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Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Applebaugh, William K.
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1857-1926
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0638
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document the life and career of William K. Applebaugh, and his activities as a telegrapher during the U.S. Civil War.
Richard Adlard Collection
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Adlard, Richard (Ithel Richard), 1915-1997
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1936 - 1998
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2 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0692
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of some correspondence, extensive agricultural notes, photographs, maps and a scrapbook from Adlard's time as a student at Lingnan University. Adlard's photographs, commentary, and notes on rural life in both China and the Phillipines are extremely detailed and insightful. The collection includes articles written by Adlard,...
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Bower, Thomas W., 1948-
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1954-1966
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0.12 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0698
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Personal papers documenting Bower's academic history at Williamsport Grade School and Williamsport High School, Williamsport, Indiana, 1954-1966.
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Brenner, Clarence D.
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1942-1945.
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0.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0571
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
V-mail and related ephemera: letters, envelopes, printed material promoting the use of V-mail, printed information about how V-mail worked, a photograph of a V-mail station, targets for microfilming, labels for shipping, and microfilm roll boxes.
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Bukowski, Henry S., 1922-
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
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ca. 1930s-1940s
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0678
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs and postcards of entertainers, mostly jazz musicians and leaders of dance bands, etc., and related memorabilia.
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Dickerman, Nelson, 1881-1952
Urbanski, Pauline
Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1880-1965.
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3.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0542
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to the career and life of mining engineer Nelson Dickerman: letters, photographs, clippings and diaries kept during his mining career. Much of the material is personal, rather than professional, relating to Dickerman's family and children. Family photographs include baby books.
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Faul, Jan, 1945-
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1991
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0441
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is a set of twenty-four black-and-white silver gelatin prints entitled "Potomac: East and West," by Jan Faul, 1991. They include agricultural landscapes, cemeteries, industrial buildings commercial buildings in rural areas, etc., in the Potomac River region of Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Each image contains a small area hand-colored by the photographer, providing a subtly mysterious, often whimsical or humorous effect.
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Brown, Don, 1923-1985
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1925-1973.
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39 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0472
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Nine hundred twenty-eight recordings by Duke Ellington's orchestra, of which seven hundred ninety-six were commercially issued, and one hundred thirty-two unissued, which are studio test pressings, concert recordings and recordings done from radio and television broadcasts.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1841-1940
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7 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S30
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 30 contains materials documenting Marches and Quicksteps in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Driggs, Frank, 1930-
Office of Printing and Photographic Services (later, Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photography), Smithsonian Institution
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1923-1972
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0389
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of 157 8" x 10" black-and-white photographic copy prints of photographs in Frank Driggs's collection: Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Some copy prints have Smithsonian negative numbers.