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Ryan, Frank J.
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1936-1982
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16 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0871
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials relating to Ryan's career as an athlete, a sports coach at Yale, an inventor, and an author. Includes photographs, the patent for Ryan's electro-mechanical football game, scrapbooks of newsclippings, Ryan's instructional books on sports, brochures, reprints of articles and other printed materials relating to Ryan's instructional ...
Fox Movie Flash Street Photography Records
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Fox Movie Flash
Selle, Joseph, 1906-1988
Rose, Bob
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circa 1930-1975
bulk 1945-1975
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4 Cubic feet ((6 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0853
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the professional activities of Joseph Selle (1906-1988), a photographer and proprietor of Fox Movie Flash, a street photography business in San Francisco, California. There are a few documents relating to Selle's personal life, but the bulk of the papers relate to his street photography business. Most of the documents date from between 1945 and 1975 and include insurance papers, correspondence, legal documents, receipts, tax records, cashbooks, employment applications, newspaper clippings, licenses and permits, payroll materials, and bank statements, as well as samples of photographs from the business.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Plowden, David
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1970-1976
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1019
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs Plowden took of bridges, aqueducts and viaducts all over the United States and a few in Canada. The photographs are of various types of bridges: truss, suspension, covered. Some photographs feature close-up details of architectural elements, such as arches, chains, towers and ornamentation.
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Puente, Tito
Puente, Margaret
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1962-2001, undated
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0894
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographs and personal papers documenting the career of Latin Jazz musican Tito Puente.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Plowden, David
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1981
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1020
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs documenting the steel industry. Subjects include blast furnaces, steel mills, ore barges, and other related subjects.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Quick, Ray
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Quick, Glorene
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1947
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1035
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs that document Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing employee Ray Quick's travels to the Philippines and Guam to explore the power potential of the islands.
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Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
Peery, Walter E.
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1937-1959.
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0550
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting the invention and patenting of the Peery Typesetter.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Pratt, Charles Richardson, 1860-1935
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1860-1935
bulk 1910-1924
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6 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 8 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0958
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document the professional career of mechanical engineer, Charles Richardson Pratt. The papers include correspondence, patents, patent application materials, agreements, photographs, publications, and blueprints for many of Pratt's inventions, especially his work on elevators.
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Prescott, Timothy (student)
Prescott, Gertrude
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1803
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0032
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Lesson book text consists primarily of mathematical exercises, with a few pages devoted to penmanship. Also includes a partial page of the "Republican Gazetteer, Boston, Sept. 4, 1802, used as an end page.
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Quealy, William H., Judge
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1950-1970.
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box, 9 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0296
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Eight commercial 33-1/3 r.p.m. recordings of music produced by Duke Ellington, with album covers autographed by Ellington to Judge Quealy; and a Christmas card from Ellington addressed to Judge Quealy.