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Creator:

Smithsonian Channel  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2011-06-13T15:48:50.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Channel

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianchannel

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_xIWRiqWxeNM

Creator:

Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969  Search this

Names:

John A. Roebling's Sons Company  Search this

Extent:

1 Cubic foot (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Business ephemera

Ephemera

Date:

1818-1941

Summary:

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Bridges forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

Scope and Contents:

This subseries consists primarily of materials relating to bridge builders and suppliers of bridge building materials as well as individual bridges, publications, and other materials relating to bridge building. Bridge types include beam, truss, suspension, highway and railroad bridges. Various construction types, such as iron, steel and concrete are represented. Most of the material in this collection was produced in the north eastern United States; a few items are European. While the material dates from 1818 to 1941, the bulk of it was produced between 1870 and 1910. A considerable number of bridge images are present.

Arrangement:

The material is arranged in four subseries:

Subseries 1: Bridge Builders and Suppliers of Bridge Construction Materials, 1860-1941

Subseries 2: Bridges, 1858-1936

Subseries 3: Publications Relating to Bridges, 1823-1908

Subseries 4: General Subjects Relating to Bridges, 1818-1926

Materials in the Archives Center:

Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)

Forms Part Of:

Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.

Missing Title

Series 1: Business Ephemera

Series 2: Other Collection Divisions

Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers

Series 4: Photographic Reference Material

Provenance:

Bridges is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.

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:

Bridges  Search this

Suspension bridges  Search this

Railroad bridges  Search this

Covered bridges  Search this

Genre/Form:

Business ephemera

Ephemera

Citation:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Bridges

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8af14bacb-94bc-425d-97e0-3e677397e479

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0060-s01-01-bridges

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tygarts Creek, 0.7 Mile SE Of State Road 7 On Covered Bridge Road, Greenup County, Kentucky, United States

Published Name:

Ptychobranchus fasciolare (Rafinesque, 1820)

USNM Number:

809310

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3ae981abc-db00-4ef3-af7e-b6cc8b732284

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_482750

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tygarts Creek, 0.7 Mile SE Of State Road 7 On Covered Bridge Road, Greenup County, Kentucky, United States

Published Name:

Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)

USNM Number:

809321

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/365ddb2f9-5c2e-408a-8752-a95493eab90e

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_482761

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tygarts Creek, 0.7 Mile SE Of State Road 7 On Covered Bridge Road, Greenup County, Kentucky, United States

Published Name:

Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820)

USNM Number:

809322

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3bfc85dc3-c9bf-454d-a515-037028a240b9

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_482762

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tygarts Creek, 0.7 Mile SE Of State Road 7 On Covered Bridge Road, Greenup County, Kentucky, United States

Published Name:

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)

USNM Number:

809326

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/332eba451-9629-4183-8f5d-de7112f0ae01

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_482766

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tygarts Creek, At Covered Bridge Road State Road +Co Road 215,200 Yard N Of Bridge, Greenup County, Kentucky, United States

Published Name:

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Amblema plicata plicata (Say, 1817)

USNM Number:

809327

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b1141ad6-2221-4f2e-90c1-96011d0c5c41

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_482767

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tygarts Creek, At Covered Bridge Road State Road +Co Road 215,200 Yard N Of Bridge, Greenup County, Kentucky, United States

Published Name:

Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)

USNM Number:

809329

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36a67218b-aeb3-4536-8e9f-34c034b77c62

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_482769

Photographer:

Westring, Dana S.  Search this

Collection Creator:

Garden Club of America  Search this

Extent:

1 Slide (col., 35 mm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Slides

Place:

Poke Garden (Marshall, Virginia)

United States of America -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Marshall

Date:

2005 Jun.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Shrubs  Search this

Trees  Search this

Pergolas  Search this

Gardens -- Virginia -- Marshall  Search this

Fences -- wooden  Search this

Bridges  Search this

Outdoor furniture  Search this

Fields  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

Sponsor:

A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Identifier:

AAG.GCA, Item VA363008

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The Garden Club of America collection

The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Virginia / VA363: Marshall -- Poke Garden

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb67483859a-d2bf-494d-8737-7109a5042041

