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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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Digitized Content Three Roads to Urga [typescript]
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Dates:
circa 1920s
Size:
1 Item (75 pages of typescript)
79 Items (silver prints, black and white)
Collection ID:
FSA.A1996.02
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

A detailed account of uncertain authorship recalling travel to and from Urga (presently known as Ulaanbataar, Mongolia) in Outer Mongolia. The author is perhaps Georg Soderbom; a member of Sven Hedin's expedition who often worked under Frans Larson Soderbom is pictured in many of the collection's silver plates. The account is replete with descripti...

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Lucille Chaveas collection
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Creators:
Chaveas, Lucille
Dates:
2003
Size:
17 Items (photographic prints , color.)
23 Negatives (35mm)
Collection ID:
EEPA.2013-006
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

The collection consists of 17 color photographic prints and (23) 35mm negatives which were taken in Sierra Leone in 2003, which focus on textile manufacture, specifically needlepointed carpet slippers worn by the Krio women of Freetown.

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Curatorial Department
Dates:
2000-2002
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 03-083
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of materials documenting the planning, development, installation, fundraising, and publicity of the exhibitions DIRECTIONS: Ernesto Neto and DIRECTIONS: Cathy de Monchaux as well as preparations to receive, install, fund, and promote the traveling exhibition Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective, developed by the American...

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Records
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Creators:
Renwick Gallery. Office of the Director
Dates:
1967-1988
Size:
15 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 465
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This record unit primarily documents the tenure of Lloyd Herman, Director of the Renwick Gallery, but also contains the records of David W. Scott, Robert Tyler Davis, and Joshua C. Taylor, directors of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA). The records pertain to temporary exhibitions as well as the permanent collections of the Renwick ...

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Timothy Cole papers
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Creators:
Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931
Dates:
1883-1936
Size:
0.5 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.coletimo
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of wood engraver Timothy Cole date from 1883-1936, and measure 0.5 linear feet. Found within the papers are letters primarily written by Timothy Cole to the editors of Century Magazine, and letters to Cole from colleagues Gifford Beal, Alice Brown, George de Forest Brush, Kenyon Cox, David Finney, Helen C. Frick, Joseph Pennell, Caroline Powell, John Singer Sargent, and Helen M. Turner. Also found are miscellaneous writings, artwork including wood engravings and printing plates, miscellaneous clippings and a photograph of Cole and his wife.

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Digitized Content William Ockleford Oldman Archive research materials
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Creators:
Oldman, W. O. (William Ockleford), 1879-1949
Dates:
1902-1916
Size:
1,789 Digital images (7 digitized ledgers)
Collection ID:
NMAI.RM.001
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The William Ockleford Oldman Archive research materials are comprised of digital surrogates of the business records of Oldman held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. William Ockleford Oldman (1879 – 1949) was a British collector and dealer of ethnographic art and European arms and armour. His business W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London was active between the late 1890s and 1913. These records include detailed information about his purchases and sales of objects including names of original sources for objects he acquired and sold. Oldman dealt extensively with the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, the predecessor institution to the National Museum of the American Indian between 1909 and 1937. This provenance information is critically important to documentation of NMAI's collections and related research.

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Samuel Yellin Collection
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Creators:
Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940
Davis, Myra Tolmach
Hofmeister, Richard
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
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Dates:
circa 1928 -1930
circa 1971-1975
Size:
0.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 2 films, 2 mp4 files)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0254
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Samuel Yellin was an American master blacksmith. In 1910, he built the Arch Street Metalworker's studio.

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Digitized Content William Henry Holmes Papers
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Dates:
1870-1931
Size:
2.16 cu. ft. (4 document boxes) (1 folder oversize material) (8 microfilm reels)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7084
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers include Holmes' personal and professional correspondence, including correspondence between other scientists, which was collected by Holmes in connection with his research. The correspondence mainly documents Holmes' research in American ethnology and archeology but also includes material dealing with international scientific ...

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Alan Gallery records
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Creators:
Alan Gallery (Charles Alan)
Felix Landau Gallery
Dates:
1953-1970
Size:
15.1 Linear feet
1 Film reel (Motion picture film (400 ft.), sd., b&w, 16 mm.)
1 Videocassettes (VHS) (Reference copy (12 min.) , sd., b&w, 1/2 in.)
Collection ID:
AAA.alangall
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence with artists; general business correspondence, 1953-1969; legal documents (some pertaining to owner Charles Alan's separation from the Downtown Gallery and establishment of the Alan Gallery); business records, including price lists, inventories, loan agreements, purchase and consignment records, receipts for purchases, and general le...

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