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James Knights Co.
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1951-1981
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0.6 Cubic feet (1 box)
1 Film reel
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0847
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents proposed legislation regulating the import and export of watch components. Also included is a film entitled "Crystals for the Critical".
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Weissinger (Harry) Tobacco Co.
King, Marian
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circa 1933-1945
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0850
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily unmounted photographs, plus an illustrated souvenir tourist book on Washington, "Washington Album" (ca. 1890), and a text-only anti-trust broadside. The most interesting group is a set of 5 photoprints related to the Boston Globe newspaper, especially several which illustrate the practice of displaying handwritten newspaper headlines for ...
Messmore and Damon Company Records
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Messmore, George Harold
Messmore and Damon Company
Damon, Joseph
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1892 - 1998
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16 Cubic feet (40 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0846
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records document Messmore and Damon's work in the design and construction of parade floats, museum dioramas, exhibitions, displays and scenery. The materials include business records, photographs, patents, scrapbooks, promotional materials, sound recordings and moving image.
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McNamara, Norris
Moon, Moses
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1963-1964
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4 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0556
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Recorded by Moses Moon (known at the time as Alan Ribback) and assisted by Norris McNamara during 1963 and 1964, the collection includes audio recordings of interviews with civil rights leaders and participants as well as free-style recordings of mass meetings, voter registration events, and other gatherings organized by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This collection provides a mostly unfiltered documentation of significant moments in the civil rights movement.
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Mead, Virginia Lee
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circa 1915-1970
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0555
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook, photograph album, published family book, photographic prints, and news clippings related to Virginia Mead's family.
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Watson, John (M.D.)
Topaz, Stephen
American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
Kolff, Wilhelm, 1911-
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2002
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0841
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A series of interviews conducted jointly by the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, the National Museum of American History, and the National Library of Medicine. The interviews are of scientists and others instrumental involved in the invention and development of artificial internal organs. Project Bionics is ongoing and may include additional interviews or other materials in the future.
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Deskey, Donald, 1894-
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Procter & Gamble Company
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1940s-1970s.
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1.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0836
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of flat-folded product packages for soap and detergent. Some of the packages were designed by industrial designer Donald Deskey.
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Cohen, Stuart
- Dates:
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2000
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0.02 Cubic feet (1 box)
49 Photographic prints (Silver gelatin on paper, 16 x 20)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0804
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These photographs depict various scenes in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as photographed in the year 1999, including views of the town and its environs, commerce, and activities of people, especially families. The photographs are part of a self-assigned project, through which Stuart Cohen intended to survey the state of the town as it prepared to greet the new millennium.
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Sterling, Craig
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1990-1996
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box, 16" x 20" x 1")
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0805
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black and white photoprints by photographer Craig Sterling, made in the 1990s as part of an ongoing series depicting familiar buildings, monuments, and other sites in Washington, D.C., including the U.S. Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Arboretum.
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Norton, Robert H.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Kass, Marcia
- Dates:
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1876
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0.1 Cubic feet (2 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0825
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An artificial collection of ephemera from World's Fairs, intended as a growing repository for such miscellany from multiple sources. The initial donation consists of a season ticket, a booklet of souvenir tickets, and one menu from the 1939 New York World's Fair. The 2010 addendum contains eleven graphic works relating to World's Fairs. Eight of th...