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Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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ca. 1910-1920.
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0.1 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0246
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection designated for miscellaneous glass plates, unidentified and/or of unknown provenance. The plates included here are indexed, but additional items may be added to the collection. There are eight plates, both negatives and positives; subjects include a man with cog railway tracks(?), two images of an observatory and two of the moon, and fou...
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Robert Bruce Inverarity papers
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Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999
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circa 1840s-1997
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13.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.inverobe
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of artist, photographer, museum director, anthropologist, and writer Robert Bruce Inverarity are dated circa 1840s-1997 and measure 12.7 linear feet. Biographical information, correspondence, writings and notes, subject files, art work, scrapbooks, sound recordings, printed material and photographs are found within the papers. They document Inverarity's work as Director of the Federal Art Project in Seattle and Director of the Art and Craft Project for the State of Washington, as well as his other professional work. Nineteenth century material consists of a Japanese print, printed material, and photographs.
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1878-1944
- Level:
- series
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0055
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Series 50 consists of material relating to detectors, especially where constructed as self-contained units. Included are coherers, tone wheels, tickers, magnetic detectors, vacuum tube detectors with control, complete; cat-whisker detectors; crystal detectors; electrolytic detectors; group tuners for use in the audio circuit, tone testers, detector...
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1882 September 21 to 1883 June 7
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- file
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0984
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Volume 15 is a bound scrapbook with numbered pages and an index, and some handwritten notes. The volume consists of newspaper clippings, architectural drawings and illustrations, and hand written notes. This volume is primarily about construction. There are advertisements for new inventions, building materials, and construction methods as well as...
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- series
- Collection ID:
- NMAAHC.FB.M803
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
The 8 volumes of letters sent contain copies of the letters dispatched by Reverend Alvord or by a subordinate acting for him. There are a few copies with General Howard's signature. The letters are either fair or press copies, illustrating two distinctive record keeping practices of the mid–19th century. The press copies were obtained by wetting a ...
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- file
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0600
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Content Summary: Bound Copy of an Analysis of Automatic Procedures as Applied to the Design, Manufacturing and Testing of VHSIC, and Suggested Coding Procedures for the Semiconductor Category of the GIDE P Coding Index, 1979
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Saint, Lawrence B., 1885-1961
Washington Cathedral
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1926-1936
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9.3 Cubic feet (29 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0090
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of chemical formulae developed by Lawrence Saint for use in his stained glass work at the Washington National Cathedral. There are supporting samples, records, and notes.
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Nordic Ware Division, Northland Aluminum
Dalquist, H. David
Dalquist, Dorothy
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1940-2006
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28 Cubic feet (53 boxes and 25 oversize folders )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0980
- Repository:
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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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Downtown Gallery
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1824-1974
bulk 1926-1969
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109.56 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.downgall
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The records of the Downtown Gallery date from 1824 to 1974 (bulk 1926-1969) and measure 109.56 linear feet. The records present a comprehensive portrait of a significant commercial gallery that operated as a successful business for more than forty years, representing major contemporary American artists and engendering appreciation for early American folk art. There is an unprocessed addition to this collection dating circa 1970 of a single financial/legal document.
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- Collection ID:
- NMAAHC.FB.M869
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
Another recordkeeping practice of the day was that of entering incoming communications into registers of letters received. The entries in the registers include such information as the name or office of the correspondent, the place from which the letter was written, an abstract of the letter, and the register entry number assigned to the communicat...