Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs
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Maertz, J.F., Department Store (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
Keystone View Company
Rau, William H.
More … - Dates:
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1887-1930
bulk 1900-1930
- Size:
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8 Cubic feet ((29 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0945
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of lantern slides and stereographs produced by several companies: Keystone View Company, Better America Lecture Service, Incorporated, American Press Association, J. Stanley-Brown, William H. Rau, and J. F. Maertz Department Store. The lantern slides were primarily intended to be used for educational presentations about the United States, other countries, history, and society. Many of the slides and stereographs are accompanied by descriptive text and in some instances by small cards--one card for each slide--and in other instances directly on the back of a stereoview. The majority of images were taken from 1900 to 1930.
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- Creators:
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Burch-Brown, Carol
- Dates:
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1997-2003
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0857
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents a working class "gay" bar, the Shamrock Bar, Bluefield, West Virginia, 1997-2000, through photographs and oral history interviews.
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Vitone, Joseph
- Dates:
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1998-2004
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0883
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of photographic images of the Vitone family in Akron, Ohio and other locations, as part of an ongoing photographic document called "Family Records." This is an ongoing portrait project which for the past 20 years has used large-format negatives to document families living around the Rust Belt City of Akron, Ohio, former home to the country's major rubber and tire producers. These portraits offer personal yet unsentimental views of the subjects finding purpose and evolving family structures in these largely blue-collar communities that at times wrestle with job insecurity and problems accompanying alcohol and opioid use.
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Adams, Joe, 1922-
Morehead, Howard, 1926-2003
- Dates:
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1948-1980
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0908
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting the career of Joe Adams, a Los Angeles radio announcer and movie and television actor, who later became Ray Charles's manager.
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Sirkis, Nancy
- Dates:
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circa 2008-2009
- Size:
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10 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1186
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Color digital photographic prints by Nancy Sirkis, some panoramic, depicting scenes in New York City and Buffalo, N.Y., and small towns.
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Golding, Melody
- Dates:
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2005-2006
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1166
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These photographs document some of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the towns of Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pearlington, Mississippi.
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Covington, Robert L.
- Dates:
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1989-2008
- Size:
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1201
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A portfolio of stereographic inkjet photoprints, including views of American bridges, such as the Brooklyn Bridge, roads and highways, Hoover Dam, views taken from the World Trade Center, New York, and one image of Tokyo.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Dates:
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circa 1810-1980
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62 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S02
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 2: Armed Forces contains circa 3,400 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the military history of the United States; there are only a handful of foreign imprints. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Faul, Jan, 1945-
- Dates:
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1994
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0526
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs taken under a grant from the Graham Foundation to document disappearing family farms in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. This project shows the urbanization of this mostly rural county in central Wisconsin located between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison. Welsh men and women came to Waukesha County in the 1840s and became part of America's dairy history. After five or six generations, many of these farms are still family owned. Today's farms are threatened by developers due to rising land prices.
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- Creators:
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Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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circa 1870-1880
- Size:
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8 Items (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0496
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This artificial collection is the repository for miscellaneous photoprints transferred from other Smithsonian units: see series records.