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Visual Journal: Harlem and D.C. in the Thirties and Forties exhibition records
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Creators:
Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
Dates:
1996
Size:
8.5 Linear feet (15 boxes)
Collection ID:
ACMA.03-025
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

An exhibitionn celebrating the work of five African American photographers who documented segregated black communities in Washington, D.C., rural Virginia, and New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. Curated by Deborah Willis the exhibition was held at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, South Gallery from April 18, 1996 to September 29, 1996. Photographers included: Robert H. McNeil, The Scurlock Studio, Morgan and Marvin Smith, and Gordon Parks.

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Odd Halseth collection of negatives and photograph
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Creators:
Halseth, Odd S.
Dates:
1920-1925
Size:
158 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)
4 Photographic prints (black and white)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.038
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The collection consists of negatives and photographs made by Halseth from 1920 to 1925 in Arizona and New Mexico.

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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1992 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 25-July 5, 1992
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1992
Repository:
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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Digitized Content Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1989 Festival of American Folklife
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dates:
June 23-July 4, 1989
Size:
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
Collection ID:
CFCH.SFF.1989
Repository:
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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Digitized Content Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings papers
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Creators:
Robsjohn-Gibbings, Terence Harold, 1905-
Dates:
1915-1977
1898
Size:
14.4 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.robstere
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of furniture and interior designer Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings measure 14.4 linear feet and date from 1898 to 1977 with the bulk of material dating from 1915 to 1977. Found within the papers are biographical material, correspondence, writings, project files, printed materials, artwork including 4 sketchbooks, 30 scrapbooks documenting Robsjohn-Gibbings career, and photographs of Robsjohn-Gibbings and his work.

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Emily and William Muir papers
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Creators:
Muir, Emily, 1904-
Muir, William H. (William Horace), 1902-1964
Dates:
[ca. 1930]-1996
Size:
1 Linear foot
0.8 Linear feet (Addition)
Collection ID:
AAA.muiremil
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Biographical material; correspondence; photographs of Emily and William Muir, her work, and houses she designed; a scrapbook containing letters, photographs of work, and clippings about Muir and her husband; price list of paintings by Muir; a publisher's agreement for a book, "Two Cents an Acre"; illustrations by Muir of a novel, "Small Potatoes" (...

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Digitized Content Here, Look at Mine! Exhibition Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Dates:
1982-11-14 - 1983-02-27
Size:
0.9 Linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
ACMA.03-054
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

An exhibition on selected works by John N. Robinson and Larry Lebby. The exhibition, held at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, ran from November 14, 1982 --February 27, 1983. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit scripts, administrative records, brochures, education packets, floor plans, and catalogues.

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Thomas W. Bower School Records
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Creators:
Bower, Thomas W., 1948-
Dates:
1954-1966
Size:
0.12 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0698
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Personal papers documenting Bower's academic history at Williamsport Grade School and Williamsport High School, Williamsport, Indiana, 1954-1966.

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Privilege: The Modern Game with Social Significance
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Creators:
Morey, Robert
Dates:
1938
Size:
1 Item (game (51 playing cards, 2 informational cards, 1 instruction sheet), paper, col., 9 x 6 cm.)
Collection ID:
AAA.morerobe
Repository:
Archives of American Art

A card game designed by social scientist Robert Morey created to teach socialism to Americans in the 1930s. Artists Rockwell Kent, Peggy Bacon, Esther Vance, William Gropper, and George Schreiber designed the deck of cards. There are two special cards, Honesty and Kindness and five suits consisting of six numbered cards and four face cards represen...

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Photographs relating to Diego Rivera's fresco "Nightmare of War, Dream of Peace,"
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Creators:
Greenhouse, Wendy, 1955-
Dates:
1952
Size:
3 Photographic prints (b&w:, 8.89 cm X 8.89 cm)
1 Photographic print (col., 7.62 cm X 7.62 cm)
Collection ID:
AAA.greewend
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Four photographs of Diego Rivera's portable fresco "Nightmare of War, Dream of Peace" 1952, now missing. One photograph of Rivera at work on the fresco; one of Frida Kahlo in a wheelchair, posing for the fresco; one of a segment of the fresco; and one color snapshot of Rivera and Kahlo with the work in progress, dated "week of April 7, 1952." Photo...

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