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Diehl, William C.

Collection Creator:: Morehouse, Harold E., 1894-1973 Search this

Container:: Box 4, Folder 10

Type:: Archival materials; Text

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Collection Citation:: Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection, Acc. XXXX-0450, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

See more items in:: Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies collection; Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies collection / Series 1.1: Biographies of Flying Pioneers 1.1

Archival Repository:: National Air and Space Museum Archives

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view [Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]: looking across the Pond to what was originally the Museum of Economic Botany and is now the School of Horticulture. digital asset: [Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]: looking across the Pond to what was originally the Museum of Economic Botany and is now the School of Horticulture.: [between 1920 and 1930]

[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]: looking across the Pond to what was originally the Museum of Economic Botany and is now the School of Horticulture.

Lantern slide maker:: Williams, Brown & Earle, Inc. Search this

Collection Creator:: Garden Club of America Search this

Extent:: 1 Lantern slide (col., 3.25 x 4 in.)

Type:: Archival materials; Lantern slides

Place:: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London, England); United Kingdom -- England -- London Region -- London

Date:: [between 1920 and 1930]

General:: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, were visited during the Garden Club of America's June 1929 tour to England. A complete copy of the GCA tour itinerary was printed in the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (Fourth Series, No. 5), September 1929, pp. 6-25.; Mount reads: "Williams, Brown & Earle, Inc., 918 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa."; Historic plate number: "27; 9."; Historic plate caption: "Kew."

Collection Restrictions:: Access to original images 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.

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Genre/Form:: Lantern slides

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

Identifier:: AAG.GCA, Item ENG019038

See more items in:: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / United Kingdom -- England / ENG019: London -- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Gardens

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Website Records, 2019

Creator:: Smithsonian Facilities Search this

Subject:: Smithsonian Institution Architectural History and Historic Preservation Division Search this

Type:: Electronic records; Collection descriptions; Web sites

Date:: 2019

Topic:: Museum buildings Search this; Smithsonian buildings Search this; Architectural design Search this; Architecture--History Search this; Historic preservation Search this; Museums--Educational aspects Search this; Web sites Search this; Museums--Public relations Search this

Local number:: SIA Acc. 21-004

See more items in:: Website Records 2000-2019 [Smithsonian Facilities]

Data Source:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Charles Lang Freer Papers

Creator:: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919 Search this

Extent:: 131 Linear feet (29 architectural drawings)

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Diaries; Financial records; Correspondence; Photographs

Place:: China; Syria; Egypt; India; London (England); Japan; Boston (Mass.); Detroit (Mich.); Washington (D.C.); Kandy (Sri Lanka); Sri Lanka; Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka)

Date:: 1876-1931

Summary:: The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, and photographs.

Scope Content:: The personal papers of Charles Lang Freer, the industrialist and art collector who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. The papers include correspondence, diaries, art inventories, scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeil Whistler and other press clippings, financial material, architectural drawings, and photographs.

Correspondence, circa 1860-1921, includes Freer's correspondence, 1876-1920, with artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and public figures; letterpress books contain copies of Freer's outgoing letters, 1892-1910; correspondence collected by Freer of James McNeill Whistler, and his wife Beatrix, 186?-1909, with Lady Colin Campbell, Thomas R. Way, Alexander Reid, Whistler's mother, Mrs. George W. Whistler, and others; correspondence of Whistler collector Richard A. Canfield, 1904-1913, regarding works in Canfield's collection; and correspondence of Freer's assistant, Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1920-1921, soliciting Freer's letters from his associates, and regarding the settlement of his estate.

Also included are twenty-nine pocket diaries, 1889-1890, 1892-1898, 1900-1919, recording daily activities, people and places visited, observations, and comments; a diary kept by Freer's caretaker, Joseph Stephens Warring, recording daily activities at Freer's Detroit home, 1907-1910. Inventories, n.d. and 1901-1921, of American, European, and Asian art in Freer's collection, often including provenance information; vouchers, 1884-1919, documenting his purchases; five volumes of scrapbooks of clippings on James McNeill Whistler, 1888-1931, labeled "Various," "Peacock Room," "Death, etc.," "Paris, etc.," and "Boston...London" ; three volumes of newsclippings, 1900-1930, concerning Freer and the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art.

