Publications
The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
Essay on applying the exhibition experience to research and collections involving the performing arts, specifically in the archival reconstruction/museum performance of Duke Ellington's 1946 musical play, Beggar's Holiday.
This collection of original cast recordings includes book with historical essay and extensive annotations on each selection.
The legacy of American songwriters is traced through this recording series with individual volumes devoted to Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Fields, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, E. Y. Harburg, Jerome Kern, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Andy Razaf, Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne, James Van Heusen, Fats Waller, Harry Warren, Kurt Weill, Richard Whiting, Alec Wilder, Vincent Youmans.
Cole Porter’s work for the international musical stage and screen is chronicled in 84 archival recordings and textual annotation.
This 12-volume series is devoted to rare original cast recordings of musicals by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Sigmund Romberg.
An anthology of this distinctly national art form includes 110 selected archival recordings of classic popular songs and textual annotations.
The earliest sound recordings of American musical theater artists is the focus for this recorded anthology.
The history of the American musical is conveyed through 66 archival recordings of songs from stage and screen and textual annotation.
This archival recording focuses on remastered 78’s made by Victor Recording Company artists in the 1920s and 1930s.
Based on the 1996 Smithsonian exhibition with the same title, the text offers a collective biography of the artists and craftspeople who created the American musical on stage and screen.
Collecting artifacts with special emphasis on the urgical, cardiology, anesthesiology, endoscopy, and bionics collection.
Report on the adoption of the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), to medical artifacts.
An examination of a surgical set which belonged to Benjamin Dudley a surgeon and professor at Tranysyvania College 1814-1850?
A historical look at how medical museums in Euroipe and the United States have collected, exhibited and interpreted this fasinating collecting genre.
Report on the condition of objects on long-term display in Julia Child's Kitchen at the National Museum of American History. Curatorial and conservation issues are discussed.
Using interviews and archival sources, this essay examines the rural South's impact on the origins of rock 'n' roll music. It was the presidential address for the Agricultural History Society, 1994.