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Creator:

National Museum of the American Indian  Search this

Type:

Symposia

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National Museum of the American Indian

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National Museum of the American Indian  Search this

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Creator:

Pullman Palace Car Co.  Search this

Donor:

Pullman-Standard  Search this

Names:

Lincoln, Robert Todd  Search this

Pullman, George M., 1831-1897  Search this

Extent:

128.5 Cubic feet (147 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Glass plate negatives

Photographs

Date:

circa 1882-1955

Summary:

Collection consists of approximately 13,500 images (original photographs, copy prints, and film and glass plate negatives) for freight, passenger, private, and street and rapid transit cars manufactured by the Pullman Palace Car Company. The collection contains primarily early railroad Americana, including interior and exterior views of private and business cars as well as passenger and street cars. The collection is an important part of the historical record of the railroad car-building industry as well as the history of architecture and interior design.

Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of approximately 13,500 images (original photographs, copy prints, and film and glass plate negatives) for freight, passenger, private, and street and rapid transit cars manufactured by the Pullman Palace Car Company. The collection contains primarily interior and exterior views of private and business cars as well as passenger and street cars. The collection is an important part of the historical record of the railroad car-building industry as well as the history of architecture and interior design. Historians, designers, railroad enthusiasts, model railroad hobbyists, scholars, and others will find this collection useful.

The glass plate negatives in this collection were produced using the wet collodion process, which was introduced to the United States in 1855 and used into the 1880s. The plates were coated with chemicals, sensitized, exposed and developed, all while the plate was wet. Later, Pullman photographers used the dry collodion process. This process involved using glass plates with a photographic emulsion of silver halides suspended in gelatin. This process had shorter exposure times.

George Pullman assembled a variety of photographers to document his company's work. The photography was primarily used as a record of work, especially for the Operating Department and Manufacturing Department at Pullman, as well as for prospective corporate customers.

Before establishing an in-plant photographic department in 1888, Pullman relied on local photographers. Some of the photographers included John Jex Bardwell, Wylie Dennison, Henry R. Koopman, J. W. Taylor, Thomas S. Johnson, Wylie Dennison, John P. Van Vorst, Clayton Ford Smith, Joseph McAllister, Melvin C. Horn, Ernie Stutkus, and Donald J. O'Barski. Many of the photographers signed the glass plates using their initials. For example, John P. Van Vorst signed his J.P.V.V.

Photography of Pullman activities began in the Detroit Shops (property of the Detroit Car & Manufacturing Co. which was purchased by Pullman in 1873 and operated as the Detroit Shops of Pullman) in the 1870s and expanded to include photographing the town of Pullman, steel car construction, shop accidents, workers, panoramic views, and in some instances, for company publications. In-plant photography was started with Wylie Dennison in 1888. Dennison was the first full-time Pullman photographer, and he created the Pullman Photographic Department. Dennison instituted the practice of recording each photograph, noting the negative number, description of the car, the type of view (typically one interior view and one exterior view) and lot number. All of Dennison's photography was done outside in the daylight.

The negative numbers assigned to the glass plates were identified with a "lot" number. The lot number identified the production order, and in later years, the plan number was added, designating the layout of the car. Photographing one car out of each new lot was the intital practice, but over-time, the Photographic Department began taking six or more views of the interior and exterior as well as end views.

Lot numbers include:

Lots 1 - 500 (Pullman Car Works - Chicago)

Lots 1 - 500 (Detroit Car Works)

Lots 500 plus (can be freight and passenger mixed)

Lots 1000 to 4999 (Pullman passenger equipment)

Lots 5000 to 5999 (Pullman freight equipment)

Lots 5000 + Haskell and Barker (Pullman overlap)

Lots 6000 to 7000+ (Pullman and P-S passenger)

Lots 8000 to 9999 (Pullman freight equipment)

Lots 10000+ (Pullman freight equipment)

Series 1, Original prints, circa 1880-1949, are arranged numerically by Pullman numbers. The original prints begin with number 7343 and end with number 33091. The photographs document Pullman cars, including freight, passenger, private, and street railway/rapid transit. Many of the images depict interior views of the cars, and there are some views of porters and passengers. There is some documentation of the workmen constructing the cars. The prints are primarily 8" by 10" black-and-white and were originally bound into books and backed on linen. The prints were unbound at some time. Many of the original prints bear an embossed stamp "Built by Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corporation Chicago." Some photographs are sepia-tone and there are no negatives for these prints.

