Color Slides
name: label: Collection Artist
content: Germann, Sheridan
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content: Sheridan Germann Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1606, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains approximately seven thousand two hundred 35mm color slides of which half of this number document instruments in museums and private collections around the world with a focus on decorative painting.  Germann provides extensive notes on the maker, date, type of instrument, and current owner.  Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the creator of the harpsichord the images document both American and foreign makers.  Harpsichord makers include Derek Adlam (May 30, 1938-), Mark Adler, Hubert François Bédard (December 28, 1933-June 16, 1989), Chateau de Touvet,  William Richmond Dowd (February 28, 1922-November 25, 2008), David Evans (July 28, 1936-December 28, 2018), Carl Fudge (1962-), Hugh Percival Henry Gough (January 31, 1916-April 14, 1997), Frank Twombly Hubbard (May 15, 1920-February 25, 1976), Richard Joseph Kingston, Jr. (June 6, 1947-November 1, 2022), Peter Mactaggart (1931- April 2020), Jay Scott Odell (1935-), Reinhardt von Nagel (August 13, 1936-), Martin Skowroneck (December 21, 1926-May 14, 2014), Micheal Thomas (November 1, 1922- March 14, 1997), Friedrich Freiherr von Hoyningen [Friedrich Alexander von Huene] (February 20, 1929-May 8, 2016), Peter Watchorn (May 30, 1957-), David Jacques Way (1918–1994), and Wolfgang Joachim Zuckermann (October 11, 1922-October 30, 2018).

The remaining half of the color slides document Germann's artistic decorations of over three hundred and ten instruments from almost forty manufacturers. The images are similiar to the photographic prints but are not duplicates. Materials are arranged in Germann's alphabetical order by manufacturer.