J. C. B. Tinling/Power Jets, Inc. Collection
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Power Jets, Ltd.
- Dates:
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1930-1987
bulk [ca. 1930s-1940s]
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0.9 Cubic feet ((2 legal document boxes) (1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1991.0032
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of corporate records, magazine articles, photographs and a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings on Power Jets, Ltd. Most of the material in the collection also relates to Frank Whittle and his accomplishments. Included are some of Whittle's writings and the agreements he signed for Power Jets.
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von Meister, F.W. "Willy,", 1903-1978
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1925-1969
bulk 1934-1937
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (6 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1996.0002
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material relating to Friedrich Wilhelm. "Willy" von Meister and his activities with the airship industries of Germany and the United States.
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Lindsay, Kester S. "Slim,", 1902-1979
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1912-1953
bulk 1929-1937
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1990.0074
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 206 photographs taken or acquired by Slim Lindsay during his stints as manager of the Curtiss Wright and Roosevelt Fields and during his travels for B.G. Corporation. The photographs include aircraft, aviation personalities, air fields, and hangars from around the world. The collection also includes newspaper and magazin...
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Bowman, Les (Leslie)
Bowman, Martie (Marguerite)
Bowman, Larnie
- Dates:
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1923-1987
bulk 1923-1950
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1.28 Cubic feet (1 records center box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1991.0042
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Bowman Family Papers contain 1.28 cubic feet of material related to the aviation careers of Leslie (Les), Marguerite (Martie), and Larnie Bowman.
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Fairchild Aircraft Corp
- Dates:
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1919-1980
- Size:
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277.95 Cubic feet (255 records center boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0060
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of historical files on FI, its predecessors, and subsidiaries. The material consists primarily of historical/public relations material, including photographs and brochures, but also includes significant amounts of business records for FEAC, Kreider-Reisner, Hiller, Republic, Ranger, Stratos, and Swearingen. The collection also documents Fairchild's joint ventures with Fokker, Pilatus, and other aircraft manufacturers. The material also includes an extensive negative collection as well as film and videotape libraries.
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Broadcast Music, Inc.
- Dates:
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1860-1868
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1258
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains sheet music themed in support of the Confederacy. Many pieces were printed within the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865). It also contains one Confederate bond and early twentieth century facsimiles of Confederate broadsides from the Chicago Historical Society.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Dates:
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1841-1986, undated
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98 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S11
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 11: Entertainment contains more than 12,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards entertainers and entertainment in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Musical History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Dates:
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1903 - 1989
- Size:
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400 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0301
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.
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Gaines, DeMaris
Myers, Louis E., 1915-1994
Valley, Dorris
- Dates:
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1991
- Size:
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1 Sound cassette (7 pages)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1999-45
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Taped interview with Myers, then chief of the Peoria tribe, May 21, 1991. Interview conducted by DeMaris Gaines, Director of the Northeastern Oklahoma A & M College Heritage Program and Dorris Valley, Peoria historian. Recording is accompanied by written Kaskaskia vocabulary list.
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Turner, Charles Henry, 1848-1908
- Dates:
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1875-circa 1973
bulk circa 1890-circa 1910
- Size:
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0.54 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.turnchar
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Massachusetts and New Hampshire painter and printmaker Charles Henry Turner, measure 0.54 linear feet and date from 1875-circa 1973, with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1890-circa 1910. The collection includes an auction catalog and a price list of Turner's paintings, biographical material, five letters, artwork, miscellaneous printed material, photographs of Turner, his studio, European travel, and artwork, and two glass plate negatives.