D. Ward King Road Grader Collection
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King, D. Ward
- Dates:
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1902-2005
- Size:
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0.75 Cubic feet ( 2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1332
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, publications and correspondence related to D. Ward King's invention the King Road Drag, or the Split-Oak drag, which improved rural travel in the early 20th century by introducing a simple design and low-effort system for grading poor-quality roads. The King Road Drag was promoted heavily across the United States and Canada via the "Good Roads Campaign" originally sponsored by the railroad companies in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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1885-1937
- Size:
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1.1 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1486
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of late 19th and early 20th century theatre programs and theatre ephemera from Broadway and Off-Broadway Theatres in New York, New York.
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1950-2018
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1488
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of playbills for performances attended by Edith Lauren in the United States and London
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Adams, Joe, 1922-
Morehead, Howard, 1926-2003
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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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Williams, Claude, 1908-2004
Fouse-Williams, Blanche Y.
- Dates:
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1920-2005
- Size:
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1 Electronic discs (CD)
13 Cassette tapes
4.66 Cubic feet (14 boxes, 3 map- folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0909
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business and personal papers, photographs, and audio recordings of Claude "Fiddler" Williams, an award-winning jazz fiddler. Although Williams played music for almost a century the materials in this collection date largely from 1970 to 2005.
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Monk, Thelonious
- Dates:
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1951.
- Size:
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1 Item
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0914
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The tenor saxophone part for "4 in 1".
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Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier, 1877-1956
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1898-1941
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0915
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, an engineer, and his experiments in wireless technology. Materials include Greenleaf Pickard notebooks and patents issued to Nikola Tesla.
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Hernandez-Rebollar, Jose L.
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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2005 August 3
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0917
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar was born in the state of Puebla in Mexico. He is the inventor of the AcceleGlove, a prototype device which can translate the alphabet and over 300 words into American Sign Language. The collection contains original and reference audio cassettes of Dr. Rebollar's presentation, "The Process of Invention: The AcceleGlove," a transcript of the presentation, photocopies of his power point presentation slides, and a CD-ROM containing digital images taken at the presentation.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Meyer, Edgar
- Dates:
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2005-07-07
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0918
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Original and reference audiocassettes, digital images, video clips, and a 16mm film documenting biochemist, artist, and sculptor Edgar Meyer and his large scale models of the polio virus (interview).
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Cooper-Bessemer Corporation (Mt. Vernon, Ohio)
- Dates:
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1870-1961
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27 Cubic feet (68 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0961
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records document the activities of the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and Grove City, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam, gas, and oil engines, compressors, and furnaces.
