1.5 million printed books, manuscripts, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, professional society publications, and electronic versions of rare books and exhibitions.
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252,000 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, sound recordings, films, and organizational records from ten repositories. Over 100,000 scanned images are available in our Image Gallery.
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600,000 records comprising the national Inventory of American Painting and Sculpture databases, the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection and the Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index.
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15,500 citations specialized in Cephalopod, Marine Mammals and Museum Studies research.
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10,000 records documenting the history of the Smithsonian, including bibliographic citations, legal citations, a chronology of important events, historic images, and biographical information on the Board of Regents.
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34,000 individual aircraft and 6,600 aircraft manufacturer records comprise this authority listing, which is an online expansion of The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airplanes, Their Designers and Manufacturers. The Library of Congress has assigned the Directory the cataloging code, “smda” to be used in MARC records by catalogers.
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