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Kudos Affiliates!!! February 2024

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Smithsonian Affiliates  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
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Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:46:37 +0000
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Exhibition  Search this
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Smithsonian Affiliations
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Smithsonian Affiliates
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edanmdm:posts_db55e60510dc92de825d4790b2215df0

Kudos Affiliates!! September 2023

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Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:48:23 +0000
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Smithsonian Affiliates
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edanmdm:posts_474790fa8d0256361a334378740372a4

The “Gray Areas” of Moonshine Making and Meaning in the Ozarks

Creator:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Conversations and talks
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Published Date:
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:19:00 GMT
Topic:
Cultural property  Search this
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Festival Blog
Data Source:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_c0ac89a5dcef7c759625d39f1556ff93

Intern Spotlight: Anna Pedersen Blurs Boundaries with Science Illustration

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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center  Search this
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Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
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Published Date:
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:25:40 +0000
Topic:
Environment  Search this
Research  Search this
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Shorelines
Data Source:
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_67cfe4ec05791ebbf4636dfd8c7fc96b

The Castle Under Construction

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Smithsonian Insider  Search this
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Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
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Published Date:
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:25:55 +0000
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Science  Search this
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Smithsonian Insider
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Smithsonian Insider
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edanmdm:posts_089b97bd6b7983ac36e1527500dcf820

Kudos Affiliates!! October 2023

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Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:11:11 +0000
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Smithsonian Affiliates
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edanmdm:posts_b155916d860ed6db3b839e98757f34ab

Through the Loupe: Rick Prelinger

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Smithsonian Libraries  Search this
Type:
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Smithsonian staff publications
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Published Date:
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:18:46 +0000
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Library science  Search this
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Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
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Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_f9cf7b43da9c7255396967374d8de2b5

Wright (Brothers) 1903 Flyer, Science Museum, London, UK [Documents]

Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
Identifier:
NASM.XXXX.1183.A, File AW-800226-01
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National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft / Series A: Aircraft / Aircraft W / Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright) (Dayton, OH)
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg278dc0493-eebe-4dcf-b1c1-0f8ec5a5e837
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-1183-a-ref56400

Wright (Brothers) 1903 Flyer, Science Museum, London, UK [Photos]

Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
Identifier:
NASM.XXXX.1183.A, File AW-800226-80
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National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft / Series A: Aircraft / Aircraft W / Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright) (Dayton, OH)
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg291912e89-d273-47fb-8b4c-faf3707c3637
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-1183-a-ref56403

Vietnam Institute for Science & Technology (Vietnam)

Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
See more items in:
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft / Series A: Aircraft / Aircraft V
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2661326bf-d858-4fc4-b251-29d32ae81879
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-1183-a-ref68920

Vietnam HL-1 [**No File**]

Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
Identifier:
NASM.XXXX.1183.A, File AV-289003-NF
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National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft / Series A: Aircraft / Aircraft V / Vietnam Institute for Science & Technology (Vietnam)
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg25b057ce2-1d03-4ae5-adf4-cc012ee8fab4
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-1183-a-ref86045

Vietnam TL-1 [**No File**]

Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
Identifier:
NASM.XXXX.1183.A, File AV-289006-NF
See more items in:
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft / Series A: Aircraft / Aircraft V / Vietnam Institute for Science & Technology (Vietnam)
Archival Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg22d9bd2aa-c90e-4787-83a8-e2e8c639cb83
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-1183-a-ref86046

Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records.

Author:
Parke, Davis Company  Search this
Collector:
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences  Search this
Names:
Pfizer Inc.  Search this
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis  Search this
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis. Pharmaceutical Research Division  Search this
Davis, George S.  Search this
Duffield, Samuel P., Dr. (physician, pharmacist)  Search this
Parke, Hervey Coke , 1827-1899  Search this
Extent:
365 Cubic feet (510 boxes, 43 map folders)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Annual reports
Blueprints
Brochures
Catalogs
Correspondence
Employee records
Formulae, chemical
Lantern slides
Newsletters
Newspaper clippings
Notebooks
Price lists
16mm films
Sound recordings
Tracings
Trade literature
Date:
1866-1992
Summary:
The collection documents Parke, Davis and Company, one of the largest and oldest pharmaceutical firms in America.
Scope and Contents:
The collection documents Parke, Davis and Company, one of America's oldest and largest drug makers. Parke, Davis had the first research laboratory in the American pharmaceutical industry. The company played a major role in the development of some of the principle new drugs of the twentieth century and pioneered the field of drug standardization. They were one of the first American firms to produce antitoxins, hormones, and other biologicals. They introduced new and important drugs such as adrenalin, dilantin, chlorenpleniol, and other antibiotics. They also did important research on vitamins, disinfectants, and pencillin.

