Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Animals
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1865-1934
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1.76 Cubic feet (consisting of 3.5 boxes, 3 folder, 5 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Animals
- Repository:
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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: Animals 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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Leeds and Northrup Company
Gray Instrument Company
Queen, James W., & Company
Queen-Gray Company
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1850-1952
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3.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0015
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents James W. Queen & Company and its successors Leeds and Northrup Company, Queen-Gray Company, and Gray Instrument Company, manufacturers of instruments for laboratory and industrial use. The collection contains catalogs, circulars, photographs, and miscellaneous publications and documents.
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Austin, Terry
Siegel, Jerry (cartoonist)
Shuster, Joseph (cartoonist)
Salkind, Alexander
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1923-1984
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0274
- Repository:
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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...
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Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
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1860-1984
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56 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0469
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the history and development of the Wurlitzer Company and consists of company publications, business records, employee files, manufacturing records, sales and marketing records, product information, publicity, advertising, photographs, audiovisual materials, and organ installation drawings.
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Mathis, Nathaniel, 1946- (barber, motivational speaker)
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1946-2004
bulk 1970-2004
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5.5 Cubic feet (18 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0641
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Nathaniel Mathis is a Washington, D.C., hairstylist, inventor, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur. His papers document his business life and community involvement.
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Boaz, Joyce
Hoffman, David
Hoffman, Iris
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1898-1920
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0281
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents both negative and positive images of African Americans, primarily on postcards, as drawings, cartoons, and similar art forms collected mostly during the Civil Rights Movement in America.
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Hillis, Alice Rogers
- Dates:
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1939
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1 Motion picture film (350 feet, silent, color (Kodachrome), camera original reversal, 16mm )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0531
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of one reel of color film shot at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, New York.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1911-1986
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42 Flat boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S06
- 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 6: Moving Pictures and Movie Stars forms part of the DeVincent collection. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Washington Society of Engineers
Remington, Charles E.
Ellenberger, William J.
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1905-1985
bulk 1930-1979
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13.1 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0972
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Washington Society of Engineers was founded in 1905 with the objective to advance engineering knowledge and maintain a high professional standard among members. Membership was open to all individuals who were actively engaged in any branch of the engineering profession. The records contain membership records, meeting minutes and reports, financial records, correspondence, projects and events details, as well as research documents.
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Christian, Dorothy H.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Foley, James W.
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1881, 1913-1934
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0250
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains three books and two photographs: Kitchen Diary: Your Daily Friend (Chicago: P. F. Volland & Co., 1913) contains birth dates, addresses and appointments sporadic entries, 1921 1934. The Shakespeare Birthday Book (Mary F. P. Dunbar, ed., London, 1881) has a quotation from Shakespeare for every day in the year; scattered thro...
