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Robinson, Mary Ann Whitaker (nurse)
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1955-1985
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0.6 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0499
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Pamphlets, photographs, news clippings, and a student yearbook documenting Robinson's career as a student and nurse at Wilmington Delaware's Memorial Hospital.
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Wirtz, Milton S., Dr. (dentist)
- Dates:
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1973-1988
1941-1947
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0501
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains materials relating to Milton S. Wirtz, D.D.S., and his involvement in the development of plastic eye prosthesis from 1941 to 1947. It includes news clippings about Dr. Wirtz and several articles regarding the process and the materials used in the manufacture of artificial eyes. The bulk of the collection consists of graph...
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Partridge, Beverly
Partridge, Beverly
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1970-1990
- Size:
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5 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0493
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is arranged alphabetically by company name into one series. The shopping bags are from a variety of stores: department, jewelry, gifts, books, hair and skin products, clothing, china, glass, leather goods, lingerie, bakeries, and restaurants.
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Shell, Theodore, Dr. (dentist)
- Dates:
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1933-1990
- Size:
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1.75 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0502
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Periodical articles, news clippings, concert programs, radio transcripts, personal correspondence, broadsides, photographs, and pencil sketches collected by Dr. Shell. The material documents part of Duke Ellington's music career, especially ca. 1940-1974.
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Automatic Button Company.
American Pearl Button Company.
Claus Schmarje Button Company.
Barry Manufacturing Company.
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1898 - 1993
- Size:
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13 Cubic feet (55 boxes, 4 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0504
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the manufacture of both freshwater pearl and plastic buttons in Muscatine, Iowa, including at least 12 different companies from primarily 1925 to the 1960s.
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Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1900
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (2 boxes
, paper prints, 7-3/8 x 9-3/8," Silver gelatin, on mounts)
199 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0373
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, which record many buildings and pavilions that were among the chief points of interest, including the Monumental Entrance, Art Palaces and the Bridge of Alexander III, national pavilions lining the Seine River, and the Palace of Machinery; also, views of Paris from the Eiffel Tower, and statuar...
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Kelsey Press Co.
- Dates:
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1873-1964
- Size:
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15 Cubic feet (54 boxes
)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0377
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials documenting the business history of the Kelsey Press Company, amateur newspapers, and publications of owners of Kelsey presses.
John D. Crimmins Collection
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Crimmins, John Daniel, 1844-1917 (contractor)
- Dates:
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1880-1919
- Size:
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1.8 Cubic feet (6 boxes
)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0398
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is comprised primarily of menus. There are also programs, seating plans, invitations, announcements and admission cards from functions attended by John D. Crimmins. Some material bears autographs of other guests and/or rotations made by Mr. Crimmins. There are many items from civic, political, business, Roman Catholic and Irish A...
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Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Sharpe, Weiss and Company
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1856-1889
- Size:
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4.75 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0399
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Invoices and letters from merchants and manufacturers with whom Sharpe, Weiss and Company, and their successors, did business; and two reels of microfilm of Sharpe and Weiss's account books.
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Romeike, Henry, 1855-1903
- Dates:
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1856-1916
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0338
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of one scrapbook of clippings documenting events covered in British and American newspapers from 1856-1916.