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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
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1937-1990
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38 cu. ft. (38 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 426
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The first NPG director, Charles Nagel, was appointed in 1964. Most of the records document the director's efforts to initiate programs to fulfil the second mission of the Gallery: to provide a research center for American biography, iconography, and history. To achieve this objective, Charles Nagel established the Catalogue of American Po...
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Coxe Brothers Collection
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Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. (Drifton, Pennsylvania)
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries
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1830-1997
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100 Cubic feet (55 boxes, 107 map folders )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1002
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the Coxe Brothers and Company Inc., an anthracite coal producer in Pennsylvania.
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1970-1983
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
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- Accession 92-076
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the presidency of Kenneth Starr, from June 1978 through May 30, 1980. The most important files are the monthly reports, 1978-1980, which detail the president's activities, as well as those of the executive committee and the American Association of Museums (AAM) council from 1978 through 1980. Also included are Starr's ...
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1982-1997
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
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- Accession 98-007
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include documentation of Association of Systematics Collections (ASC) efforts to gain financial and Congressional support on several issues, including: the Systematic Entomology Lab, the improvement of Fish and Wildlife regulations, the creation of a National Biological Survey, ASC's relationship with The Nature Conservancy ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Museums
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circa 1967-1988
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 91-005
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, proposals, sketches, architectural drawings; photocopied newspaper articles; published and unpublished manuscripts; pamphlets; photographs; and testimonies.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Special Consultant to the Secretary (James C. Bradley)
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1963
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 84-195
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records maintained by Dorothy Rosenberg after James C. Bradley's death. Materials relate primarily to a publication Bradley was preparing on "events," and include other topical files relating to Smithsonian Institution offices and museums; especially the National Air and Space Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sc...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for History and Art
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1962-1982
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44.54 cu. ft. (41 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 12x17 box) (2 16x20 boxes) (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 337
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the work of Susan A. Hamilton as Bicentennial Coordinator, acting under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for History and Art. They also cover preliminary planning for Bicentennial programs carried out between 1968 and the creation of the Office in 1971. For a fuller record of such activities, researchers should ...
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National Museum of the American Indian. Office of the Director
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1990-2004
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 12-080
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the tenure of W. Richard West, Director, 1990-2007. Materials pertain to communications and meetings with external organizations, societies, and museums; government bureaus, agencies, and bodies; and media. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, reports, brochures, and clippings.
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National Tribal Chairmen's Association
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1971-1978
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40 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.014
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National Museum of the American Indian
The files are those of the Washington, D.C., office that were accumulated primarily under William Youpee. Youpee served as the first president of the association and became its executive director in 1972. There are also files accumulated by Chinzu Toda, a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who was on loan to the National Tribal Chairmen's Association. In 1978, Kenneth E. Black became the executive director. Material created from 1978 to the end of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association are in private hands.
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Smithsonian Institution. Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Sciences
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circa 1990-1993
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7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-042
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
A greater part of these records document the administrative activities of Ross B. Simons as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, but these records also include some material from when he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research (1988-1992). They consist mostly of correspondence and memoranda pertaining to science programs ...
