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Captain William B. Voortmeyer Papers
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Creators:
Voortmeyer, William B.
Dates:
bulk 1927-1952
Size:
0.36 Cubic Feet ((1 letter document box))
Collection ID:
NASM.2010.0006
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of the following items documenting the career of Captain William B. Voortmeyer: newspaper clippings; photocopies of four photographs; a CD copy of Voortmeyer's unpublished manuscript, "The Rise of Air Power Over the Pacific," 1941; Air Navigation, textbook for the Air Training Center by Voortmeyer; manuscript of "The Modern...

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Joanna Cohan Scherer Papers
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Creators:
Scherer, Joanna Cohan
Dates:
1960-2014
Size:
13.5 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 19-190
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Joanna Cohan Scherer was employed by the Smithsonian Institution from 1966-2006. She worked at the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Archives (later known as the National Anthropological Archives) as a museum technician until 1970 when she was asked to become illustrations researcher of the Handbook of North American Indians, a 20-volume ...

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Frederick K. Morris photographs of East Asia
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Creators:
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), b. 1886 (photographer and collector)
Dates:
1920-1925
Size:
3 Albums
1,000 Items (circa)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.85-3
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs compiled by Frederick K. Morris documenting his travels in China, 1920-1923; Mongolia, 1922-1923; and Japan and Korea, 1923 and 1925. The photographs were made or collected by Frederick and Florence Morris in Shanghai, Yokohama (after an eathquake), Tianjin, Beijing, Zhangjiakou, Kyoto, Nara, Nikko, Seul, and Kaijo, as well as various v...

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Richard E. Stearns photographs of archeological sites and artifacts
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Creators:
Stearns, Richard E. (Archaeologist)
Dates:
circa 1930-1960
Size:
26 Color prints
22 Sketches
600 Prints (circa, silver gelatin and contact prints (including stereographic images))
325 Negatives (circa)
3 Maps
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.73-40
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection includes photographs of excavations and artifacts relating to Stearns' archeological work in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. There are also some sketches of artifacts and excavation sites, as well as notes on pictured artifacts. One photo album relates to Ste...

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William Edwin Safford photograph albums relating to Easter Island, Samoa, and South America
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Creators:
Safford, William Edwin, 1859-1926
Dates:
circa 1886-1902
Size:
3 Albums (circa 145 prints, silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.76-26
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs collected by Wiliam Edwin Safford while on US Navy expeditions to Chile, Easter Island, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, and Samoa. They depict Indigenous peoples and activities, towns, scenic views, and the crew of the USS Mohican and members of the US Navy. There are also photographs of Guatemala made by Alberto. G. Valdeavellano an...

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Hamilton Wright Jr. photographs
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Creators:
Wright, Hamilton M., Jr.
Dates:
circa 1923-1925, 1950-1970
Size:
4,700 Color slides (circa)
250 Lantern slides (circa)
500 Color transparencies (circa)
7 Color prints (theatrical motion picture one-sheets)
9 Prints (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.76-35
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Hamilton Wright Jr. in Egypt, South Africa, India, Lebanon, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Hong Kong, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, Canada, Alaska, Colorado, and New Hampshire. They include images of modern and ancient structures and monuments, artifacts, industries, citi...

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Digitized Content MS 4656 Book of anonymous Kiowa drawings
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Dates:
ca. 1875-1877
Size:
1 Drawing (volume of 14 drawings (8 leaves, graphite, colored pencil, and crayon, 21 x 29 cm.)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4656
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Book of 14 drawings on 8 leaves of unruled paper in a commercial drawing book. The book was rebound by the Bureau of American Ethnology and the original covers are no longer visible. Drawings depict hunting, travelling, and camp scenes. The inside front cover is inscribed "Drawn by Buffalo Meat". The inside back cover is inscribed "Soaring Eegle [s...

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Digitized Content Langdon Warner Report
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Creators:
Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)
Dates:
1915
Size:
2 Copies (Two copies of a bound volume of 226 typed pages, with 48 mounted silver gelatin prints with captions, 194p, 29 x 22 cm.)
Collection ID:
FSA.A1994.07
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

A report prepared by archaeologist and art historian Langdon Warner on his travels of 1913-1914 to investigate the founding of an American school of Chinese archaeology to be established in Beijing. Warner's travels included Europe, Japan, Korea, China and Indo-China. Warner spoke with scholars, administrators and officials, and travelled to museum...

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Premier Naufrage D'Un Hydravion [Henri Fabre] Manuscript
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Creators:
Fabre, Henri.
Dates:
1966
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NASM.XXXX.0933
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

Henri Fabre was an engineer trained at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité who made the first seaplane flight in 1910 in an aircraft he designed and built. This collection consists of a manuscript, entitled Premier Naufrage D'Un Hydravion, by Henri Fabre that contains Fabre's account of flights he made in his seaplanes between 1906 and 1910 as well as information about other seaplanes and flights made in them by other pilots through 1911.

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Digitized Content Thomas G. W. "Tex" Settle Collection
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Creators:
Settle, Thomas G. W.
Dates:
bulk 1932-1998
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet ((2 boxes))
Collection ID:
NASM.2006.0014
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists articles, correspondence, photographs, logs and scrapbooks chronicling Tex Settles' historic balloon flights.

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