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AVMPI-Media

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Browse and watch selected audiovisual collection items from across the Smithsonian's Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI) partner museum units and research centers.

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Deaf Folklore at the 1981 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Selena interview, 1994

Alexander Graham Bell's Voice, Recorded April 15, 1885

Construction of Mount Rushmore National Memorial (ca 1927)

Here At The Smithsonian: Restoring it "Wright"

Count Us In

All the Signs from Houston to Galveston and Back

Harold M. Anderson Black Wall Street Film Collection

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 1

1946 Mexican-U.S. Border -- Mexico

Historic footage of Bamiyan statues

Donation Ceremony for M*A*S*H Objects to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

J. Max Bond, Sr. Home Movie #1: Afghanistan

Rope Skipping--Basic Steps (1965)

Murals and other artworks of the 1939 New York World's Fair, part 1 of 2

Murals and other artworks of the 1939 New York World's Fair, part 2 of 2

Michael Holman Family Home Movie #18

Black Journal: 5; The World of Julian Bond

A People's Convention

Black Journal: 23; The Nation of Common Sense

South Africa Uncensored

Cornelia Chapin home movies, Paris studio and zoo, 1934-1936

1976 Nagoya, Japan Part 1

The Bronze Buckaroo

The City of Washington, 1929. Reel 1 of 3

The City of Washington, 1929. Reel 2 of 3.

The City of Washington, 1929. Reel 3 of 3

Field trip to Gordon Matta-Clark's "Splitting" house, circa 1974

Ages of Time

Dark Manhattan

Historic Footage of Pennsylvania Colliery, ca. 1930-1940

Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane

Juke Joint

Amateur films from Mexico, 1935-1941

Tomb of Queen Nefertari, Valley of the Queens, Egypt, ca. 1920's

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