Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1968 Festival of American Folklife
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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July 3-7, 1968
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1968
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1811-1937
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3.66 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 9 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Temperance
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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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circa 1970-1985
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33 cu. ft. (33 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 360
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of press releases, memoranda, tapes documenting Museum activities, newspaper clippings concerning the Museum, correspondence, exhibition catalogues, exhibition scripts, invitations, guest lists, and photographs. Material pre-dating the appointment of Rebecca Bean consists entirely of news clippings.
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Frick Company, George (Waynesboro, Pa.)
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1852-1961
bulk 1860-1920
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26 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0293
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents, in correspondence, publications, forms, paperwork, drawings, newspaper clippings, diplomas and photographs, the operations and products of the Frick Company of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam-powered engines (portable, stationary, and traction), sawmills, threshing machines, grain separators and other mechanized agricultural harvesting implements, refrigeration, mechanical cooling systems, and ice making plants, from its founding in 1852 through 1961.
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U.S. Army Special Services Agency
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1945-1971.
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0785
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival material documenting the recreational activities provided to U.S. Army troops in Europe by the U.S. Army Special Services, ca. 1945-1971. Newsletters comprise the majority of the collection.
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Cotton Museum (Memphis, Tennessee)
National Cotton Council
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1939-1994, undated
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38 Cubic feet (91 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1176
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Maid of Cotton (MOC) beauty pageant was sponsored by the National Cotton Council, Memphis Cotton Carnival, and the Cotton Exchanges of Memphis, New York, and New Orleans from 1939-1993. The contest was held annually in Memphis, Tennessee until the National Cotton Council and Cotton Council International moved to Dallas, Texas. Beginning with the 1985 pageant (held December 1984) the competition was held in Dallas. The pageant was discontinued in 1993 due to lack of funds, a sponsor, and changes in marketing strategies. The records include files on contestants, photographs, and scrapbooks.
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Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-, interviewee
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1986
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3 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Accession 009612
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Oral History Program is part of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The purpose of the program is to conduct interviews with current and retired members of the Smithsonian staff who have made significant contributions, administrative and scholarly, to the Institution. The project's goal is to supplement the published record and manuscrip...
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Darby, S. Newman, 1928-2016 (inventor)
Darby, Kenneth
Darby, Naomi
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1944-1998
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2.65 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0625
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents S. Newman Darby's development of the sailboard, which became known as the windsurfer through sketches, mechanical drawings, plans, patent specifications, legal documents, photographs, correspondence, notebooks, clippings, periodicals, and an 8mm film.
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Garrett, John W. (John Work), 1820-1884
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry), 1807-1878
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1827-1987
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33 Cubic feet (76 boxes, 46 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1086
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of correspondence, invoices, drawings, photographs, and negatives and other printed literature documenting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from its inception in 1827 to its merger with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the 1960s.
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Espada, Jason
Espada, Frank, 1930-
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1962-2008, undated
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22 Cubic feet (59 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1395
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of photographic materials taken by Frank Espada, mostly images from the Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project, which documents these communities across the Unites States. In addition, there are materials relating to his earlier work documenting civil rights activities and HIV/AIDS awareness, also in the United States during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
