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Templin, Roger P.
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1868-1897
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0779
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Cigar/cigarette cards and cabinet photographs portraying actors (male and female) from the late 19th century. The photographs are predominantly American actors but some English and French performers are also included. Some of the more prominent persons represented are Lulu Glaser, Francis Wilson, and Georgia Cayvan, plus others listed below.
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Draper, John Christopher, (chemist), 1835-1885
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882
Draper, John William, 1811-1882
Mora, José Maria, ca. 1846-1926
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circa 1826-1936
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4.3 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0121
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous documents and photographs related to the scientific careers of members of the Draper family. Includes publications of the University of the City of New York, with which the Drapers were associated, reprints of papers by John William Draper, F. Melloni, John C. Draper, and Henry Draper, publications of the New York Meteorological Observatory, photographs of the observatory, rare scientific photographs, including photomicrographs (paper prints) by the Drapers, correspondence addressed to Daniel Draper, certificates, diplomas, and other documents.
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Short, Bobby
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1908-2006
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13.6 Cubic feet (35 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0946
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bobby Short was a singer and pianist whose career spanned seven decades. An interpreter of American popular music, he became a performer in childhood and remained active until his death. He is best known for his more than 35 years as performer-in-residence at the Hotel Carlyle's Café Carlyle in New York City. This collection contains personal papers and photographs as well as business papers, musical materials and photographs relating to Mr. Short's career as a performing artist.
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International Salt Company
Costain, Harold Haliday
Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
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1881-1993
bulk 1920-1929
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3.5 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1158
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains business records and photographic materials documenting the International Salt Company. The business records include correspondence, account and ledger books, a payroll book, patent and trademark information, print advertising and marketing materials, and a salesman salt display kit. The photographic materials include a series of photographs by William M. Rittase, a series of photographs by Harold Haliday Costain, a small photograph album, snapshots, and slides. The images cover all facets of the salt manufacturing and packaging operations, and include photographs taken in New York State, Michigan, and Louisiana.
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Sultner-Welles, Donald H. (Sultner, Donald Harvey), 1914-1981
Janus, Allan
Hanfstaengl, Erna
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circa 1790-1981
bulk 1945-1980
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87.6 Cubic feet (318 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0145
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is primarily the work of one individual, Donald Harvey Sultner, known professionally as Donald Sultner-Welles (1914-1981). The collection forms a written and visual record of Sultner's family, life, and career from 1913-1980. Its major strength is Sultner's photographic documentation of the world during his travels, ca. 1950-1980. W...
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Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
Blake, Marion Elizabeth
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circa 1910-1970
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192 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
The Myron Bement Smith collection consists of two parts, the papers of Myron Bement Smith and his wife Katharine and the Islamic Archives. It contains substantial material about his field research in Italy in the 1920s and his years working on Islamic architecture in Iran in the 1930s. Letters describe the milieu in which he operated in Rochester NY and New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s; the Smiths' life in Iran from 1933 to 1937; and the extensive network of academic and social contacts that Myron and Katharine developed and maintained over his lifetime. The Islamic Archives was a project to which Smith devoted most of his professional life. It includes both original materials, such as his photographs and notes, and items acquired by him from other scholars or experts on Islamic art and architecture. Smith intended the Archives to serve as a resource for scholars interested in the architecture and art of the entire Islamic world although he also included some materials about non-Islamic architecture.
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Blum, Morris
WANN Radio Station (Annapolis, Maryland)
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1940-1999
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13 Cubic feet (32 boxes and 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0800
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the creative, technical and political aspects of managing WANN Radio Station in Annapolis, Maryland during the mid-Twentieth Century. Key areas of research include black radio stations; Annapolis African American communities; marketing to Black communities; political activism through media; Black-Jewish community relationships; church, community and media activism.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Alland, Alexander, Sr. (Alexander Landschaft), 1902-1989
Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies )
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circa 1920-1975
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4.3 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0161
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of 4.3 cubic feet of manuscript, print, and photographic materials created or collected by Carl de Wendler-Funaro (1898-1985) in pursuit of his interest in Gypsy life and culture. (Carlos de Wendler-Funaro used several forms of his name; he wrote mostly as Carl de Wendler-Funaro.) The -collection was brought to the attentio...
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United Telegraph Workers.
Western Union Telegraph Company
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circa 1820-1995
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452 Cubic feet (871 boxes and 23 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0205
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents in photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, correspondence, stock ledgers, annual reports, and financial records, the evolution of the telegraph, the development of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and the beginning of the communications revolution. The collection materials describe both the history of the company and of the telegraph industry in general, particularly its importance to the development of the technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection is useful for researchers interested in the development of technology, economic history, and the impact of technology on American social and cultural life.
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Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
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1838-2017, undated
bulk 1872-1985
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23.1 Cubic feet (70 boxes, 3 map-size folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0475
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, by 1949.