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Digitized Content Eskimo Pie Corporation Records
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Creators:
Eskimo Pie Corporation.
Nelson, Christian Kent, 1893-1992
Dates:
1921-1996
Size:
15 Cubic feet (31 boxes, 19 folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0553
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Printed advertisements, photographs (including negatives and slides), sales presentation materials and packaging; patent and legal information, clippings, posters, scripts for radio commercials, sheet music for jingles, etc. Also includes personal papers (correspondence) of Christian Nelson, inventor of the Eskimo Pie.

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Administrative Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution, Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center
Dates:
FY 1994-FY 1998
Size:
14 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 02-188
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting correspondence, statistics, special projects, and relations with other Smithsonian offices and museums and partner institutions, organizations, and corporations. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statistics, newsletters, and related materials.

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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music
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Creators:
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Dates:
1790-1980s
Size:
260 Cubic feet (approximately 1244 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0300
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Primarily published sheet music, plus some related ephemera. Originally included 781 boxes of American sheet music and assorted clippings, articles, photographs, etc.; also 93 boxes of 33-1/3 RPM phonograph records, 30 boxes of 45 RPM records, and 20 boxes of 78 RPM records

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Henry and Margaret Drewal photographs
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Creators:
Drewal, Henry John
Drewal, Margaret Thompson
Dates:
1970-1989
Size:
10,000 Slides (color)
10,617 copy slides
Collection ID:
EEPA.1992-028
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Both Henry John Drewal and Margaret Drewal traveled to Nigeria, Ghana and Togo (West Africa) for extended periods from 1967-1986. During their trips to Nigeria they conducted research into the ritual performance, masking traditions, and traditional sacred rites of the Yoruba people as well as Mami Wata devotes of Togo, Ghana, and Nigeria. They are the co-authors of Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba (1993).Both Henry John Drewal and Margaret Drewal traveled to Nigeria, Ghana and Togo (West Africa) for extended periods from 1967-1986. During their trips to Nigeria they conducted research into the ritual performance, masking traditions, and traditional sacred rites of the Yoruba people as well as Mami Wata devotes of Togo, Ghana, and Nigeria. They are the co-authors of Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba (1993). Photographs taken by Henry John and Margaret Thompson Drewal during the 1970s and 1980s of Yoruba and Ewe art and culture.

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Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
Dates:
circa 1708-1977
Size:
1,150 Cubic feet (approximately. Series 1 contains approximately 1108 cubic feet consisting of approximately 2050 boxes, approximately 326 oversize boxes, and map case material. Additional material in Series 2-4 is unquantified. With also, some digital images of select collection materials.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Warshaw Collection consists of approximately 1,150 cubic feet of material currently contained in approximately 2,050 vertical document boxes, approximately 326 flat oversize boxes, 34 map case drawers of oversize materials, 56 volumes of photographic photo prints, 17 boxes of 4 x 5 color transparencies and black and white photonegatives, 11 box...

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Katharine Kuh papers
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Creators:
Kuh, Katharine
Dates:
1875-1994
bulk 1930-1994
Size:
12 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.kuhkath
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of art historian, dealer, critic, and curator Katharine Kuh measure 12 linear feet and date from 1875-1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930-1994. The collection documents Kuh's career as a pioneer modernist art historian and as the first woman curator of European Art and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Found within the papers are biographical material; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; personal business records; artwork by various artists; a travel journal; writings by Kuh and others; scrapbooks; printed material; photographs of Kuh and others; and audio recordings of Kuh's lectures and of Daniel Catton Rich reading poetry.

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Digitized Content Nordic Ware records
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Creators:
Nordic Ware Division, Northland Aluminum
Dalquist, H. David
Dalquist, Dorothy
Dates:
1940-2006
Size:
28 Cubic feet (53 boxes and 25 oversize folders )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0980
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Records of a family-owned manufacturing firm, best known for kitchenware products including the Bundt Pan and Micro-Go-Round. The collection richly documents the entrepreneurial spirit of the Minnesota firm and its history of product innovation through technical files, marketing materials, and administrative and financial records.

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Digitized Content Eisler Engineering Company records
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Creators:
Eisler Engineering Company.
Dates:
(bulk 1920-1950s)
1885 - 1988
Size:
30 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 25 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0734
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Records document Charles Eisler, a Hungarian immigrant who was a skilled mechanic and engineer and his company, Eisler Engineering Company of Newark, New Jersey, which manufactured equipment for producing electric lamps, television and radio tubes, welding equipment and laboratory equipment.

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Digitized Content Allen Tupper True and True family papers
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Creators:
True, Allen Tupper, 1881-1955
Dates:
1841-1987
Size:
8.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.truealle
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The Allen Tupper True and True family papers date from 1841 to 1987 and measure 8.2 linear feet. The collection presents a good overview of True's personal life and and his career as mural painter and illustrator specializing in Western themes.

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Records
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Creators:
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Office of Public Programs
Dates:
1986-1998
Size:
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 99-079
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of program files created and maintained by the Assistant Director for Public Programs, Susan Yelavich. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, informational brochures, meeting minutes, mission statements, and departmental reports regarding Cooper-Hewitt program development, research, planning, ...

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