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Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers, circa 1927-2012, undated (bulk 1951-2008) (inclusive)

Extent:

31.5 linear feet

Abstract:

Art to Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943-2008) was both a professional and personal passion. Best recognized for her twenty-five year tenure as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, d'Harnoncourt collaborated with local, national and international people and organizations, to keep art--and all the arts--relevant and essential in building and bridging communities. Most of the material comprising the Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers traces her professional development in and away from the Museum and consists primarily of correspondence, press clippings, photographs of works of art and events, draft lectures, notes, ephemera and a number of certificates, citations and object awards. Several files of photos and papers pertain to her husband and Museum colleague, Joseph J. Rishel. Family papers and photographs and school records comprise her personal papers. Also made part of the Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers is the significant documentation of the worldwide reaction to her unexpected death on June 1,...(see more)

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Dorothy Norman Research Collection, 1897-1992, undated (inclusive)

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4 linear feet

Abstract:

During her twenty-year relationship with photographer and art promoter Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman, herself a photographer as well as writer, came to know artists such as John Marin, who were defining American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s. Norman published and edited writings about both men, and likely compiled this material in preparation. Documentation pertaining to Alfred Stieglitz consists primarily of exhibition announcements and checklists, and copies of writings published by his gallery An American Place. Equally significant in amount are the copyprints of photographs by Stieglitz, and of works by artists he promoted, such as Georgia O'Keefe, Arthur G. Dove, John Marin and Marsden Hartley. John Marin material consists primarily of photographs and published writings about the artist, including clippings and exhibition catalogues. Material relating to Norman's other endeavors include ephemera of her publication "Twice a Year" and other works published by the same...(see more)

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Ernst Berl Papers, 1899-1970 (inclusive)

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15.4 linear feet (11 boxes (11 record boxes))

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Correspondence, professional files, patent files, financial records, personal files, papers and speeches, and publications of Austrian chemical engineer Ernst Berl.

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Joseph F. Bunnett Papers, 1960-1995 (inclusive) 1967-1986 (bulk)

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8.4 linear feet (8 boxes (5 record boxes, 2 hollinger boxes, and 1 half-hollinger box).)

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Professional files of American chemist and chemistry professor Joseph F. Bunnett, which primarily document his editorship of the scientific journal Accounts of Chemical Research.

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Kenneth R. Shoulders Papers, 1940-2013 (inclusive) 1955-2008 (bulk)

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37.8 linear feet (27 boxes (20 record boxes, 2 film cans, 1 half hollinger box, 1 audiocassette box, 2 videotape boxes 2 oversized boxes, 4 map tubes, 1 artifacts box, and 1 photographs box) )

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Correspondence, research files, personal files, patent files, papers and presentations, publications, audio-visual materials, electronic storage materials, and photographic materials of American electronics engineer, experimental physicist, and inventor Kenneth R. Shoulders.

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Arthur Greenberg Collection of Laboratory Photographs, circa 1915-1928 (inclusive)

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23 photographic prints (1 box)

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Black and white photographs of men and women working in scientific laboratories in the 1920s, including American biochemist and physiologist Dr. Alfred Baird Hastings and British physiologist Sir Joseph Barcroft.

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Travis P. Hignett Collection of Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Photographs, 1920s-1950s (inclusive) 1926-1930 (bulk)

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390 negatives (5 boxes)

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Scrapbook and individual images from the United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory (F.N.R.L.) and other U.S.D.A. sites circa 1920s to 1950s.

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Photographs from the Bendix Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer Collection, 1959-1973 (inclusive) 1970 (bulk)

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320 photographic prints (3 boxes)

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Photographs documenting the creation, production, and marketing of the Bendix Corporation's flagship analytical instrument, the Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (TOFMS).

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Edward G. Mazurs Collection of Periodic Systems Images, 1860s-1950s (inclusive) 1880s-1920s (bulk)

Extent:

110 photographic slides (3 boxes)

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Slides of models of the periodic table used by Edward G. Mazurs in the production of his book Types of Graphic Representation of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements (1957).

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Foil A. Miller Photograph Collection, 1950-1995 (inclusive)

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56 photographic prints ((1 box))

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Photographs and slides of early infrared spectroscopists taken and assembled by Foil A. Miller.

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