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Austin, Terry
Siegel, Jerry (cartoonist)
Shuster, Joseph (cartoonist)
Salkind, Alexander
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ca. 1930s-1985.
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0274
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes numerous newspaper clippings of the Superman comic strip, 1940-1950, promotional material using the Superman character, Superman comic books, 1944-1978 and illustrations of Superman drawn by Terry Austin in 1984. Dramatic scripts for TV and movie portrayals of Superman in 1977 and 1982 as well as a novel by George Lowther ab...
Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 3: African-American Music
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1828-1980
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79 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S03
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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 3: African-American Music, contains circa 7,800 pieces of sheet music and folios dating from the 1820s to the 1980s; most of the material dates from after 1890. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Bogart, Brad J.
Lark, Frank E.
- Dates:
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1911-1927
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0128
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Yuma County, Arizona court proceedings relating to the remains of W.C. Gilbert and other court charges against Rex Dalgish, Manuel Leobo, R. W. Wilson, and Andrew Chavez. There is also a scrapbook of Frank E. Lark documenting a trip along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Rivers.
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Paulin, Frank
Silverstein, Bruce
Silverstein, Silke
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circa 1951-1961, 1994
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1373
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photoprints of city scenes, mostly taken during the 1950s, but including a few later images. Most of the images were made in New York City, Chicago, and New Orleans. One photograph was taken in Seville, Spain. The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson appears in two of the photographs, photographing the Saint Patrick's Day parade; evangelist Billy Gra...
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Levitt, Alan
Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Levitt, Elaine
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1920 - 1960s.
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5 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 3 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0303
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Advertising materials relating to pharmaceutical and other supplies as part of the stock of retail pharmacies from 1920 to the early 1960s, mostly advertisements for cigars, cigarettes, Coca-Cola, Kodak, veterinary supplies, and patent medicines.
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Archives of American Art
Weissinger (Harry) Tobacco Co.
King, Marian
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circa 1933-1945
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0850
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily unmounted photographs, plus an illustrated souvenir tourist book on Washington, "Washington Album" (ca. 1890), and a text-only anti-trust broadside. The most interesting group is a set of 5 photoprints related to the Boston Globe newspaper, especially several which illustrate the practice of displaying handwritten newspaper headlines for ...
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Somerstein, Stephen
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1965
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12 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1300
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the march of many Americans from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965 during the Civil Rights March. It focuses mainly on photographs and an original book cover from Stephen Somerstein. There are twelve black and white images, 11" x 14", documenting the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March. Some of the photographs inc...
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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undated
1830-1923
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0.98 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Organs
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Organs forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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undated
- Size:
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0.45 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Livery
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Livery forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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1881
undated
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0.51 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Lectures
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Lectures forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana