Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2015 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 24-July 5, 2015
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2015
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Grant, Felix, 1918-1993
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1935-1985
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4.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0410
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of 128 albums featuring the music of Duke Ellington, spanning some 50 years of Ellington-based releases.
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National Museum of Natural History, Associate Director for Special Projects
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1981-1995
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-066
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, proposals, and related materials documenting special projects administered by Catherine Kerby, Staff Assistant to the Director, Special Assistant to the Director, Assistant Director for Special Projects, and Associate Director for Special Projects, 1976-1998. Projects concern the ...
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Storrs, John Henry Bradley, 1885-1956
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1790-2007
bulk 1900-1956
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20.44 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.storjohn
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Archives of American Art
The papers of sculptor, painter, and printmaker John Henry Bradley Storrs measure 20.44 linear feet and date from 1790-2007, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1900 to 1956. The collection contains biographical material, correspondence, personal business records, forty-eight diaries of John Storrs, a few diaries of other family members, additional writings, printed material, photographs of Storrs and his family and friends, artwork, scrapbooks, estate records, and video recordings. Correspondence includes that of John Storrs, Marguerite Storrs, and the Storrs family.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. State and Local Government Program
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1973-1979
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 571
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of the administrative and program files of the State and Local Government Program. They include correspondence concerning arrangements for dialogues and colloquia, fundraising material, mailing lists, fellowship correspondence, records of advisory committee meetings, texts of papers given at various events, and some c...
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Dates:
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October 3-8, 1979
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1979
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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National Museum of American History, Project Management Office
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2002-2003
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-246
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting intellectual property rights concerning rights-in-data purchase orders dealing with "West Point in the Making of America, 1802-1918," a temporary exhibit which observed the bicentennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Materials include purchase orders, correspondence, memorand...
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America's Smithsonian (Traveling exhibition). (1996-1998)
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1994-1998
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23.62 cu. ft. (22 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1.12 other)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-142
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document work involved in preparing the American's Smithsonian exhibition, a major traveling exhibition for the Smithsonian Institution's 150th Anniversary. As an Office, America's Smithsonian Exhibition became defunct in April 1998; it was under the National Museum of American History, Office of Me...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum
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1890, 1901-1916, 1923
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6.1 cu. ft. (11 document boxes) (4 3x5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 79
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records, together with record units 80, 81, and 187 contain full documentation of construction of the 1911 National Museum Building, from internal planning and contracts to construction details and costs. Rathbun prepared a history of the museum construction, which was published as A Descriptive Account of the Building Recently Erec...
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1998
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363 slides (photographs) (1 binder, color, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1999-009
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Christraud M. Geary during a research trip to Mali and Senegal in 1998.