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Digitized Content Modjeski and Masters Company Records
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Creators:
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Modjeski and Masters
Dates:
1870-1979
bulk 1900-1940
Size:
60 Cubic feet (139 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0976
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The records document the work of consulting engineers and bridge builders, Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940) and Frank Masters (1883-1974) of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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Creators:
Basie, Count, 1904-
Smith, Ernie
Webster, Ben
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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Dates:
1894-1979
Size:
30 Cubic feet (352 film reels , 16 mm)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0491
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

More than 300 reels of 16mm black and white and color film, silent and sound, fiction and documentary motion picture film documenting jazz and related musical performances, social and popular dance styles and performances, jazz musicians, performance locales, and documentation of African-American popular culture. A list of featured performers in the collection is shown below. The films are frequently compilations produced by Smith for lectures.

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Digitized Content WANN Radio Station Records
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Creators:
Blum, Morris
WANN Radio Station (Annapolis, Maryland)
Dates:
1940-1999
Size:
13 Cubic feet (32 boxes and 12 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0800
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the creative, technical and political aspects of managing WANN Radio Station in Annapolis, Maryland during the mid-Twentieth Century. Key areas of research include black radio stations; Annapolis African American communities; marketing to Black communities; political activism through media; Black-Jewish community relationships; church, community and media activism.

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Digitized Content Hazen Collection of Band Photographs and Ephemera
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Creators:
Hazen, Margaret Hindle
Hazen, Robert M.
Dates:
circa 1818-1931
Size:
13.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0253
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Large collection of photographs, picture postcards, printed ephemera, and music related to the brass band movement in the United States: includes 8 ambrotypes, 36 tintypes, 59 stereographs, 66 cabinet prints, 90 cartes-de-visite, 150 large photoprints, and 874 picture postcards; also posters, concert programs, instrument manufacturers' advertisemem...

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Chronological Files
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Creators:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Director
Dates:
1995-2000
Size:
3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 01-165
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the Director's external correspondence and internal memoranda pertaining to exhibitions, donors, recommendations, collection inquiries, technology, publications, events, conferences, and meetings. Correspondence was generated by Milo Cleveland Beach, Director (1987-2001). Materials include printed email and relevant...

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Digitized Content Charles Valentine Riley Papers
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Creators:
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895
Dates:
1866-1895 and undated, with information to 1915
Size:
16.25 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes) (1 half document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7076
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers concern entomology, mostly economic, including scrapbooks compiled by Riley and occasionally by others, 1872-1894, tracing the history of entomology in clippings from a wide variety of sources arranged topically and especially useful for tracing Riley's work as state Entomologist of Missouri; Memorandum Entomologicum, 1866-18...

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Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Temperance
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1811-1937
Size:
3.66 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 9 oversize folders.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Temperance
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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Digitized Content Records
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Creators:
National Zoological Park
Dates:
1887-1966
Size:
147 cu. ft. (288 document boxes) (1 tall document box) (4 bound volumes) (71 microfilm reels)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 74
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The earliest records concerning the National Zoological Park date from 1887. They were kept by the Office of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution until 1890, when they were transferred to Holt House, the Park's administrative headquarters. During the late 1960's the records were transferred to the custody of the Smithsonian Institution...

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Interdisciplinary Studies at the Smithsonian
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Interdisciplinary Studies
Dates:
1990-1992
Size:
0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 12-527
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of a reference set of the newsletter Interdisciplinary Studies at the Smithsonian. Materials include newsletters.

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Digitized Content Collected Notes, Lists, Catalogs, Illustrations, and Records on Fishes
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Creators:
National Museum of Natural History
Dates:
circa 1835-1974 and undated
Size:
0.68 cu. ft. (1 half document box) (1 12x17 box) (1 folder oversize materials)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7220
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This record unit consists of a small amount of notes, lists, and illustrations in the Archives, and a much larger quantity of field notes, catalogs, and records kept in the Division of Fishes, Cataloging Room.

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