Leonard Karr Collection
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Beaudoin, Rayne
Karr, Leonard, 1913-1995
- Dates:
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1930-1995
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes, 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0762
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Mostly photographs illustrating Leonard Karr's hunting and fishing activities in the Pacific Northwest; plus letters from Karr, photographs of his inventions, articles and other printed information, drawings and patterns for a kayak that Karr designed, clippings, scrapbooks, and albums. Personal materials relate to his personal life and his employment as a sign painter.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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1748-1994
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2.58 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Wines
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Wines forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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- series
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 361
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Designed both as an inquiry into the American character and to suggest answers to Jean de Crevecoeur's question, "What then is the American, this new man?" posed in his Letters From an American Farmer in 1782, the exhibition grouped 168 portraits into such categories as imagemaker, idol, defender, explorer, and expatriate. Another dimensi...
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National Portrait Gallery. Office of Public Affairs
- Dates:
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circa 1962-1983
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26.16 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (14 16x20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 554
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of records documenting the publicity and planning of exhibitions and the museum as well as special events held at the museum, usually in connection with an exhibition. Materials include newspaper clippings; press releases; histories of the Patent Office Building; files on designation of the American Art/Portrait Galle...
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circa 1840s-1892, 1915
- Level:
- series
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(Box 10, OV 17; 8 folders)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.powehira
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This series contains scattered financial and legal records primarily documenting Hiram Powers' career as an artist. Included are patent documents for several sculpture designs, such as "Greek Slave," and for the invention of tools used in his studio. Also found are Power of Attorney agreements for Powers' business dealings in the United States whil...
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Labino, Dominick
- Dates:
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1929-1975
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3 Reels (1,854 items (on 3 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.labidomi
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Biographical materials, including list of patents; files of museum exhibitions; files of college and university exhibitions; writings by and about Labino; correspondence; clippings; and photographs. The files are arranged alphabetically within five separate categories: museums, colleges and universities, commercial institutions, non-commercial inst...
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Westburg, Peter W., 1914-1984
- Dates:
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1970-1981
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2.2 Cubic feet ((1 map case drawer))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0001
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of Westburg's original drawings. The material consists of 105 ink-on-mylar detail drawings of 37 aircraft from the 1920s and 1930s. Westburg executed all these drawings between April 1970 and February 1981.
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1913-2008
- Level:
- series
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0.5 Linear feet (Box 1, OV 9)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.mccrjose
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Biographical material includes McCrindle's obituary, copies of printed programs from his memorial service, and revisions of his will, as well as memorandums and codicils to his will. Dana W. Hiscock and John T. Rowe were executors of McCrindle's estate and appear frequently in the records. Also found here are family papers. Papers of his grandfa...
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1916-2001
- Level:
- series
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1459
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This series contains material commemorating milestones in the history of the Fuller Brush Company, and relating to founder Alfred C. Fuller. Historic background material related to the Fuller Brush Company includes press releases, news clippings, published histories, event programs and related correspondence, photographs, and 16-mm film reels. Th...
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- Dates:
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circa 1926-1975
- Level:
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0.7 Linear feet (Boxes 1-2, OV 3)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.goodloui
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This collection includes limited biographical records, such as a biographical sketch and exhibitions lists and price lists; awards, correspondence concerning the development of inventions, Marsha Goodman's address book, a disbound binder of material on the American Rocket Society, notes and writings on inventions and other subjects, applications fo...