Series 2, Copy prints, 1885-1955, consists of prints made from the glass plate negatives by the Smithsonian photographic services office. The copy prints were originally stored in loose binders but were re-housed into folders and arranged numerically according to the original Pullman Company number. The number is typically found in the lower right corner of the image. The copy prints are black-and-white and are either 5" x 7" or 8" x 10".

Series 3, Film negatives, 1917-1955, consists of film negatives (4" x 5" and 8" x 10") that are arranged numerically by Pullman numbers. In some instances, information on the enclosure includes the type of car (e.g. sleeper, freight), the name of the car if applicable, name of railroad company, geographical information, and date(s). In some instances, "repro," or "broken glass" are recorded. For negatives that did not conform to the Pullman numbering system, the container list provides additional information. For example, Haskell and Barker Car Company (Haskell and Barker merged with the Pullman Company in 1922) machine shop views, or Pullman cars in St. Paul, Minnesota are recorded in the collection inventory listing.

Series 4, Glass plate negatives, [circa 1882-1948], is divided into two subseries, Subseries 1, 6" x 8" negatives and Subseries 2, 8" x 10" negatives. The series consists of approximately 13,500 glass plate negatives arranged by Pullman Company negative number. The negatives document primarily Pullman cars, including freight, passenger, private and street railway/rapid transit. Many of the images depict interior and exterior views of the cars and some views of porters and passengers. The interior views include details such as seating, window treatments, lighting fixtures, bathroom fixtures, wood paneling, marquetry work, fabrics, floor treatments, and other furnishings. There is some documentation of the construction of the cars by workmen in the factory.

The negative numbers and lot numbers are etched on the glass plates. Overall the series is in good condition, although there are some broken plates which have been separated. The negatives are not inclusive and some plates are missing, or there are two copies. If plates are missing or additional copies exist, this is noted in the collection inventory. In some instances, plates are labeled 3937 and then 3937-A. This numbering distinguished two different views/angles of the same car.

Many of the envelope enclosures contain the negative number, sometimes preceed by the letter "P" (e.g. P9597), lot number (L4700), and in some instances, text describing the negative. Text typically includes the type of car (sleeper, freight), the name of the car if applicable, name of railroad company, geographical information, and date(s). If a copy print was created from the negative plate, the enclosure is stamped "printed." However, this practice was not consistent. Plates that were not printed are occasionally noted, but not with any consistency.

The 6" by 8" glass plates numbered 82-4130 to 82-4167, represent numbers assigned by the Office of Photographic Services, Smithsonian Institution. Previously labeled "Pullman" on the enclosures, the plates primarily document engines and passenger cars for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, 1870-1890 and undated. The plates do not have Pullman negative numbers etched in the lower left or right corners and it is unclear if these plates belong to this collection.

Series 5, Indices, 1990 and undated include bound, typescript indices to the Pullman negatives. Created by the National Museum of American History, Division of Transportation (now known as the Division of Work and Industry), the indices include listings by railroad, private cars, freight cars, street cars and rapid transit, and Pullman negatives. The indices provide the name of the railroad/railway (e.g. Chicago & Alton), type of car (e.g. coal car or box car), number, lot, remarks (e.g. baggage area), year, type of view (e.g. exterior or interior) and frame number (for the laser disc).

One index is a supplemental guide listing sepia tone prints for which no negative exists in our collection. The indices for the negative listings on laser discs one and two are available. However, the actual lasers discs are missing.

References

Horn, Don. "The Pullman Photographers," Railroad Heritage, No. 7, 2003, pp. 5-13.

Arnold, Rus. "This Negative File was a Sleeper." Technical Photography. May 1970, pp. 21-XX.

Pullman State Historic Site, http://www.pullman-museum.org/theCompany/timeline.html (last accessed April 18, 2011)

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into five series.

Series 1, Original prints, 1904-1949

Series 2, Copy prints, 1885-1955

Series 3, Film negatives, undated

Series 4, Glass plate negatives, circa 1882-1948

Series 5, Indices, 1990 and undated

Biographical / Historical:

Recognizing a market for luxurious rail travel, George M. Pullman, who had earlier experimented with sleeping car construction and was wealthy from the provisioning and transporting of Colorado miners in the early 1860s, incorporated the Pullman's Palace Car Company in 1867. By the 1870s his operations were already national and included the operation of sleeping cars under contract with the nation's railroads, the manufacture of cars at the Detroit Works, and the creation of subsidiary firms serving Great Britain and Europe. In the three decades before the turn of the century, the prosperous company grew enormously and included a much heralded model company town adjacent to the new car works at Pullman, Illinois. Acclaim turned to condemnation following the nationwide strike that originated at the Pullman Car Works in 1894. Pullman died in 1897, two years before his company absorbed its last major competitor, the Wagner Palace Car Company, which had been financed by the Vanderbilts.

