Jack Robrecht Collection of Firefighting Photographs
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Robrecht, Jack
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1852 - 1983
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1.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1231
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains primarily photographs and postcards relating to firefighting. Many of the photographs are of firefighting vehicles and apparatus, both horse-drawn and gasoline-powered. The cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore are especially well documented, though other cities are represented, including Hamilton, Ohio; Camden, New Jersey; D...
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Bodansky, Lony Gottlieb
Gottlieb, Camilla Klaber, 1884-1964
Bodansky, Harry
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1901-1981, undated
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1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1245
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Gottlieb and Bodansky family papers are a collection of correspondence, immigration material, photographs, and ephemera related to the family of Hermann and Camilla Gottlieb and their daughter Lony Gottlieb Bodansky. Hermann and Camilla were interred at Theresienstadt concentration camp by the Nazi government during World War II.
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Bird, William L.
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1877 - 2010
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6.5 Cubic feet (19 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1288
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of archival materials assembled by National Museum of American History Curator William Lawrence Bird. The materials were used as background research for the publication of his book Holidays on Display (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), and as exhibit objects for the exhibit by the same name that opened shortly after the museum's architectural renovation (November 2009-September 2010). The materials include advertising and trade literature, especially for department stores and with emphasis on the display of toys; catalogs; photographs and slides; postcards; parade programs; design drawings; correspondence; stock certificates, and miscellaneous items relating to department stores and their displays, parades and the amusement industry.
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Cohen, Henry, Reverand
Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
Harris, Michael
Deinard, Ephraim
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1639-1980
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22 Cubic feet (32 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1160
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is a compilation of gifts from numerous donors, of documents relating to Judaism in numerous countries and the United States. Documents include betrothal contracts, bills of divorcement, eulogies, memorial plaques, candle labels, Jewish calendars, sukkah decorations, certificates of ritual slaughter, prayers, poems, sermons, and othe...
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Pullman Palace Car Co.
Pullman-Standard
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circa 1882-1955
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128.5 Cubic feet (147 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1175
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of approximately 13,500 images (original photographs, copy prints, and film and glass plate negatives) for freight, passenger, private, and street and rapid transit cars manufactured by the Pullman Palace Car Company. The collection contains primarily early railroad Americana, including interior and exterior views of private and business cars as well as passenger and street cars. The collection is an important part of the historical record of the railroad car-building industry as well as the history of architecture and interior design.
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Pennsylvania Railroad.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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ca. 1903-1910.
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3.6 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
On paper and glass, silver gelatin.
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1048
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Glass plate negatives and stereographs relating to the construction of Penn Station and the Pennsylvania Railroad's work in New York City, including the Station foundations and the East and Hudson River tunnels.
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Vetter, David, 1971-1984
Vetter, David J., Jr.
Vetter, Carol Ann
Texas Children's Hospital
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1971-1986
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4.6 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1133
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document David Vetter, a Texas boy with a rare disease known as Severe Combined Immune Deficiency. His life in a special isolation unit received widespread publicity.
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Ledley, Robert S.
National Biomedical Research Foundation. Georgetown University
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1972-1990
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3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1135
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Robert Ledley Papers document the development of the first whole-body diagnostic imaging system, the Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial (ACTA) X-ray Scanner by Ledley in 1973. Also included is material relating to Ledley's company, Digital Science Information Corporation (DISCO), as well as the public and medical communities' reactions to the scanner.
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Kondratas, Ramunas A.
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1979-2006
bulk 1987-1993
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3.5 Cubic feet (12 boxes, 3 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1134
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of pamphlets, books, and a wide variety of printed matter and ephemera relating to HIV/AIDS. The collection was principally assembled by National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution curator Ramunas Kondratas.
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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.