Smithsonian Jazz Collections and Archives

The National Museum of American History Archives
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/ac-i.htm

The American Music collections at the National Museum of American History documents America's diverse popular and musical tradition and performances. It holds the The Duke Ellington Collection and several other music collections that you can find described on the Archives Center's web site including the The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music containing images, music, and lyrics of American life and culture between 1790 and the 1980s.

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries
http://www.sil.si.edu/

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries catalog may be searched via SIRIS, The Smithsonian Institution Research Information. The Libraries hold databases and e-journals, digital collections, and special collections.

The Archives of American Art
http://artarchives.si.edu/

Contained in the over five thousand collections, are letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals, and other types of documents, totaling roughly fourteen million items. The collections, combined with approximately three thousand interviews done for AAA's oral history program, and nearly one thousand photographs in AAA's Photographs of Artists Collections, are an endless treasure trove of raw material for art historians and scholars in other fields to explore. Of particular note are the Bruce Mitchell and Gertrude Abercombie collections. The AAA catalog can be searched online.

The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
http://www.siris.si.edu/

SIRIS, The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) is the online catalog of resources held by the Institution's libraries, archives, and other specialized research centers.