Correspondence regarding Freer's gift and bequest to the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1916; and photographs, ca. 1880-1930, of Freer, including portraits by Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Freer with others, Freer in Cairo, China and Japan, Freer's death mask, and his memorial service, Kyoto, 1930; photographs of artists and others, including Thomas Dewing, Ernest Fenollosa, Katharine Rhoades taken by Alfred Stieglitz, Rosalind B. Philip, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Abbott H. Thayer, Dwight Tryon, and Whistler; and photographs relating to Whistler, including art works depicting him, grave and memorial monuments, works of art, the Peacock Room, and Whistler's memorial exhibition at the Copley Society.

Organization of the Papers:: This collection is organized into twelve series.

Series 1: Genealogical and Biographical Data

Series 2: Correspondence

Series 3: Diaries

Series 4: Freer Colleague Materials

Series 5: Art Inventories

Series 6: Financial Materials

Series 7: Exhibition Loan Files

Series 8: Biblical Manuscripts and Gold Treasure Files

Series 9: American School of Archaeology in China

Series 10: Printed Material

Series 11: Outsize Material

Series 12: Photographs

Biographical Note:: 1854 February 25 -- Born in Kingston, New York

1873 -- Appointed accountant and paymaster of New York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad by Frank J. Hecker (1846-1927)

1876 -- Moves to Indiana to work, with Hecker, for the Detroit and Eel River and Illinois Railroad

1880 -- Moves to Detroit, participates in organization of the Peninsular Car Works with Hecker

1883 -- Becomes vice president and secretary of Peninsular Car Company when it succeeds Peninsular Car Works

1883 -- Begins collecting European prints

1884 -- Peninsular Car Company constructs plant on Ferry Avenue

1887 -- Meets Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)

1887 -- Acquires proofs of 26 etchings, Venice, Second Series(1886), by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

1887 -- Purchases a small Japanese fan attributed to Ogata Karin(1658-1715)

1887 -- Buys land on Ferry Avenue

1889 -- Meets Frederick Stuart Church (1826-1900) and Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) in New York

1890 -- Commissions Wilson Eyre (1858-1944) to design house on Ferry Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

1890 -- On first trip to London, meets James McNeill Whistler(1834-1903)

1892 -- Moves to Ferry Avenue house

1892 -- Tryon and Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) undertake decoration of reception rooms

1893 -- Lends American paintings to World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

1893 -- Purchases first piece of Chinese art, a small painting of white herons by an anonymous Ming dynasty (1368-1644) artist

1894 -- Begins yearlong trip around the world, which includes visit to the Whistlers in Paris and first trip to Asia, stopping in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, China, and Japan

1896 -- Meets Matsuki Bunkyo (1867-1940) in Boston

1899 -- Takes part in consolidation of railroad-car building companies then retires from active business

1900 -- Attends Exposition International Universelle in Paris

1900 -- Buys villa in Capri with Thomas S. Jerome

1901 -- Meets Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) in Paris and Ernest Fenollosa(1853-1908), who visits Freer in Detroit

1902 -- Meets Dikran Kelekian (1868-1951)

1902 -- Spends summer in Britain building Whistler collection

1902 -- Views Whistler's, Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room

1904 -- Purchases Whistler's Peacock Room

1904 -- Offers his art collections and funds to build a museum in which to house them to the Smithsonian Institution

1905 -- Smithsonian committee visits Freer in Detroit

1906 -- United States government formally accepts Freer's gift on January 24

1906 -- Freer signs Deed of Gift to Smithsonian Institution on May 5

1907 -- On second tour of Asia, meets Hara Tomitaro 1868-1939) in Yokohama, Japan

1908 -- Takes third trip to Asia, specifically to West Asia to study Rakka ware

1909 -- Tours Europe to study art museums

1909 -- On fourth trip to Asia, attends memorial ceremony for Fenollosa (d.1908 September) at Miidera, Japan, and meets Duanfang (1861-1911) in China

1910 -- On last trip to Asia, visits Longmen Buddhist caves in China

1911 -- Suffers stroke

1912 -- Lends selection of objects for exhibition at Smithsonian Institution

1913 -- Meets Eugene (1875-1957) and Agnes E. (1887-1970) Meyer

1913 -- Commissions Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) to design museum building in Washington

1914 -- Meets Katharine Nash Rhoades (1885-1965) in Detroit

1915 -- Settles in New York City

1915 -- Site of future Freer Gallery of Art is determined

1916 -- Platt's plans for Freer Gallery are approved by Smithsonian Regents and Commission of Fine Arts and ground is broken in September

