Tehran (Iran): Dar al-Funun (Building and Courtyard) from the Top of the Gateway to Maydan-i Tupkhana
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Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933
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1880-1930
- Level:
- item
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1 Glass negative (b&w, 23.8 cm. x 17.8 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.04
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
"Dar al-Funun Institute was the first of its modern kind - institution of higher education in technology - in Iran. It owes its establishment - to a large extent - to Nasir al-Din Shah's teacher and chief minister, Mirza Taqi Khan Amir Kabir (b.1807-d.1852). It opened its doors in 1851 to cater, primarily, to the technological and medical needs of ...
- FSg curatorial research specialist remark on Antoin Sevruguin photo manipulation reads, "Black paper on the back and black ink on the front."
- Handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) reads, "290."
- Handwritten information on slip of paper (from a 1943-1944 cash book, produced by the Bathni Brothers, Tehran) reads, "70) Scene of Teheran." [Myron Bement Smith Collection, Subseries 2.1: Islamic Archives History, Collection Information]
- Myron Bement Smith handwritten caption in English reads, "47.P; Box 48.8: Tehran, general view (#70)." [Myron Bement Smith Collection, Subseries 2.1: Islamic Archives History, Collection Information; Box 60; Folder 44: 47 P: Antoine Sevruguin, glass negatives, Iran]
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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
- Repository:
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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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United Telegraph Workers.
Western Union Telegraph Company
- Dates:
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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
- Repository:
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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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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1893-1969
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2.96 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversize folders, 8 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Motion
- 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: Motion Pictures 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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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
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1906-1947
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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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North American Water and Power Alliance.
Ralph M. Parsons Corporation (Pasadena, Calif.)
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1964-1990
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1052
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains executive reports, promotional material, correspondence, articles and publications documenting the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), which was a large-scale, transcontinental water transfer plan designed by the Ralph M. Parsons Corporation in 1964.
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- Level:
- series
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2017
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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- Dates:
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July 4-8, 1973
- Level:
- series
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1973
- Repository:
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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United States. Army. Ordnance Department. Ordnance Research and Development Translation Center
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bulk 1938-1945
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3.4 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0468
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of microfilm copies of documents relating to research and development work conducted by the Ordnance Office of the German Army at the research station at Peenemünde, as well as document listings and indexes of those documents prepared by United States Army's Ordnance Research and Development Translation Center at Fort Eustis, VA.
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United States. Army. Signal Corps
- Dates:
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1908 to circa 1921; bulk date 1921
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1992.0040
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains two groups of photographs. The first group, mounted on pages removed from a photo album, contains views of aircraft and facilities at the United States Army Air Service Fairfield Intermediate Air Depot, Fairfield, Ohio, circa 1921. The second group consists of loose photographs of aircraft, most of which are historic views of early Aerial Experiment Association and Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company aircraft by photographer Harry M. Benner.