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Beall, Lester, 1903-
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1933-[circa 1967]
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1278
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the career of Lester Beall, graphic designer and commercial artist from approximately 1933-1967.
American Bank Note Company Records
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American Bank Note Company
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1860-1987
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4 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1285
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes correspondence with various banks and foreign governments, especially those of Canadian provinces, regarding their banknotes or postal stamps; client files, mostly with various companies that contracted with American Bank Note Company to engrave their stock certificates, but also including files regarding two engravers, Herm...
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Rosenthal, Mel, 1940-
Perry Mapp, Roberta
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circa 1975-2010
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49 Items (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1307
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black-and-white photoprints from two documentary projects: "In the South Bronx of America" and "Refuge". Mel Rosenthal's mission in the Bronx project was to record the deterioration and poverty there. Some photographs from the Bronx project have also been used in the "Refuge" project, because they document immigrants who moved into the Bronx.
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Smith, Lawrence V. (Lawrence Victor), 1931-2010
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1970 - 2010
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31 Cubic feet (31 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1314
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains the product of Smith's life's work as an industrial and transportation photographer. It consists of approximately 120,000 35mm color slides of various industrial and transportation subjects. Transportation is the larger subject area, including such topics as trucks, vehicles, transit, traffic, railroads, ships, etc. The slid...
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Moore, Gene, 1910-1998
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1955-1995
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10 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1280
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collected display window photographs assembled by Gene Moore, artistic director of Tiffany & Company from 1955 to 1995, documenting window displays at Tiffany & Company's flagship store in New York City, New York.
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Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
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1920s, 1996, undated
1996
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box, 4 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1261
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of two photographic prints of Howard University scenes, photographed in the 1920s by Addison N. Scurlock, one entitled "Sunlight and Shadow," the other entitled "Reared Against the Eastern Sky." In addition, there are a framed presentation piece containing a reproduction of Addison N. Scurlock's portrait of Ernest E. Just and a...
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Singer, Jonathan, Dr.
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2011
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2 Cubic feet (1 box, 13 photoprints)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1243
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Custom-made wooden box containing 13 matted digital color prints, of guitars and a mandolin, by Dr. Singer. The subjects are custom-made instruments in private collections. Cover text: "Gibson Boxed Set #1/5 / This Gibson commemorative / Morrison Hotel Gallery / boxed edition containing / thirteen original digital / prints were shot with a / Hassel...
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Challinor, Joan R.
Challinor, David, 1920-2008
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1956-1965
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1 Cubic foot (7 films, Reels AC1233-OF0001 and AC1233-OF0002 are composite reels created by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, the former comprising "Children Summer, Fall, and Winter, 1956-1957" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1957" and the latter comprising "Guilford, 57-58" and "Challinor Family Home Movie, 1959", 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1233
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
David Challinor served the Smithsonian Institution in an official capacity for 30 years, eventually becoming the assistant secretary to Sidney Dillon Ripley. Joan R. Challinor became an historian and advocate of library sciences and education. In 1956, however, they were busy with their young family. David only returned to university for graduate school in 1957, in his late 30s. They both went on to have successful careers and active family lives. This collection includes 7 home movie films that document thte Challinor family.
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Magellan GPS
- Dates:
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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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Aikins, Russell Chorley, 1896-
U.S. Steel Corporation
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circa 1940s
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1037
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection comprises of 21 albums depicting the steel making and finishing operations of the United States Steel Corporation. All of the images were made by Russell Aikins around 1940. The albums contain photographic prints (8" x 9-1/2"). The majority of prints are mounted on spiral-bound pages. The photographs were created for public relations...