The Pullman's Palace Car Company entered the twentieth century with a new name, the Pullman Company, and a new president, Robert Todd Lincoln. An extremely profitable virtual monopoly, the Pullman Company began replacing its wood cars with safer all steel bodied models (heavyweights) in its newly segregated manufacturing department and at the same time (1906) came under the regulation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. From 1918 to 1920, the United States Railroad Administration, citing the war emergency, assumed control of the operating arm of the firm, renamed the Pullman Car Lines for the duration of federal control.

The Pullman Company reached its peak during the 1920s, manufacturing new heavyweight cars at a rapid pace. Seeking to expand its freight car production, Pullman merged with the Haskell and Barker Car Company in 1922. Edward F. Carry and his Haskell and Barker associates assumed the presidency and other executive positions in the enlarged Pullman Company. More reorganization took place in 1924, when the Pullman Company Manufacturing Department became a distinct firm, the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corporation, and in 1927, when a parent or holding company, Pullman Incorporated, was created to oversee the two subsidiary firms. In 1929, following Carry's death, President David A. Crawford engineered the merger of the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Corporation with the Standard Steel Car Company, forming the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company.

During the first three decades of the twentieth century Pullman sought to impede the unionization of its workers by offering new benefits, including a pension plan in 1914, a death benefit plan in 1922, and a plan of group insurance in 1929. F. L. Simmons' Industrial Relations Department, created in 1920, also directed the formation of company-sponsored occupationally-based unions under the plan of employee representation. A. Philip Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and other unions would not successfully organize company workers until the New Deal Railway Labor Act of 1934 forbade corporate interference in union matters. The Depression marked the end of Pullman prosperity. Both the number of car orders and sleeping car passengers declined precipitously. The firm laid off car plant and service workers, reduced fares, and introduced such innovations as the single occupancy section in an effort to fill its cars. During this decade the firm built fewer new cars, but it added air conditioning to its existing heavyweights and remodeled many into compartment sleepers.

In 1940, just as orders for lightweight cars were increasing and sleeping car traffic was growing, the United States Department of Justice filed an anti-trust complaint against Pullman Incorporated in the U. S. District Court at Philadelphia (Civil Action No. 994). The government sought to separate the company's sleeping car operations from its manufacturing activities. In 1944 the court concurred, ordering Pullman Incorporated to divest itself of either the Pullman Company (operating) or the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company (manufacturing). After three years of negotiations, the Pullman Company was sold to a consortium of fifty-seven railroads for around forty million dollars. Carroll R. Harding was named president of this new Pullman Company. The new Pullman Company started out optimistically in 1947 with good passenger traffic figures, but the years following brought steady and marked decline. Regularly scheduled lines were cancelled; all shops except St. Louis and Chicago were closed; employees were furloughed, and major railroad owners such as the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad totally or partially withdrew from service. On January 1, 1969, at the age of 102, the Pullman Company ceased operation, though it maintained a small central office staff to wind up affairs and handle an equal pay-for-equal-work lawsuit (Denver Case) that continued in the courts until 1981.

John H. White (1933-), historian and curator, collected the Pullman photographs in 1969. White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated with a bachelors of arts in history from Miami University Ohio in 1958. Shortly after receiving his degree, He joined the staff of the Smithsonian Institution as Assistant Curator of the Division of Transportation, Department of Science and Technology, Museum of History and Technology. White later became Associate Curator of the Division, 1961-1966, Curator, 1967-1985, and Senior Historian, 1986-1989. White specialized in land transportation, particularly the history of railroads.

White worked closely with Arthur Detmers Dubin (1923-) to acquire the Pullman photographs for the museum. Dubin was an avid train enthusiast and collector, and he frequently used the Pullman "archives" for his own research on railroads. Dubin was born in Chicago, Illinois and began his architectural education at the University of Michigan in 1941 but his education was interrupted by World War II, and he served with distinction in the United States Army until 1946. After completing his studies in 1949, Dubin joined his father's and uncle's architectural firm, Dubin and Dubin, as a second--eneration architect. The leadership of the firm soon passed to Arthur and his brother, Martin David, and in 1965 they were joined by John Black and in 1966 by John Moutoussamy. Arthur's life--ong interest in trains and transportation and their implications for architecture is evident in transit stations commissions and service on transportation--elated advisory boards (Dubin was a member of the Illinois Railroad Commission), as well as in his writings and personal collections.

