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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
- Dates:
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1945-1959
- Size:
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10.3 Cubic feet (Includes 31 vertical boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0290
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of over 2,516 items, housed in 31 document boxes. The material is arranged into chronological order and covers the project dates of l945- l959. The items were originally classified Secret, Confidential, and Unclassified. The collection is arranged into four series: Series 1, Summary Reports; Series 2, Bi-weekly Reports; Se...
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St. Felix Sisters
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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1880-1904
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0294
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This scrapbook contains newspaper reviews & theatre programs in which the St. Felix Sisters are named, and which covers the period from April, 1880 to November, 1898. The scrapbook also contains a newspaper article on the death of President Garfield, and article about Greenwood Cemetery where many "stage artists" were buried in the public lots, an...
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Polykoff, Shirley
Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
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1990.
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1 cassette tape
0.3 Cubic feet (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0474
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Oral history describing her career in advertising, especially the creation of the Clairol advertisement "Does She or Doesn't She?" in the 1950s.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1829-1831.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0189
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Included is an account book, March 1829-March 1831, of an undetermined person or place (Kent?). It records the sale of general merchandise such as fabric, molasses, rum, tea, corn, nails, flour, whiskey, coffee, and spices to various people. It also records goods delivered, perhaps, as payment for work. Most accounts were recorded in pounds, shilli...
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Wainwright Family
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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circa 1777-1893
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0244
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The correspondence, financial and legal materials, writing and notes, and various other materials of the Wainwright family who lived in early 1800s New York.
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Murdock, E. (Woodware Manufacturing)
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1863-1954
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0.33 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0268
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of correspondence from customers, catalogues, statements, and receipts from various shipping companies. Also included are price lists, bulletins, advertisements, and a census report. These papers indicate the kinds and the amounts of transactions that E. Murdock & Co. engaged in throughout most of its history. The corresp...
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Eastman Kodak Co.
Committee on Public Information, Division of Advertising.
- Dates:
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1918.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0407
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publication entitled GOVERNMENT WAR ADVERTISING, published by the Committee on Public Information, Division of Advertising, 1918.
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International Longshoremen's Association, Local 791
- Dates:
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1938-1986
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0440
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is composed of a variety of records left behind when Local 791 vacated an apartment it had leased in New York City. As such, the collection does not offer a complete record of the union or its activities. Included are five volumes of official records: a minute book, 1938-1949; three dues ledger books, 1944-1947; and a cash book, ...
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
MacFarlane, W.D.
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ca. 1870-1892.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 Box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0337
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook created by W. D. MacFarlane who was a partner, with his brother Robert, in the MacFarlane Old Dye Works in Albany, New York. The book contains chemical solutions for dying textiles, newspaper clippings, marriage and obituary notices, poems and political cartoons.
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Dushman, Saul, (electrical engineer), 1883-1954
- Dates:
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1924-1954
- Size:
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7.3 Cubic feet (23 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0101
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document Dushman's work at the Research Laboratory of General Electric Company (GE).