The collection contains complete documentaion of all the research activities done, including research laboratory notes, correspondence, and published papers. The collection also contains corporate, financial, advertising and sales materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials. The collection is important for those researchers interested in the history of public health, the history of biologicals, pharmaceutical manufacturing and business history.
Arrangement:
Collection is divided into 13 series.

Series 1: Corporate Materials, 1887-1951

Series 2: Financial Materials, 1880-1970

Series 3: Employee/Personnel Materials, 1900-1989

Series 4: Advertising/Sales Materials, 1868-1980

Series 5: Photographs, 1866-1992

Series 6: Notebooks, 1908-1968

Series 7: Control Department Records, 1884-1931

Series 8: Formulas, 1882-1967

Series 9: Equipment Data Files, 1922-1978

Series 10: Publications, 1968-1988

Series 11: Research Materials, 1920-1978

Series 12: Drawings, 1911-1971

Series 13: Addenda, 1867-1970

Series 14: Audio Materials, 1956-1957
Historical:
Parke, Davis and Company traces it's origins to Samuel Pearce Duffield (1833-1916), a physician and pharmacist. Duffield was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and his family moved to Detroit when he was an infant. Duffield graduated from the University of Michigan in 1854 and he attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, latter leaving for Germany where he studied chemistry and sought treatment for his eyesight. He subsequently earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Ludwig University at Giessen in Germany. Duffield returned to Detroit in 1858 and established a retail drugstore with a strong interest in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. Duffield sought financial partners for his retail and manufacturing venture with A.L. Patrick and Francis C. Conant. Both men retracted their investments and Duffield met Hervey Coke Parke (1927-1899), a native of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Duffield and Parke formed a formal partnership in 1866. George S. Davis, a third partner and traveling salesman previously with Farrand, Sheley and Company, was added 1867. Augustus F. Jennings joined the company as a partner to head manufacturing. The company became known as Duffield, Parke, Davis, & Jennings Company. Duffield withdrew in 1869 and the name Parke, Davis & Company was adopted in 1871. The company incorporated in 1875 and began planning world-wide scientific expeditions to discover new vegetable drugs such as Guarana, Bearsfoot, Eucalyptus Globulus, and Coca. The company first showed a profit in 1876, and the first dividend paid to shareholders in 1878 and dividends paid until mid-1960s. Research was a major activity of the company.

In 1907, Parke, Davis and Company bought 340 acres in northeast Avon Township, Michigan, and called it Parkedale Farm. The farm was dedicated on October 8, 1908, and included sterilization rooms and a vaccine propagating building. By 1909 the farm included 200 horses, 25 to 50 cattle, 150 sheep, and employed 20 men. The horses produced the antitoxin for diphtheria and tetanus, the cattle produced a vaccine for smallpox preventatives, and the sheep made serum. Only the healthiest animals were used and all were well cared for. Exotic plants were also grown on the site and used for drugs. Parke-Davis' chief products were antitoxins and vaccines as well as farm crops for feeding the animals. The farm continued to produce vaccines for diphtheria, scarlet fever, tetanus, smallpox, anthrax, and in the 1950s, the Salk polio vaccine.