In July, 1966, Dubin contacted then Vice President of Public Relations at Pullman-Standard E. Preston Calvert about the history and future of the photographic negative plates. Dubin appealed to Calvert to preserve these materials. Dubin and White were also in contact by correspondence and in June, 1967, White contacted Calvert also, stating that the Chicago Historical Society or Illinois State Historical Society should be offered the plates as a first option. Failing a local Illinois repository accepting the materials, White indicated that the Smithsonian would accept the negatives.

During the spring of 1968, White, working with Dubin and Nora Wilson, editor of the company's publications, coordinated a visit by White to Chicago to examine the photographic negatives at the Pullman Car Works factory in south Chicago. In April 1968, White examined the vast collection of glass plate negatives (approximately 20,000). From April, 1968 to August, 1969, Pullman-Standard and the Smithsonian negotiated acquisition details, including shipping and related costs. In August, 1969, White returned to complete the task of sorting the glass plates, discarding broken plates, and weeding repetitive views. He selected approximately 13,500 glass plates. Views of Pullman towns were donated to the Chicago Historical Society. Dubin appraised the photographic plates and film negatives, presumably on behalf of Pullman-Standard, and estimated the plates to be worth between $54,000 and $67,500 dollars.

References

Historical note courtesy Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters, Guide to Pullman Company Archives, The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1995.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Area Architects Oral History Project http://www.artic.edu/aic/resources/resource/734?search_id=1 (last accessed on February 23, 2011)

John H. White papers, 1959-1989, Record Unit 007384, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C.

Telephone conversation of Alison Oswald, archivist, with John H. White, April 14, 2011.

Related Materials:

Materials in the Archives Center

Pullman Palace Car Company Materials, 1867-1979 (AC0181)

John H. White, Jr. Railroad Reference Collection, 1880s-1990 (AC0523)

Materials in Other Organizations

•Art Institute of Chicago

•Bombardier Corporation

•California State Railroad Museum

•Chicago History Museum

•Arthur Dubin Collection at Lake Forest College

•Illinois Railway Museum

•Indiana University Northwest's Calumet Regional Archives

Pullman-Standard Railroad Car Manufacturing Company Personnel Records—Personnel Record Series CRA 314 This index of employee names was created from the original personnel cards housed at Indiana University Northwest's Calumet Regional Archives from the Indiana locations. Although the records are not complete from the Michigan City plant for the entire period from 1912 to the 1970's, there may be information that will assist researchers with finding key details of a family member. The Hammond Pullman plant was merged with the Haskell Barker Company of Michigan City in 1922.

•Newberry Library, Chicago

The Pullman Company archives at the Newberry Library consists of 2,500 cubic feet of records from the Pullman Company and Pullman heirs. The collection is comprised of business archives of the Pullman Palace Car Company from 1867 and includes records of the entire firm up to the 1924 split into operating (sleeping car operation, service, and repair) and manufacturing companies. From 1924 to 1981 the records chronicle the activities of the operating company only.

•Pennsylvania State Archives

•Pullman State Historic Site

•Pullman Technology (Harvey, Illinois)

•Smithsonian Institution Archives

•South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society (South Holland, Illinois)

Provenance:

The collection was donated by Pullman-Standard Company, through Nora Wilson, editor of employee publications for the Department of Public Relations and Advertising, on October 8, 1969.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research but the negatives are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Special arrangements required to view original glass plate and film negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Rights:

Copyright held by the Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Freight cars  Search this

Railroads -- Dining-car service  Search this

Roomette car  Search this

Hospital cars  Search this

Dining cars  Search this

Hotel car  Search this

Sleeping cars (Railroads)  Search this

Local transit  Search this

Genre/Form:

Glass plate negatives

Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film -- 1890-1900

Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film -- 1900-1950

Citation:

Pullman Palace Car Company Photographs, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

John and Ellen Thompson provided financial support for processing the collection.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1175

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Pullman Palace Car Company Photographs

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85e54d13d-eb5a-4971-8e39-ecfe85039ed4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1175

Collector:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Attributed name:

Cramer, Edward M.  Search this

Extent:

1 Cubic foot (1 box)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Broadsides

Sheet music

Place:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Date:

1860-1868

Summary:

This collection contains sheet music themed in support of the Confederacy. Many pieces were printed within the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865). It also contains one Confederate bond and early twentieth century facsimiles of Confederate broadsides from the Chicago Historical Society.

Scope and Contents:

Originally titled the Edward M. Cramer Confederate Sheet Music Collection in honor of Cramer, president of the music rights organization BMI from 1968-1987, this collection contains sheet music produced within the Confederate States of America, before and after the Civil War.

