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Hooker-Howe Costume Company
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1922-1938
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1475
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials documenting the Hooker-Howe Costume Company's (Haverhill, Massachusetts) business providing costumes, wigs, make-up, props and other items for minstrel shows and other amateur theater.
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Bratten, R. C., Dr. (dentist)
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1930-1967
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1.66 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0022
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents dentist Dr. R. C. Bratten's 50-year dental practice in Galion, Ohio.
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Lifwynn Foundation
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1938 - 1954
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0.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0020
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Included are file memoranda on meetings and correspondence, sent and received, 1938-1954, between the Lifwynn Foundation for Laboratory Research in Analytic and Social Psychiatry Incorporated, and in particular, Hans Syz, M.D., Secretary, and various doctors, psychologists, other professionals in the subject field, and various U.S. Military Departm...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
Century Recording Studios.
Dodd, Ed, 1902-1991 (cartoonist)
Dodd, Rosemary Wood
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before 1985.
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0.3 Cubic feet (10 items)
Television program:Videotape cassette.
Master copies:Vinyl sound discs, 10" diam., 33-1/3 r.p.m.
User copies: Audiotapes, open-reel, 7", 7-1/2 ips.
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0165
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Videotapes: Interview with Dodd, 31:58 running time; and copy of television program, "The Well-Traveled Trail."
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Woodard, William E., 1873-1942 (inventor)
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1909 - 1949
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3.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0125
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of United States, Canadian, Mexican and other foreign patents issued to William E. Woodard from 1909 to 1949. The patents are for Woodard's developments in steam and electric locomotive design.
Falcon Trio Vaudeville Collection
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
Falcon Trio.
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1912-1913
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0160
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Falcon Trio Vaudeville Collection consists mostly of scrapbook pages that cover the career of the Falcon Trio. Included are photographs of the Trio while performing, those probably used for publicity purposes, some personal photographs, and photographs of fellow vaudevillians. Most of the images are unidentified, but beside the Trio, there are ...
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Alland, Alexander, Sr. (Alexander Landschaft), 1902-1989
Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies )
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circa 1920-1975
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4.3 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0161
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of 4.3 cubic feet of manuscript, print, and photographic materials created or collected by Carl de Wendler-Funaro (1898-1985) in pursuit of his interest in Gypsy life and culture. (Carlos de Wendler-Funaro used several forms of his name; he wrote mostly as Carl de Wendler-Funaro.) The -collection was brought to the attentio...
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Hartshorne, William, fl. 1780s
Rumsey, James, 1743-1792 (machinist, inventor)
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1786.
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1 Item
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0087
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A bill, June 21, 1786, from William Hartshorne and Company to James Rumsey for Potomac Company, regarding rum, gunpowder, blanketing, and hats. A bill or a receipt? It's signed by Rumsey.
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Ryder, Joel
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1792-1793.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0089
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two cyphering books belonging to and/or compiled by Joel Ryder (or Rider) of either New York or New Jersey, containing mathematical tables, square roots, computations, etc. One book bears the date 1792, the other 1793. Both soft-bound in cloth. One contains a number of locks of hair.
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Gilpin, George, fl. 1780s
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Kearsley, John, fl. 1780s
McKaig, W. Wallace
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1786-1787.
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1 Item
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0086
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A bill from Potomac Company to John Kearsley, May 17, 1786. John Kearsley asked William Hartshorne to pay account to Col. William Drake. On January 3, 1787 it was passed and signed by George Washington, John Fitzgerald, and George Gilpin.