Due to a weakening financial position, the company became susceptible to take-over, and was purchased by Warner-Lambert in 1970. Warner Lambert, was then acquired by Pfizer in 2000. In 2007, Pfizer closed its research facilities in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Source

Rochester Hills Museum at Voon Hoosen Farm (last accessed on September 29, 2021 https://www.rochesterhills.org/Museum/LocalHistory/ParkeDavisFarm.pdf)

Parke, Davis and Company. Parke-Davis At 100...progress in the past...promise for the future. Detroit, Michigan, 1966.
Related Materials:
Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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Cover Girl Advertising Oral History Documentation Project (NMAH.AC.0374)

Garfield and Company Records (NMAH.AC.0820)

Albert W. Hampson Commercial Artwork Collection (NMAH.AC.0561)

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Kiehl's Pharmacy Records (NMAH.AC.0819)

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Medical Sciences Film Collection (NMAH.AC.0222)

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Sterling Drug Company Records (NMAH.AC.772)

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Patent Medicines (NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.PatentMedicines)

Materials at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collection

Trade catalogs related to Parke, Davis & Co.; Warner-Lambert; Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; and Pfizer, Inc.

Materials at Other Organizations

Detroit Public Library, Special Collections

Parke, Davis & Company records, 1892-1959

Scrapbook of clippings, 1929-44; Excursions & Announcements, 1892-1902; and company newsletters.

University of California San Francisco

Drug Industry Documents was created by the University of California San Francisco Library in collaboration with faculty members C. Seth Landefeld, MD and Michael Steinman, MD. Originally established to house documents from an off-label marketing lawsuit against Parke-Davis (United States of America ex rel. David Franklin vs. Parke-Davis), the archive has grown to include documents from additional sources illustrating how the pharmaceutical industry, academic journals and institutions, continuing medical education organizations and regulatory/funding agencies operate in ways that are detrimental to public health.
Separated Materials:
Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History

The division holds objects related to Parke, Davis that primarily include containers (boxes and glass bottles) that held phamrmaceuticals, biologicals (vaccines), crude drugs, and herb packages. See accessions: 1978.0882; 1982.0043; 1982.0043; 1984.0351; 1985.0475; 1988.3152; 1991.0415; 1992.3127; 2001.3066; 2012.0165; and 2018.5001.
Provenance:
The initial collection of approximately 185 cubic feet was donated by the Warner-Lambert Company, through Jerry A. Weisbach, Vice-President and President of the Pharmaceutical Research Division, on February 3, 1982.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
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:
advertising  Search this
Antibiotics  Search this
Architectural Blueprints  Search this
Biologicals  Search this
Chemistry  Search this
Diseases  Search this
Drugs -- 1900-1950  Search this
Drug factories  Search this
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919  Search this
Laboratories  Search this
Medical scientists -- 1900-1950  Search this
Patents  Search this
Pharmaceutical industry -- 1900-1950  Search this
Pharmacology -- 1900-1950  Search this
Photographs  Search this
Vaccines  Search this
Genre/Form:
Annual reports -- 20th century
Blueprints -- 20th century
Brochures -- 20th century
Catalogs
Correspondence -- 19th-20th century
Employee records
Formulae, chemical
Lantern slides -- 1900-1950
Newsletters -- 20th century
Newspaper clippings
Notebooks -- 1900-1950
Price lists
16mm films
Sound recordings -- Audiotapes -- Open reel
Tracings
Trade literature
Citation:
Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0001
See more items in:
Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records.
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8869c518d-5cbd-42cf-b508-e688de3bf14d
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0001
Online Media:

Who has got mail?

Title:
History of mail in America
Author:
Osborne, Linda Barrett 1949-  Search this
Subject:
United States Postal Service History  Search this
United States Postal Service History  Search this
Physical description:
236 pages illustrations (some color) 22 cm
Type:
Juvenile literature
Instructional and educational works
Illustrated works
History
Juvenile works
Matériel d'éducation et de formation
Ouvrages illustrés
Place:
United States
Date:
2023
Topic:
Postal service--History  Search this
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States  Search this
JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States  Search this
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Science / Politics & Government  Search this
Postal service  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1161061

