W. A. Fishbaugh Panama Canal Photograph Album
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Hunt, Mary Alice Minear
Hunt, George Laird
Fishbaugh, William Arthur
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1905-1908.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1021
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photograph album of commercially-produced photographs of Panama Canal construction.
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Meigs, Montgomery C., 1816-1892
Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902
- Dates:
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1870 - 1890
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12.5 Cubic feet (27 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0984
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Mongomery C. Meigs, an Army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist. Meigs's papers include scrapbooks and photographs relating primarily to his work on the Pension Building and the Washington Aqueduct in Washington, D.C. but also his interest in politics, military affairs, construction, Native Americans, inventions, real estate, and financial matters.
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Spokeswoman Magazine
Political History, Division of (NMAH)
- Dates:
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1972-1980
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0931
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed materials spanning 1972-1980, relating to second-wave feminism and women's rights, mainly newsletters and periodicals and focused on the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, reproductive healthcare rights, and educational equality. Well-known organizations included in the collection are NOW (National Organization for Women), Planned Parenthood, United States Department of Labor, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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Maertz, J.F., Department Store (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
Keystone View Company
Rau, William H.
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1887-1930
bulk 1900-1930
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8 Cubic feet ((29 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0945
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of lantern slides and stereographs produced by several companies: Keystone View Company, Better America Lecture Service, Incorporated, American Press Association, J. Stanley-Brown, William H. Rau, and J. F. Maertz Department Store. The lantern slides were primarily intended to be used for educational presentations about the United States, other countries, history, and society. Many of the slides and stereographs are accompanied by descriptive text and in some instances by small cards--one card for each slide--and in other instances directly on the back of a stereoview. The majority of images were taken from 1900 to 1930.
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Deskey, Donald, 1894-
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Procter & Gamble Company
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1940s-1970s.
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1.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0836
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of flat-folded product packages for soap and detergent. Some of the packages were designed by industrial designer Donald Deskey.
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General Electric Company
Gotti, Mary Beth
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
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circa 1890s-1969
- Size:
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0789
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the technology of lighting and various business aspects of the General Electric Lighting Division throughout the 20th century and consists of correspondence, bulletins, price lists, business record books, stock certificates, sales and advertising materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and lantern slides.
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Moore, Clayton, 1914-1999
Moore, Dawn A.
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1980-1999.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0727
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials documenting Moore's career as television's "Lone Ranger": biographical information; photographs, including appearances made by Moore, publicity photographs, and film stills; letters, financial and legal papers relating to Moore's work in endorsements after his retirement from television; and assorted papers, such as court documen...
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Centennial Photographic Co.
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Roth, Rodris
Myers, Susan H.
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circa 1862-1920
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2 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0725
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Hundreds of stereographs and other photographic imagery, especially a large number of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; other subjects include: the World's Columbian Exhibition (1893); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Great Sanitary Fair; a large number on Massachusetts, including a set of images from Old Sturbridge; buildings and scenery; miscellaneous other subjects.
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Beaudoin, Rayne
Karr, Leonard, 1913-1995
- Dates:
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1930-1995
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes, 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0762
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Mostly photographs illustrating Leonard Karr's hunting and fishing activities in the Pacific Northwest; plus letters from Karr, photographs of his inventions, articles and other printed information, drawings and patterns for a kayak that Karr designed, clippings, scrapbooks, and albums. Personal materials relate to his personal life and his employment as a sign painter.
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Maynard, Thomas
Clark, Julie
- Dates:
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undated
1710-1865
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0786
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of a variety of legal documents that relate to slavery and African-Americans.