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Grepke, Donald, 1932-
Grepke, Carolyn, 1937-1995
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circa 1800s-1998, undated
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70 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0752
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Abstract: Collection consists of over a century of paper dolls documenting their use as advertisements, and depictions of popular culture, fashion trends, family lifestyles, gender roles, ideal communities,and cultural heroes.
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Cincinnati Boss Company.
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1900-1990
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11.75 Cubic feet (32 boxes)
3 Film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0741
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes business records, photographs, films, and trade literature documenting the company's meat packing operations.
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Howard, William A.
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April 15, 1946-January 1, 1979.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0738
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of one pictorial album of 180 pages of black and white photographs and text documenting the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) Engineering Department. The album was created by William A. Howard, a retired senior staff engineer at NBC. Mr. Howard collected original photographs from the NBC files in New York and Hollywood and...
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Homzy, Andrew
- Dates:
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1927-1960
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0740
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Stock arrangements of musical compositions by Duke Ellington.
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McDermott, Joyce
Strickland, Lloyd A.
- Dates:
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1936
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2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0743
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Lloyd A. Strickland purchased these souvenir cards while attending the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany.
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Little, M. Ruth
Little, John Frances
- Dates:
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1907-1914
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0708
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
82 photographs glued to pages in a scrapbook documenting the building of the Panama Canal. Subjects of the photographs include the workers, the worksite, equipment (steamshovels, trains, tools), the camp, building interiors and exteriors, and the local terrain. Locations include: Cucaracha; Culebra Cut; Cunette; Village of Tabernilla, C.Z.; Hodge...
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Madhani, Akhil
Berger, Sondra
- Dates:
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1999-12
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 Box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0709
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents inventor Akhil Madhani and his invention, the Black Falcon, a teleoperated surgical instrument.
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McCrady, Roland A., 1892-
Forbes, Janice McCrady
McCrady, Allen
McCrady, James Hamilton, 1853-1929
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1906
1913
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0710
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of a photograph album containing photoprints of the construction of the Panama Canal during a trip to Latin America (1913), and photographs of other Caribbean localities where McCrady stopped while on his ship Prinz Joachim. Also 104 photoprints of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, 1906. the San Francisco earthqua...
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Grosch, Herbert R. J.
- Dates:
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1938-1998
- Size:
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5 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0703
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Herb Grosch Papers, 1948-1998, cover the life and career of an early computer professional. It consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, computer disks, reports, and other printed materials.
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Todd, W. David (William David)
Stephens, Carlene E., 1949-
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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1997-12-07
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0682
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
2.5 hours of videotape documenting a succession of clock escapements invented by Richard F. Bond in the 19th century. Bond's invention was called isodynamic escapement.