Search Results

Manufacturer:

Boeing Aircraft Co.  Search this

Dimensions:

Wingspan: 8.5 m (28 ft 1 in)

Length: 7.3 m (23 ft 5.5 in)

Height: 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)

Weight, empty: 996 kg (2,196 lb) (2271 with guns and bomb rack installed)

Weight, gross: 1,334 kg (2,935 lb)

Top speed: 377 km/h (234 mph)

Engine: Pratt & Whitney R-1340-27, 600 hp

Armament: two .30 cal. M2 Browning aircraft machine guns

Type:

CRAFT-Aircraft

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1934

Credit Line:

Gift of the Guatemalan Air Force, Republic of Guatemala

Inventory Number:

A19730273000

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

See more items in:

National Air and Space Museum Collection

Location:

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA

Hangar:

Boeing Aviation Hangar

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv94aec63dc-0e95-4c50-adc4-ff3a49f45ed8

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19730273000

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

1 Photographic print (006 in x 008 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Photographs

Date:

1888

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.04267100

Local Note:

Black and white photoprint

Place:

Panama -- Canal Zone -- Aspinwall

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 97 DOE So Amer: Panama: General: NM 16631 04267100, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1 / South America / Panama / Gen

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3983c480a-2d5f-40b8-b18c-0a7fc49c485d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-97-ref3102

Creator:

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882  Search this

Names:

United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870)  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

1 Albumen print (011 in x 008 in mounted on 013 in x 009 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Photographs

Date:

1870

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.04267700

Local Note:

Black and white albumen print on cardboard mount

Place:

Panama -- Canal Zone -- Limon Bay

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 97 DOE So Amer: Panama: General: O'sullivan Colln 04267700, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1 / South America / Panama / Gen

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw345ce3b43-6d63-4de0-9ddc-0bf7faab0ed4

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-97-ref3108

Creator:

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882  Search this

Names:

United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870)  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

1 Albumen print (011 in x 008 in mounted on 014 in x 011 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Photographs

Date:

1870

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.04268600

Local Note:

Black and white albumen print

Place:

Panama -- Canal Zone -- Limon Bay

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 97 DOE So Amer: Panama: General: O'sullivan Colln 04268600, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1 / South America / Panama / Gen

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3959588b4-55cd-41f8-98e4-cca8a3f3708a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-97-ref3117

Creator:

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882  Search this

Names:

United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870)  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

1 Albumen print (008 in x 011 in mounted on 011 in x 014 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Photographs

Date:

1870

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.04268700

Local Note:

Black and white albumen print

Place:

Panama -- Canal Zone ? -- Quebrada Del Mar Falls?/Limon Bay?

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 97 DOE So Amer: Panama: General: O'sullivan Colln 04268700, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1 / South America / Panama / Gen

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e0f380f5-8478-4ed7-9f99-80770d5128fd

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-97-ref3118

Creator:

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882  Search this

Names:

United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870)  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

1 Albumen print (008 in x 011 in mounted on 011 in x 014 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Photographs

Date:

1870

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.04268800

Local Note:

Black and white albumen print

Place:

Panama -- Canal Zone -- Limon Bay/Quebrada Del Mar Falls

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 97 DOE So Amer: Panama: General: O'sullivan Colln 04268800, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1 / South America / Panama / Gen

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d67f63cf-1559-4632-abd6-81b122cb2487

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-97-ref3119

Creator:

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882  Search this

Names:

United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870)  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

1 Albumen print (008 in x 011 in mounted on 011 in x 014 in)

Type:

Archival materials

Albumen prints

Photographs

Date:

1870

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.04269000

OPPS NEG.85-8639

Local Note:

Black and white albumen print

Place:

Panama -- Canal Zone ? -- Limon Bay ?

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 97 DOE So Amer: Panama: General: O'sullivan Colln 04269000, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1

Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1 / South America / Panama / Gen

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw35b8352ea-233d-4ea3-9f40-8e8df690bd1f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-97-ref3121

Author:

Sims, George W.  Search this

Collector:

National Anthropological Archives  Search this

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life  Search this

Extent:

5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Manuscripts

Audiotapes

Scrapbooks

Slides (photographs)

Place:

Carmel (Calif.)

Panama Canal (Panama)

California

Date:

1896-1981.

Summary:

Collection documents Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. It includes forty-one notebooks, 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, forty-one stereo view cards, and three boxes of personal papers and ephemera. While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places and provide biographical information on Sims.

Scope and Contents:

These papers document Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. They consist of forty-one notebooks, Series 1-4; and three boxes, Series 5-9, of personal papers and ephemera. Series 5-7 are particularly valuable for biographical information. Series 10 includes 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, and forty-one stereo view cards. The total volume of the collection is approximately eleven linear feet.

