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Author:

Vrydagh, P. André  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Subject:

Livingston Museum Ethnological collections  Search this

Type:

Maps

Place:

Zambia

Date:

1968

Topic:

Wood-carving, Lozi  Search this

Lozi wood plates  Search this

Lozi wood dishes  Search this

Ethnic groups  Search this

Call number:

DT641 .A258

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_501871

Author:

Heintze, Beatrix  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Type:

Articles

Date:

1989

Topic:

Mbunda (Angolan and Zambian people)--Material culture  Search this

Call number:

GN645 .A258 1989

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_529664

Author:

Hodder, Ian  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Type:

Articles

Date:

1982

Topic:

Material culture  Search this

Mbunda (Angolan and Zambian people)--Material culture  Search this

Call number:

GN659.K4 H62

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_541087

Author:

Vrydagh, P. André  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Subject:

Musée Barbier-Mueller  Search this

Type:

Articles

Date:

1993

Topic:

Makishi  Search this

Mbunda masquerades  Search this

Masks, Mbunda  Search this

Hunters in art  Search this

Mbunda (Angolan and Zambian people)--Hunting  Search this

Call number:

N5310.7 .A764

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_543810

Author:

Vrydagh, P. André  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Type:

Articles

Date:

1990

Topic:

Makishi  Search this

Mbunda masquerades  Search this

Masks, Mbunda  Search this

Hunters in art  Search this

Mbunda (Angolan and Zambian people)--Hunting  Search this

Call number:

N7380 .D295 1990

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_543811

Author:

De Bow, J. D. B (James Dunwoody Brownson) 1820-1867  Search this

Barnwell, R. G  Search this

Bell, Edwin, Q  Search this

Burwell, William MacCreary 1809-1888  Search this

Physical description:

43 v. ill., plates, ports., maps. 24 cm

Type:

Periodicals

Place:

Southern states

Date:

1846

1880

Topic:

Industries  Search this

Communications  Search this

Call number:

HF1 .D28

AP2

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_64230

Illustrator:

Weld, Isaac 1774-1856  Search this

Former owner:

Smithson, James 1765-1829 DSI  Search this

Engraver:

Dadley, J.  Search this

Drayton, J. B.  Search this

Neagle  Search this

Neele, Samuel John 1758-1824  Search this

Scott, John 1774-1827  Search this

Springsguth, Samuel  Search this

Thomson, P.  Search this

Storer, James 1771-1853  Search this

Subject:

Weld, Isaac 1774-1856 Travel  Search this

Physical description:

2 volumes, [16] folded leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings), maps, plan ; 23 cm

Type:

Electronic resources

Place:

United States

Canada

Date:

1807

Topic:

Description and travel  Search this

Call number:

E164 .W44 1807

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_91126

Author:

Vrydagh, P. André  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Type:

Articles

Place:

Africa, Southern

Zimbabwe

Botswana

South Africa

Date:

1969

Topic:

Stone sculpture  Search this

Stone carving  Search this

Call number:

GN301 .A673

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_989758

Creator:

Smithson, Robert  Search this

Names:

Dwan Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art  Search this

Andre, Carl, 1935-  Search this

Atkinson, Terry, 1939-  Search this

Dibbets, Jan, 1941-  Search this

Dwan, Virginia  Search this

Flavin, Dan, 1933-  Search this

Graham, Dan, 1942-  Search this

Haacke, Hans, 1936-  Search this

Heizer, Michael, 1944-  Search this

Holt, Nancy, 1938-  Search this

Insley, Will, 1929-2011  Search this

Jenney, Neil, 1945-  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this

LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007  Search this

Lippard, Lucy R.  Search this

Long, Richard, 1945-  Search this

Oppenheim, Dennis, 1938-2011  Search this

Valledor, Leo, 1936-1989  Search this

Wheeler, Dennis  Search this

Extent:

15.1 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Greeting cards

Photographs

Transcripts

Motion pictures (visual works)

Date:

1905-1987

bulk 1952-1987

Summary:

