Melody Golding Photoprints
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Golding, Melody
- Dates:
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2005-2006
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1166
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These photographs document some of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the towns of Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pearlington, Mississippi.
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Covington, Robert L.
- Dates:
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1989-2008
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1201
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A portfolio of stereographic inkjet photoprints, including views of American bridges, such as the Brooklyn Bridge, roads and highways, Hoover Dam, views taken from the World Trade Center, New York, and one image of Tokyo.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1810-1980
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62 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S02
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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 2: Armed Forces contains circa 3,400 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the military history of the United States; there are only a handful of foreign imprints. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Faul, Jan, 1945-
- Dates:
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1994
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0526
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs taken under a grant from the Graham Foundation to document disappearing family farms in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. This project shows the urbanization of this mostly rural county in central Wisconsin located between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison. Welsh men and women came to Waukesha County in the 1840s and became part of America's dairy history. After five or six generations, many of these farms are still family owned. Today's farms are threatened by developers due to rising land prices.
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Mead, Virginia Lee
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circa 1915-1970
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0555
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook, photograph album, published family book, photographic prints, and news clippings related to Virginia Mead's family.
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Naval History, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Ayres, Waldemar A., 1909- ((inventor))
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1954-1974
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3.3 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0077
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection deals primarily with Ayres' artificial gill underwater breathing equipment project. Includes correspondence (1956-1971), personal papers, three boxes of research notes, documentation of the success of the invention, and subsequent patents and patent litigation; also publicity for the artificial gill, items from Ayres' other projects, and...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1847-1975
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251 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S04
- Repository:
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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 4: Songwriters: A "songwriter" for this series is defined as a composer, a lyricist, or both. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Baden, Gary
Baden, Sandra
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circa 1897-1979
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0611
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A wide-ranging collection of over 1,000 celebrity advertising endorsements, ca. 1897-1979. The endorsements were culled by a collector/hobbyist from high-end magazines publications such as Fortune, McCalls, Playbill and Vogue. They feature a wide range of celebrities from the fields of performing arts, sports, business, politics and "society." T...
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1863-1966
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9.54 Cubic feet (consisting of 19.5 boxes, 4 folders, 26 oversize folders, 8 map case folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Theater
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Theater forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Taylor, Miriam Price
Price, Edwin, 1829-1901 (locomotive engineer)
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1893
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0070
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents handwritten reminiscences of Edwin Price's experiences operating steam engines.