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref19381

Creator:

Vogel, Robert M.  Search this

Shayt, David H.  Search this

Worthington, Bill  Search this

Names:

Historic American Buildings Survey  Search this

Former owner:

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

Extent:

45 Cubic feet (114 boxes, 23 map folders)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Articles

Color slides

Contracts

Copy prints

Correspondence

Illustrations

Letterheads

Maps

Negatives (photographic)

Newsclippings

Notebooks

Photographs

Picture postcards

Pocket notebooks

Postage stamps

Press releases

Reports

Specifications

Stereographs

Date:

1755-2000

Summary:

The collection consists of a wide range of materials--ephemera, trade literature, correpsondence, photographs, maps, plans, schematics, pamplets, brochures, postcards, calendars--documenting the subject of bridges.

Scope and Contents:

This collection was assembled by the Division of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (now the Division of Work and Industry) curators over the course of several decades. The collection consists of a wide range of materials documenting the subject of bridges broadly in terms of planning, construction, geography, aesthetics, cost, and failures. Well-known bridges such as the Brooklyn Bridge and its bridge builders and engineers is also documented.

The materials consist of photographs, negatives, copy prints, illustrations, correspondence, newsclippings, journal articles, HABS/HAER drawings, engineeeing reports, contracts and specifications for building bridges, blueprints, and notebooks. Throughout the files is curatorial correspondence, principally with curator Robert Vogel and historians of the history of technology, bridge enthusiasts, and civil engineers. There is a mixture of primary, secondary and tertiary materials found throughout the collection.

Some of the materials related to the Brooklyn Bridge are photocopies or copy prints from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Roebling Collection and other archives and libraries. These materials were assembled for the exhibit "Building Brooklyn Bridge--The Engineering and Construction, 1867-1883" staged in 1983 at the National Museum of American History. These materials are filed under the title "Building Brooklyn Bridge."

Many of the photographs and other items are from collections at the National Museum of American History: Llewellyn Nathaniel Edwards, Henry Grattan Tyrrell, Samuel E. Reed Collection, and the T.F. Healy Collection.

Publications vary widely, but some titles include American Contract Journal, American Railroad Journal, Harpers Weekly, Scientific American, Engineers and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering News-Record, Engineering Record, and others.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into one series, then alphabetically.

Related Materials:

Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Horatio Allen Papers, NMAH.AC.1447

American Public Works Association "Top Ten Public Works Projects of the Century--1900-2000" Nominations, NMAH.AC.0983

American Petroleum Institute Photograph and Film Collection, NMAH.AC.0711

Archives Center Business Americana Collection, NMAH.AC.0404

Archives Center Lantern Slide Collection, NMAH.AC.0686

Archives Center Postcard Collection, NMAH.AC.0483

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Records, NMAH.AC.1086

Benjamin Franklin Bridge Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1029

Berlin Construction Company Records, NMAH.AC.1032

Victor Blenkle Postcard Collection, NMAH.AC.0200

Bollman Truss Bridge Collection, NMAH.AC.1064

Donald M. Burmister Paper, NMAH.AC.1068

Canadian Bridges Photograph Albums, NMAH.AC.1025

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection, NMAH.AC.0930

Robert Covington Stereograph Portfolio, NMAH.AC.1201

Cummings Structural Concrete Company Records, NMAH.AC.0218

Arthur d'Arazien Industrial Photographs, NMAH.AC.0314

Victor C. Darnell Bridge Construction Photographs, NMAH.AC.1018

William E. Dean Papers, NMAH.AC.0230

Robert Dearborn Panama Canal Glass negatives, NMAH.AC.1111

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Records, NMAH.AC.1074

Beata Drake Covered Bridge Collection, NMAH.AC.0998

Llewellyn N. Edwards Papers, NMAH.AC.0959

W.J. Eney Collection, NMAH.AC.1062

Erie Railroad Collection, NMAH.AC.1082

Joseph C. Farber Papers and Photographs, NMAH.AC.0520

Foundation Company Records, NMAH.AC.0974

James Forgie Papers, NMAH.AC.0986

James Gallagher Collection, NMAH.AC.0228

Grand Central Terminal Collection, NMAH.AC.1071

Henry Grattan Tyrrell and Mary Maude Knox Tyrrell Papers, NMAH.AC.0948

Hartford, Connecticut Bridge Collection, NMAH.AC.1066

William R. Hutton Papers, NMAH.AC.0987

Kahn Family Film Collection, NMAH.AC.0722

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Bridge Profiles, NMAH.AC.1073

