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- Creator:
- 57th Congress, Sess. 1, 1902
- Title:
- An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes
- Dates:
- 06/28/1902
- Physical Description:
- Public Law
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Finding Aid
- Local Number:
- SIA Acc. 20-134
- Creator:
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of the History of Technology
- Title:
- Curatorial Records, 1904-2005
- Dates:
- 1904-2005
- Physical Description:
- Manuscripts, Collection descriptions, Brochures, Drawings, Black-and-white photographs, Black-and-white negatives
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Finding Aid
- Local Number:
- SIA Acc. 03-136
- Creator:
- Jones, Frank Morton 1869-
- Title:
- Frank Morton Jones Papers, circa 1924-1954
- Dates:
- circa 1924-1954
- Physical Description:
- Manuscripts, Collection descriptions, Illustrations, Black-and-white photographs
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SI History Chronology
- Title:
- A.J. Olmsted Becomes USNM Photographer
- Date:
- 1920
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SI History Chronology
- Title:
- Tunnel Between SIB and A&I Constructed
- Date:
- 1901
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SLD
- Creator:
- 63d Congress, Sess. 2, 1914
- Title:
- An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes
- Dates:
- 04/06/1914
- Physical Description:
- Public Law
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Finding Aid
- Local Number:
- SIA RU007409
- Creator:
- Jones, Frank Morton 1869-
- Title:
- Frank Morton Jones Papers, circa 1940-1959
- Dates:
- circa 1940-1959
- Physical Description:
- Manuscripts, Collection descriptions, Clippings
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Image
- Local Number:
- SIA RS00390
- Creator:
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Work and Industry
- Title:
- Curatorial Records, 1847-2020
- Dates:
- 1847-2020
- Physical Description:
- Manuscripts, Clippings, Brochures, Compact discs, Color photographs, Black-and-white photographs, Color transparencies, Video recordings, Drawings, Illustrations, Phonograph records, Black-and-white negatives, Pamphlets, Electronic records, Electronic mail
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Authority Record/EAC
- Local Number:
- SIA RS00279
- Creator:
- United States National Museum Division of Insects
- Title:
- Correspondence, 1878-1963
- Dates:
- 1878-1963
- Physical Description:
- Manuscripts
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Finding Aid
- Local Number:
- SIA RU000428
- Creator:
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Botany
- Title:
- Records, circa 1947-1990, with related records from 1926
- Dates:
- circa 1947-1990, with related records from 1926
- Physical Description:
- Audiotapes, Collection descriptions, Manuscripts
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