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Leland, Daniel M. (merchant)
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1789-1791; 1837.
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1 Item (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0029
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes account of Daniel M. Leland, Shippensburg, Pa., a general merchant dealing in food and dry goods. Also includes account, 1837, of a merchant from Lexington, ?.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania General Store
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1863-64.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0031
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes entries of items sold (including groceries, small household items, and general hardware).
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Military History, Division of, NMAH, SI
Pollard, Benjamin (merchant)
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1787-1792
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0035
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Manuscript letter book of 175 leaves, by Pollard of Norfolk, Va., includes his drafts of letters with traders in the United States, Europe, and the West Indies concerning shipment of goods, payment of accounts, and other business activities. Some letters not in Pollard's hand.
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Duke Ellington Society, New York Chapter
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1960-1991
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1.1 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0390
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
68 cassette audiotape recordings of oral history interviews and presentations, and 55 newsletters compiled by the New York Chapter of the Duke Ellington Society, 1960-1991. Audiotapes and Newsletters from the New York Chapter of the Duke Ellington Society Meetings.
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Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
J.B. Simpson, Inc.
Steen, Enoch
Steen, Richard (merchant)
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1888-1972
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1.6 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0206
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Enoch Steen was born in Norway in 1888. His family moved to the United States and settled in Minnesota in 1890. In 1913 he began working with Meyer & Company, a tailor-to-trade business in Chicago. This company had acquired the American Woolen Mills Company from Sears, Roebuck & Co. in 1900. Meyer & Company also sold clothes under the names of Paragon Tailoring Company and the Lincoln Trading Company. Steen's principal duties were sales and advertising.
Grayce Uyehara Papers
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Uyehara, Grayce
Uyehara, Paul M.
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1929-2008
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18 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1480
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document the life and activism of Grayce Uyehara who was a pivotal figure within the Redress Movement and sought reparations for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Miralan Productions
- Dates:
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2008-2010
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7.73 Megabytes (23 digital transcripts)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1467
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains 23 interview transcripts relating to the production of the 2011 film Something Ventured: Risk, Reward and the Original Venture Capitalists.
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Neubacher, Britton
Novak, Eve
Craig, Karen
Quinonez, Torie
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1979-1997
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1473
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents, at the grass roots level, the "third wave" of the feminist movement in the early 1990s.
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Hooker-Howe Costume Company
Renaud, Claire
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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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Sardino, Robert C.
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1914-1981, undated
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2.1 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1471
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of motion picture exhibition ephemera (lantern slides, publicity photographs, and paper) saved by Robert L. Sardino during his years working in motion picture theaters in Syracuse, New York.