Beatrice Lizinger Postcard Collection, NMAH.AC.0530

Nicholas C. Mandragos Papers, NMAH.AC.0484

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089

Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, NMAH.AC.0984

Richard H. Miller Bridge Collection of Postcards and Slides, NMAH.AC.0950

Minnesota Railroads Photograph Albums, NMAH.AC.1023

George S. Morison Collection, NMAH.AC.0978

Modjeski and Masters Company Records, NMAH.AC.0976

Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965

Niagara Falls Bridge Commission Records, NMAH.AC.1060

Thomas Norrell Railroad Photographs Collection, NMAH.AC.1174

Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge Construction Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1030

Panama Canal Commission Photonegatives, NMAH.AC.1116

Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas Records, NMAH.AC.0969

David Plowden North American Bridge Photographs, NMAH.AC.1019

David Plowden Steel Manufacturing Photographs, NMAH.AC.1020

Samuel E. Reed Bridge Collection, NMAH.AC.1001

Lili Rethi Papers, NMAH.AC.0749

John A. Roebling Collection, NMAH.AC.0981

Lucinda Rudell Covered Bridges Collection, NMAH.AC.1028

Edwin G. Rust Papers, NMAH.AC.1070

Jean W. Seele Rural Photographs, NMAH.AC.0759

Lester Shanks Collection of Bridge Photographs and Ephemera, NMAH.AC.1244

J. Parker Snow Collection, NMAH.AC.1000

Society for Industrial Archaeology Records, NMAH.AC.0688

Quebec Bridge Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.1026

Railroad Bridges Construction Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1024

Holton Duncan Robinson Papers, NMAH.AC.0963

Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.Ac.0143

U.S. Steel Corporation Photograph Albums, NMAH.AC.1037

Rip Van Winkle Bridge Photographs, NMAH.AC.1027

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Series: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Series: Railroads, NMAH.AC.0060

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Series 2: Other Collection Divisions, NMAH.AC.0060

Washington, D.C. Bridges Collection, NMAH.AC.1095

Raymond W. Wilson Covered Bridge Collection, NMAH.AC.0999

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:

Bridges  Search this

Civil engineers  Search this

Railroads -- 19th century  Search this

Railroads -- 20th century  Search this

Genre/Form:

Articles

Color slides -- 20th century

Contracts -- 20th century

Copy prints

Correspondence -- 19th century

Correspondence -- 20th century

Illustrations

Letterheads

Maps -- 20th century

Negatives (photographic)

Newsclippings

Notebooks

Photographs -- 20th century

Picture postcards -- 20th century

Pocket notebooks

Postage stamps

Press releases

Reports -- 19th century

Reports -- 20th century

Specifications

Stereographs

Citation:

Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1577

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Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8f3912776-c575-41af-a27e-338800e96007

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1577

Creator:

Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-  Search this

Gibbs, Wolcott, 1902-1958  Search this

Faulkner, Barry, 1881-1966  Search this

Hardin, Louis  Search this

Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003  Search this

Rosin, Harry  Search this

Soyer, Isaac, 1902-1981  Search this

Names:

Barnes Foundation  Search this

Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852  Search this

Rox, Henry  Search this

Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921  Search this

White, Nelson C.  Search this

Collection Creator:

Brumbaugh, Thomas B. (Thomas Brendle), 1921-  Search this

Extent:

10 Items (Letters, written in ink, ball point, graphite, typewritter)

Type:

Archival materials

Correspondence

Date:

1941-1970

Scope and Contents:

This collection is an amalgamation of letters written and recieved by prominent figures in 19th and 20th century American art. Included in this folder are letters between the collector, Thomas Brumbaugh, and various artists, including American playwright and writer Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, mural artist Barry Faulkner, and Louis Hardin.

