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Plastics Pioneers Association
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1952 September 18-20
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1 Boxe
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1235
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Audio recordings of interviews with members of the Plastics Pioneers Association about the plastics industry, its origins, and evolution.
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Coe, Norman
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circa 1962-1970
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141 Film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1230
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scopitones are three minute long 16mm films that were viewed on a Scopitone machine, a jukebox-like player. A precursor to music videos, Scopitones -- both the films and the machines -- were popular in the United States from around 1962 to 1968. The films featured sets, costumes, and dancers in support of well-known performers singing a single song. The collection includes Scopitone films from the United States and Europe.
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McCowan, Richard
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1948 - 2009
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1210
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Four photographic prints by Richard McCowan, several presumably from negatives by other photographers: Harry Truman on his whistlestop campaign, 1948; Harry Truman with Winston Churchill, ca. 1950; Mikhail Gorbachev speaking at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 1992; and a carbro print, "Cobblestones, Tower of London," 1985.
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Weber, Carl
Weber, Martin J., 1905-2007
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1931-1980
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0.75 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1209
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection features business documents, legal papers, and examples of prints from Martin J. Weber, who pioneered the "Weber Process."
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Cecil, Chuck, 1922-
Chiacco, Bob
Childers, Buddy, 1926-2007
Comstock, Frank
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1995-2007
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1215
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Oral history interviews conducted by Tumpak with Big Band figures (listed below), and a set of articles he wrote based on the interviews.
Virginia Mericle Menu Collection
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Henderson, Vanessa
Mericle, Virginia
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1960 - 1999
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10 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1212
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Over four thousand menus from American and international restaurants documenting the marketing and sale of food outside of the home to consumers around the world.
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Biren, Joan E.
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1931-2019
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5 Cubic feet (8 boxes, 13 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1216
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Joan E. Biren (JEB) is an internationally recognized photographer and documentary artist. She assembled this collection as her Queer Film Museum. It consists of a variety of materials about and associated with queer films, both foreign and domestic.
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Magellan GPS
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1978-2005
bulk 1986-1998
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12 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1214
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Magellan Systems Corporation Records document various aspects of the development of several different Magellan GPS devices through engineering, research, design, manufacturing, and marketing records. Magellan Systems Corporation introduced the first hand-held differential GPS product and the conpany's focus was on research, product engineering, and design activities for GPS receivers. The collection includes correspondence and internal company reports and memoranda; design drawings; research notes; engineering notebooks, technical notes, schematics; photographs, slides and negatives; video and audiocassettes; advertisements; product literature, magazine articles and newspaper clippings; press releases; and user guides and manuals.
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Bertness, Darrell
- Dates:
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mid-20th century
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box, 371 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1190
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This is a small group of picture postcards.
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McCloskey, William B., 1928-
- Dates:
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1952-2005
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5.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1192
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of photographic slides taken by McCloskey while aboard commerical fishing vessels. The photographs were taken in bodies of water spanning the globe, including those off the coasts of Japan, New Zealand, Alaska, New England, Canada, Norway, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Burma, Chile, Peru, ...