illustrations pertaining to chemistry, chemical apparatus, and industrial laboratories; biographies of distinguished chemists; and se...

This accession consists of records created and maintained by Frank H. Winter, Curator of Rocketry, 1980-2007, documenting a variety of topics including exhibitions, acquisitions, professional activities, and research. Prior to his tenure as Curator, Winter held various posts at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Materials include c...

Includes records of the Salem China Company relating to the administration of the company, its sales and art department, and other material relating to plant operations prior to 1960, when the company ceased manufacturing and became a distributor only. Includes photographs of various promotions, Salem China patterns, factory buildings, sales staff, show rooms, etc. as well as extensive advertising material of the Salem China Co. and its competitors. Another series contains blueprints and drawings of the Salem China Company's plant and equipment. Another series contains bulletins issued by the Associated Industries of Cleveland from 1977 to 1981.

The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 44 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M869. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Assistant Commissioner for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–70. A few of the records are dated as early as 1863. The records consist of 38 volumes and approximately 30 cubic feet of unbound records. The volumes include letters and endorsements sent, registers of letters received, and orders issued. The unbound records consist mainly of reports, letters received, and applications for restoration of property. The documents were primarily created or received by the Assistant Commissioner and his assistant adjutants. A few of the documents were created or received by Capt. Alexander P. Ketchum, one of Commissioner Oliver Otis Howard's staff officers, who was sent to South Carolina to mediate a dispute over restoration of abandoned land on the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia.

The collection consists chiefly of hand-written notes made by Southgate on a wide range of postal history topics and related matters, generally on lined or graph paper measuring 25 x 15 cm. or smaller, for keeping in triple-post binders. Some of the notes were made in "Lefax" or other commercially-available notebooks. The collection includes numerous mounted newsclippings, brochures, and excerpted articles from philatelic journals, as well as statistical data, advertisements, copies of correspondence, and diagrams made by Southgate to illustrate plate variations, etc.

Fifty photographs taken by J.E. Mittlebrook and published by D'Urban and Kimberley in 1898 in an album entitled, South African Souvenir.

The collection documents Bill Nye's early life, his Science Guy persona and its development for his television program Bill Nye the Science Guy.