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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Stine, W.P.
LaBrose, Susan Stine
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1904-1911.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1039
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
W. P. Stine was an engineer involved in the building of the Panama Canal. He also worked on road building projects in Panama. The collection consists of blueprints, letters, and a letterpress book pertaining to the Panama Canal.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Gordon, Robert B.
Starr, A.B., 1882-1962
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1905-1906
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1034
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Three volumes of laboratory notes compiled by Starr while a student at Sibley College, Cornell University. The tests written about in the notebooks related to engines, steam, tensile strength of cast iron, lubricants, and other subjects. The notebooks contain notes, charts and graphs, and cyanotypes.
Norman Squires Collection
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Beveridge, Frank Stanley
Encyclopedia Britannica
O'Brien, Catherine L.
Squires, Daniel T.
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1936-2006.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0927
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Norman Squires's career as a salesperson for the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company of America, Stanley Home Products, and Encyclopedia Britannica. Norman Squires conceptualized and implemented the party plan method of direct selling.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Snow, J. Parker
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1882-1933
bulk 1930-1933
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1000
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The J. P. Snow Papers document Snow's history of wooden bridges and his work as a civil engineer. The history was written in the 1930s with Robert Fletcher, Director Emeritus of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth College.
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Cecil, Chuck, 1922-
Chiacco, Bob
Childers, Buddy, 1926-2007
Comstock, Frank
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1995-2007
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1215
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Oral history interviews conducted by Tumpak with Big Band figures (listed below), and a set of articles he wrote based on the interviews.
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Shanks, Lester
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1876-2010
bulk 1973-2008
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3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1244
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is comprised of the results of Shanks's research on covered bridges, mostly in America but also covered bridges in Canada and Switzerland. Included are albums containing color photographs of covered bridges, slides of covered bridges, postcards depicting covered bridges; maps, and guidebooks; newsletters, magazines, and newspaper clippings on the subject of covered bridges.
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Schultz, Roy
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1902 - 1918
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1330
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
522 black-and-white silver gelatin photographic prints, and four glass lantern slides, taken for the Underwood & Underwood photography studios. The prints cover subjects in the news during the period of 1902-1918, with particular emphasis on World War I. The World War I images depict numerous aspects of the war, including ordinance, encampments, sh...
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Segre, Rosa, Estate of
Segre, Emilio
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1942-1997
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0691
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to the career of the nuclear physicist Emilio Segre, including a set of previously classified, now unclassified government documents including correspondence, laboratory reports and memoranda, relating to Segre's research; several diplomas and honorary awards and the programs from the ceremonies at which they were conferred.
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Schlaikjer, Jes Wilhelm
Biegel, Paul E.
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1942-1952.
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20 Items (3 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0546
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twenty posters designed by Schlaikjer during World War II and after.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Ryder, Joel
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1792-1793.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0089
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two cyphering books belonging to and/or compiled by Joel Ryder (or Rider) of either New York or New Jersey, containing mathematical tables, square roots, computations, etc. One book bears the date 1792, the other 1793. Both soft-bound in cloth. One contains a number of locks of hair.