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Call Carl, Inc.
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1914-1975
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1 Cubic foot (1 box, 2 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1474
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival material, including advertising and business records from the "Call Carl" chain of Washington, DC, automotive service stations. The collection includes photographs of Washington, DC streets in the years before automobiles; photographs of the building exterior; photographs of the interior, including employees at work in the garages as well...
Julian Black Scrapbooks of Joe Louis
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Black, Julian, Mrs.
Black, Julian (boxing manager)
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1935-1944
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109 Volumes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0002
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of 109 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings assembled by Julian Black, manager of Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. They document Louis's career from 1935 to 1944.
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Gradwohl, Alan
- Dates:
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1917, 1939-1941
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1297
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of menus from restaurants, mostly from the Los Angeles, California area.
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Somerstein, Stephen
- Dates:
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1965
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12 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1300
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the march of many Americans from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965 during the Civil Rights March. It focuses mainly on photographs and an original book cover from Stephen Somerstein. There are twelve black and white images, 11" x 14", documenting the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March. Some of the photographs inc...
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National Museum of History and Technology
- Dates:
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1976-1979
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1298
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers and recordings relating to a conference held at the National Museum of History and Technology (now called the National Museum of American History) on October 23, 1978. The Conference was a joint effort by the Smithsonian, the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Data Processing Management Association, and the Washington, D.C.chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The collection includes: a program signed by participants; photographs taken at the conference; planning documents such as invitations to speakers to participate and responses to them, proposed guest lists, proposed agendas, press releases, minutes of the planning committee for the Conference; documents relating to budgeting for the conference; and audiocassette and reel-to-reel tapes of the conference.
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Westbrook Theatre Corporation
Robinson, Verna Kimball, 1904-1988
Robinson, Colby W., 1900-1950
Westbrook Theatre
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1934-1950, undated
bulk 1939-1942
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0.15 Cubic feet (1.5 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1296
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains the business records of the Westbrook Theatre Corporation of Westbrook, Maine. Records include the Colby, Rialto, and Knights of Pythias motion picture theatres in Bingham, Fryeburg, and elsewhere. The collection includes financial records, business correspondence, and photographs.
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Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
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circa 1900-1964
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7 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1290
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Spiller, Mortimer
Spiller, Harley
Mortimer Spiller Company
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1954 - 1989
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2.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1387
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the Spiller Company's work in developing print advertising and advertising novelties such as advertisements placed on balloons, blotters, clipboards, calendars, hats, etc. Many of the products they developed advertisements for were toys and novelties. The collection includes design drawings, a notebook, business records, co...
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Nye, Bill
- Dates:
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1970 - 2014
- Size:
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12 Cubic feet (28 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1383
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Bill Nye's early life, his Science Guy persona and its development for his television program Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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1835 - 1897
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3.5 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 15 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1386
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Cyrus W. Field's efforts to lay the transatlantic cable from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1866. The materials include photographs, correspondence, resolutions, maps, charts, and printed publications about Field and the transatlantic Cable.
