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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.


  • Human Studies Film Archives 172 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture 42 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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  • Michael Holman Family Collection 15 Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
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1972 Yugoslavia Part 7

1972 Sarajevo

1960 Lyon, France

1976 Tokyo, Japan Part 5

1972 Dubrovnik Part 1

1960 Carcassonne, France

1946 San José Pt. 4 - Costa Rica

1946 Panama Canal Pt. 2 - Panama

1946 Road Into Honduras -- Honduras-Nicaragua

1958 Cooperative Part 2 (ceramics making) - El Salvador

1976 Okitsu, Japan Part 3

1946 Antigua- Guatemala

1946 Fortín Pt. 3 - Mexico

1972 Sveti Stefan

1946 Children With Camera - Guatemala

1958 Panama Canal Part 2 - Panama

1946 Lake Coatepeque- El Salvador

1960 Nice, France

1972 Hvar

1976 Tokyo, Japan Part 1

1960 Cannes, France

Historic footage of Paniolo cowboys in Hawaii (ca. 1937)

Battle of Puebla, Mexico (1968)

John Bull: Riding the Rails (1981)

Unedited footage from Murals of Aztlan by James Tartan 1981

Cornelia Chapin Home movies, horse show, 1936

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 9

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 8

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 7

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Reel 5

Cornelia Chapin home movies, "Hilltop Happenings, Harpursville, Summer 1932"

1939 NY World's Fair, construction of frieze

Municipal Center Frieze, Washington, DC

Robert Laurent home movies

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