Series 1, Sheet Music, 1860-1868, undated, contains single sheet songs arranged alphabetically by title as well as compilations. The compilations are filed alphabetically under the song title most identified with the Confederacy. For instance, the reel "Molly Gardner" is in a collection of reels entitled Jerdon's Reels but found under the title "Molly Gardner".

Series 2, Ephemera, 1863, undated, contains one Confederate States bond and twentieth century facsimiles from the Chicago Historical Society of a variety of Confederate broadsides.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into two series.

Series 1, Sheet Music, 1860-1868, undated

Series 2, Ephemera, 1863, undated

Biographical / Historical:

During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the South used music as propaganda and inspiration to both the Confederate forces and the civilian population. After the war the music conjured up memories of the "Lost Cause" and those unfortunate soldiers who did not return home. Subject matter for songs was wide-ranging and drew from both domestic and military themes. Even though cut off from the music publishing houses of the northern states, the South was very active in publishing music within the boundaries of the Confederacy. Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee were reported to be the most active publishing centers, with the cities of Augusta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Mobile, Alabama also publishing sheet music. Much of this music was published on inferior grades of paper, and even though the cover engraving tended to be excellent at the beginning of the war, by war's end the covers were fairly plain and devoid of color or elaborate decoration.

Related Materials:

Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, 1790-1980s (AC0300)

Provenance:

This collection was donated by Broadcast Music, Incorporated (BMI), 2011.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

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:

War Between the States, 1861-1865  Search this

Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Communications  Search this

Genre/Form:

Broadsides

Sheet music -- 19th century

Citation:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1258

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BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep87e23fa00-5fda-4c92-ab46-d2049795fdfb

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1258

Creator:

Chicago Historical Society  Search this

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Collection Collector:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Ink on paper., 10.2" x 9.5".)

Container:

Box 1, Folder 22

Type:

Archival materials

Broadsides

Place:

Confederate States of America

Date:

1863

Local Numbers:

AC1258-0000087.jpg (AC Scan)

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Collection 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.

Genre/Form:

Broadsides

Collection Citation:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection / Series 2: Ephemera / Confederate broadsides, Chicago Historical Society facsimiles

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8dcc6ea31-6ecb-44f4-9d74-ae1d13015f5b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-1258-ref923

Creator:

Chicago Historical Society  Search this

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Collection Collector:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Ink on paper., 13.2" x 9.5".)

Container:

Box 1, Folder 22

Type:

Archival materials

Broadsides

Place:

Confederate States of America

Date:

1861

Local Numbers:

AC1258-0000088.jpg (AC Scan)

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Collection 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.

Genre/Form:

Broadsides

Collection Citation:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection / Series 2: Ephemera / Confederate broadsides, Chicago Historical Society facsimiles

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep88802056a-b863-4df5-9fe3-ae0e396ac539

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-1258-ref924

Publisher:

Chicago Historical Society  Search this

Donor:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Collection Collector:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Ink on paper., 17.0" x 11.0".)

Container:

Box 1, Folder 22

Type:

Archival materials

Reproductions

Broadsides

Place:

Confederate States of America

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Reproduction of a poster in the Chicago Historical Society collection.

Local Numbers:

AC1258-0000089.jpg (AC Scan)

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Collection 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:

Draft -- 19th century  Search this

Civil war  Search this

Genre/Form:

Reproductions

Broadsides

Collection Citation:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection / Series 2: Ephemera / Confederate broadsides, Chicago Historical Society facsimiles

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8f15d5963-ca69-44a5-b451-5bd3ade85754

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-1258-ref925

Publisher:

Chicago Historical Society  Search this

Donor:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Collection Collector:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Ink on paper., 17.0" x 11.0".)

Container:

Box 1, Folder 22

Type:

Archival materials

Reproductions

Broadsides

Place:

Confederate States of America

Date:

undated

Local Numbers:

AC1258-0000090.jpg (AC Scan)

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Collection 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:

Civil war  Search this

Genre/Form:

Reproductions

Broadsides

Collection Citation:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection / Series 2: Ephemera / Confederate broadsides, Chicago Historical Society facsimiles

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep82ac2ab1d-6192-415c-ac3a-95d16a596541

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-1258-ref926

Creator:

Chicago Historical Society  Search this

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Collection Collector:

Broadcast Music, Inc.  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Ink on paper., 11.8" x 9.6".)

