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James C. Elms Collection
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Creators:
Elms, James C., 1916-
Dates:
1959-1980
Size:
3.5 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
Collection ID:
NASM.1993.0047
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of speeches, papers, notes, newspaper articles and records on Elms' career, including the following areas: Transportation System Center; Electronics Research Center; Manned Space Station; Space Shuttle; Space Systems Committee; Gemini Mission Review Board; and Hearings on space topics.

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Anthony W. Pendergast Collection
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Creators:
Pendergast, Anthony W., 1879-
Music, Sports and Entertainment, Division of, NMAH, SI
Dates:
1920s-1970.
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0882
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A Fairbury, Illinois, optometrist, Dr. Anthony W. Pendergast, (1879 -?) was a collector, author, antiquarian, dealer, and authority on the subject of cigar store figures. The collection includes correspondence; newspaper clippings on Pendergast and his various folk art collections; a scrapbook of photographs and miscellaneous materials relating to cigar store figures; and a large number of black and white photographs of figures from his personal collection, mostly for use in selling the figures.

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Digitized Content Procter & Gamble Company Product Packaging Collection
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Creators:
Deskey, Donald, 1894-
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Procter & Gamble Company
Dates:
1940s-1970s.
Size:
1.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0836
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A collection of flat-folded product packages for soap and detergent. Some of the packages were designed by industrial designer Donald Deskey.

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Digitized Content MS 2008-14 Wax cylinder recordings of American Indian songs and dances, ca. 1910
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Dates:
undated
Size:
13 Sound recordings (wax cylinders, approximately 4 x 2 inches)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2008-14
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

This collection is comprised of thirteen (13) original recordings of American Indian songs and dances, recorded on two-minute Edison Blanks wax cylinders. Eight of the cylinders are in pristine condition. Two are cracked and cannot be played. Contents are marked on individual cylinders in pencil or black ink: 1) The last Owl Dance; 2) Two flute son...

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Digitized Content MS 2721 Shawnee and Peoria notes and stories collected by Truman Michelson
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Finley, George W.
Skye, Bill
Stand, Nancy
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Dates:
1916
Size:
259 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2721
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Shawnee and Peoria linguistic and ethnographic notes and stories collected by Truman Michelson during his fieldwork in Oklahoma. Individuals that Michelson worked with include George Finley, Bill Skye, and Nancy Stand.The stories are primarily in English, but there are some texts in Shawnee and Peoria with interlineal English translations. A couple...

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MS 2956 Ethnographic Data about Samoa
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Creators:
Safford, William Edwin, 1859-1926
Rieman, George B.
Steinberger, A. B. (Albert Barnes)
Field, Isobel, 1858-1953
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Dates:
n.d
Size:
250 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2956
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Ethnographic data, principally on Samoa including: I. Samoa. geographical outline, III. History and Discovery. Arrival of missionaries. U.S. Exploring Expedition. An Episode in Samoan History, IV Regulative organization, the family, the clan, caste, division of labor, rights of property, V. Clothing, ornaments, ceremonial paraphernalia, VI. Food an...

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MS 4600 Frans M. Olbrechts Papers relating to studies of the Cherokee of North Carolina
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Creators:
Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958
Allen, Louis
Holt, R.D.
Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955
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Dates:
ca. 1926 - 1931
Size:
28 Boxes
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4600
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Box 1-11, (1) Vocabularies; Box 12, (2) - (15) Vocabularies, Phonology, Morphophonemics, and Syllabary; Box 13 (16) - (32) Grammar; Box 14 (33) - (47) Texts, no translations; Box (15), (48) - (65) Texts with translations; Box 16 (66) - (73), Disease-name papers; Box 17 (74) Disease-name papers; Box 18 (75) - (83) Disease-name papers; Box 19 (84) - ...

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Collection of photographs relating to the Northwest Coast and Native Americans
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Dates:
circa 1885-1900
Size:
275 Items (circa 275 engravings and drawings for engravings)
200 Copy prints (circa)
1 Print (silver gelatin)
1 Copy negative
380 Cyanotypes (circa)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.82
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The majority of the collection documents Northwest Coast scenery, people, and settlements; these include photographs made by Franz Boas during US Fish Commission expeditions on the USS Albatross, as well as engravings made for publications on Northwest Coast Natives by Franz Boas and Albert Parker Niblack. Another large portion of the collection c...

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B. Warren Signor audio recording of Songs of the Sioux
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Creators:
Signor, B. Warren
Dates:
circa 1945-1949
Size:
1 Sound recording
0.01 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.109
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection consists of 1 reel-to-reel audio tape and 2 manuscript pages of descriptive material related to the Songs of the Sioux audio tape.

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MS 2000-18 Edward S. Curtis investigation of the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Creators:
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
Leupp, Francis E. (Francis Ellington), 1849-1918
Woodruff, Charles Albert, 1845-1920
Dates:
bulk 1905, 1907-1908
Size:
25 Items (2.5 inches (1 document box)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2000-18
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

This collection contains materials relating to Edward S. Curtis' 1907-1908 investigation into the Battle of Little Bighorn. The collection contains Curtis' notes; transcriptions of eyewitness accounts of Crow scouts Curley (as told to Chas. F. Roe, published in Army & Navy Journal, March 10, 1982) and White Man Runs Him and Cheyenne chief Two Moons...

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