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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1848-1925
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1.35 Cubic feet (consisting of 3 boxes, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.02.Oregon
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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: Oregon forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.2: Geographical Categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1794-1964
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3.37 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 6 folder, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.02.Pennsylvania
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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: Pennsylvania forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.2: Geographical Categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1844-1949
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0.72 Cubic feet (consisting of 1.5 boxes, 2 folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.02.Rhode
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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: Rhode Island forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.2: Geographical Categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Philadelphia Typewriter Company
Mechanisms, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
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1886-1902
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0123
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records contain correspondence chiefly of John Elfreth Watkins, a key organizer and officer of the company. Watkins was also a curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and later "accepted a salaried position…building up the technological collections pertaining to the transportation industry." The corresponden...
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Parker, Ben (scriptwriter)
Shurr, Robert L. (scriptwriter)
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1939-1940, 1968
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0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0133
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The film, George Washington Carver, starring Carver himself, was filmed in 1939 and released in 1940. Ben Parker was the director and Robert L. Shurr wrote the screenplay.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Sims, George W.
National Anthropological Archives
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1896-1981.
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0127
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Sims's activities as a traveler and his interest in historic restoration. It includes forty-one notebooks, 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, forty-one stereo view cards, and three boxes of personal papers and ephemera. While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places and provide biographical information on Sims.
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Terrell, William Dandrige, 1871-1960s (radio communication specialist)
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1911-1965
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0097
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents W.D.Terrell's life, specifically his work as Chief of the Radio Division in the Commerce Department. Terrell was responsible for monitoring the institution of radio into the nation's defense forces.
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Patterson, Verna G. (Mrs. Curtis B.)
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
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1901-1917
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 16 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0106
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes several turn of the century favorites, predominantly consisting of Buster Brown comics but containing other examples as well.
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Watson, Paul Gristock, 1900-1966 (naval officer)
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1960-1965
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0104
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the early development of radio apparatus.
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1952-1983
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0108
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes scripts and films related to soap operas. Included are the 1982 script from the first episode of "Capitol," autographed by the cast; the projected story line for "As The World Turns" for 1957; and three 16mm reels from "As The World Turns."