T-Net Records
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Fanning, Michael
- Dates:
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1983-2003
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1255
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents through correspondence, marketing materials, patent materials, photographs, and newspaper clippings, the development of T-Net, a sport that combines electronic game technology with a diamond-shaped court the length of a tennis court and "invisible" nets created by inventor Michael Fanning.
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Morton, Sterling, 1885-1961
Goodspeed, Charles B.
Teletype Corporation
Kleinschmidt, Edward E., 1876-1977
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1915-1930
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1259
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection largely contains correspondence regarding the Kleinschmidt Teletype, as well as financial records and newspaper clippings regarding the Teletype Company.
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Frank Hubbard
- Dates:
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1930-2003
bulk 1949-2003
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30 Cubic feet (76 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1256
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents approximately fifty years of the Hubbard Harpsichord business. The records include correspondence, financial and accounting materials, sales and promotional materials, records, newsletters, dealer files, project files, photographs, research files on European instruments, kit manuals, and design drawings.
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Kloeris, Vickie
MacIntyre, Daril
Koff, Ashley
Craig, Steven
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2010.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1228
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents, through audio and video, a symposium held November 5-6, 2010, in the National Museum of American History. The theme of the symposium was the role invention and innovation play in what we eat and how we eat. Panelists discussed the history and future of food and related technologies.
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CIGNA
Seymour, Frank
- Dates:
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1852 - 1957
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1232
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents firefighting and fires in American history through newspaper and magazine illustrations, ephemera, and photographs. The emphasis is on large urban fires (New York City and Chicago) and industrial fires in the northeastern United States. There are some illustrations of cartoons, rescues, poems, fires on ships and clippings about great floods in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
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Britton, Joe
Matheis-Kraft, Carol
- Dates:
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1945
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1234
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Panama, the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, the San Blas Islands, military installations in Panama, villages, local buildings, people, flora and fauna, circa 1945.
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Holton, David, Jr., 1814-1865
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1841-1864
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3 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1226
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of three manuscript account books dating from 1841 to 1864. They were created by David Holton, Jr. (1814-1865), a harness-maker in Charlestown, New Hampshire. They record all of Holton's business transactions in daybook form. In a daybook, each day's transactions --both sales and purchases --are recorded in the order in w...
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Challinor, Joan R.
Challinor, David, 1920-2008
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1956-1965
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1 Cubic foot (7 films, Reels AC1233-OF0001 and AC1233-OF0002 are composite reels created by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, the former comprising "Children Summer, Fall, and Winter, 1956-1957" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1957" and the latter comprising "Guilford, 57-58" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1959", 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1233
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
David Challinor served the Smithsonian Institution in an official capacity for 30 years, eventually becoming the assistant secretary to Sidney Dillon Ripley. Joan R. Challinor became an historian and advocate of library sciences and education. In 1956, however, they were busy with their young family. David only returned to university for graduate school in 1957, in his late 30s. They both went on to have successful careers and active family lives. This collection includes 7 home movie films that document thte Challinor family.
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation
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1880-1993
bulk 1947-1980
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19 Cubic feet (66 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1242
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approximately 28,000 photographic negatives, slides, prints and other materials documenting Bethlehem Steel Corporation's iron ore mining operations. The photographs were taken by Richard "Jay" Angelo, a Bethlehem Steel Corporation photographer. The majority of the photographs depict Bethlehem's mining operations at its Cornwall and Morgantown, Pennsylvania mines. A smaller number of negatives document operations in western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan and Ontario. The negatives depict aerial views, blasting operations, tunneling, equipment and infrastructure, machinery, employees working, company personnel, and company-built community facilities. The collection documents the complete operations of a major, historic mining operation over four decades.
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Ledley, Robert S.
National Biomedical Research Foundation. Georgetown University
- Dates:
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1972-1990
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1135
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Robert Ledley Papers document the development of the first whole-body diagnostic imaging system, the Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial (ACTA) X-ray Scanner by Ledley in 1973. Also included is material relating to Ledley's company, Digital Science Information Corporation (DISCO), as well as the public and medical communities' reactions to the scanner.