Container:

Box 1, Folder 22

Type:

Archival materials

Broadsides

Place:

Confederate States of America

Date:

undated

Local Numbers:

AC1258-0000091.jpg (AC Scan)

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Collection 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.

Genre/Form:

Broadsides

Collection Citation:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection

BMI Archives Confederate Sheet Music Collection / Series 2: Ephemera / Confederate broadsides, Chicago Historical Society facsimiles

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8ce16b067-bb39-4e74-adb3-ce1587f9ad1a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-1258-ref927

Extent:

8.70 cu. ft. (9 document boxes) (7 12x17 boxes) (1 16x20 box)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Date:

1846-1995

Descriptive Entry:

These records are the official minutes of the Board. They are compiled at the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian, who is also secretary to the Board, after approval by the Regents' Executive Committee and by the Regents themselves. The minutes are edited, not a verbatim account of proceedings. For reasons unknown, there are no manuscript minutes for the period from 1857 through 1890; and researchers must rely on printed minutes published in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution instead. Minutes are transferred regularly from the Secretary's Office to the Archives. Minutes less than 15 years old are closed to researchers. Indexes exist for the period from 1907 to 1946 and can be useful.

Historical Note:

The Smithsonian Institution was created by authority of an Act of Congress approved August 10, 1846. The Act entrusted direction of the Smithsonian to a body called the Establishment, composed of the President; the Vice President; the Chief Justice of the United States; the secretaries of State, War, Navy, Interior, and Agriculture; the Attorney General; and the Postmaster General. In fact, however, the Establishment last met in 1877, and control of the Smithsonian has always been exercised by its Board of Regents. The membership of the Regents consists of the Vice President and the Chief Justice of the United States; three members each of the Senate and House of Representatives; two citizens of the District of Columbia; and seven citizens of the several states, no two from the same state. (Prior to 1970 the category of Citizen Regents not residents of Washington consisted of four members). By custom the Chief Justice is Chancellor. The office was at first held by the Vice President. However, when Millard Fillmore succeeded to the presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor in 1851, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney was chosen in his stead. The office has always been filled by the Chief Justice since that time.

The Regents of the Smithsonian have included distinguished Americans from many walks of life. Ex officio members (Vice President) have been: Spiro T. Agnew, Chester A. Arthur, Allen W. Barkley, John C. Breckenridge, George Bush, Schuyler Colfax, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Curtis, George M. Dallas, Charles G. Dawes, Charles W. Fairbanks, Millard Fillmore, Gerald R. Ford, John N. Garner, Hannibal Hamlin, Thomas A. Hendricks, Garret A. Hobart, Hubert H. Humphrey, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, William R. King, Thomas R. Marshall, Walter F. Mondale, Levi P. Morton, Richard M. Nixon, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, James S. Sherman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, William A. Wheeler, Henry Wilson.

Ex officio members (Chief Justice) have been: Roger B. Taney, Salmon P. Chase, Nathan Clifford, Morrison R. Waite, Samuel F. Miller, Melville W. Fuller, Edward D. White, William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan F. Stone, Fred M. Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren E. Burger.

Regents on the part of the Senate have been: Clinton P. Anderson, Newton Booth, Sidney Breese, Lewis Cass, Robert Milledge Charlton, Bennet Champ Clark, Francis M. Cockrell, Shelby Moore Cullom, Garrett Davis, Jefferson Davis, George Franklin Edmunds, George Evans, Edwin J. Garn, Walter F. George, Barry Goldwater, George Gray, Hannibal Hamlin, Nathaniel Peter Hill, George Frisbie Hoar, Henry French Hollis, Henry M. Jackson, William Lindsay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Medill McCormick, James Murray Mason, Samuel Bell Maxey, Robert B. Morgan, Frank E. Moss, Claiborne Pell, George Wharton Pepper, David A. Reed, Leverett Saltonstall, Hugh Scott, Alexander H. Smith, Robert A. Taft, Lyman Trumbull, Wallace H. White, Jr., Robert Enoch Withers.