The papers of sculptor, writer, and earthworks artist Robert Smithson and his wife, sculptor, filmmaker, and earthworks artist Nancy Holt measure 15.1 linear feet and date from 1905 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from 1952 to 1987. The papers consist of Smithson's biographical material; business and personal correspondence, much of it with artists; interview transcripts; extensive writings and project files; financial records; printed material; a scrapbook of clippings; holiday cards with original prints and sketches; photographic material; and artifacts. Also found are project files related to Nancy Holt's motion picture film Pine Barrens and her seminal environmental work of art Sun Tunnels, including a video documentary about Sun Tunnels.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of sculptor, writer, and earthworks artist Robert Smithson and his wife, sculptor, filmmaker, and earthworks artist Nancy Holt measure 15.1 linear feet and date from 1905 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from 1952 to 1987. The papers consist of Smithson's biographical material; business and personal correspondence, much of it with artists; interview transcripts; extensive writings and project files; financial records; printed material; a scrapbook of clippings; holiday cards with original prints and sketches; photographic material; and artifacts. Also found are project files related to Nancy Holt's film Pine Barrens and her seminal environmental work of art Sun Tunnels, including a video documentary about Sun Tunnels.

Biographical material includes Robert Smithson's curriculum vitae, personal identification and medical documents, eight engagement/day planners Smithson and Holt maintained from 1966 to 1973, and Smithson's funeral register.

Correspondence is primarily with Smithson's family, friends, fellow artists, and business associates discussing personal relationships, proposed art projects, and exhibitions. Correspondents of note include Carl Andre, the Dwan Gallery (Virginia Dwan), Dan Graham, Will Insley, Ray Johnson, Gyorgy Kepes, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, and Dennis Wheeler. There is also substantial correspondence received by Holt upon Smithson's death in 1973, and between Holt and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art regarding Smithson's retrospective exhibition in 1982.

There are nine interview transcripts with Smithson discussing his works and his general philosophy on art, and one transcript of the Andrew Dickson White Museum's Earth Art Symposium (1969) featuring the following artists: Mike Hiezer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Neil Jenney, Gunther Uecker, Jan Dibbets, Richard Long, and Hans Haacke.

Writings are substantial and include 73 drafts of published and unpublished essays by Smithson on art, artists, and works in progress. The series also includes poems by Smithson, six notebooks containing notes and sketches by Smithson, and drafts of writings sent to Smithson and Holt by friends and colleagues, including Carl Andre, Terry Atkinson, Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, and Jack Thibeau.

Project files contain correspondence, project instructions, diagrams and sketches, research materials, photographic material, and maps related to over 50 of Smithson's artworks. These include concepts, proposed projects, sculptures, non-sites, and earthwork projects, including Spiral Jetty, Broken Circle, and Spiral Hill.

Personal business records include gallery related loan arrangements and receipts for miscellaneous art supplies. Financial records include tax forms and preparation documents, including cancelled checks, receipts, statements, and related correspondence.

Printed materials include books, clippings, and periodicals related to Smithson, either containing writings or sketches by him, or containing articles reviewing his work. There are also exhibition announcements and catalogs of Smithson's group and solo shows from 1959 to 1985.

The scrapbook contains clippings of Smithson's published articles from 1966 to 1973 with annotated shorthand notes.

Artwork consists of Christmas cards collaged by Smithson, and sketches by Smithson and Leo Valledor.

Photographic materials include prints and negatives of Smithson with friends, promotional Hollywood movie stills, and original prints and copyprints of other artists' artwork.

Artifacts consist of a paper bag silkscreened with a Campbell's soup can (Warhol), promotional buttons (N.E. Thing Co.), various organic materials, and two art kits.

Nancy Holt's papers consist of correspondence, a grant application, printed materials, and project files and audio visual material related to her motion picture film Pine Barrens (1975) and her seminal environmental work of art Sun Tunnels (1975).

