Forman H. Craton Papers
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- Creators:
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Craton, Forman H., 1902-1983
- Dates:
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1902-1983
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4.15 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0454
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Diaries and memoirs, profusely illustrated with photographs and other mementos, which describe Craton's life, education and work experience as an engineer at General Electric in minute detail, and include his comments on the culture, current events and politics of the times; and correspondence, mostly letters from Craton to his wife and to his mother.
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Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
- Dates:
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1860-1984
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56 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0469
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the history and development of the Wurlitzer Company and consists of company publications, business records, employee files, manufacturing records, sales and marketing records, product information, publicity, advertising, photographs, audiovisual materials, and organ installation drawings.
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Strohmeyer & Wyman
Raven Books
Kraus, Jeffrey (dealer)
Underwood & Underwood
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1893-1904
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4 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0414
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Four stereographs showing stereo photographers at work: (1) "Taking a View for You & U," copyright 1893 by J. F. Jarvis, Washington, D.C. (little girl holding field camera); (2) uncaptioned view of man standing on pier amid ruins, published by Underwood & Underwood, undated, identified as Bert Underwood in pencil on mount; (3) "Our well known Stere...
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Morrison, Joan, -2010
Morrison, Robert K.
Beirne, Barbara T.
- Dates:
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1985 - 1987
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6 Cubic feet (20 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0359
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is comprised of 139 audiocassettes (original copies only), 80 transcripts and tape summaries, and photographs (including some negatives). The transcripts and photographs also exist in single copies only, but they may be used with care by researchers.
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Mount, Wadsworth W., 1907-1985
Mount, John W.
- Dates:
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1920-1984
- Size:
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10.5 Cubic feet (33 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0352
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials documenting five of Mount's numerous inventions: the solar still, a jet power burner, turnbuckles and swivel connectors for boats, the "wadnut" (a self-tightening fastener), and a method of joining industrial piping. The papers include notes on concepts, and on testing and prototypes; correspondence with patent attorneys and potential industrial users of the devices; photographs; biographical information on Mount; and a general subject file on his inventions.
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Jogbra, Inc.
Miller, Hinda
- Dates:
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1977-2008
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16 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1315
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the invention of the Jogbra and includes biographical materials, business records, photographs, promotional, marketing and advertising materials, correspondence and audiovisual materials.
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1836 - 2015
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40 Cubic feet (85 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1319
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of archival materials compiled by National Museum of American History Curator Katherine Ott, on numerous subjects relating to disability and the rights of the disabled.
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Jessee, Mark
Marks, Peter, 1843-1883
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1800-1915; undated
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3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1328
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Marks's years as a harpist on the Midwestern minstrel circuit. It primarily consists of sheet music and song books, theater programs, posters announcing minstrel shows, newspaper articles, and personal papers.
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King, D. Ward
- Dates:
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1902-2005
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0.75 Cubic feet ( 2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1332
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, publications and correspondence related to D. Ward King's invention the King Road Drag, or the Split-Oak drag, which improved rural travel in the early 20th century by introducing a simple design and low-effort system for grading poor-quality roads. The King Road Drag was promoted heavily across the United States and Canada via the "Good Roads Campaign" originally sponsored by the railroad companies in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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LeMartine, Elaine
Bullis, Zaidee
- Dates:
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1944 - 1954
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1286
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection relates to Tommy Tucker, a squirrel kept as a pet by a Washington, D.C. woman, and includes photographs, letters, articles, tour information and a typed biography of Tommy Tucker.