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bulk 1894-1978, undated
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2 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1444
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the personal and working lives of tenant farmer Julius Lee White, who worked on a tobacco farm in Ringgold, Virginia, and those of his extended family.
Singer Industrial Design Collection
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Singer Manufacturing Company
Singer Company (The), (Fairfield, New Jersey)
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1927-1983
bulk 1960-1977
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11 Cubic feet (3 oversize folders, 20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0169
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The bulk of the collection consists of renderings of sewing machines and related products by industrial designers such as Henry Dreyfuss, Robert P. Gersin, Eliot Noyes, and Malcolm S. Park; by designers of Singer's in-house design department; and by consultants to the firm. Materials include decals, photographs, negatives, patents, and renderings and sketches. This collection documents the influence of industrial design on Singer sewing machines as well as other household products such as vacuum cleaners.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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1938-1974
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36 Cubic feet (81 Films, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0222
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films vary in subject, production source, and intended audience. Includes both silent and sound black-and-white, and color films with sound.
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Unknown
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undated
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2.75 Cubic feet (photographs, 5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1291
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Beemer , John A., 1879-
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1907-1956
bulk 1919-1931
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3 Cubic feet (4 boxes; 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0957
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document Beemer's engineering activities as a civil engineer who worked on irrigation and dam related projects.
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undated
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12 Film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0802
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
Rangeloff, Evan
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circa 1910-1991
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3.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0716
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes thirty-eight punchboards, all unpunched and in very good to excellent condition, and featuring a range of products and imagery. The collection also includes two punchboard manufacturers' catalogs from the 1940s, which detail the money-making opportunities for jobbers and retailers. The collection also contains corresponde...
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Kahle Engineering Company
Orr, Craig
- Dates:
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1930-1980
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4 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0735
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Four cubic feet of records relating to Kahle Engineering Company's involvement in the manufacture of equipment for producing electric lamps, television and radio tubes, welding equipment and laboratory equipment.
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Niemeyer, G. Charles, Dr. (Grover Charles)
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ca. 1960-1990.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0679
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
G. Charles Niemeyer was a Broadway actor and later a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. In the 1960s he began to research and write a new history of motion picture technology entitled From Shadow Play to Photoplay. It was never published.
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Revenue Camera Club
Schroeder, Barbara
National Photographic Society
- Dates:
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1942-1986
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3.5 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0681
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the National Photographic Society, an amateur camera club in Washington, D.C.
