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Barber, Herbert Spencer, 1882-1950
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1903-1950
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7 cu. ft. (14 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7103
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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National Museum of American History. Office of the Director
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1992-1998
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27 cu. ft. (27 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-091
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes records documenting the activities of the Office of the Director and the daily administration of the National Museum of American History (NMAH), as well as material concerning Smithsonian issues, during the tenure of Spencer R. Crew. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and general information pertaining to ...
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Field Reports
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Dates:
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1860-1961
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66 cu. ft. (132 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7176
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists primarily of reports, notebooks, notes, photographs, maps, and related materials documenting field research conducted by staff naturalists of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and its predecessor, the Bureau of Biological Survey. The reports, which primarily concern biological surveys conducted in the Un...
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United States. War Production Board.
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1943-1945
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0341
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records of the War Production Board concerning watches (including clocks and timers) so that both the civilian population and the military would be supplied with adequate and reliable timepieces.
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Fogel, Byron J.
- Dates:
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1961 - 2007
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0419
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
More than 400 placemats collected between 1961 and 2007 from throughout the United States and abroad. The collection consists of advertising placemat used by a variety of restaurants, hotels, casinos, and expositions.
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circa 1880-circa 1950
- Level:
- series
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0293
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This series contains photographs and artistic renderings of photographs of Frick products largely used as illustrations in trade literature (catalogs, pamphlets and other publications) and for documentation of production, as well as photography of buildings and offices of Frick and Company. A substantial portion of the product photographs was stage...
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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
- Dates:
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1906-1947
- Size:
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9 Cubic feet (18 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0029
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The years before World War I were spent in patent litigation for aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and Orville and Wilbur Wright.
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Valentine, P. O. (33 Homestead, Park, Newark)
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
Belden & Company (45 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J.)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1897-1963
bulk 1897-1936
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15 Cubic feet (71 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0214
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The contents of the collection date from 1897 to 1936. The bulk of the collection consists of loose-leaf binders of photo prints of forty-one Cass Gilbert buildings under construction between 1908 and 1936. (This represents less than half of his firm's total output.) The volumes are arranged alphabetically by name of building. A few additional ph...
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Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1874-1910
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0164
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of business correspondence 1895-1901 of the company, including correspondence of the General Manager, D.A. Wightman; personal papers of Mr. Daniel A. Wightman including a sketch book, 1874-76; Specifications for locomotives and tenders; price lists; locomotive cost estimates; tests; hauling capacities of locomotives; and co...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Musical History
- Dates:
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circa 1954-1994
- Size:
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64.08 cu. ft. (49 record storage boxes) (26 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 485
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of curatorial and staff correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the Tower Concert series, exhibitions at the Hall of Musical Instruments, staff research and publications, organ building, acquisition of musical instruments, and funding for seminars and musical performance recordings. Also included are inquiries ...