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Haviland, Opal Dorf
Dorf, Jacob Aloysius, 1879-1965 (blacksmith, businessman)
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1909-1972.
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0193
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to Dorf's activities, particularly in the hardware business. Biographical information and obituaries are included as well as samples of his unusual advertising.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Lange, Yvonne, 1918-2003 (Director Emerita, Museum of International Folk Art)
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1975.
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 4 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0197
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One copy in four volumes (872 pp.) of the typescript of Lange's dissertation "Santos: The Household Wooden Saints of Puerto Rico (1975)" by Yvonne Lange. The dissertation, written for the Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, attempts to analyse the phenomenon of the "santos" by describing its major features and to expla...
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Dunn, Charlie, 1898- (bootmaker)
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1972-1984.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0186
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Newspaper and magazine articles, radio broadcast transcripts, and advertisements relating to Dunn's career. In addition there is a documentary of Dunn's craft on video tape, photographs, miscellaneous business stationery, and a research project titled "Charlie and Cecile Dunn: A Study in Retirement" (1978) by Linda Gann.
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O'Connell, Rosalie Melita
- Dates:
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1912-1917
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0187
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains 205 photoprints, including 149 informal outdoor portraits and 46 studio portraits. Although the photographs, post cards, and other materials have been physically removed from the cyanotype album, album captions for the photographs are preserved in copy photographs made before the materials were removed during conservation t...
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Washington, William Augustine, Colonel, 1757-1810
- Dates:
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1789-1840
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0174
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These papers consist primarily of bills and receipts for a large and varied number of articles. They are for such commodities as blankets, hose, flannel, linen, tea, molasses, calico, muslin, shoes, sugar, ribbons, needles, wheat, oats, salt and silk. Some of the prices are in pounds, shillings and pence, others are in dollars. The papers includ...
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Pennsylvania State Anthracite Mine Cave Commission
- Dates:
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1912-1913
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1.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0180
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of the Commission's report, comprising: a 352 page report, including numerous photographs and maps; one 24 page printed copy of the report; one map of the city of Scranton, dated 1912; and eight blueprints of coal field sites.
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Porter, Russell W.
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Ingalls, Albert G., 1888-1958 (astronomer, editor)
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circa 1920-1956
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8.7 Cubic feet (26 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0175
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Albert G. Ingallsrole as an editor for the "Scientific American" (specifically a column on amateur astronomy) primarily through correspondence and other publications.
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White, John H., 1933-
White, Charles Baldwin
- Dates:
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1920-1940
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0182
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of several thousand clippings of trade marks, labels, etc., taken from magazines and newspapers, and labels. Many of them are quite small and a very few have dates and sources noted on the reverse side. Most of them appear to have been clipped in the 1920 1940 period. They were classified by the collector on the basis of...
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Garrett, John W. (John Work), 1820-1884
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1850-1880.
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0171
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes lists of rail accidents, production and distribution of locomotives, and engine repair costs; reports on locomotive power, cost and performance, and purchases of locomotives and cars; and correspondence relating to these and other matters, all 1850-1880. Most correspondence is to Garrett from railroad supervisory staff. Includes a history ...
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Century Recording Studios.
Dodd, Ed, (1902-1986?) (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."