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Parker, Ben (scriptwriter)
Shurr, Robert L. (scriptwriter)
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1939-1940, 1968
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0.2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0133
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The film, George Washington Carver, starring Carver himself, was filmed in 1939 and released in 1940. Ben Parker was the director and Robert L. Shurr wrote the screenplay.
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Burris, Jeanne
Burris, Charlene
Byrd, James
Byrd Family
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ca. 1920
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1 Folder
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0126
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A pocket sample case of greeting cards and postcards offered for sale by the Ohio Card Company of Cadiz, Ohio.
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Woodard, William E., 1873-1942 (inventor)
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1909 - 1949
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3.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0125
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of United States, Canadian, Mexican and other foreign patents issued to William E. Woodard from 1909 to 1949. The patents are for Woodard's developments in steam and electric locomotive design.
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Philadelphia Typewriter Company
Mechanisms, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
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1886-1902
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0123
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records contain correspondence chiefly of John Elfreth Watkins, a key organizer and officer of the company. Watkins was also a curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and later "accepted a salaried position…building up the technological collections pertaining to the transportation industry." The corresponden...
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Nyland, Gretchen
Kitteredge, Blanche Anderson
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1890s-1920s
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0.6 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0122
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of a photograph album and two scrapbooks compiled by Blanch Anderson Kitteredge, wife of Harold B. Anderson, and Lewis Harris Kitteredge. The photographs depict Alexander Winton; employees of the Winton Co. and their families; the Winton touring car; the Winton Bullet No. 2 (including being shipped in 1903 to Ireland for f...
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Taylor, Frances Long, Mrs.
Long, Crawford Williamson, Dr., 1815-1878
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1897
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0120
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Crawford W. Long's use of sulphuric ether on a patient. The materials include glass plate negatives, correspondence, printed documents, and photprints.
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Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 ((electrical engineer) )
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1900-1932.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0103
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Material documenting the activities of the Thomson Electric Welding Company and the Thomson Spot Welder Company. Includes copies of patents issued to Thomson or his employees, bulletins on electric resistance welding published by the companies, photographs of electric welding equipment, sales literature, historical notes on Elihu Thomson, and a led...
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Hubbard, Howard
Mexican Border Veterans, Inc.
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1916 - 1982
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1.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0119
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of five scrapbooks of materials relating to the Mexican Border Veterans, Inc. and Auxiliary's activities.
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Patterson, Verna G. ((Mrs. Curtis B.))
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
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1901-1917
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 16 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0106
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes several turn of the century favorites, predominantly consisting of Buster Brown comics but containing other examples as well.
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Watson, Paul Gristock, 1900-1966 (naval officer)
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1960-1965
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0104
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the early development of radio apparatus.