Ryder Mobile Homes Park Collection
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Ryder Mobile Homes, Inc.
- Dates:
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circa 1920s-2001
- Size:
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15 Cubic feet (44 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0777
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents trailer park life, particularly the Ryder Mobile Homes Park founded by Ralph Ryder in New Haven, Connecticut in 1930.
Found In
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1957 January 19
- Level:
- item
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1 Motion picture film
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0507
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
New Jersey Machines form metals into tubes for such things as toothpaste and thermos jugs. The Sun Tube Co., Washington, NJ. Illinois Radio system gives emergency vehicles remote control of traffic lights. Standard Coils Electronic Protection Plant, Melrose Park, IL. California Harvesting cotton with machines. Mobile repair units fix mechanical c...
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[ca. 1920s-1930s]
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1997.0025
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes 40 Ryan photographs with captions. Photos include: various stages of production, interiors of personal planes, aircraft flying and on the ground, and the aircraft being used as a recreational vehicle.
Found In
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- Dates:
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1914-1992
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1441
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 150 photographic negatives, 54 photographic prints, and two rolls of film negatives documenting the history of the Black and Decker Corporation, from a few years after its founding in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1910, through the 1990s.
Found In
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- Level:
- series
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2004
- Repository:
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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Craton, Forman H., 1902-1983
- Dates:
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1902-1983
- Size:
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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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Ehrat, Arthur
Fleckner, John A., 1941-
- Dates:
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2011
1865-2005
bulk 1970-1990
- Size:
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10 Cubic feet (26 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0907
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Arthur Ehrat invented and patented a breakaway basketball rim, fashioning his prototypes from bolts, metal braces and one key part: a piece of the heavy-duty coil spring on a John Deere cultivator. His invention helped to revolutionize the way basketball is played because players could slam dunk the ball with fewer injuries and without bending the rims or breaking backboards. This collection includes correspondence, legal documents --such as patent papers, litigation files and licensing agreements --photographs and sketches that relate to the basketball invention, as well as materials regarding his two field spreader patents and other invention ideas.