1918 -- After falling ill in Detroit, Freer travels to New York for treatment

1918 -- Work on the museum building is delayed by the war

1919 -- Freer appends codicil to will permitting acquisitions of Asian, Egyptian, and Near Eastern (West Asian) art

1919 -- Dies in New York City on 25 September and is buried in Kingston, New York

1919 -- Construction of Freer Gallery completed

1920 -- John Ellerton Lodge (1876-1942) is appointed director of the Freer Gallery

1923 -- Freer Gallery opens to the public on May 9

1930 -- Memorial ceremony for Freer is held at Koetsuji, Kyoto

Charles Lang Freer was an American industrialist who founded the Freer Gallery of Art. He was a well-known collector of Asian art, and strongly supported the synthesis of Eastern art and Western art. One of his most famous acquisitions was James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room.

Index:: Index to cross-referenced correspondents in the series Charles Lang Freer correspondence

Beal, Junius E. -- See: -- Warring, Joseph Stephens

Black, George M. -- See: -- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Board of Education (Kingston, New York) See: Michael, M. J.

Bonner, Campbell See: University of Michigan

Boughton, George H. See: Yardley, F. C.

British Museum See: Binyon, Laurence; Hobson, R. L.

Brown, Harold H. See: Art Association of Indianapolis

Buchner, Evelyn B. See: Knoedler, M., and Company

Buckholder, C. H. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Butler, S. B. See: Unidentified correspondents

Carnegie Institute See: Balken, Edward Duff; Harshe, Robert B.

Carpenter, Newton H. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Caulkins, Horace James See: Pewabic Pottery

Chao, Shih-chin See: Gunn, Chu Su

Chicago & North Western Railway Co. See: Hughett, Marvin

Clark, Charles Upson See: Clark, Arthur B.

Cleveland Museum of Art See: Whiting, Frederic Allen

Columbia University See: Braun, W. A.; Gottheil, Richard; Hirth, Friederich

Commission of Fine Arts See: Moore, Charles

Corcoran Gallery of Art See: Minnigerode, C. Powell

Crocker, Anna B. See: Portland Art Association

Dannenberg, D. E. See: Karlbeck, Orvar

De Menoncal, Beatrice See: Lien, Hui Ch'ing Collection

De Ricci, Seymour See: Ricci, Seymour de

Defnet, William A., Mrs., See: Franke, Ida M.

DeMotte See: Vigouroux, J.

Detroit Institute of Arts See: Detroit Museum of Art

Detroit Publishing Company See: Livingstone, W. A.

Detroit School of Design See: George Hamilton; Stevens, Henry

DeVinne Press See: Peters, Samuel T.; Witherspoon, A. S.

Dyrenforth, P. C. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Eddy, Arthur J. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Eggers, George Williams See: Art Institute of Chicago

Farr, Daniel H. See: Robinson and Farr

Farrand School (Detroit) See: Yendall, Edith

Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) See: Laufer, Berthold

Flagg, Frederick J. See: Allen, Horace N.

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University See: Forbes, Edward; Pope, Arthur Upham; Sachs, Paul J.

French, M. R. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Fu, Lan-ya See: Pang, Lai-ch'en

Fujii, Yoshio See: Yoshio, Fujii

Gerrity, Thomas See: Knoedler, M., and Company

Goupil Gallery See: Marchant, William

Gray, William J. See: Barr, Eva

Great Lakes Engineering Works See: Hoyt, H. W.

Grolier Club See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Heinemann, W. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Holden, Edward S. See: West Point, U. S. Military Academy

Hudson, J. L. See: Weber, William C.

Hutchins, Harry B. See: University of Michigan

Hutchins, Charles L. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Kelekian, H. G. See: Kelekian, Dikran G.

Kent, H. W. See: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lee, Kee Son See: Li, Chi-ch'un

Levy, John See: Schneider, A. K.

Library of Congress See: Rice, Richard A.; Wright, Helen

Louvre (Paris, France) See: Midgeon, Gaston

Matsuki, Z. See: Matsuki, Kihachiro

McKim, Mead and White See: White, Stanford

Mills, A. L., Colonel See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Miner, Luella See: Lien, Hui Ch'ing Collection

Minneapolis Institute of Arts See: Breck, Joseph; Van Derlip, John R.

