Wurlitzer Company Records
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Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
- Dates:
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1860-1984
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56 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0469
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the history and development of the Wurlitzer Company and consists of company publications, business records, employee files, manufacturing records, sales and marketing records, product information, publicity, advertising, photographs, audiovisual materials, and organ installation drawings.
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Erie City Iron Works.
- Dates:
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1869-1960
bulk 1875-1912
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1050
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents a company founded in the 1840s in Erie, Pennsylvania as Presque Isle Foundry. It changed its name to Erie City Iron Works in 1851. Erie City iron Works made engines (stationary, portable and agricultural), boilers, and circular saw mills. The documents include products through catalogs, trade literature, photographs, blueprints and drawings.
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Skinner Engine Company
- Dates:
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1880-1960.
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29 Cubic feet (81 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1087
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records of the Skinner Engine Company, Erie, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of Universal Unaflow engines, include correspondence and orders, 1905-1939, 1948-1951; drawings, blueprints, tracings, photographs, and files on Corliss engines, diesels, steam turbines, variable steam controls, and Kingsford and Stumpf stationary and marine unaflow engines, 1...
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Woodward Governor Company
- Dates:
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1902-1960
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7 Cubic feet (40 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1094
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records contain catalogs, operator's manuals, illustrations, technical bulletins, glass plate negatives, and annual reports dealing with the activities and products of the company.
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circa 1700-2011, undated
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6 Cubic feet (14 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1257
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The addendum consists of trade literaure and ephemera on the subject of pianos.
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Robins, Seymour, 1913-2011
- Dates:
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1962 - 1992
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1270
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials consist of project catalogs for Mohawk Paper Mills and Neenah Paper, a division of Kimberly-Clark. The collection documents Robins' work as a graphic and industrial designer.
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Hombordy, Hanna Lore
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[194-]-1955
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1273
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The project files include booklets: "Elements of Design" (1953-54); "Appearance Design" (1954); packaging and label designs and prototypes, photographs of drawing machinery, clippings, and misc. designs and printed advertisements for shoes, antennas, and candies.,This collection documents Hombordy's work as a graphics designer in the late 1940s and...
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1939-1963
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3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1476
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of historical and business records for ANSCO, a company now owned by GAF (General Aniline and Film Corporation).
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American Express (New York)
Leibovitz, Annie, 1949-
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1988.
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1 Item (1 folder, 15" x 12," in mat with Mylar overlay, 21-3/8" x 18-1/8")
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0588
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Image shows Ella Fitzgerald in red dress and hat with fur (designed by Don Loper), posed with a Mercedez-Benz automobile. The picture was created for an American Express Card advertisement, ca. 1987, part of a popular "portraits" campaign for American Express, for which the photographer won the Clio Award and the Campaign of the Decade Award from A...
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Head, Howard, 1914-1991 (inventor, business executive)
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1926-1991
bulk 1955-1991
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11 Cubic feet (25 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0589
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Head Papers, 1926-1991, consist of correspondence, calendars, notes, company records (Head Ski Company and Prince Manufacturing Inc.), drawings, sketches, advertisements, product information, photographs, and slides documenting the development and design of both the Head ski and Prince oversized tennis racket. The collection is arranged into ei...
