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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1960
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1920
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2.76 Cubic feet (consisting of 6 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Jews
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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: Jews 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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1750-1965
undated
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11.35 Cubic feet (consisting of 20 boxes, 8 folder, 30 oversize folders, 17 map case folders, 3 flat boxes (partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Tobacco
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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: Tobacco Trade and Industry 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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Bunting, George L., Jr.
Brinkley, Christie
Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Colonel, Sheri
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1959-1990
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15.5 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0374
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Cover Girl Make-Up Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project, 1923-1991, is the result of a year-long study in 1990, which examined the advertising created for Noxell Corporation's Cover Girl make-up products from 1959 to 1990. The objective of the project was to document, in print and electronic media, the history of Cover Girl make-up advertising since its inception in 1959.
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Manochio, Dennis
- Dates:
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ca. 1920s-1940s.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 Boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0533
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Fireworks packaging, labels, wrappers and boxes. Many of the labels contain illustrations and logos with ethnic imagery, often stereotypical, and a variety of other subjects.
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Centennial Photographic Co.
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Roth, Rodris
Myers, Susan H.
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circa 1862-1920
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2 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0725
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Hundreds of stereographs and other photographic imagery, especially a large number of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; other subjects include: the World's Columbian Exhibition (1893); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Great Sanitary Fair; a large number on Massachusetts, including a set of images from Old Sturbridge; buildings and scenery; miscellaneous other subjects.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Darnell, Victor
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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undated
1908-1913
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1018
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of bridge construction projects collected by Victor Darnell was an early student of civil engineering and a pioneering civil engineer.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Morgan, Nathan W.
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ca. 1902-1972.
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10 Cubic feet (29 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0965
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These papers contain materials relating to the design and construction of highway bridges: scrapbooks of clippings compiled by Morgan on suspension, concrete arch, moveable, steel arch, timber, concrete, steel simple span, cantilever, and stone bridges; photographs of American bridges taken by Morgan, 1938; clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and bo...
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Carmichael, Hoagy
Arnaz, Desi, 1917-1986
Mills Brothers.
Calloway, Cab, 1907-
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1930s-1940s.
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0775
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
16mm motion picture films, produced in the 1930s and 1940s by various film production companies, documenting performances by jazz and popular music performers, including Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Lena Horne, the Mills Brothers, and Rosemary Clooney, and others listed below.
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Frater, Fred
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circa 1947-1950
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1147
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The twenty-eight photographs and corresponding negatives in this collection were taken by photographer Fred S. Frater in Intercourse, Pennsylvania sometime between 1947 and 1950. They document a day-long auction of furniture, farm equipment and household goods that took place during the winter or early spring season. They depict an outdoor setting ...
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Fanning, Michael
- Dates:
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1983-2003
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1255
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents through correspondence, marketing materials, patent materials, photographs, and newspaper clippings, the development of T-Net, a sport that combines electronic game technology with a diamond-shaped court the length of a tennis court and "invisible" nets created by inventor Michael Fanning.