Monif, R. Khan See: Rathbun, Richard

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston See: Lodge, John Ellerton

Naser, Katen & Nahass See: Katen, K.

Nordlinger, Marie, Miss See: Meyer-Riefstahl, Marie

Panama Pacific International Exposition See: Moore, Charles C.; Trask, John E. D.

Peabody Museum See: Morse, Edward Sylvester

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts See: Trask, John E. D.

Perry, Mary Chase, Miss., See: Pewabic Pottery

Philip, Ronald M. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Pope, G. D. See: Barr, Eva

Reinhart, A. G. See: Gottschalk, E.

Reitz, Sigisbert ChrÃ©tien Bosch See: Bosch-Reitz, Sigisbert ChrÃ©tien

Rutgers College See: Van Dyke, John C.

Saint-Gaudens, Augusta H. See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Saint-Gaudens, Homer See: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Samurai Shokai See: Nomura, Yozo

San Francisco Art Association See: Laurvik, J. Nilsen

Scribner's, Charles, Sons See: Van Dyke, John C.

Shaw, Wilfred B. See: University of Michigan

Shirae, S. Z. See: Yamanaka and Company

Smith College See: Clark, Arthur B.

Smithsonian Institution See: Holmes, William Henry; Rathbun, Richard; Ravenel, Walcott, Charles D.

Society of Arts and Crafts (Detroit) See: Plumb, Helen

Societe des Beaux-Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Stevens, George W. See: Toledo Museum of Art

Stratton, Mary Chase Perry See: Pewabic Pottery

Tanaka, Kichijiro See: Yamanaka and Company

Tuttle, William F. See: Art Institute of Chicago

Union Trust Company (Detroit) See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

United States Military Academy See: West Point, U. S. Military Academy

University of Chicago See: Zug, George Breed

University of Pennsylvania, Univ. Mus. See: Gordon, George Bryon

Ushikubo, D. J. R. See: Yamanaka and Company

Wallis & Son See: Barr, Eva; Thompson, C. Croal Ward, Clarence See: Oberlin College

Warren, Edward K. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Warring, Stephen See: Warring, Joseph Stephens

Watkin, Williams R. T. See: Philip, Rosalind Birnie

Watson, Margaret, Miss See: Parker, Margaret Watson

Whistler, Anna See: Stanton, Anna Whistler

Whiting, Almon C. See: Toledo Museum of Art

Williams College See: Rice, Richard A

Wright, F. G. See: Orbach and Company

Yatsuhashi, H. See: Yamanaka and Company; Index to cross-referenced correspondence in the series Whistler correspondence

Bell, William See: Unidentified correspondents

Brown, Ernest See: Painter Etchers' Society, Committee

Cowen, John T. See subseries: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Ford, Sheridan See: Reid, Alexander

Haden, Francis Seymour See: Painter Etchers' Society, Committee

Haden, Francis Seymour, Lady See: Haden, Deborah Whistler

Leighton, Frederick, Baron See: Campbell, Lady Colin

Moore, Albert See: Reid, Alexander

Morley, Charles See: Pall Mall Gazette

Morris, Harrison S. See: Reid, Alexander

Pennell, Joseph See: Miscellaneous typescripts

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Prange, F. G. See: Reid, Alexander

Societe des Beaux-Arts See: Reid, Alexander

Society of Portrait Painters See: Reid, Alexander

Stevens Fine Art See: Reid, Alexander

Studd, Arthur See: Miscellaneous typescripts

[Vanderbilt?], George, Mrs. See: George, Mrs.

Whistler, William McNeill, Mrs. See: Whistler, Nellie

Whistler Memorial Committee See: Miscellaneous typescripts

Related Material:: The Archives of American Art microfilmed portions of the Freer papers in 1992. The microfilm is available at the Archives of American Art's Washington D.C. office, the Freer Gallery of Art Library, and through interlibrary loan.

Provenance:: Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.

