Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 23-July 4, 1988
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1988
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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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Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
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1981-02 - 1982-09
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11.38 Linear feet (23 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-029
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on Anna J. Cooper, Washington D. C. educator and author. It was organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and held there from February 1981 to September 1982. Louise Daniel Hutchinson served as curator. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, press coverage, education packets, loan agreements, and floor plans.
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National Visionary Leadership Project
- Dates:
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June 4, 2003
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0.25 Linear feet (1 box)
5 Video recordings (5 VHS 1/2" video recordings)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-005
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection contains five videotaped oral history interviews conducted in partnership with the National Visionary Leadership Project and the Anacostia Community Museum's Education Department in 2003. Interviewees include Georgette Seabrooke Powell,William Langford,Louise Daniel Hutchinson, Jeannine Clark, and Charles H. Clark.
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National Portrait Gallery. 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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Conger, Paul S. (Paul Sydney), 1897-1979
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1913-1979
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5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7292
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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Freer Gallery of Art
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1914, 1923-1942
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10.69 cu. ft. (19 document boxes) (2 half document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-051
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the joint expedition made by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from February 20, 1923 to August 6, 1927, and also the Freer Gallery of Art sponsored expedition from November 16, 1929 to April 11, 1934. Both expeditions were led by Carl Whiting Bishop, Associate Cur...
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Linda Farris Gallery
Farris, Linda
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1969-1995
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13.4 Linear feet (13 Boxes, 1 sol, 1 ov folder)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lindfarr
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Archives of American Art
The records of Seattle's avant-garde Linda Farris Gallery measure 13.4 linear feet and date from 1969-1995. The bulk of the records consist of artists' and exhibition files. Also found are gallery business correspondence, administrative files, event files, reference files, records of sales, scattered legal files, the personal papers of gallery owner Linda Farris, and printed materials.
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American Public Works Association.
Stine, Jeffrey K.
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
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1999-2000
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0983
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Nominations for awards in the "Top Ten Public Works Projects of the Twentieth Century, 1900-2000" competition. The nominations included such things as project brochures, photographs, video cassettes, articles, written histories, and other miscellaneous items submitted to support the individual cases.
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Hirsch, Leonard P., 1955-2015
Federal GLOBE
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1985-2015, undated
bulk 1995-2015
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4.15 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1357
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers of Leonard P. Hirsch, founder of Federal GLOBE, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender employee advocacy group for the federal government. Hirsch was also the founder of the Smithsonian Institution's chapter of Federal GLOBE. Papers include organizational material as well as newsletters, educational, and lobbying materials. There is a small amount of personal material for Hirsch and his husband Kristian Fauchald.
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National Museum of the American Indian. Community and Constituent Services Department. Professional Outreach
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1971, 1977-1978, 1987-1988, 1995-2007
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-243
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the research, planning, and execution of the traveling exhibition, Native Words, Native Warriors, which honors and documents the role of Native American servicemen who used their indigenous languages on behalf of the United States military during World War I and World War II. This travelin...