History of Black futures

Title:
Afro futurism
Editor:
Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo  Search this
Conwill, Kinshasha  Search this
Writer of foreword:
Young, Kevin 1970-  Search this
Writer of introduction:
Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo  Search this
Writer of supplementary textual content:
Anderson, Reynaldo 1964-  Search this
Barber, Tiffany E  Search this
Curtis, Ariana  Search this
Ewing, Eve L  Search this
Fleming, Tuliza K  Search this
Hendryx, Nona  Search this
Jemisin, N. K  Search this
Jennings, John 1970-  Search this
Lewis, Steven  Search this
Neal, Mark Anthony  Search this
Nichols, De  Search this
Nichols, Elaine  Search this
Pretzer, William S  Search this
Shindell, Matthew  Search this
Tate, Angela  Search this
Wilkinson, Michelle  Search this
Womack, Ytasha  Search this
Wormsley, Alisha B  Search this
Writero of supplementary textual content:
Boyd, Herb 1938-  Search this
Writer of afterword:
Nelson, Alondra  Search this
Interviewee:
Reid, Vernon  Search this
Issuing body:
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.),.)  Search this
Subject:
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)  Search this
Physical description:
216 pages color illustrations 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Catalogs
Expositions
Exhibition
Exhibition catalogs
Bildband
Catalogues d'exposition
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
2023
21st century
21e siècle
Topic:
Afrofuturism  Search this
Fantastic, The  Search this
African American arts  Search this
Black people in art  Search this
Black people in popular culture  Search this
Afrofuturisme  Search this
Fantastique  Search this
Arts noirs américains  Search this
Personnes noires dans l'art  Search this
Personnes noires dans la culture populaire  Search this
Afrofuturist  Search this
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies  Search this
HISTORY / African American & Black  Search this
ART / American / African American & Black  Search this
Pop-Kultur  Search this
Person of Color  Search this
Afrofuturismus  Search this
Outer space / In art  Search this
Black people in popular culture / United States  Search this
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) / Catalogs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1162215

Land Collection

Author:
Nicholson, H. B (Henry B.)  Search this
Cordy-Collins, Alana  Search this
Land, Lewis K  Search this
California Academy of Sciences  Search this
Subject:
Land, Lewis K Art collections  Search this
Land, Lewis K Collections d'art  Search this
Physical description:
272 pages : illusrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
1979
C1979
Topic:
Indian art  Search this
Art précolombien--Expositions  Search this
Call number:
E59.A7 P65X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_122154

American men and women of science

Author:
R.R. Bowker Company Database Publishing Group  Search this
Physical description:
v. ; 29 cm
Type:
Biography
Directories
Place:
United States
Canada
Date:
1990
C1989-
Topic:
Scientists  Search this
Scientists--Biography  Search this
Scientists--Directories  Search this
Call number:
Q141 .A514
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_446617

Science

Title:
ʻUlūm
Majallat Jāmiʻat al-Malik Saʻūd. ʻUlūm
Author:
Jāmiʻat al-Malik Saʻūd ʻImādat Shuʼūn al-Maktabāt  Search this
Physical description:
v. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Periodicals
Place:
Saudi Arabia
Date:
1989
1989-
Topic:
Science  Search this
Research  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_469517

FY 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program

Title:
Fiscal year 2001 U.S. Global Change Research Program
Author:
National Science and Technology Council (U.S.) Subcommittee on Global Change Research  Search this
U.S. Global Change Research Program  Search this
Subject:
U.S. Global Change Research Program  Search this
Physical description:
74 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2000
2000?]
Topic:
Climatic changes--Research  Search this
Climatic changes--Research--Government policy  Search this
Geodynamics--Research  Search this
Geodynamics--Research--Government policy  Search this
Global environmental change--Research  Search this
Global environmental change--Research--Government policy  Search this
Call number:
QC981.8.C5 O93 2001
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_616844

Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project Interviews

Creator:
Collins, Martin  Search this
Names:
Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project for Research in Space History  Search this
Project Apollo (U.S.)  Search this
Atwood, John Leland, 1904-1999  Search this
Bradshaw, Delmer  Search this
Burnett, James  Search this
Demitriades, Paul  Search this
Doll, Edward  Search this
Downey, Peter  Search this
Duff, Brian.  Search this
Elms, James C., 1916-  Search this
Fletcher, James  Search this
Gilruth, Robert  Search this
Glennan, Thomas Keith, 1905-1995  Search this
Jacobs, Donald  Search this
Mettler, Ruben F., 1924-  Search this
Miller, Mark  Search this
Mueller, G. E. (George Edwin), 1918-  Search this
Phillips, Samuel  Search this
Ramo, Simon  Search this
Seamans, Robert C.  Search this
Shapley, Willis  Search this
Silverstein, Abe  Search this
Soergel, David  Search this
Storms, Harrison A., Jr., 1915-1992  Search this
Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-1992  Search this
Wilson, Thorton  Search this
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)  Search this
Extent:
3.01 Cubic feet (16 boxes )
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Transcripts
Date:
1985-1990
Summary:
This collection consists of the transcripts for the Glennen-Webb-Seamans Project (GWS), which examines various aspects of NASA management practices during the Apollo program. This project constitutes one of several oral history projects conducted within the Department of Space History, NASM. The principal investigator for the GWS was Martin Collins and the interview set contains 193 hours of interviews with 22 individuals. The central thread of this collection was the problem of configuring new political relations among the space sciences and sponsors. The following individuals were interviewed: J. Leland Atwood; Delmer Bradshaw; James Burnett; Paul Demitriades; Edward Doll; Peter Downey; Brian Duff; James Elms; James Fletcher; Robert Gilruth; T. Keith Glennan; Donald Jacobs; Ruben Mettler; Mark Miller; George Mueller; Samuel Phillips; Simon Ramo; Robert Seamans; Willis Shapley; Abe Silverstein; David Soergel; Harrison Storms; James Webb; Thorton Wilson; and Herbert York.
Scope and Contents:
The Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project Interviews consist of 193 hours of interviews with 26 individuals. The audio cassette tapes of these interviews have yet to be remastered and, due to their fragility, are unavailable to researchers. Transcripts are available to researchers, though there are restrictions placed on a number of them. A NASM staff member will advise the patron which transcripts are available for copying or viewing and how to order copies of transcripts and/or CDs.
Arrangement:
The Glennan-Webb-Seamans (GWS) Project Interviews are arranged alphabetically by interviewee. Boxes 1-11 (Series 1) contain the interviews on audio cassette tapes. These tapes have yet to be remastered and, due to their fragility, are not available to researchers.

Boxes 12-16 (Series 2) contain the transcripts for these cassette tapes. Most of these transcripts are available to researchers, though restrictions are placed on a small number of them. Transcripts with user restrictions are highlighted in bold type.
Biographical / Historical:
This collection contains the interviews of the Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project (GWS). These interviews analyze a variety of facets revolving around NASA management and its handling of contractors during the Apollo program. The individuals listed as part of this collection's name refer to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) first two administrators and the agency's deputy administrator during much of the 1960s. The principal (though, by no means the only) interviewer for this project was Martin Collins and the interview set consists of 193 hours of interviews with 26 individuals. These interview subjects represent some of the most influential decision-makers at NASA, the aerospace industry and academia. The following were interviewed for this project: J. Leland Atwood; Delmer Bradshaw; James Burnett; Paul Demitriades; Edward Doll; Peter Downey; Brian Duff; James Elms; James Fletcher; Robert Gilruth; T. Keith Glennan; Donald Jacobs; Ruben Mettler; Mark Miller; John Moore; George Mueller; Samuel Phillips; Simon Ramo; Robert Seamans; Willis Shapley; Abe Silverstein; David Soergel; Harrison Storms; James Webb; Thornton Wilson and Herbert York. Among the myriad of topics discussed in these interviews is the Apollo 1 [204] fire that killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967, during a test at the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida. The GWS Project constitutes one of a number of oral history efforts endeavors conducted by the National Air and Space Museum's (NASM) Department of Space History.
General note:
This collection consists of the interview transcripts, not the tapes.
Provenance:
Department of Space History, Transfer, 1999, 1999-0036, Varies
Restrictions:
Various restrictions apply.
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, Please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Topic:
Astronautics  Search this
Genre/Form:
Transcripts
Citation:
Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project Interviews, Acc. 1999-0036, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NASM.1999.0036
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Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project Interviews
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2b7e41532-4a23-4378-911d-9b486fd8d79f
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nasm-1999-0036
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