Regents on the part of the House of Representatives have included: Edward P. Boland, Frank T. Bow, William Campbell Breckenridge, Overton Brooks, Benjamin Butterworth, Clarence Cannon, Lucius Cartrell, Hiester Clymer, William Colcock, William P. Cole, Jr., Maurice Connolly, Silvio O. Conte, Edward E. Cox, Edward H. Crump, John Dalzell, Nathaniel Deering, Hugh A. Dinsmore, William English, John Farnsworth, Scott Ferris, Graham Fitch, James Garfield, Charles L. Gifford, T. Alan Goldsborough, Frank L. Greene, Gerry Hazleton, Benjamin Hill, Henry Hilliard, Ebenezer Hoar, William Hough, William M. Howard, Albert Johnson, Leroy Johnson, Joseph Johnston, Michael Kirwan, James T. Lloyd, Robert Luce, Robert McClelland, Samuel K. McConnell, Jr., George H. Mahon, George McCrary, Edward McPherson, James R. Mann, George Perkins Marsh, Norman Y. Mineta, A. J. Monteague, R. Walton Moore, Walter H. Newton, Robert Dale Owen, James Patterson, William Phelps, Luke Poland, John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn, B. Carroll Reece, Ernest W. Roberts, Otho Robards Singleton, Frank Thompson, Jr., John M. Vorys, Hiram Warner, Joseph Wheeler.

Citizen Regents have been: David C. Acheson, Louis Agassiz, James B. Angell, Anne L. Armstrong, William Backhouse Astor, J. Paul Austin, Alexander Dallas Bache, George Edmund Badger, George Bancroft, Alexander Graham Bell, James Gabriel Berrett, John McPherson Berrien, Robert W. Bingham, Sayles Jenks Bowen, William G. Bowen, Robert S. Brookings, John Nicholas Brown, William A. M. Burden, Vannevar Bush, Charles F. Choate, Jr., Rufus Choate, Arthur H. Compton, Henry David Cooke, Henry Coppee, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Edward H. Crump, James Dwight Dana, Harvey N. Davis, William Lewis Dayton, Everette Lee Degolyer, Richard Delafield, Frederic A. Delano, Charles Devens, Matthew Gault Emery, Cornelius Conway Felton, Robert V. Fleming, Murray Gell-Mann, Robert F. Goheen, Asa Gray, George Gray, Crawford Hallock Greenwalt, Nancy Hanks, Caryl Parker Haskins, Gideon Hawley, John B. Henderson, John B. Henderson, Jr., A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Gardner Greene Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, Carlisle H. Humelsine, Jerome C. Hunsaker, William Preston Johnston, Irwin B. Laughlin, Walter Lenox, Augustus P. Loring, John Maclean, William Beans Magruder, John Walker Maury, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, John C. Merriam, R. Walton Moore, Roland S. Morris, Dwight W. Morrow, Richard Olney, Peter Parker, Noah Porter, William Campbell Preston, Owen Josephus Roberts, Richard Rush, William Winston Seaton, Alexander Roby Shepherd, William Tecumseh Sherman, Otho Robards Singleton, Joseph Gilbert Totten, John Thomas Towers, Frederic C. Walcott, Richard Wallach, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., James E. Webb, James Clarke Welling, Andrew Dickson White, Henry White, Theodore Dwight Woolsey.

Topic:

Museums -- Administration  Search this

Museum trustees  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 1, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes

Identifier:

Record Unit 1

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Minutes

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-faru0001

Collection Correspondent:

Hanson, James A.  Search this

Conner, Stuart W.  Search this

Dempsey, Hugh A.  Search this

Brasser, Ted J.  Search this

DeMallie, Raymond  Search this

Schaeffer, Claude E.  Search this

Taylor, Colin F.  Search this

Collection Creator:

Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997  Search this

Container:

Box 5

Type:

Archival materials

Text

Date:

1996

Collection Restrictions:

The John Canfield Ewers papers are open for research.

Collection Rights:

Contact repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

John Canfield Ewers papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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John Canfield Ewers Papers

John Canfield Ewers Papers / Series 1: Correspondence

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw33c31363d-3ce4-424b-99e0-43de84fb6728

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-1998-35-ref196

Collection Creator:

Asch, Moses  Search this

Distler, Marian, 1919-1964  Search this

Folkways Records  Search this

Container:

Box 3.11, Folder 10

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1980

Scope and Contents note:

File consists of correspondence requesting permission to use records for exhibit.

Collection Restrictions:

Access by appointment only. Contact the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at rinzlerarchives@si.edu or (202) 633-7322 for additional information.

