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Servais, Joseph
Servais, Adrien-Francois, 1807-1866 (musician)
Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1842-1884.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0195
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Five letters of Adrien-Francois Servais, describing his personal experiences as he traveled and gave concerts, including three from his son Joseph Servais (1850-1885), dated September 7, 1871, June 7, 1877, and December 30, 1884. Also includes a photograph of Adrien-Francois Servais with cello with an endpin and a lithograph of Francois Servais, si...
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Gray & Wynkoop
- Dates:
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ca. 1900.
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0194
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection is a photoprint of an early recording session taken about 1900.
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Wilhelm
White, Sydney Victor
Lord, R. H.
Petit, Pierre, 1832-
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ca. 1870-1900
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1 Folder
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0191
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains twelve photoprints in the cabinet print format, although only nine are true albumen cabinet prints. The subjects depicted are European scientists. Except as otherwise noted in the listing, biographical information about the subjects was located in standard biographical references, such as Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Chambers' Dictionary of Scientists, and World Who's in Science.
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Dunn, Charlie, 1898- (bootmaker)
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1972-1984.
- Size:
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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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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
- Size:
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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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Albro, William H., 1823-1883 ((store owner))
- Dates:
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1845 - 1895
- Size:
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2.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0166
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
21 ledgers of store accounts of daily transactions with customers, mainly in food and household items. The accounts are mainly listed chronologically by customer name.
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Sethi, S. Prakesh (director)
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1970s-early 1980s.
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0168
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
8 posters, 98 color slides, and 271 black and white slides on advocacy advertising for the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Bottom, Virgil Eldon
- Dates:
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1936-1983.
- Size:
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0148
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of letters from Virgil Bottom requesting information about the early days of the quartz crystal industry in the United States and letters from "Old Timers" in the industry received by Bottom in response to his request of December 10, 1980; print materials, including a "History of the Quartz Crystal Industry in the United St...
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Ayres, F. (wagon-maker)
Sneden, James T. (wagon-maker)
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1834-1869
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0151
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The ledger contains 82 handwritten pages detailing daily transactions. Many entries suffer from illegibility and poor spelling. Most items concern repair of various parts of wagons and sleighs, often with payment in the form of grain and other farm products.