Kathryn D. Sullivan Papers
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- Creators:
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Sullivan, Kathryn
- Dates:
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1970s - 2010s
- Size:
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15.23 Cubic feet (34 boxes.)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2019.0007
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 15.23 cubic feet of papers, photographs, certificates, and video/film, created or collected by Kathryn Sullivan, spanning her lifetime of achievement.
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Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
- Dates:
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1976
1863 - 1968
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15 Cubic feet (49 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0005
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document Leo H. Baekeland, a Belgian born chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile plastic. The papers include student notebooks; private laboratory notebooks and journals; commercial laboratory notes; diaries; patents; technical papers; biographies; newspaper clippings; maps; graphs; blueprints; account books; batch books; formula books; order books; photographs; and correspondence regarding Baekeland, 1887-1943.
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Sims, George W.
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1896-1981.
- Size:
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0127
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. It includes forty-one notebooks, 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, forty-one stereo view cards, and three boxes of personal papers and ephemera. While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places and provide biographical information on Sims.
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National Air and Space Museum. Aeronautics Division
- Dates:
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1978-2010
- Size:
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-172
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting updates to the "Black Wings" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum as well as educational outreach, publications, research, special events, and other activities pertaining to groundbreaking African American aviators. The "Black Wings" exhibition opened in 1982 in the Pioneers of Flight ...
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National Air and Space Museum. Assistant Director for Exhibits
- Dates:
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circa 1963-1986
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17.5 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box) (1 tube box) (15 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 352
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records provide documentation of the creation and preparation of exhibits for the most important period in the history of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) - the planning, fabrication, and installation of two dozen major galleries for the new museum building, which opened in 1976. Also included is material on exhibits in the ...
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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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circa 1935-1978
- Size:
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14000 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35mm)
30000 Slides (photographs) (color)
80,000 Photographic prints (b&w, 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection is comprised of photographic and manuscript materials, primarily created by Eliot Elisofon to document his travels and work. The images portray many aspects of African life and culture including agriculture, wildlife, archaeology, architecture, art and artisans, children, cityscapes and landscapes, leaders, markets, medicine, recreation, ritual and celebration, and transportation. The manuscript materials include correspondence, essays, clippings, puobligations, notes, research, and itineraries.
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Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995
- Dates:
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1934 - 1988
- Size:
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140 Cubic feet (433 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0266
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Personal papers of Dr. Kranzberg from his undergraduate years at Amherst College through his professional career. Collection documents his involvement with development of the new field of history of technology and his role as principal founder of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT); work as consultant and advisor to domestic and international agencies, colleges, and universities; personal affiliations, lectureships, publications; and teaching and administrative activities for more than 40 years as a college professor.
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Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
- Dates:
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circa 1840-1993
bulk 1935-1961
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88 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.kentrock
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Rockwell Kent papers measure 88.0 linear feet and date from circa 1840 to 1993 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1935 to 1961. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of Kent's career as a painter, illustrator, designer, writer, lecturer, traveler, political activist, and dairy farmer.
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d'Arazien, Arthur
- Dates:
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circa 1930-2002
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11 Cubic feet (28 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0314
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes Arthur d'Arazien's professional work in industrial photography from the late 1940's through about 1981; personal creative photography and other types of professional work were retained by Mr. d'Arazien or placed elsewhere. Thus this collection is a very cohesive, unified body of work, which documents primarily American (and...
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Underwood & Underwood
- Dates:
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1895-1921
- Size:
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160 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0143
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of approximately 28,000 glass plate negatives showing views of a variety of subjects.
