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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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undated
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0.98 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Inks
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Inks forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1768-1973
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37.8 Cubic feet (consisting of 76 boxes (including 12 off-site), 12 folders, 16 oversize folders, 7 flat boxes (6 full, 1 partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dry
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Dry Goods forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Ewin, James Lithgow (inventor)
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1873, 1874, 1879.
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0051
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection includes an English patent paper #2126 for improved vulcanizable water-proof gum, 1873, to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills; a U.S. patent paper #151,109 for improvement in the art of manufacturing horseshoes, 1874; and an English patent paper #1194 for improvement in street-lighting apparatus.
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Serros, Michele M.
Magana, Antonio
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1968-2012
- Size:
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4 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 3 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1481
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Michele M. Serros was a Chicana writer who grew up in Oxnard, California. She is best known for Chicana Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard and How to be a Chicana role model. The papers cover her childhood, high school work, undergraduate courses, published works, and speaking and workshop engagements. The collection also includes photographs, drawings, and her high school yearbook.
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Ma, Paul
Ma, Linda
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1976-2000
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1469
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Paul Ma's work as a chef and his efforts to popularize Chinese food in America.
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Alcantara-Diaz, Gabriela
IAC Group
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1989 - 1996
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1366
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains IAC group advertising materials for Johnnie Walker Black Label and Publix grocery stores in both English and Spanish.
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Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Larson, Mary E.
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1880-1990
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1464
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection relates to the Slover Family of puppeteers, and documents their lives and activities as they traveled the country with their show.
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Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
- Dates:
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1949 - 1996
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1398
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes advertising materials for Crown Central's credit card and credit check programs, for gifts (cameras, kitchenware) offered by its service station to repeat customers; a set of posters and a design drawing for them, exhorting drivers to drive safely, featuring images of governors of states, President Dwight Eisenhower, FBI Dir...
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Norniella, Isabel, 1938-
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circa 1969-2005
- Size:
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4 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1417
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document Norniella's life and career in the advertising field, and her Ole Television Network, and include business records, photographs, scrapbooks, photograph albums, advertising, clippings and articles, awards, newsletters, and publicity materials.
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Kuenzig Books
Sheldon, Charles Gates, 1899-1960
Breck Company.
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1902-1959
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3.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1423
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the work of Charles G. Sheldon, the illustrator who created beautiful images of women for the "Breck Girls" advertising campaign from 1936-1957. Includes photographs of sitters, Breck advertising materials, Breck Company internal publications and newsletters, magazines with cover illustrations by Sheldon, a high school year...