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 13 series:

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1905-1974 (Box 1; 14 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1959-1987 (Boxes 1-2, OV 21; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 3: Interview Transcripts, 1966-1973 (Box 2; 11 folders)

Series 4: Writings, 1959-1975 (Boxes 2-3; 1.1 linear feet)

Series 5: Project Files, circa 1950s-1982 (Boxes 4-5, Boxes 17-18, OV 20, OV 22-26, OV 36, RD 28-30, RD 32-35; 6.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Personal Business Records, circa 1967-1970s (Box 5; 4 folders)

Series 7: Financial Records, 1962-1972 (Box 6; 1 linear foot)

Series 8: Printed Material, 1955-1985 (Boxes 7-11, Box 18, RD 31; 5.6 linear feet)

Series 9: Scrapbook, 1966-1973 (Box 11, Box 16; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 10: Artwork, circa 1950s-1970s (Box 11; 4 folders)

Series 11: Photographs, circa 1950s-1970s (Box 11, Box 18; 5 folders)

Series 12: Artifacts, circa 1950s-1970s (Box 11, Box 14, OV 19; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 13: Nancy Holt Papers, circa 1960s-1980s (Box 12-13, 15, OV 27, FC 37-38; 1.9 linear feet)

Biographical Note:

Robert Smithson (1938-1973) was the pioneer of land and earthworks art. He was also a noted sculptor, painter, writer, and lecturer working primarily in New York City. Smithson's wife, Nancy Holt (1938-) was a noted sculptor and filmmaker and also worked as an earthworks artist.

Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Smithson expressed an early interest in art, enrolling in classes at the Brooklyn Museum School and the Art Student's League in New York while still attending high school. Smithson's early works were primarily paintings, drawings, and collages. In 1959, he exhibited his first solo show of paintings at the Artists' Gallery in New York and had his first solo international show in Rome with the Galleria George Lester in 1961.

During the early to mid-1960s, Smithson was perhaps better known as a writer and art critic, writing numerous essays and reviews for Arts Magazine and Artforum. He became affiliated with artists who were identified with the minimalist movement, such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Nancy Holt, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and others. In 1963, Smithson married sculptor and filmmaker Nancy Holt and a year later started to create his first sculptural works. In 1966, Smithson joined the Dwan Gallery, whose owner Virginia Dwan was an enthusiastic supporter of his work.

Smithson's interest in land art began in the late 1960s while exploring industrial and quarry sites and observing the movement of earth and rocks. This resulted in a series of sculptures called "non-sites" consisting of earth and rocks collected from a specific site and installed in gallery space, often combined with photographs, maps, mirrors, or found materials. In September 1968, Smithson published the essay "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" in Artforum that promoted the work of the first wave of land art artists. Soon thereafter, he began creating his own large scale land art and earthworks.

From 1967 to 1973, Smithson's productivity was constant as he wrote, lectured, and participated in several solo and group shows a year, both at home and abroad. He explored narrative art as essay in "The Monuments of Passaic" and fully committed to his idea of visiting sites and using them as the basis for creating non-sites, Non-Site, Pine Barrens, (1968); incorporated and documented the use of mirrors at sites in Mirror Displacement, Cayuga Salt Mine Project (1968-1969); and created his first site-specific works through liquid pours of mud, asphalt, and concrete, including Asphalt Rundown (1969). In 1969, he also completed his first earth pour at Kent State University with his project Partially Buried Woodshed. Later that year, he created the sculptural artwork for which he is best known, Spiral Jetty (1969) on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. This was the first of his pieces to require the acquisition of land rights and earthmoving equipment, and would be followed two years later by Broken Circle and Spiral Hill in 1971.

On July 20, 1973, while surveying sites in Texas for the proposed Amarillo Ramp, Smithson died in a plane crash at the age of 35. Despite his early death, Smithson's writings and artwork had a major impact on many contemporary artists.

Nancy Holt began her career as a photographer and video artist. Today, Holt is most widely known for her large-scale environmental works, Sun Tunnels and Dark Star Park. Holt has also made a number of films and videos since the late 1960s, including Mono Lake (1968), East Coast, West Coast (1969), and Swamp (1971) in collaboration with her late husband Robert Smithson. Points of View: Clocktower (1974) features conversations between Lucy Lippard and Richard Serra, Liza Bear and Klaus Kertess, Carl Andre and Ruth Kligman and Bruce Brice and Tina Girouard. In 1978, she produced a film about her seminal work Sun Tunnels.

Related Material:

The Archives also holds several collections related to Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt, including an oral history interview with Robert Smithson conducted by Paul Cummings in 1972; an interview with Robert Smithson conducted by Tony Robbin in 1968; Robert Smithson letters to George B. Lester, 1960-1963; and oral history interviews with Nancy Holt conducted by Scott Gutterman in 1992 and Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz in 1993.

