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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Costume
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1928-1989
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3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
23 Film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0801
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films, videos, tape recordings, and slides on fashion and clothing.
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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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Duncan, Donald F., Jr.
Duncan Yo-Yo Company.
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1928-2002
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14 Cubic feet (40 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0807
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Duncan Family Yo-Yo Collection consists of papers, photographs, advertising materials, scrapbooks, clippings and audio-visual materials. These materials trace the rise and fall of the companies owned by the Duncan family as well as the world of yo-yo's. The materials date from 1929 to 2002, with the bulk of the material focused on the Donald F....
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Perkins, James Secor
Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972
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1907-2000
bulk 1911-1924
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5 Cubic feet (19 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0803
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of glass plate slides (negative and positive), photo prints, and stereographs documenting the work undertaken by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth from 1910 to 1924 in the fields of motion study, shop efficiency, and factory organization. Also included are slides dcoumenting the Gilbreth Family, their travels, residences, and friends. The collection also contains the film "The Original Films of Gilbreth The Quest for the One Best Way," 1968 by James S. Perkins.
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Rosenthal, Joseph
Faber, John (photographer)
National Press Photographers Association
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1957-1968
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28 Sound tape reels (1/4"audio tapes, open reel)
0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0620
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes conversations with significant photographers and their experiences documenting historic events. Some of the material is associated with John Faber's book, "Great Moments in News Photography" (New York: T. Nelson, 1960). Includes Faber's interview with photographer Joe Rosenthal about his famed Iwo Jima photograph.
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Earle, Ralph
- Dates:
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1945.
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0794
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 lantern slides and 18 35mm slides, all glass-mounted and taped at edges, showing an atomic bomb test explosion. Of this collection, two slides contain images of the crew conducting the test and a third shows the camp and some of the equipment used. The remainder contain images of explosions and the resulting smoke.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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2001-10-01
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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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Boyd, Walter Willard, Dr.
Boyd, John C.
Carpenter, Josephine
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1874-1945
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6 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
2 Motion picture films
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0707
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers related to Dr. John C. Boyd's career as a U.S. Navy surgeon, including his commission, names recommended for awards, his casebook for 1874-1877, his correspondence, including two letterpress books, 1895-1902; photographs. Also photographs, especially those by his son, Dr. Walter Willard Boyd, of Dr. Harvey Cushing performing neurosurgical and other operations; two films (1931) of an operation; two scrapbooks, including one outlining an accident and eventual amputation of the leg of Walter Jones Willard (includes letters and sympathy cards).
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Binney & Smith, Inc.
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1897-1998
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24 Cubic feet (64 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0624
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Binney & Smith, Inc. creators and manufacturers of Crayola crayons. Includes documentation on 20th century advertising, commercial packaging, commercial imagery, and retail merchandising: newsletters, annual reports, research and development records, color charts, advertising materials, and product information, including catalogs and price lists.
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Custom Craft
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
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1888-1996
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200 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0618
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes approximately 250,000 photonegatives, photoprints, color transparencies from the photographic business founded by Addison Scurlock in Washington, DC. Collection also includes business records and ephemera.