Television collections at the Smithsonian Institution span near-all museums and research centers, attesting to the medium's profound impact on American and global society. From Nam June Paik's iconic and unmistakable cathode ray tube sculptures and installations (like 1995's "Megatron/Matrix" held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)), to artefactual props from iconic TV programs (like The Muppets, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Star Trek), to the vast moving image collections of shows like the landmark arts and culture series Black Journal and early kinescope records of broadcasts from the DuMont network, the Smithsonian is tuned into TV!
To celebrate the United Nations' "World Television Day" on November 21st, here are some of our favorite online TV-related collections as selected by staff of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative.
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Elderly Woman with stacked Televisions
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Black Journal: 9; Tribute to Malcolm X
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Shopping in Town for Television Set
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Bendix Television Set
sova.nasm.1988.0115_ref708- Collection Creator
- Bendix Corporation.
- Bendix Aviation Corp
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- Bendix Air Races Collection
- Bendix Air Races Collection / Series 5: Bendix Corporation, Miscellaneous / Bendix, Miscellaneous (1 of 2)
- Date
- circa 1951-1952
- Container
- Box 5, Folder 1
- Archival Repository
- National Air and Space Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- Bendix Air Races Collection, Acc. NASM.1988.0115, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
- Collection Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
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Communications Exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology Featuring Closed Captioning on Television
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Camera, Television, Lunar Surface, Apollo
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Selena interview, 1994
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Four Emmy Statuettes awarded for the Smithsonian Film "Celebrating a Century"
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Red Starfleet uniform worn by Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura on Star Trek
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Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols on Uhura's Radical Impact
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Choco Drink TV
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Video Flag
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Swanson TV Dinner Tray
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"Pigs in Space" Puppet
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Robin Williams
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Bob Johnson, President and founder Black Entertainment Television, in his Georgetown office in the early days of B.E.T evolution
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Nielsen TV Viewing Diary, 1977
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Cloak used by Elisabeth Moss as Offred in The Handmaid's Tale
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Storyboard created for the animated television series The Simpsons
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WCAU-TV Philadelphia
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David Sarnoff (1891-1971) as Seen by TV Viewers at the 1939 World's Fair
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Sony "Watchman" portable television
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Photograph of Ilene Segalove
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El Chapulin Colorado Lunch Box
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- filter Archival materials 9 Exclude Archival materials
- filter 16mm (photographic film size) 8 Exclude 16mm (photographic film size)
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- filter color films (visual works) 7 Exclude color films (visual works)
- filter Video recordings 5 Exclude Video recordings
- filter Sculpture 4 Exclude Sculpture
- filter television receiver 4 Exclude television receiver
- filter Posters 3 Exclude Posters
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Culture
- filter African Americans 18 Exclude African Americans
- filter Christians 2 Exclude Christians
- filter Indians of North America 2 Exclude Indians of North America
- filter Latin Americans 2 Exclude Latin Americans
- filter Muslims 2 Exclude Muslims
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- filter Buddhists 1 Exclude Buddhists
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- filter North and Central America 14 Exclude North and Central America
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- filter National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection 18 Exclude National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- filter Culture and the Arts: Entertainment 14 Exclude Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- filter Photography 10 Exclude Photography
- filter Popular Entertainment 10 Exclude Popular Entertainment
- filter National Museum of American History 9 Exclude National Museum of American History
- filter Work and Industry: Photographic History 9 Exclude Work and Industry: Photographic History
- filter Black Journal 8 Exclude Black Journal
- filter Pearl Bowser Collection 8 Exclude Pearl Bowser Collection
- filter Time-based Media - Moving Images 8 Exclude Time-based Media - Moving Images
- filter Currently not on view 6 Exclude Currently not on view
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- filter Amusements 15 Exclude Amusements
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