Separated Material:

Non-archival library books, periodicals, and phonographs from Robert Smithson's personal library are currently stored offsite.

Provenance:

The papers of Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt were donated by Nancy Holt in several accretions between 1986 and 2011.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

The Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Topic:

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Authors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art -- Philosophy  Search this

Earthworks (Art)  Search this

Filmmakers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Greeting cards

Photographs

Transcripts

Motion pictures (visual works)

Citation:

Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers, 1905-1987, bulk 1952-1987. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:

AAA.smitrobe

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-smitrobe

Creator:

Meiere, M. Hildreth, d. 1961  Search this

Names:

Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France)  Search this

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Peter A. Juley & Son  Search this

United States. Navy  Search this

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991  Search this

Dunn, Louise Meière  Search this

Extent:

27.3 Linear feet

0.068 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Slides (photographs)

Transcripts

Video recordings

Photographs

Poetry

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Place:

Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939

Date:

1901-2011

bulk 1911-1960

Summary:

The papers of Hildreth Meière measure 27.3 linear feet and 0.068 GB and date from 1901 to 2011, with the bulk of material dating from 1911 to 1960. The collection documents Meière's life and travels, and her long and prolific career as an architectural muralist through biographical material, correspondence, writings, thirteen diaries, files regarding her war relief work during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, printed and digital materials, extensive photographs and slides, eight sketchbooks, and two videocassettes and 93 reels of motion picture film documenting her travels, her volunteer efforts in Spain following the civil war, artwork, and home movies.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of Hildreth Meière measure 27.3 linear feet and 0.068 GB and date from 1901 to 2011, with the bulk of material dating from 1911 to 1960. The collection documents Meière's life and travels, and her long and prolific career as an architectural muralist through biographical material, correspondence, writings, thirteen diaries, files regarding her war relief work during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, printed and digital materials, extensive photographs and slides, eight sketchbooks, and two videocassettes and 93 reels of motion picture film documenting her travels, her volunteer efforts in Spain following the civil war, artwork, and home movies.

Biographical material includes an autobiographical narrative written by Meière, her many awards and certificates, membership information, passports, her U.S. Navy service records from World War I, documentation of her brief marriage and family genealogy, obituaries, and memorial service documentation. Also found are extensive writings and research conducted by Meière's daughter, Louise Meière Dunn, which include a complete list of Meière's commissions, detailed biographical narratives, and records of Meière's works held elsewhere.

The papers contain Meière's personal and family correspondence, travel correspondence, and business correspondence regarding professional activities. Much of the correspondence with family and friends was written during Meière's extensive travels over the world. Both family and travel correspondence have extensive indexes, summaries, and in some cases, transcripts prepared by Meière's daughter, Louise Meière Dunn. Some of the indexes, summaries and transcripts are digital. Writings include poetry and diaries kept during childhood and school years, travel diaries, essays and talks written about Meière's work, writings Meière prepared for committees of the National Mural Painters Association, and detailed travelogues of her trips to Constantinople and the Balkans in 1933, to Russia in 1936, her "Grand Tour" to Australia, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Europe in 1952-1953, and her "Holy Land" tour of the Middle East in 1954.

Civilian War Service Records document Meière's efforts at war relief organization during and after the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. The Spanish Civil War files include extensive photographs provided by the Spanish government as well as three motion picture films documenting refugees and damaged architecture and public artwork shot by Meière during a trip sponsored by Franco's government. World War II activities concern Meière's efforts to organize artists in the United States to design and execute murals and other works of public art at military facilities around the U.S.

Travel records include maps, ephemera, slides, and 83 motion picture films taken on trips abroad between 1933 and 1958. Trips include Eastern and Western Europe, the Mediterranean Region and the Middle East, South America, Mexico and Guatemala, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and the UK. The motion picture films are mostly shot in Kodachrome color and many contain intertitles prepared by Meière to identify locations for travel lectures.

