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Barden, Henry, 1806-1871
Barden, William Wallace, 1843-1932
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1842-1934
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0824
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business correspondence of homeopathic physicians Henry Barden and his son, William Wallace Barden, of Penn Yan, New York and Barden Family correspondence.
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Nancy Douglas Bowditch and Brush family papers
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Bowditch, Nancy Douglas
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circa 1860-1985
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6.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bowdnanc
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter, author, and designer Nancy Douglas Bowditch and the George de Forest Brush family measure 6.2 linear feet and date from circa 1860 to 1985. The majority of the collection consists of Bowditch's correspondence with family and friends and her notes and writings, particularly concerning her biography of her father George de Forest Brush The Joyous Painter, and her unpublished biography of her husband painter William Robert Pearmain. Brush family material includes scattered correspondence of George de Forest Brush and other family members, notes, sketches, clippings, and the family home building files, five scrapbooks, including two on William Robert Pearmain, and numerous photographs of the Brush family, Bowditch, and William Robert Pearmain. There is also correspondence between William Robert Pearmain and his family and artwork by Pearmin.
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James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903
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1863-1906, circa 1940
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0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.whisjame2
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The collection measures 0.2 linear feet and provides scattered documentation of the career of American-born British-based painter and etcher James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) through 39 items from Whistler to various recipients, including 25 letters, 9 telegraphs, 3 invitations, one thank you card and a postcard. The collection also contains 4 letters from others, 7 catalogs of Whistler exhibitions, a note from the back of Whistler's painting The Beach at Selsey Bill, and a 1906 copy of Wilde v. Whistler: being an acromonious correspondence on art between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler, a pamphlet containing letters originally published in London newspapers between 1885 and 1890.
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Taylor, Alexander S. (Alexander Smith), 1817-1876
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1860-2, 1872
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88 pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1221
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Miscellaneous correspondence and notes relative to the collection of ethnological material on the Indians west of the (Rocky) Mountains, and the Pacific Coast of North America generally. Also correspondence acknowledging the receipt of the following material loaned to the Institution to be copied and the originals returned to their respective archi...
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Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888
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undated
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3146B
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Personal correspondence and drawings on Central American and Peruvian antiquities. Material comprises four sheets drawings, 2 old maps, (North and South America), six letters, one printed pamphlet, and one impression of the Grave Creek tablet. [Most refer to Peruvian antiquities.]
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Holst, Lise
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1896-1983
- Size:
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1 Linear foot
- Collection ID:
- AAA.holslise
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Research notes, printed matter, photographs, and correspondence, 1981-1983, of Lise Holst relating to her work on Robert Lea MacCameron; and photocopies of MacCameron's correspondence, 1900-1912, a journal, 1896-1912, and writings.
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Aerocar, Inc.
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1955-1963
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2012.0009
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Aerocar, Inc. was founded by Moulton B. "Molt" Taylor to produce the Aerocar aircraft he designed. This collection contains materials relating to Aerocar, Inc. including correspondence to shareholders; a news clipping; an advertisement for a scale model Aerocar toy; and two stock certificates for five shares each.
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Taylor, Charles Edward, 1868-1956
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1928-1966
bulk 1928-1956
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0006
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This accession includes Taylor's correspondence with his son, Rueben W. Taylor, (1928-1948), and the Garrison Machine Works, (1953-1956), makers of gears used in the Wright flyer engines. The letters to Rueben Taylor are originals, while the Garrison Machine Works correspondence are mostly xerox copies. Also included are brief biographical sketches...
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Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-1973
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circa August 1956
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21 Leaves (typescript, 11 x 8.5 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2008-12
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
This collection is comprised of a 20-leaf typed manuscript of an article tracing the history of anthropology in America. A title has been added in blue ink, presumably by Stirling, which reads "The History of Anthropology in America with Special Reference to the Smithsonian Institution." Also present is a letter from Stirling to Dr. Leonard Carmich...
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Jones, Nell Choate, 1879-1981
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1924-1968
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0.4 Linear feet ((545 items on 3 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.jonenell
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, sketchbooks and drawings, printed material and photographs.