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Bringing to Light the Career and Correspondence of M.R. Harrington
Letter addressed to M.R. Harrington from the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911.Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation records, NMAI.AC.001, Box 231, Folder 7. Though now less well-remembered,...
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Behind the Scenes: Scanning Sally Ride’s Archival Papers
As I began my contract archivist position with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Archives at the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, I had no idea what awaited me. I...
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Cultures in Motion: The Huichol Film Project, 1973-1975 - Part I
Young Huichol man sitting on a cliff overlooking the Western Sierra Madre, Summer 1974Frame grab from HSFA 1989.3.1-8Before arriving in the Western Sierra Madre of Mexico in April 1973 to produce one...
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Silver Horn’s Winter Count: An Archival Record of Indigenous Time Featured in...
Elena Myers, Diana Marsh, and Candace GreeneDocumenting Diversity: How Anthropologists Record Human Lifeis an exhibit showcasing the history of anthropological fieldwork through rare archival and print...
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Cultures in Motion: The Huichol Film Project 1973-1975 Part II
For Part I of this blog post please click here. Image from copy at University of California Libraries. Accessed via Internet ArchiveKalmun Müller was not to the first outsider to experience the Hikuri...
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Anders Zorn: Swedish Superstar and American Idol
Zorn’s self-portrait appears on the cover of the brochure for a memorial exhibition that traveled the United States in 1925. “Special Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Water Colors by Anders Zorn.”...
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Anders Zorn: Swedish Superstar and American Idol
Zorn’s self-portrait appears on the cover of the brochure for a memorial exhibition that traveled the United States in 1925. “Special Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Water Colors by Anders Zorn.”...
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Hattie Meyers Weaver: Life During the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918
From an early age, Hattie Meyers was fascinated with flight. At first, being a “mere girl,” she contented herself with building models in her Glen Ridge, New Jersey, home with the help of her older...
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A New Virtual Finding Aid for Ethel Cutler Freeman Collection
Portrait of Ethel Cutler Freeman. The Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.Ethel Cutler Freeman (1886-1972) was a remarkable woman who defied...
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A New Virtual Finding Aid for the Virginia Drew Watson Papers
Virginia Drew Watson (1918-2007) was an archaeologist and cultural anthropologist who was best known for her work in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where she worked both with her husband, James B....
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New Virtual Finding Aids for Two 20th Century Biological Anthropology...
Over the course of the last 8 months, I have been working on a Legacy Finding Aids project at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA). The primary purpose of this project was to take finding aids...
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Solving Inventory Problems with Archival Research
One of the most important tasks in a museum is keeping track of items in the collection. To properly care for a collection, you must know what you have and where to find it. However, staff in any...
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Parks for the People
October marks American Archives Month, a time to celebrate archival collections across the country that document innumerable chapters in the United States’ history. The work of landscape architect...
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New Virtual Finding Aids for Three 20th Century Cultural Anthropology...
In my last post, I told you about two biological anthropologists whose papers are in the National Anthropological Archives whose finding aids have recently become available on SOVA. This time around,...
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Safer Than Water
Despite some of the more inebriating effects, for thousands of years people considered beer a healthier alternative to water. But prior to the 19th century, they did not understand why beer was safer....
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New Virtual Finding Aids for Two Linguistic Anthropology Collections
Linguistic Anthropology is the study of the effects of communication—in all its diversity and forms—on society and whether differences in language and its usage relate to differences in the way the...
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Anthropology’s Neighboring Fields: New Virtual Finding Aids for Three NAA...
The National Anthropological Archives (NAA) primarily contains the papers of anthropologists, archaeologists, and anthropological societies and institutions. However, there are other disciplines that...
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Holiday Imagery, Scanned and Unscanned
By David HaberstichCurator of PhotographyArchives Center, National Museum of American History19th-century Christmas card, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Christmas series,Archives Center,...
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Tomlinson D. Todd and the Institute on Race Relations
Jennifer MorrisArchivistAnacostia Community MuseumTomlinson D. Todd (far right) interviewed this unidentified group of young people on his “Americans All,” radio program, circa 1950s. Henry P....
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Scurlock Photographs, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the NMAH Archives...
By David HaberstichEvery February when I think of Black History Month, I naturally think about one of the Archives Center’s premier collections, the Scurlock Studio Records. This collection contains...
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