Grace Murray Hopper Collection
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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906- (mathematician)
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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1944-1965
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0324
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The material includes technical notes, operating instructions and descriptions relating to projects which Hopper participated in at Harvard during and after World War II and later in the private sector. These projects involved the creation of the Navy's Mark I, II and III "mechanical calculators" (the fore runners of today's computers) and the UNI...
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Philadelphia Typewriter Company
Mechanisms, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
- Dates:
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1886-1902
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0123
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records contain correspondence chiefly of John Elfreth Watkins, a key organizer and officer of the company. Watkins was also a curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and later "accepted a salaried position…building up the technological collections pertaining to the transportation industry." The corresponden...
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1939
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0134
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Newspaper articles, fair schedules and maps, exhibit brochures,and pictures of the Fair grounds.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Ahlborn, Richard E.
Martinez, Emiliano
Martin, Juana
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1984
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0176
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers and photographs related to the immigration experience of Cuban refugee Martinez: a story from the Washington Post, March 12, 1984; a 45-minute cassette recording of an interview (in Spanish) by Richard E. Ahlborn with Martinez; a transcription in Spanish of the interview; six photographs of the hut taken by a zoo photographer; a covering mem...
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Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Dibner Library (NMAH, SI).
Kulp, Roy C.
- Dates:
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1755-1904
- Size:
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3.66 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0149
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-nine account books of farmers, store owners, and artisans living in Pennsylvania, 1755-1904. The books mainly record daily transactions with customers or suppliers and are handwritten in varying conditions of legibility and preservation.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Falcon Trio.
- Dates:
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1912-1913
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0160
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Falcon Trio Vaudeville Collection consists mostly of scrapbook pages that cover the career of the Falcon Trio. Included are photographs of the Trio while performing, those probably used for publicity purposes, some personal photographs, and photographs of fellow vaudevillians. Most of the images are unidentified, but beside the Trio, there are ...
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Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1938-1986
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7.7 Cubic feet (32 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0111
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Pepsi Generation Collection is the result of an oral history and documentation project conducted in 1984 and 1985 by the Center for Advertising History and supported in part by a grant from the Pepsi Cola Company.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Ramsay, William, 1716-1785 (minister)
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1749-1924; 1957
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3.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0088
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Original and photocopied correspondence, financial papers, newspaper clippings, legal documents, insurance policies, account book, genealogical notes, wills, lottery tickets, and currency, documenting the activities of the Ramsay family of Alexandria, Virginia and related families.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Hereford, John W.
- Dates:
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1827
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0066
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Letter, September 5, 1827, by Hereford, Meridianville, Madison County, Alabama, to his father in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It describes his family's journey from Virginia to Alabama with stops in several counties of Tennessee looking for places to settle, and visiting relatives.
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Hartshorne, William, fl. 1780s
Rumsey, James, 1743-1792 (machinist, inventor)
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1786.
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1 Item
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0087
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A bill, June 21, 1786, from William Hartshorne and Company to James Rumsey for Potomac Company, regarding rum, gunpowder, blanketing, and hats. A bill or a receipt? It's signed by Rumsey.