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District of Columbia
Washington
Smithsonian Center
for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
750 8th Street NW, Suite 4100
mail: PO Box 37012,
Victor Bldg, Ste 4100, MRC
953, DC 20013)
Washington
DC
20560
Phone
202 275-1150
Web Site
www.folklife.si.edu/
E-mail
mailto:folklife-info@si.edu
Description
promotes grassroots culture through recordings,
exhibitions, films and
videos, and annual
folklife festival
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Primary Focus
History Resource
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Folk Life
New or Updated:
3/15/2006
Washington
Smithsonian Center
for Materials Research & Education
Address
Washington
DC
Phone
301 238-1240
Web Site
www.si.edu/scmre/
Description
studies preservation technologies.
Type of Resource
History Related Organization
Primary Focus
History Resource
Kind of Activity
Link List
New or Updated: 3/16/2006
District of Columbia
Smithsonian Institution
Constitution Avenue
Washington DC 20560
Phone 202 357-1386
Web Site www.si.edu
Description The Smithsonian runs many museums and institutions. This is their home page
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Collection N-Z Printing
Society for American Archaeology
900 Second Street NE #12
Washington DC 20002
Phone 202 789-8200
Web Site http://saa.org/education/index.html
E-mail mailto:headquarters@saa.org
Description professional, student, and avocational archaeologists working
worldwide
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Nature of Group or Site Association
Field of Study/Science Facility Archaeology
District of
Columbia
Special Libraries Association
1700 Eighteenth Street NW
Washington DC 20009
Phone 202 234-4700
Web Site http://www.sla.org/
E-mail mailto:sla@sla.org
Description international professional organization for corporate, academic, and government information professionals
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Nature of Group or Site Association
Research /Reading Library
US Army Center of Military History
Address
Washington DC
Phone
Web Site www.army.mil/cmh-pg/Museums/musdir.htm
Description
responsible for multiple museums worldwide
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Primary Focus Military
Nature of Group or Site Web Site
District of
Columbia
US Senate Commission on Art
US Senate Office of the Curator
Room S-411 US Capitol
Washington DC 20510
Phone 202 224-2955
Web Site www.senate.gov/learning/learn_art_about.html
E-mail curator@sec.senate.gov
Description maintains Senate art collection and Old Senate and Old Supreme Court Chambers
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Primary Focus Arts
US/International Council on Monuments and Sites
401 F Street NW, Room 331
Washington DC 20001
Phone 202 842-1866
Web Site www.icomos.org/usicomos/
Description Dedicated to the conservation and preservation at national and international levels.
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Primary Focus Preservation
District of
Columbia
Veterans History Project - American Folklife Center
Library of
Congress
101 Independence Ave SE
Washington DC
20450
Phone 202 707-4916
Web Site http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/
Toll Free 888 371-5848
E-mail mailto:vohp@loc.gov
Description ongoing project to collection oral and documentary histories from as many of the nation's veterans as possible -- contact them if you are or have information about a veteran
Type of Resource History Related Organization
Primary Focus Military
Nature of Group or Site Oral History |
