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Vevers, Tony
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1947-2008
bulk 1960-1999
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3.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.vevetony
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter and art historian Tony Vevers measure 3.4 linear feet and date from 1947 to 2008, with the bulk of materials dating from 1960 to 1999. The collection concerns his career as a painter and teacher and his research and writings about the history of art in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Found within the papers are correspondence, writings, subject files, printed material, and photographs.
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Blackstone, Harriet, 1864-1939
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1870-1984
- Size:
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5.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.blacharr
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter Harriet Blackstone date from 1870-1984 and measure 5.4 linear feet. The collection provides documentation of Harriet Blackstone's career through scattered biographical material; personal and professional correspondence, including letters from Maria Oakey Dewing, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Alice Tisdale Hobart, Joseph Cummings Chas...
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Starr, Nina Howell, 1903-2000
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circa 1933-1996
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21.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.starnina
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of photographer and art historian Nina Howell Starr measure 21.2 linear feet and date from circa 1933 to 1996. The papers contain research files about various art historical topics, museums and galleries, photography, and artists. There are extensive files documenting Starr's relationship as researcher, dealer, and friend of folk painter Minnie Evans. Additionally, the papers include biographical materials, writings, speeches, project files, printed material collected or authored by Starr, and hundreds of artistic and documentary photographs and negatives created by Starr depicting her travels, Minnie Evans' paintings, roadside folk art, and other topics.
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Sherman, John D., 1872-1960
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1886-1960
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4.5 cu. ft. (9 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7296
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of correspondence between Sherman and entomologists and other naturalists including Alexander Agassiz, William Harris Ashmead, Samuel Henshaw, Leland Ossian Howard, John Lawrence LeConte, Clinton Hart Merriam, Alpheus Spring Packard, John Bernhard Smith, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, ...
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Prescott, Emma-Stina
Prescott, Kenneth Wade, 1920-
- Dates:
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1919-2001
bulk 1973-1991
- Size:
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9.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.preskenn
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Kenneth and Emma-Stina Prescott research material on artists measures 9.4 linear feet and dates from 1919 to 2001, with the bulk of the material dating from 1973 to 1991. Kenneth Prescott, an art historian and educator, and his wife Emma-Stina, also an art historian, maintained extensive files concerning artists James Chapin, Burgoyne Diller, Dorothea S. Greenbaum, Jack Levine, and Elizabeth Olds. These files typically include correspondence, artwork inventories, exhibition catalogs and other printed materials, notes, interviews, photographs, and slides. A small amount of material also documents the works of Richard Anuszkiewicz, Byron Browne, Jose de Creeft, Lorrie Goulet, Richard Hunt, Sam Maitin, and Hunt Slonem.
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International Whaling Commission
- Dates:
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1930-1968
- Size:
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14 cu. ft. (28 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7165
- Repository:
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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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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Dates:
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June 25-July 6, 2003
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2003
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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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American Academy in Rome
- Dates:
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1855-2012
- Size:
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65.9 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.ameracar
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The records of the American Academy in Rome measure 65.9 linear feet and date from 1855 to 2012. The collection documents the history of the institution from its inception in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome, through the end of World War II, and chronicles the contributions the academy has made to America's cultural and intellectual development. Nearly one-half of the collection consists of an unprocessed addition received in 2014 containing records that mostly post-date World War II and include correspondence and subject files of officers and executives based in the New York office of American Academy in Rome.
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National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals
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circa 1867-1971
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31.24 cu. ft. (59 document boxes) (3 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 208
- Repository:
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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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Jones, Ernest La Rue, 1883-1955
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1906-1960
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17.38 Cubic feet (41 letter document boxes; 1 slim legal document box; 2 flatboxes; 2 microfilm cases)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0096
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Ernest Jones Aeronautical Collection (NASM.XXXX.0096) contains approximately 17 cubic feet of material comprised of the works of this early aviation historian and materials relating to his career and personal life. The collection includes original correspondence, photographs, published material, and various other media.