Arrangement:

Organized chronologically.

Biographical / Historical:

Beginning in his youth Thomas Brumbaugh collected autographed correspondence. Mr. Brumbaugh's collecting instincts resulted in a unique collaborative collection providing a glimpse into the lives of a variety of 19th and 20th century American artists, such as Abbott Thayer. Brumbaugh was a professor of fine arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and author of many articles on American art and artists.

Oliver Wolcott Gibbs was an American playwright and writer who lived in New York City. He wrote for The New Yorker and worked as a humorist and theatre critic. Gibbs was a direct descendent of President Martin Van Buren.

Barry Faulkner was an American artist who studied with Abbott H. Thayer, George de Forest Brush, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Along with sculptor Sherry Edmundson Fry, Faulkner organized artists to train as camouflage specialists. Faulkner was born in New Hampshire, traveled to Europe as he studied art, and then returned to New York, where he began work as a mural artist. He completed "The Constitution" and "The Declaration" in 1936 for the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives.

Isaac Soyer was a social realist painter from New York City who used working-class and unemployed people as the subjects in his paintings. He also painted portraits for friends, and used his friends and family as models for his work.

Louis Hardin, commonly known as "Moondog," was a blind American composer and poet who lived on the streets of New York for a large portion of his life. He wore clothes inspired by the Norse god Thor, giving him the epithet, "The Viking of 6th Avenue." Moondog was influenced by ambient noises in his environment, and Native American music.

Henry Rox was a German artist who studied in Berlin and Paris before settling in the United States in 1938, where he taught at many universities, including Mount Holyoke College. He is known for fruit and vegetable photo-sculptures.

Ibram Lassaw was an American sculptor in the 20th century. Born in Egypt to Russian parents, Lassaw grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was influenced by Alexander Calder and Wassily Kandinsky. Lassaw created open-space sculptural abstractions with metal, and helped abstract art grow in the United States.

Harry Rosin was an American sculptor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After working around the area following his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he traveled to Tahiti, where he married his wife. He is known for his iron sculptures.

Local Numbers:

FSA A2009.06 3

Other Archival Materials:

Thomas B. Brumbaugh research material on Abbott Handerson Thayer and other artists, 1876-1994 (bulk 1960s-1994); Also located at Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Busts  Search this

Runes  Search this

Genre/Form:

Correspondence -- 19th century

Correspondence -- 20th century

Collection Citation:

The Brumbaugh Collection of Artist Letters. FSA.A2009.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Identifier:

FSA.A2009.06, Series FSA A2009.06 3

See more items in:

The Brumbaugh Collection of Artist Letters

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc31267edea-4152-4518-85be-12a164d9331e

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a2009-06-ref1

Photographer:

Farsari, A., 1841-1898  Search this

Farsari, A., 1841-1898  Search this

Collector:

Rosin, Henry D., Dr.  Search this

Rosin, Nancy  Search this

Collection Collector:

Rosin, Henry D., Dr.  Search this

Rosin, Nancy  Search this

Collection Creator:

Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920  Search this

Ueno, Hikoma, 1838-1904  Search this

Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825  Search this

Stillfried, Raimund, Baron von, 1839-1911  Search this

Underwood & Underwood  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Photographic print : on mount 21 x 26.7 cm, image 19.8 x 25.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Japan

Yokohama-shi (Japan)

Date:

[1860 - ca. 1900]

Scope and Contents:

Snow covered bridge and western-style houses in Yokohama.

Biographical / Historical:

Born in Italy in 1841, Farsari moved to Yokohama from the United States in 1877 as a tobacco merchant, but soon delved into the art of photography. In 1885, Farsari purchased the Japan Photographic Association studio and stock from Baron von Stillfried. While a fire destroyed the entire stock, it was quickly reproduced within a matter of months, and Farsari moved his studio to where the Yokohama Photographic Company was located. A. Farsari and Co. would eventually become one of Japan's largest photography studios, with over thirty-one Japanese artists. Farsari eventually returned to Italy in 1890.

Local Numbers:

R260 (Rosin Number)

FSA A1999.35 260

General:

Title taken from print.