Printed materials consist primarily of clippings and publications that reference Meière's work, contain profiles of her, or contain published writings by her. A single published educational film is also found, given to her by an Australian filmmaker friend. Additional photographs, digital photographs and moving images include personal photographs of Meière, with portraits by Peter A. Juley and Sons and Berenice Abbott, photographs of many of her commissioned works, and a few photographs of artwork by others. Home movies show Meière with friends in 1926 and 1940. Among the photographic documentation of artworks by Meière and others are motion picture films of the 1939 New York World's Fair, the D.C. Municipal Building Frieze, and the 1937 Paris Fair; also found are 311 lantern slides and 201 glass copy negatives of her own completed works as well as murals she documented while traveling, notably murals in Norway and Oberammergau, Bavaria, taken in the 1930s.

Eight sketchbooks date to her early years as an art student and artist and include many figure studies, landscapes, and theatrical sketches made at home and abroad.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 8 series. Indexes, summaries, and transcripts prepared by Louise Meière Dunn that relate directly to archival materials in the collection are found throughout the collection with the material they describe. These indices are particularly rich in Series 2, Correspondence.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1915-2003 (0.6 linear feet; Boxes 1, 14, OV18)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1901-2011 (3 linear feet; Boxes 1-4, RD19, 0.038 GB; ER01-ER03)

Series 3: Writings, 1904-1960 (1.3 linear feet; Boxes 4-5)

Series 4: Civilian War Service Records, 1938-2006 (1.3 linear feet; Boxes 5-6, 15, FC 28-30)

Series 5: Travel Records, 1933-1958 (12.8 linear feet; Boxes 6-10, 15, OV18, FC 31-111)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1913-1998 (2.1 linear feet; Boxes 10-12, 15, FC 112)

Series 7: Photographs and Moving Images, 1915-1966 (5.8 linear feet; Boxes 12-13, 16, 20-27, FC 17, 113-127, 0.029 GB; ER04)

Series 8: Sketchbooks, 1911-1922 (0.4 linear feet; Box 13)

Biographical / Historical:

Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) was born in Flushing, New York, and had a prolific career from 1921-1961 as an architectural muralist working primarily in an Art Deco style. Meière painted murals and designed for various mediums including mosaic, metal, and stained glass. In 1956 the American Institute of Architects awarded Meière their Fine Arts Medal.

Meière was educated at New York's Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, the Art Students League in New York, the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in addition to pursuing studies in Italy. Her major commissions include the Nebraska State Capitol at Lincoln, the National Academy of Sciences, the Resurrection Chapel of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. In New York, she designed the Art Deco plaques on the exterior wall of Radio City Music Hall; created mosaic interiors for the Irving Trust Building at 1 Wall Street; and provided ecclesiastical decorations for St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Temple Emanu-El, and elsewhere. She also created murals for the Chicago 1933 Century of Progress Fair, and the 1939 New York World's Fair.

She was also an active officer in the Art Students League and the National Society of Mural Painters. Some of her most inspired collaborations were with the architect Bertram Goodhue in the 1920s, and only his sudden death in 1924 put an end to them, although some projects were finished with the successor firm.

Meière died in 1961 at the age of 68. Her work is remembered in several major publications, including The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière by Catherine Coleman Brawer and Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, with photographs by Meière's granddaughter, Hildreth Meière Dunn, published in 2014; and the catalog of the 2009 exhibition at St. Bonaventure University, curated by Brawer and photographed by Dunn, entitled Walls Speak: the Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière.

Provenance:

A majority of the collection placed on deposit 2001 by Louise Meière Dunn, daughter of Hildreth Meière. The collection was donated incrementally by Dunn through 2012. Donations occurred 2001-2007, and again in 2010-2012.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires and appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Rights:

The Hildreth Meière papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Topic:

War relief  Search this

Travel  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Muralists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

World War, 1939-1945  Search this

World War I, 1914-1918  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Mosaicists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art commissions  Search this

Motion pictures (visual works)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Slides (photographs)

Transcripts

Video recordings

Photographs

Poetry

Diaries

Sketchbooks

Citation:

Hildreth Meière papers, 1901-2011, bulk 1911-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the digitization of 84 reels of motion picture film in the collection was provided by The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University through a generous grant from the Ruth Dayton Foundation. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.meiemari

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-meiemari

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

ink (overall material)

Object Name:

Maps, Collection of

ID Number:

1991.3200.01.01

Catalog number:

1991.3200.01.01

Nonaccession number:

1991.3200

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Work and Industry: Transportation, Road

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-de97-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1144919

Maker:

