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Query: Farmers -- 1940-1990

William C. Kost Farm Records

Creators:: Kost, William Elvidge
Kost, William Cassell, 1917-1989 (farmer)
Dates:: 1939-1989
Size:: 17.66 Cubic feet (53 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0481
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The records of the Kost family farm, Vermont, Illinois. The farm consisted of 120 acres where small grains, hay, and cattle were raised.

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30 Aniversario DIVEDCO [screen print poster]

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Creators:: Cortes, Eduardo Vera
Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
Dates:: 1979
Level:: file
Size:: 1 Item (Ink on paper., 72 x 47.5 cm.)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0615
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This thirtieth anniversary poster of DIVEDCO shows its creative team filming, editing, performing, and at work in the print shop. Their target audiences, a farmer planting in the countryside and a child reading a DIVEDCO book, appear on the edges of the action. The building featured in the background is the old DIVEDCO headquarters, currently the M...

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Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection / Events / Anniversaries / 30 Aniversario DIVEDCO [screen print poster]

El de los Cabos Blancos [screen print poster]

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Creators:: Maldonado, Antonio
Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
Dates:: 1960s
Level:: file
Size:: 1 Item (Ink on paper., 72.8 x 49.3 cm.)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0615
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

In this early design, Maldonado employs dramatic cropping and a close-up of the horse's white legs in imitation of angular filming techniques. The 1955 film tells the story of a small tobacco farmer who faces operational and economic problems, but who is able to free himself from the exploitation of a loan shark by receiving assistance from a growe...

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Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection / Events / Movies / El de los Cabos Blancos [screen print poster]

John K. Parlett Collection of Agricultural Ephemera

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Creators:: Custom Auto and Equipment Sales
Parlett, John K., 1937-2005
Dates:: 1859-2011, undated
Size:: 20 Cubic feet (60 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.1225
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The John K. Parlett Collection of Agricultural Ephemera, 1859-2011, undated, is a collection of operator's instruction manuals, parts illustrations manuals, dealership materials, farming, farm life, and agriculture-related ephemera. The material is from national companies as well as local manufacturers and businesses.

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Early photographs of musicians performing, 1920s-1940s. Includes Billie Holiday, Buster Bailey, Pee Wee Russell, Charlie Shavers, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and others.

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Level:: file
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0766
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews / Photographs of Performances / Concerts, Music Clubs and Other Venues, circa 1980s-1990s; undated / Early photographs of musicians performing, 1920s-1940s. Includes Billie Holiday, Buster Bailey, Pee Wee Russell, Charlie Shavers, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and others.

Duke Ellington; includes Ellington with sidemen, 1944, Ellington Band, 1940, and Louis Armstrong, 1962 Mercer Ellington

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Level:: file
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0766
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews / Photographs of Musicians and Ensembles / Musicians and Ensembles / Duke Ellington; includes Ellington with sidemen, 1944, Ellington Band, 1940, and Louis Armstrong, 1962 Mercer Ellington

W. Royal Stokes Collection of Music Photoprints and Interviews

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Creators:: Sun Ra
Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
Taylor, Billy
Stokes, W. Royal, Dr., 1930-
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Dates:: 1940s-2005
Size:: 10 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0766
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Publicity photographs of musicians and entertainers, mostly jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, but including many rock and even a few classical performers. The collection also contains tape recorded radio interviews conducted between 1970 and 2003. In addition there are posters relating to musical performances.