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

Topic:: Art, American -- Collectors and collecting Search this; Art, Asian -- Collectors and collecting Search this; Art -- Collectors and collecting Search this; Architecture -- Asia Search this

Genre/Form:: Diaries; Financial records; Correspondence; Photographs

Citation:: Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:: FSA.A.01

See more items in:: Charles Lang Freer Papers

Archival Repository:: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Charles Lang Freer's letters to Frank Hecker during foreign travels

Creator:: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919 Search this

Names:: Smithsonian Institution Search this

Collection Creator:: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919 Search this

Extent:: 283 Pages

Type:: Archival materials; Pages; Letters (correspondence)

Place:: Egypt; Japan; Paris (France); London (England); Berlin (Germany); Cairo (Egypt); Beijing (China); Kyoto (Japan); Shanghai (China)

Date:: 1909

Scope and Contents:: Letters written by Charles Lang Freer to his friend and business associate Frank Hecker (1846-1927) during an extended trip to Europe and Asia from April to December1909. Freer's travel destitanations included Paris, London, Berlin, Cairo, Beijing, Shanghai, Kyoto and Tokyo.

Arrangement:: Organized chronologically.

Local Numbers:: FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel5

Issuing Body Note:: 横浜東京京都北京上海

Collection Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.

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

Topic:: Travel Search this

Genre/Form:: Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:: Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:: FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel5

See more items in:: Charles Lang Freer Papers; Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence / Hecker, Frank J., Col., 1892-1917

Archival Repository:: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Yue, Seaouke (You Xiaoxi; 游筱溪)

Creator:: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919 Search this; Yue, Seaouke Search this

Names:: Pang Yuanji, 1864-1949 Search this

Collection Creator:: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919 Search this

Extent:: 6 Items (folders of correspondence)

Container:: Box 36, Folder 17-22

Type:: Archival materials; Letters (correspondence)

Date:: 1917-1919

Scope and Contents:: Letters dated between 1917 and 1919, mostly discussing the offer of Chinese art objects by the Shanghai based dealer Seaouke Yue (You Xiaoxi); 游篠溪; Freer collection numbers: F1904.61; Letters between Charles Lang Freer and Seaouke Yue (You Xiaoxi)

Arrangement:: Organized chronologically under correspondent.

Biographical / Historical:: Charels Lang Freer first met Yue in 1917. Yue had travelled to New York with items from the collection of Pang Yuanji, an important Shanghai collector who met Freer in 1911. Over the next two years, Freer purchased a number of important works of Chinese painting, jades, pottery and bronzes from Yue.

Local Numbers:: FSA A.01 02.1Yue

Collection Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.

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

Topic:: Art, Chinese Search this

Genre/Form:: Letters (correspondence)

Collection Citation:: Charles Lang Freer Papers. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Identifier:: FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1Yue

See more items in:: Charles Lang Freer Papers; Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence

Archival Repository:: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Building a grand photography collection for the new African American museum

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Type:: Blog posts; Smithsonian staff publications; Blog posts

Published Date:: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:41:42 +0000

Topic:: Science Search this

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Group discussion of museum architecture

Creator:: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997 Search this; Kiesler, Frederick, 1890-1965 Search this

Type:: Sound Recording

Date:: circa 1962

Record number:: (DSI-AAA)14293

See more items in:: Discussion with Willem de Kooning, Frederick Kiesler, and others, ca. 1962

Data Source:: Archives of American Art

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Centennial of the American Museum of Natural History medal, United States, 1969

Editor:: American Museum of Natural History Search this

Manufacturer:: Medallic Art Company Ltd. Search this

Physical Description:: struck (overall production method); bronze (overall metal); circular (overall shape)

Measurements:: overall: 63 mm; x 2 1/2 in

Object Name:: Medal

Place made:: United States

Place of issue:: United States

Date made:: 1969

ID Number:: 1991.0009.0253

Catalog number:: 1991.0009.0253; 91.09.253

Accession number:: 1991.0009

See more items in:: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection

Data Source:: National Museum of American History

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Fokker T-2

Manufacturer:: Fokker (N. V. Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek) Search this

Materials:: Metal, wood, fabric, rubber

Dimensions:: 3-D: 1518.9 × 370.8cm, 2475.3kg, 24.511m (49 ft. 10 in. × 12 ft. 2 in., 5457lb., 80 ft. 5 in.); Wingspan: 24.5 m (80 ft 5 in), Length: 15.2 m (49 ft 10 in), Height: 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in), Weight: Gross, 4,932 kg (10,850 lb) at takeoff for coast-to-coast flight; Engine: Liberty V-12, 420 horsepower