James Green  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 4 1/4 in; 10.795 cm

overall: 4 13/16 in x 7/16 in x 5/16 in; 12.22375 cm x 1.11125 cm x .79375 cm

Object Name:

thermometer

Place made:

United States: New York, New York City

Date made:

1849-1879

Credit Line:

U.S. Military Academy

ID Number:

PH.316452

Accession number:

223721

Catalog number:

316452

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Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences

Measuring & Mapping

Thermometers and Hygrometers

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-11be-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1289372

Maker:

James Green  Search this

Measurements:

overall in box: 2 in x 13 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 34.925 cm x 11.43 cm

Object Name:

Regnault hygrometer

Place made:

United States: New York

Date made:

1849-1875

Credit Line:

U.S. Military Academy

ID Number:

PH.316419

Accession number:

223721

Catalog number:

316419

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Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences

Measuring & Mapping

Thermometers and Hygrometers

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-1962-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1289930

Maker:

Central Scientific Company  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 35 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 89.535 cm x 4.445 cm

Object Name:

mercury barometer

Place made:

United States: Illinois, Chicago

Date made:

after 1927

Credit Line:

U.S. Military Academy

ID Number:

PH.316421

Accession number:

223721

Catalog number:

316421

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Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences

Measuring & Mapping

Barometers

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-7a3f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1419717

Measurements:

overall: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm

overall: 9 7/8 in x 1/2 in; 25.0825 cm x 1.27 cm

Object Name:

thermometer

Place made:

France

Date made:

late 18th century

Credit Line:

U.S. Military Academy

ID Number:

PH.316458

Catalog number:

316458

Accession number:

223721

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Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences

Measuring & Mapping

Thermometers and Hygrometers

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-9519-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1421422

Maker:

Phelps & Gurley  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 7 in; 17.78 cm

needle: 5 in; 12.7 cm

vertical circle: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm

telescope: 9 3/4 in; 24.765 cm

overall: 11 1/8 in x 8 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 22.225 cm x 24.765 cm

Object Name:

transit instrument

surveyor's transit

Place made:

United States: New York, Troy

Related Publication:

Skerritt, William H.. Catalog of the Charles E. Smart Collection of Antique Surveying Instruments

Credit Line:

Leland C.Ball

ID Number:

PH.315412

Accession number:

170660

Catalog number:

315412

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-9340-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_745970

Maker:

A. Repsold & Sohne  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 25 1/2 in x 22 in x 22 in; 64.77 cm x 55.88 cm x 55.88 cm

Object Name:

universal instrument

Place made:

Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg

Related Publication:

American Journal of Science

Loomis, Elias. Introduction to Practical Astronomy

Repsold, J. A.. Vermehrte Nachrichten über die Familie Repsold

Credit Line:

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

ID Number:

PH.316511

Accession number:

225703

Catalog number:

316511

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-b938-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_758753

Measurements:

overall: 62 5/8 in x 16 in x 9 in; 159.0675 cm x 40.64 cm x 22.86 cm

overall: 26 1/2 in x 16 in x 9 in; 67.31 cm x 40.64 cm x 22.86 cm

Object Name:

photographic recording device

ID Number:

PH.314862

Catalog number:

314862

Accession number:

211531

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-0e81-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1167319

Patentee:

St. John, John R.  Search this

Measurements:

overall: 9 1/4 in x 12 7/8 in x 11 9/16 in; 23.495 cm x 32.7025 cm x 29.36875 cm

bowl: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm

overall: 9 1/4 in x 12 3/4 in x 11 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 32.385 cm x 29.21 cm

Object Name:

nautical compass (dry card)

Place made:

United States: New York, New York City

Date made:

ca 1850

ID Number:

PH.314744

Catalog number:

314744

Accession number:

210834

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-b400-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1167842

Measurements:

overall: 12.7 cm x 17 cm x 6.4 cm; 5 in x 6 11/16 in x 2 1/2 in

overall: 2 1/2 in x 6 5/8 in x 5 in; 6.35 cm x 16.8275 cm x 12.7 cm

Object Name:

odometer

Place made:

United States: Vermont

Date made:

1850s

Associated Date:

1859-03-22

ID Number:

PH.314747

Catalog number:

314747

Accession number:

210834

Patent number:

23329

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Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-4d7e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1184093