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Kane, Nathan, 1969-
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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1997 September 17
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0637
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of original, master, and reference videos documenting Nathan Kane, inventor of Pass-It-Football, a remote control for television, Project-A-Sketch opaque projector for children and low distortion bellows folds for industrial machines.
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Quealy, William H., Judge
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1950-1970.
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box, 9 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0296
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Eight commercial 33-1/3 r.p.m. recordings of music produced by Duke Ellington, with album covers autographed by Ellington to Judge Quealy; and a Christmas card from Ellington addressed to Judge Quealy.
Barbara Beirne Portrait Photoprints
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Beirne, Barbara T.
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circa 1980s
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0356
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twenty portraits, taken in the 1980s, of twenty-one men and women who were active in the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s.
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Frye, Theodore M. (singer)
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Dorsey, Thomas A. (choral director)
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
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1931-1945
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0456
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Eugene D. Smallwood Gospel Music Collection consists of an album of Gospel music scores collected or composed by Reverend Eugene D. Smallwood andnineteen additional loose scores published by Rev. Smallwood's company. The publication dates range from 1931 to 1945. The scores were performed by Reverend Smallwood's choirs. As a composer/arranger, ...
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Flaherty, Stacy A.
Lucas, Darrell Blaine, 1903- ((psychologist))
Center for Advertising History, Archives Center
- Dates:
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1922
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0379
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Folio-size scrapbook: "A Book of 100 Modern Ads" created for a college-level psychology class, 1922, as an exercise in the methodology of advertising: it addresses both the creation and testing (i.e., recall and effectiveness) of ads found in contemporary magazines. An oral history interview was conducted by Stacy Flaherty with Mr. Lucas April 3, 1...
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Stemmler, F. W. (businessman)
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1895-1897.
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0336
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The copies of correspondence (typed and handwritten) concern Stemmler's wide-ranging business affairs, from international banking to personal purchases of horsedrawn carriages.
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Harlander, Leslie
Gibson, Andrew
Donovan, Arthur
Cushing, Charles
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1995-1998.
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0639
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Original audio cassettes and transcripts of oral history interviews with individuals involved in the transportation industry known as containerization: Arthur Donovan, interviewer.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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2000 - 2001
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3 Cubic feet (20 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0771
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-three videotaped interviews of Nobel Prize laureates, conducted in Lindau, Germany, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the United States. The interviews form the core of the Nobel Voices Video History Project and the exhibition "Nobel Voices." Documents and preserves examples of the quest for innovation and its important messages for future generations.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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2001 October 1
- Size:
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0.75 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0792
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately five hours of video footage documenting Harold Kroto, chemist and Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1996) discussing carbon structures called "bucky balls" named after architect Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes. Kroto describes properties and mathematical principles represented by these structures and he discusses his background and winning the Nobel Prize.
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Leeds and Northrup Company
Gray Instrument Company
Queen, James W., & Company
Queen Gray Company
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1850-1952
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3.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0015
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents James W. Queen & Company and its successors Leeds and Northrup Company, Queen-Gray Company, and Gray Instrument Company, manufacturers of instruments for laboratory and industrial use. The collection contains catalogs, circulars, photographs, and miscellaneous publications and documents.