Emanuel Gerard Collection of Mather and Company Employee Motivation Posters
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Mather and Company.
- Dates:
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1923-1929
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35 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0877
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-five work incentive posters published by Mather and Co.
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Spaeth, Merrie
Topps
- Dates:
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1956.
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0873
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One hundred sixty (160) cards, with color photographs of scenes from the Disney film "Davy Crockett" on one side, and a number, title, (such as "Bowie's Last Stand"), and a synopsis of the scene on the other side. The collection is divided into two series, the first series being the orange backed cards, which were issued first, and Series two cons...
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Mamer, Stuart M.
Mamer, Louisan E., 1910-2005
- Dates:
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1927-2002
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10.1 Cubic feet (31 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0862
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Mamer collection includes a wide range of materials used to teach concepts and the usage of electricity to predominately rural audiences. Mamer kept many of her materials in labeled notebooks; other papers were filed loosely with no apparent order. The collection materials date pre-dominantly from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. There are some materials from the late 1930s. There is only one item from 1927 and one from 1999.
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Del Mar, Bruce E., 1913-
Del Mar Avionics Corporation
- Dates:
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1951-2011
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1249
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the development of the Holter Monitor, a portable device for continuously monitoring heart activity for an extended period, through engineering logbooks, drawings, operator manuals, correspondence, photographs, sales brochures and catalogs, biographical information about the engineering staff who worked on the monitor, patents and trademarks, and marketing and sales materials.
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Kearns, Robert W.
Kearns, Timothy
Brown, Brian Ivan
Quan, John
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1963 - 1999
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8.5 Cubic feet (24 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1406
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the inventive career of physicist and engineer Robert W. Kearns. Kearns invented and patented in 1967 the windshield wiper system with intermittent operation (US 3,351,836), among other inventions. The papers include notebooks, correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, patents, drawings, and trade literature.
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Frank Hubbard
- Dates:
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1930-2003
bulk 1949-2003
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30 Cubic feet (76 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1256
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents approximately fifty years of the Hubbard Harpsichord business. The records include correspondence, financial and accounting materials, sales and promotional materials, records, newsletters, dealer files, project files, photographs, research files on European instruments, kit manuals, and design drawings.
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Wolver, Anita Tuohy
Tuohy, Kevin M., 1921-1968 (optometrist, inventor)
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1897-1959
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1.2 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0317
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Technical information on contact lenses, including manuals, brochures, etc. from Solex Laboratories, and articles from professional journals and other publications. Numerous photographs, including a set of color prints, illustrate techniques of fitting, inserting, and removing contact lens. Medical problems, legal cases involving patent infringemen...
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Ochoa, Elizabeth V.
Ochoa, Victor Leaton
International Airship Co.
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circa 1894-1945
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0590
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document Victor L. Ochoa, Mexican American inventor of the Ochoaplane, orinthopter (an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings), a windmill, magnetic brakes, a wrench and a reversible motor. The papers include correspondence, photographs, patents, both U.S. and foreign, drawings and typescripts for a short story, "The Making of an American," and a novel The Cycle of Life or Professor Mimo Abas: The Wise Man of the Land of Moctezuma.
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Brown, F.C. (Fay Cluff)
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1902 - 1964
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4.5 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0693
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
F.C. Brown was a physicist and inventor who created and supervised the development of education exhibits, most notably as organizing director of the New York Museum of Science and Industry (part of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1926-1931. He was also curator of physics exhibits at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, 1932-1937. Much of Brown's scientific research focused on the element selenium. He invented the phonopticon, an improvement on the optophone (invented by Fournier d'Albe, 1912). Material focuses on Dr. Brown's professional life: correspondence, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, and ephemera from the positions he held and research he conducted. Very little personal information is included.
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Graphic Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Conn, Nat
Tolman, Sarah
Tolman, Ruel P. (Ruel Pardee), 1878-1954
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1920 - 1980
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2 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0579
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of greeting cards, over 95% of them Christmas cards, received from the 1920s-1980s by two Washington, D.C. families, those of Ruel Tolman and Nat Conn.
A collection of greeting cards, over 95% of them Christmas cards, received from the 1920s-1970s by two Washington, D.C. families, those of Ruel Tolman and Nat Conn. Pictorial subject matter includes the categories listed below.