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Caribbean Dutch Treat lecture recording, 1964 February 11, Side A, Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection

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Caribbean Dutch Treat lecture recording, 1964 February 11, Side A, Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection

These materials directly relate to Chickering and Porterfield's professional film output, including corresponding film lectures delivered by Chickering and Porterfield on the travel lecture circuit. Lecture recordings are largely undated but provide a glimpse into the timing and delivery of (and audience reaction to) Chickering and Porterfield's longer lecture films. Some recordings include snippets of other performers.Please view the instructions for transcribing audio collections before beginning.

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Caribbean Dutch Treat lecture recording, 1964, February 11, Side B, Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection

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Caribbean Dutch Treat lecture recording, 1964, February 11, Side B, Lisa Chickering and Jeanne Porterfield Collection

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Carl Kirsch Balloon Ascension Poster (Austrian)

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Carl Kirsch Balloon Ascension Poster (Austrian)

The Weiner Prater is a large public park in Vienna, Austria, founded in 1766 with the donation of Austrian Emperor Josef II's royal hunting grounds. Over the years the Prater evolved to include the Wurstelprater Amusement Park. During the 1850s, the park was the site of balloon ascendance.

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Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston Heavyweight Title Press Kit

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Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston Heavyweight Title Press Kit

On February 25, 1964, Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight crown in Miami with a technical knockout over Sonny Liston in Miami, Fl. These documents are from an original press kit from the Clay v. Liston heavyweight title bout and serve as an illustration of a crucial turning point in American sports history - one that touches on issues of civil rights, religion, and racial identity.

Browse projects by National Museum of African American History and Culture

Catalogue of the Hampton Institute, 1886-87

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50 Total pages

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Catalogue of the Hampton Institute, 1886-87

In 1871, Hampton Institute graduated its first class comprised of five women and fourteen men. Between 1871 and 1887 the sizes of the graduating classes at Hampton continued to grow. Listed here are the names of the students at Hampton during the 1886-87 school year. Help us transcribe this yearbook and learn more about the faculty, students, and the types of courses students enrolled in during the late nineteenth century.

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Catalogue of the Kimbei Photographic Studio 1880-1900

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Catalogue of the Kimbei Photographic Studio 1880-1900

The Kimbei Studio in Yokohama was one of the leading commercial studios in Japan in the mid and late Meiji period. Help Freer-Sackler Archives transcribe this catalog--divided by Costumes from mostly studio portraits and assemblages, and then by scenic regions--and keep an eye for the extensive annotations in pencil and red ink within.

Browse projects by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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412 Total pages

107 Contributing members

Cathrell Collection

Part of the music domain includes nightlife and nightclubs, which were often the centerpiece of musical life during the first half of the twentieth century. Sisters Laura “Laurie” Cathrell and Sally J. Cathrell Jr. were both involved in New York’s nightlife scene, one as a showgirl and the other as a publisher of magazines featuring famous musicians and dancers of the time. Laurie performed in many famous nightclubs throughout America including Club Plantation and the Cotton Club. She is featured in many of the photographs and magazines of this collection. Sally followed in the footsteps of their parents, and made a career in publishing and created “The Show-Down” magazine, which was devoted to nightclub life and entertainment. In volume 1, number 1, “The Showdown” magazine is described as "a monthly publication, which caters to theatricals exclusively." The magazine featured night club reviews, show reviews, and features on performers. The magazine mainly covered New York, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. Help us transcribe the photographs, magazines, and programs and discover the many famous musicians and dancers featured.

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Celebrating 175: John Henry Twachtman in Letters, Twachtman, J. Alden and Martha S. Twachtman (Mrs. John Henry), 1925-1932

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Celebrating 175: John Henry Twachtman in Letters, Twachtman, J. Alden and Martha S. Twachtman (Mrs. John Henry), 1925-1932

Join the Archives of American Art and the Smithsonian Transcription Center throughout the next year as we celebrate the Smithsonian's 175th birthday! Explore the lives and worlds of 175 different US art world figures on their birthdays, one for each year since the Smithsonian's founding in 1846. Who was born on this day? In 1853, John Henry Twachtman.

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