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General Electric Company
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circa 1913-1965
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2.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1440
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains records relating to General Electric's lamp manufacturing activities in its Lamp Wire and Phosphors Department in Cleveland.
Black and Decker Collection
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1914-1992
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1441
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 150 photographic negatives, 54 photographic prints, and two rolls of film negatives documenting the history of the Black and Decker Corporation, from a few years after its founding in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1910, through the 1990s.
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1961-2008
bulk 1960-1990
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12 Cubic feet (30 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1437
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the lives and careers of the Smothers Brothers, with emphasis on their 1960s television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
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Rogala, Dawn V.
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1992-1999
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4 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1427
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection, compiled and photographed by Dawn Rogala, documents daily life in traveling, tented circuses in America, including: Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers, Circus Vargas, Sterling & Reid Brothers, Culpepper and Merriweather, Carson and Barnes, Vidbel's Olde Tyme Circus, Big Apple Circus, Carson and Barnes Circus, Culpepper and Merriweather Circ...
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Lyon, Lucius, 1800-1851
Moore, Hiram
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1835-1932
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 tray)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1429
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Hiram Moore's invention of a harvesting machine.
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Koerner, Charles W.
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1923-1953
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1432
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A scrapbook documenting Charles W. Koerner's career as head of RKO Pictures in the 1940s. The scrapbook contains letters, a telegram, photographs, programs, a menu, clippings, and miscellany. Some portions of the scrapbook date from before Koerner's time with RKO, including his college years, and portions are from after his death, possibly compiled...
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Boudini, Phil
Boudini Brothers
Boudini, Dan, 1891-
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1909-1928
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1.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1426
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document the Boudini Brothers Vaudeville act. They include letters, postcards and telegrams, mostly of a business nature (such as relating to bookings); business papers including contracts and papers relating to expenses; photographs of the family and of the act; programs; scores and sheet music; music manuscripts; advertisements for app...
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Mandel, Johnny
Raeburn, Boyd,, 1913-1966
Kleeb, Milt,, 1919-2015
Johnson, Budd
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circa 1942-1949
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9 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1431
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of the "band library" for the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, containing arrangements of musical numbers performed by the Orchestra. The arrangers included Ed Finckel, Juan Tizol, George Handy, Budd Johnson, Johnny Richards, Stanley Baum, Ralph Flanagan, Johnny Mandel, George "The Fox" Williams, Milt Kleeb, Tadd Dameron, a...
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1920 - 2016
undated
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2 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1430
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and musical career of Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros.
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Katzen, Mollie, 1950-
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1972-2002
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5.25 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1434
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes Katzen's notes and notebooks compiled during her writing of The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest.