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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1800-1965
bulk 1830-1930
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4.56 Cubic feet (consisting of 10 boxes, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Instruments
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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: Instruments 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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- file
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0215
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0215
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Scales
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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, undated
1791-1943
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3.25 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Scales
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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: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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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DeJuhasz, Kalman J. (Engineer)
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1908-1959
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1.6 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0304
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Technical papers, notes, and publications which reflect DeJuhasz's career as a mechanical engineer, inventor, and professor and particularly his interest in development of diesel engines, engineering instruments, and his invention of the engine indicator for measuring cylinder pressures.
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Park-Brannock.
Park, Ernest N.
Brannock, Otis C.
Brannock, Charles F., 1903-1992
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1925 - 1998
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12 Cubic feet (34 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0672
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Brannock Device Company began with the 1925 invention of the Brannock Device, a tool to measure foot length and width at the same time, by inventor and businessman Charles F. Brannock. Early in his career Brannock worked as a shoe salesman at the Park-Brannock shoe store, and in 1962 he became the CEO of the company. This collection documents both the Park-Brannock store and the Brannock Device. Materials in The Brannock Device Company Records, 1925-1998, include of correspondence, design drawings, United States and foreign patents and trademarks, advertisements, product information, sales records, photographs, and a film strip documenting the invention, promotion, and sale of the Brannock Device as well as the concurrent development of Park-Brannock as a leading shoe store in Syracuse, N.Y.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
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1960, 1981, 1998-2012
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2.03 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-140
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document planning, development and production activities for the exhibitions "On Time" and "Robots on the Road: Stanley," as well as the Halls of Timekeeping and Light Machinery at the National Museum of American History, and when the museum was known as the Museum of History and Technology. Earlier ...
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Aviation
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Aircraft and Industrial Measuring Instruments Chicago, Illinois
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National Museum of American History. Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics
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1956-1988 and undated
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12 cu. ft. (24 document boxes) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 332
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include administrative files of the Division of Mathematics and its predecessors; Merzbach correspondence with computer industries, university professors, and pioneers or experts in the field of computing science; exhibition scripts, research material, and blueprints for the Hall of Mathematics; Computer History Project research ...
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1938 - 1964
- Level:
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0822
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
George Papp was born in Hungary, receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Szeged and his PhD from the University of Budapest. Papp came to the United States in 1949 and was a research associate at George Washington University working on the development of electron multiplier tubes. In 1952, Papp went to Fort Wayne, Indiana to be wor...