Number and title printed in lower right corner of print.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Topic:

Photography -- Japan  Search this

Photography -- 19th century  Search this

Bridges  Search this

Architecture -- Japan  Search this

Boats  Search this

Snow  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.

Identifier:

FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 260

See more items in:

Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3feb56b22-471d-45f9-80d8-0ca463c9bb77

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a1999-35-ref384

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

Collector:

S. P. Gowan  Search this

Microhabitat Description:

on  Search this

Place:

Fundy National Park, at POint Wolfe, below covered bridge., Albert, New Brunswick, Canada, North America

Collection Date:

13 Oct 1981

Taxonomy:

Fungi Ascomycota Lecanoromycetes Peltigerales Collemataceae

Published Name:

Leptogium lichenoides (L.) Zahlbr.

Barcode:

01035230

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Bryophytes and Lichens

Cyanolichen Project

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3741b19e6-4780-4d1e-9b42-65f1c3385515

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_2881022

Biogeographical Region:

78 - Southeastern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

Charles N. Horn  Search this

Place:

Cherokee Co. Clearcut field along Covered Bridge Road ( unnumbered ) between Co. rts 104 & 54, 0.1 mi E of Co. rt 104. Ca. 12 mi SE of Gaffney., South Carolina, United States, North America

Collection Date:

2 Oct 1993

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Asterales Asteraceae Asteroideae

Published Name:

Chrysopsis mariana (L.) Elliott

Barcode:

01683551

USNM Number:

3684047

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Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/313e54e7a-0ca2-4d36-8d25-bd6c441cee52

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_12692264

Collection Donor:

Hiller, John  Search this

Extent:

1 Autochromes (photographs)

Container:

Box 4

Type:

Archival materials

Slides

Autochromes (photographs)

Date:

circa 1910-1935

General:

Although no specific location has been identified for this image, covered bridges were concentrated in North America, especially states like Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.

Collection Restrictions:

Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Collection Rights:

Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.

Topic:

Forests  Search this

Covered bridges  Search this

Streams  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, John Hiller lantern slide collection.

Identifier:

AAG.HLR, Item HLR171

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John Hiller lantern slide collection

John Hiller lantern slide collection / Series 1: Gardens and Sites / Unidentified Locations / Unidentified Gardens and Landscapes

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Gardens

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6e7dc00e5-53d3-4f96-9b61-8ac618b4af21

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aag-hlr-ref679

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

A. Arthur Heller  Search this

Place:

Butte County. At the covered bridge over Butte creek below Centerville., California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

27 Mar 1921

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Ranunculales Papaveraceae Papaveroideae

Published Name:

Meconella californica Torr. & Frém.

Barcode:

03579842

USNM Number:

1329348

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Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e0114f2a-2045-4ea6-9a81-48dc8d934c33

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_15188956

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

A. Arthur Heller  Search this

Place:

Butte County. Moist grassy places near rocks along Butte creek near the covered bridge below Centerville., California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

27 Mar 1921

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Saxifragales Saxifragaceae Heucheroideae

Published Name:

Lithophragma trifoliatum Eastw.

Barcode:

03680918

USNM Number:

1287100

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Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3bdeb28a1-7729-4708-998f-066774acbfda

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_15253071

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

A. Arthur Heller  Search this

Place:

Butte County, near the covered bridge over BUtte Creek below Centerville, California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

27 Mar 1921

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Asterales Asteraceae Asteroideae

Published Name:

Eriophyllum heermanni Greene

Barcode:

01800062

USNM Number:

1329346

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Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/339a94ed8-f0e6-4967-bc0d-6288f9b75eda

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_12861056

Biogeographical Region:

76 - Southwestern U.S.A.  Search this

Collector:

A. Arthur Heller  Search this

Microhabitat Description:

Thin clay soil covering lava rocks.  Search this

Place:

Near the covered bridge on Butte Creek E of Chico., Butte, California, United States, North America

Collection Date:

4 May 1938

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Malvales Malvaceae

Published Name:

Sidalcea hartwegii A. Gray

Barcode:

01237316

USNM Number:

1974117

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3da748054-d750-4501-8d0e-1384303e9967

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_11287158