Type:: CRAFT-Aircraft

Country of Origin:: Netherlands

Date:: 1923

Credit Line:: Transfer from the U.S. War Department

Inventory Number:: A19240003000

Restrictions & Rights:: CC0

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Data Source:: National Air and Space Museum

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Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser

Pilot:: Clifford Evans Search this

Manufacturer:: Piper Aircraft Corp. Search this

Materials:: Fuselage: steel tube with fabric cover

Dimensions:: Wingspan: 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in); Length: 6.86 m (22 ft 6 in); Height: 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in); Weight, empty: 454 kg (1,000 lb); Weight, gross: 793 kg (1,750 lb); Top Speed: 184 km/h (115 mph); Engine: Lycoming O-235-C, 100 hp

Type:: CRAFT-Aircraft

Country of Origin:: United States of America

Date:: 1946

Credit Line:: Gift of Piper Aircraft Company

Inventory Number:: A19500101000

Restrictions & Rights:: CC0

See more items in:: National Air and Space Museum Collection

Location:: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA

Hangar:: Boeing Aviation Hangar

Data Source:: National Air and Space Museum

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Arado Ar 234 B-2 Blitz (Lightning)

Manufacturer:: Arado Search this

Materials:: Overall: Aluminum

Dimensions:: Wingspan: 14.4 m (47 ft 4 in); Length: 12.6 m (41 ft 6 in); Height: 4.3 m (14 ft 2 in); Weight, empty: 4,900 kg (10,800 lb); Weight, gross: 10,010 kg (22,070 lb) with RATO (rocket-assisted takeoff) units; Top speed: 735 km/h (459 mph)

Type:: CRAFT-Aircraft

Country of Origin:: Germany

Date:: 1944

Credit Line:: Transferred from the U.S. Air Force

Inventory Number:: A19600312000

Restrictions & Rights:: CC0

See more items in:: National Air and Space Museum Collection

Location:: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA

Hangar:: Boeing Aviation Hangar

Data Source:: National Air and Space Museum

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Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6/R3

Manufacturer:: Messerschmitt A.G. Search this

Materials:: Overall: Aluminum

Dimensions:: Wing Span: 9.92 m (32 ft 6 1/2 in); Length: 9.02 m (29 ft. 7 in.); Height: 3.4 m (11 ft. 2 in.); Weight Empty: 2700 kg (5,953 lb)

Type:: CRAFT-Aircraft

Country of Origin:: Germany

Date:: summer or fall 1943

Credit Line:: Transferred from the U.S. Air Force

Inventory Number:: A19600327000

Restrictions & Rights:: CC0

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Data Source:: National Air and Space Museum

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EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:nasm_A19600327000

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Missile, Surface-to-Surface, V-2 (A-4)

Manufacturer:: Mittelwerk GMBH Search this

Materials:: Steel; graphite jet vanes, some wooden construction elements in fuselage; aluminum tanks not present.

Dimensions:: Overall: 11 ft. 8 3/8 in. wide x 46 ft. 1 3/16 in. deep x 5 ft. 5 in. diameter x 44 ft. 5 3/16 in. long, 8427.9 lb. (356.6 x 1405.1 x 165.1 x 1354.3cm, 3822.9kg)

Type:: CRAFT-Missiles & Rockets

Country of Origin:: Germany

Credit Line:: Transferred from the U.S. Air Force

Inventory Number:: A19600342000

Restrictions & Rights:: Usage conditions apply

See more items in:: National Air and Space Museum Collection

Location:: National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC

Exhibition:: Space Race

Data Source:: National Air and Space Museum

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Missile, Surface-to-Surface, V-2 (A-4), Miscellaneous Parts

Materials:: Steel; Aluminum Alloy; Paint; Unknown Natural Hair; Possible Zinc Chromate Paint; Possible Rubber; Phenolic Resin; Natural Fiber Thread

Dimensions:: Overall (Tail Skin Panel): 4in. x 2ft 2in. x 3ft 5in. (10.16 x 66.04 x 104.14cm); Other (Jet Vane): 5in. x 1ft 2in. x 1ft 7in. (12.7 x 35.56 x 48.26cm); Other (Pressure Bottle): 1ft 3 1/2in. (39.37cm); Storage (Rehoused on an aluminum pallet): 124.5 × 124.5 × 87.6cm, 127kg (49 × 49 × 34 1/2 in., 280lb.)