War or Conflict: Afghan War, 2001-2021; Iraq War, 2003-2011
Branch of Service: Army
Service Unit/Ship: 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment; 3rd Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment; 3rd Military Intelligence Battalion; 1st Military Battalion; 66th Military Battalion
Location of Service: Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Polk, Louisiana; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Arizona; Korea; England; Germany; Kuwait; Qatar; Afghanistan; Iraq
Sharon Preston-Folta collection on Lucille Preston and Louis Armstrong, 1940-2009
Lucille "Sweets" Preston (1921-2020), a dancer at the Cotton Club and member of the vaudeville comedic duo Slim & Sweets, was an intimate partner of jazz legend Louis Armstrong beginning in the early 1950s. This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other materials formerly owned by their daughter Sharon Preston-Folta. The items document both the relationsip between "Satchmo" and Lucille Preston as well as…
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Armstrong, Louis - Preston-Folta, Sharon - Gold, David - Glaser, Joe - Preston, Lucille
War or Conflict: Iraq War, 2003-2011; Afghan War, 2001-
Branch of Service: Navy
Service Unit/Ship: Naval Construction Battalion 25 (NCB Seabees); Navy Reserve
Location of Service: Connecticut; Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Gulfport, Mississippi; Port Hueneme, California; Ramadi, Iraq; Al Asad Airbase, Iraq
Research materials on Martha Graham, 1928-2023
Martha Graham (1894-1991) was an internationally acclaimed modern dance choreographer and performer of the twentieth century. The Research Materials on Martha Graham is an artificial collection conceived to assemble the documentation of Martha Graham's legacy generated from projects funded by a 1998 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). The collection includes transcripts of interviews, photographs, performance and event programs, clippings and publications,…
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Robbins, Jerome - Maslow, Sophie - Hinkson, Mary - Hodes, Stuart - O'Donnell, May - Dudley, Jane - Noguchi, Isamu - Bernstein, Leonard - McGehee, Helen - Baryshnikov, Mikhail ...
Robbins, Jerome - Maslow, Sophie - Hinkson, Mary - Hodes, Stuart - O'Donnell, May - Dudley, Jane - Noguchi, Isamu - Bernstein, Leonard - McGehee, Helen - Baryshnikov, Mikhail - Melville, Nan - Go, Taijirō - Lang, Pearl - Macy, Gertrude - Horst, Louis - Graham, Martha - Lauterer, Arch - Fonaroff, Nina - Yuriko - Barnes, Thea
Roman Totenberg papers, 1846-2011
Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and teacher. The collection contains annotated music scores, correspondence, business files, biographical materials, photographs, programs, clippings and other materials that document his life and career as a twentieth-century master of the violin.
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Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Paganini, Nicol - Kolsky, Ilka - Milhaud, Darius - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Totenberg, Roman - Schubert, Franz - Brahms, Johannes - Dvořák, Antonín
Date:1846
Manuscript/Mixed Material
Isabella Karle and Jerome Karle papers, 1912-2010
Physical chemists. Writings, speeches, correspondence, research data, subject files, photographs, notes, and miscellaneous textual materials in both physical and digital formats primarily relating to the Karles’ careers at the Naval Research Laboratory and their contributions to the field of crystallography.