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Whitman Chocolates
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1878 - 1954
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0437
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials trace the evolution of product packaging and advertising of Whitman's Chocolates. Includes business records and photographs of early product displays.
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International Longshoremen's Association, Local 791
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1938-1986
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0440
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is composed of a variety of records left behind when Local 791 vacated an apartment it had leased in New York City. As such, the collection does not offer a complete record of the union or its activities. Included are five volumes of official records: a minute book, 1938-1949; three dues ledger books, 1944-1947; and a cash book, ...
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Smith, Willie, 1910-1967 (musician)
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1945-1987
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0.25 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0382
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, event programs, photographs, and music manuscripts documenting Smith's career as a jazz musician and arranger.
James J. Hill Scrapbook
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916
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1916
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0.66 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0334
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook contains clippings of the news stories and obituaries printed after the death of James J. Hill on May 29, 1916, drawn from newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. The 151 scrapbook pages (13" x 15") contain newspaper clippings of the news stories and obituaries of the death of James Jerome Hill on May 29, 1916 at age 78. The ...
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1911
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box, 345 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0335
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Some of the 345 silver gelatin photoprints, mounted on gray paper pages in this album, apparently were taken in Houston, as the title page indicates. However, many others were taken in New Orleans, and possibly other areas in the Gulf States. The New Orleans pictures depict City Park, St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, above ground cemeteries, the...
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
MacFarlane, W.D.
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ca. 1870-1892.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 Box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0337
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook created by W. D. MacFarlane who was a partner, with his brother Robert, in the MacFarlane Old Dye Works in Albany, New York. The book contains chemical solutions for dying textiles, newspaper clippings, marriage and obituary notices, poems and political cartoons.
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Gregory, Thelma
Morris, Gregory
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1965-1969
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3 Items (3 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0383
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of two newsclippings, and an advertising yearbook documenting Strayhorn's career as Duke Ellington's chief arranger, co-composer, lyricist, and emergency fill-in at the piano.
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Fournet, Fred G.
Hallmark.
Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Fournet Drugstore.
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1950-1977
undated
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3 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 8 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0346
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of advertising and promotional materials for products sold by the Fournet Drugstore. In addition, there are photographs of the African American community in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
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Fitzgerald, Thomas E.
Brooks, Byron A.
S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Co.
Peyton, Joseph I.
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1890-1897
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0365
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents a patent dispute between the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company and the Williams Typewriter Company.
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Falcone Custom Grand Pianos
Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Pratt, Read and Company
Sohmer & Company
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1872-1989
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43 Cubic feet (74 boxes and 11 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0349
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of Sohmer & Co., date from 1872 through 1989. They fall into fourteen series based primarily on function. Legal, financial, inventory & appraisal, manufacturing, marketing, advertising, and sales are the major series. Photographs, awards, family papers, publications about Sohmer, general publications, "miscellaneous" and corresponden...