The notebooks cover the years 1896, 1908-1913, 1918, and 1934-1976. The notebooks are written in a documentary styles that is enhanced by literary touches and perceptive details. The subjects include visits to several national parks, the Boronda adobe, and travel on most continents.

The 6,000 35mm slides that Sims took between 1944 and 1976 portray the use of the automobile in travel, national and international touring, and family travel. They are organized by either trip or location. They document his collecting, research, and restoration interests, and complement his written and artistic work. In technique, Sims's photographs are at least a cut above amateur photography. The slides remain in the order in which the Archives Center received them. In some cases they are organized, captioned, and numbered as a slide program. In other cases, while they are captioned they are not part of a specific slide program that Sims organized. Usually the identification in the Detailed Container List represents Sims' s own captions, which have been copied from the slide sleeves.

While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places. All the slides are dated and labeled or captioned, either on box inserts or on the slides themselves. The slides are generally organized by trip. Of particular interest is the documentation of Sims's restoration of the Boronda adobe. These slides are well captioned and show the step by step process.

The slides include many early Kodachromes from the 1940s in excellent condition. These represent the few examples of this type in the Museum. Although these slides are not extraordinarily rare, they are a very early example of the color process.

There are also black and white prints and a few color prints. Some of these document an automobile trip along the California coast in the 1930s. All the black-and-white prints portray the photographer for Sims's concern to document his travels adequately and in a meaningful way.

The three document boxes of supplemental material includes articles, correspondence (for example, a letter to Sims from the Henry Ford Museum thanking him for donating an oral history of a motoring trip he had taken), business cards, certificates of achievement, hotel ephemera, news clippings (Series 12), published travel accounts, printed travel brochures, and audio tapes (Series 11), in which Sims recounts many of his trips over the years. This material is valuable because it provides biographical information on Sims. It also may be useful for exhibits and research. Much of the material—the hotel ephemera and the printed travel brochures and accounts—is similar to ephemera in the Warshaw Collection.

Sims's photographs are similar in content to two other collections in the Archives Center. The Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photographic Album portrays family automobile trips across the United States between 1935 and 1940. The Donald Sultner Welles Collection of travel slides documents locations throughout the United States and around the world.

Arrangement:

The collection is divided into 12 series.

Series 1:Notebooks, 1896-1975

Series 2: Political Notes, 1964-1976

Series 3: Comments on Vietnam, 1954-1975

Series 4: Moon Landings, 1969-1976

Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1896-1981, undated

Series 6: Correspondence, 1920-1987

Series 7: Biography, 1911-1938

Series 8: Published Material, 1927-1966

Series 9: Artifacts, 1913-1937

Series 10: Photographs, circa 1936-1962

Series 11: Audio Materials

Series 12: Newsclippings, undated

Historical:

Boronda Adobe

In 1946 George W. Sims purchased the old Boronda adobe in the Carmel Valley of California, and over the next ten years he restored it.

The Boronda adobe was built above the Carmel River in 1832 by José Manuel Boronda on his 7,000 acre Rancho de Los Laureles land grant. José was the son of Don Manuel Boronda, the first schoolteacher in California. José was married to Juana Cota of Santa Barbara. The sixty-four foot long house has adobe walls twenty-seven inches thick and hand-hewn redwood beams. Senor and Senora Boronda lived there with their fifteen children. It was in this house that Senora Boronda reputedly made a new cheese much liked by her neighbors and today known as Monterey Jack cheese. She eventually produced enough to sell to the surrounding community.

The Boronda family sold the ranch and adobe to Nathan W. Spaulding in the late 1860s or early 1870s. He was a mayor of Oakland, California. The next owner was the Pacific Improvement Company in the early 1880s, the forerunner of Del Monte Properties Company. A small cheese factory was built to commercialize the product under the name "Monterey Jack." Nevertheless, the adobe eventually became abandoned as a house. Before Sims purchased it the adobe was used as a shelter for dairy cows.

Sims plastered the outside walls to protect the soft adobe bricks and whitewashed the interior walls. The original dirt floor was covered with a floor of two-inch clear, heart redwood, random planks. It slopes downhill as does the roof of the house. The entire house follows the topography of the site. Sims left several cables stretching across the crudely raftered ceiling to support the walls.

Sims reroofed the house with one hundred year old roof tiles from the old Vasquez adobe in Monterey, California. He also constructed a workshop on the cement foundation of the old cheese factory and milk barn, added a carport, and built a fence protected patio of the Mexican type, adjacent to a Spanish garden with gravel paths. The patio walls were made of adobe created from Carmel Valley soil.

The first floor of the adobe consists of a long living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a bath. An inside staircase was added and leads to the second floor living room, two bedrooms, and a bath. All of the rooms on the main floor are on a different level. The kitchen at one end of the house is thought to date to the 1790s when the land belonged to the Carmel Mission.

Biographical / Historical:

George W. Sims (1896-1986) was a tax lawyer, certified public accountant, world traveler, and collector of pre-Columbian objects. He spent his childhood in Fairfax County, Virginia. At age seventeen he began the study of law at the Washington College of Law (now American University), and worked at night as a telephone company traffic manager. He was employed as a clerk in the Panama Canal Zone by the Panama Railroad Company, Commissary Branch, from 1915-1916. Sims left Washington, DC, because he needed money for school and received a better salary in Latin America. "The pay was 25% higher there [Panama] than in the U.S.A., because the risks of Yellow Fever were great, and work and living conditions less satisfactory than at home." (Box 8, folder 6) This was the first of his many trips to other countries. He then returned to Washington and graduated from law school.

Between 1918-1919 he served as sergeant first class in the aviation section of the Signal Corps. He was stationed for a time at the Vichy (France) Hospital Center, a part of the United States Base Army Hospital, No. 115. After the war Sims did graduate work in accounting at Benjamin Franklin University in the District of Columbia, studying at night. During the day he worked in the Navy Department's communications section.

In 1919 Sims and a few friends traveled west on one of the early automobile trips across the United States. In July he visited Fresno, California. He returned that same year to Washington, DC, and "made plans for making the West (and Fresno) his permanent home." In January, 1924, Sims returned with his wife to fulfill those plans and thus began his long time love affair with the West and California." (Scrapbooks: Vol. 38, Box 8, folder 2)

After his first wife Katherine died in 1946, Sims spent much time on world cruises. His destinations included North, South, and Central America, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Between 1946 and 1956 he also purchased and restored the 1832 Boronda adobe in Carmel, California.

Sims married Emma Marenchin Sims on her birthday November 2, 1971 in Santa Barbara, California. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Sims (1914-? ) worked in the public health field after graduating from Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She remarked, "My world opened up when I married George." Sims died in 1986.

Provenance:

Collection donated by George W. Sims, January 10, 1985.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Travel photography  Search this

Adobe houses  Search this

Pre-Columbian objects  Search this

Vichy France  Search this

Audio tapes  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 20th century

Manuscripts

Audiotapes

Scrapbooks -- 20th century

Slides (photographs) -- 1950-2000

Photographs -- Phototransparencies -- 20th century

Citation:

George W. Sims Papers, 1896-1981, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0127

See more items in:

George W. Sims Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85d82cdde-b7ee-4b6e-b9f6-6698d75d53d0

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0127

Collector:

Dr. Wendell P. Woodring  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

25 Jan 1954

USNM Number:

PAL761407

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/34c632dfa-8468-4dc2-9658-935eb43aa5aa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15561176

Collector:

Axel A. Olsson  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1918 | 1919

USNM Number:

PAL757221

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3eb640d7f-5315-4450-930b-cacfefb43868

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15556948

Collector:

D. F. MacDonald  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

Apr 1911

USNM Number:

PAL758111

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/38094b0fd-41f3-4cd0-8fe8-48eee6bb2ddb

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15557876

Collector:

D. F. MacDonald  Search this

Thomas W. Vaughan  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1911

USNM Number:

PAL759814

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39e9b544e-1a83-4571-8a98-55f8dfcf85d7

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15559580

Collector:

D. F. MacDonald  Search this

Thomas W. Vaughan  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1911

USNM Number:

PAL759830

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f00fc494-6e34-4537-8ede-d1e39d0003dd

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15559596

Collector:

D. F. MacDonald  Search this

Thomas W. Vaughan  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1911

USNM Number:

PAL759883

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/311094cb8-5ecf-46b3-9423-314b1f2b5ea0

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15559649

Collector:

Ralph Stewart  Search this

Anselmo Mena  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1959

USNM Number:

PAL761004

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/359b6d853-5a50-46fb-a594-47fee65ef7e4

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15560770

Collector:

Ralph Stewart  Search this

Anselmo Mena  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1959

USNM Number:

PAL761046

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e0a84ed5-fdc5-4576-b7cf-b14782ee3b32

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15560812

Collector:

MacDonald  Search this

Vaughan  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1911

USNM Number:

PAL761251

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36858ae7a-7f3c-431b-9fad-5b22cd7e44a4

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15561020

Collector:

D. F. MacDonald  Search this

Thomas W. Vaughan  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1911

USNM Number:

PAL761600

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3865cce3c-75a1-4864-a825-ae252cc5740d

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15561369

Collector:

D. F. MacDonald  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

1911

USNM Number:

PAL765443

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39164f8e9-edf3-496b-b577-d9a8eeaef375

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15565864

Collector:

D. F. MacDonald  Search this

Place:

Canal Zone, Panama, North America

Collection Date:

Apr-11

USNM Number:

PAL765829

See more items in:

Paleogeneral

Invertebrate Stratigraphic

NSF ADBC EPICC TCN

Paleobiology

Data Source:

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e2b6932e-6c23-4145-9b4f-5787147acb60

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_15566250