Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection
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Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1884-1965
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46 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0018
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
While the collection is focused rather specifically on the development of television in America, including technical details, legal proceedings, marketing and advertisement, and manufacturing, it is also a rich source for the history of American advertising, work cultures, sales, and entertainment. There is also information about radio, mostly in p...
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Deming, Lucretia
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1883 January 1-1887 April 27
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0.1 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0173
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This is a single household account book for the period from January 1, 1883 through April 27, 1887, maintained by Lucretia Deming until two days before her death. The final entry is $120.05 for the payment of Litchfield property taxes. The accounts record daily expenditures in substantial detail, i.e oysters, candy, bread, oil, Century Magazine, e...
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Falcon Trio.
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1912-1913
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0160
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Falcon Trio Vaudeville Collection consists mostly of scrapbook pages that cover the career of the Falcon Trio. Included are photographs of the Trio while performing, those probably used for publicity purposes, some personal photographs, and photographs of fellow vaudevillians. Most of the images are unidentified, but beside the Trio, there are ...
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Pullman Palace Car Co.
Pullman, George M., 1831-1897
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1867-1982
bulk 1900-1930
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8 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0181
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records of the Pullman Company, manufacturers and operators of railroad sleeping cars. Pullman also manufactured hospital and dining cars at its Chicago facilities. Dating from 1867 to 1982 (bulk 1900-1930s), the collection includes background materials, correspondence, financial, personnel and operating records, drawings and photographs.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Alland, Alexander, Sr. (Alexander Landschaft), 1902-1989
Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies )
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circa 1920-1975
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4.3 Cubic feet (16 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0161
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of 4.3 cubic feet of manuscript, print, and photographic materials created or collected by Carl de Wendler-Funaro (1898-1985) in pursuit of his interest in Gypsy life and culture. (Carlos de Wendler-Funaro used several forms of his name; he wrote mostly as Carl de Wendler-Funaro.) The -collection was brought to the attentio...
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Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Dibner Library (NMAH, SI).
Kulp, Roy C.
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1755-1904
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3.66 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0149
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-nine account books of farmers, store owners, and artisans living in Pennsylvania, 1755-1904. The books mainly record daily transactions with customers or suppliers and are handwritten in varying conditions of legibility and preservation.
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Providence and Worcester Railroad Company
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1851-1899
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0154
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This log book of the Providence, Rhode Island repair shop records the annual summaries of repair costs by various divisions of the Railroad for 1851-1854, as submitted by John B. Winslow, Master Mechanic. It also includes entries recording miscellaneous repairs (mostly minor) and overhauls to locomotives for 1880-1899.
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Winans, Ross, 1796-1877 (railroad equipment supplier)
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1850-1851.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0155
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Letterbook contains copies of 417 business letters, arranged chronologically, relating to the manufacture and sale of railroad equipment including locomotive engines, tenders, and car wheels. These letters were replicated in a process similar to carbon copies in an almost perfectly uniform handwriting.
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Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Mechanisms, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Tainter, Charles Sumner, 1854-1940
Hartsook Studio (San Diego, Calif.)
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1878-1937
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0124
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Charles Sumner Tainter has been recognized as the father of the talking machine, and much of the material in this collection represents his experimental work on the graphophone. Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Tainter established the Volta Laboratory Association in 1881. This collection presents a comprehensive picture of the early development of the phonograph and Tainter's substantial contributions to the project.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Sims, George W.
National Anthropological Archives, NMNH, SI
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1896-1981.
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0127
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. It includes forty-one notebooks, 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, forty-one stereo view cards, and three boxes of personal papers and ephemera. While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places and provide biographical information on Sims.