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Bottom, Virgil Eldon
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1936-1983.
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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...
Camden and Amboy R.R. Rules and Traffic Agreements
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Camden and Amboy Railroad.
Library of Congress
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1844-1871
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0152
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This volume contains a record of railroad rules for railroad employees, traffic agreements with other railroads, and operating orders to train crews and other employees including steamboat captains on the Delaware and Raritan Rivers signed by the railroad superintendent and other officials. These orders include general duties of conductors and o...
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Winslow, Randolph, 1852-1937 (surgeon, medical school professor)
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1868-1924.
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0150
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Winslow Collection contains diaries, patient records, account books, collected historical materials, taped oral history interviews and miscellaneous papers. The core of the collection consists of a chronological series of small, handwritten leather bound books used for personal diaries, college and medical school notes, and patient records, ke...
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Bogart, Brad J.
Lark, Frank E.
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1911-1927
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0128
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of court proceedings in Yuma County, Arizona relating to the remains of W.C. Gilbert and charges against Rex Dalgish, Manuel Leobo, R. W. Wilson, and Andrew Chavez. In addition, there is a scrapbook documenting a trip along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Rivers.
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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
- Repository:
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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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Varian, Russell H., 1898-1959 (electrical engineer)
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1937.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0110
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two notebooks, April 12-July 14 and July 14-September 8, 1937, documenting development of the klystron tube at Stanford University.
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Morton, William Thomas Green, 1819-? (dentist)
Morton, William J.
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1849-1911
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2.3 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0118
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents through correspondence, reprints of general articles, reports of Congressional committees, and materials relating to a U.S. patent and testimonials Morton's claims to priority in the discovery of the anesthetic properties of ether in medical and surgical procedures.
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Daytime TV Magazine.
Becker, Joyce
Sugarman, Allan
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1977-1983
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0107
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of issues of Daytime TV, from 1977 to 1983. Daytime TV was a magazine devoted exclusively to soap operas and soap opera actors.
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1742-1794.
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1 Volume (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0082
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Account book of an unidentified merchant living in an unknown location; includes entries for dry goods and other items purchased and sold.
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Washburn Wire Company
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1934-1979
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0074
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records consist of a copy of a legal agreement to convey real property between the Company and the City of New York; diagrams showing designation of buildings; illustrations; Business Plan and Loan Request, 1979-1980, 1980-1981; photographs; book of Plans for Plant Revision, which contains: monthly and yearly production charts, real estate ma...