Collection Rights:

Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.ASCH, File ASCH_03_011_010

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Moses and Frances Asch Collection

Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 3: Business Records / 3.1: General Business A-L

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk54907c6cb-3cdf-43cb-984c-442ff6d9d12f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-cfch-asch-ref11985

Artist:

Otto J. Schneider, 1875 - 1946  Search this

Copy after:

Unidentified Artist  Search this

Sitter:

Cornelius Rea Acheson, 1856 - 1931  Search this

Medium:

Etching and drypoint on paper

Dimensions:

Image: 21.4 × 13.8 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/16")

Sheet: 28.6 × 20.6 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/8")

Type:

Print

Date:

c. 1910-1920

Topic:

Costume\Dress Accessory\Tie\Necktie  Search this

Cornelius Rea Acheson: Male  Search this

Cornelius Rea Acheson: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of State  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Chicago Historical Society

Object number:

S/NPG.79.35

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

See more items in:

National Portrait Gallery Collection

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ceaf31e4-4607-487a-8d04-340ef1b96cfb

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_S_NPG.79.35

Artist:

Otto J. Schneider, 1875 - 1946  Search this

Copy after:

Unidentified Artist  Search this

Sitter:

S. A. Walker, born mid 19th century  Search this

Medium:

Etching and drypoint on paper

Dimensions:

Image: 25.3 × 17 cm (9 15/16 × 6 11/16")

Sheet: 34 × 24 cm (13 3/8 × 9 7/16")

Type:

Print

Date:

c. 1920-1930

Topic:

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Tie\Necktie  Search this

S. A. Walker: Male  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Chicago Historical Society

Object number:

S/NPG.79.36

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

See more items in:

National Portrait Gallery Collection

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm42133f73b-f718-4961-a319-e92915f4652d

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_S_NPG.79.36

Physical Description:

glass plate (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 5 in x 4 in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm

Object Name:

glass plate negative

Place made:

United States: Illinois, Chicago

Subject:

Women  Search this

Dance  Search this

Native Americans  Search this

Costume  Search this

ID Number:

PG.67.88.00689

Accession number:

270586

Catalog number:

67.88.00689

Publisher number:

CH506677

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Work and Industry: Photographic History

Photography

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-c0af-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_756171

Physical Description:

textile (outside material)

Measurements:

overall: 23 in x 12 in; 58.42 cm x 30.48 cm

Object Name:

life jacket

Other Terms:

life jacket; Maritime

Date made:

1912

Related event:

The Emergence of Modern America  Search this

Related Publication:

On the Water online exhibition

Related Web Publication:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater

Credit Line:

Gift of Chicago Historical Society (through Teresa Krutz) and Dr. Frank H. Blackmarr

ID Number:

1982.0319.01

Catalog number:

82.0319.01

Accession number:

1982.0319

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Work and Industry: Maritime

Industry & Manufacturing

Transportation

On the Water exhibit

Titanic

Exhibition:

On the Water

Exhibition Location:

National Museum of American History

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-9a85-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_844465

Physical Description:

leather (overall material)

rubber (laces material)

Measurements:

overall: 11 in x 5 1/2 in; x 27.94 cm x 13.97 cm

Object Name:

ball

autographed football

football

Object Type:

football

Date made:

ca 1950

Subject:

Football  Search this

College  Search this

Sports  Search this

Credit Line:

Chicago Historical Society, through Teresa Krutz

ID Number:

1981.0974.01

Accession number:

1981.0974

Catalog number:

1981.0974.01

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Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-dcda-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_665406

User:

Dempsey, Jack  Search this

Physical Description:

leather; cotton (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 11 in x 4 in; 27.94 cm x 10.16 cm

overall; single glove: 11 in x 6 in x 4 in; 27.94 cm x 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm

Object Name:

Gloves, Pair of

boxing gloves

Date made:

1920

Subject:

Boxing  Search this

Professional  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Chicago Historical Society, through Ellsworth H. Brown

ID Number:

1982.0360.01

Accession number:

1982.0360

Catalog number:

1982.0360.01

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Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-d774-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_665782

Measurements:

overall: 87.7 cm x 55.8 cm; 34 17/32 in x 21 31/32 in

overall (folded): 21 in x 20 in x 1 in; 53.34 cm x 50.8 cm x 2.54 cm

Object Name:

Flag

Other Terms:

Flag; Military; Veteran, Gar; Commemorative; Corps 4; Division 03

Associated date:

1875

Credit Line:

Chicago Historical Society

ID Number:

1982.0186.06

Catalog number:

1982.0186.06

Accession number:

1982.0186

See more items in:

Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-6272-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_441737

Measurements:

overall: 86.5 cm x 55 cm; 34 1/16 in x 21 21/32 in

overall (folded): 15 in x 10 in x 1 in; 38.1 cm x 25.4 cm x 2.54 cm

Object Name:

Flag

Other Terms:

Flag; Military; Veteran, Gar; Commemorative; Corps 24; Division 03

Associated date:

1875

Credit Line:

Chicago Historical Society

ID Number:

1982.0186.09

Catalog number:

1982.0186.09

Accession number:

1982.0186

See more items in:

Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-6273-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_441738