Famous Amos Collection
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- Creators:
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Amos, Christine
Amos, Wally
Famous Amos Cookie Company
- Dates:
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1975-1996
- Size:
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7 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0112
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Famous Amos Collection consists primarily of business records, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting the career and life of Wally Famous Amos and the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie company he created.
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Anglo-American Telegraph Company, Ltd.
- Dates:
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1862-1947
- Size:
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14 Cubic feet (51 volumes in 44 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0073
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records relating to the organization of the company, corporate and financial records. Corporate records include two volumes of the company's acts, charters, contracts and agreements, 1862-1883; minutes of board meetings relating to varied subjects, such as agreements between the company and other telegraph companies such as Western Union Telegraph concerning sales of property, details of trnsactions or purchases undertaken by the company. Financial records consist of nine volumes of "journals" showing monthly records of receipts, 1866-1912; nineteen volumes of ledgers reveal a detailed financial status of the company, 1866-1912; and nine volumes of cash books consist of the financial transactions of the company, 1904-early 1941. See also 1 folder of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company telegrams in the Warshaw Collection under the heading "Telegraphs".
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Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
- Dates:
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1866-1890
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0068
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of five children's books about the circus, a brochure announcing the show in London, an 1873 advertisement for the Great Traveling World's Fair of Barnum's, and two scrapbooks.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Herder Cutlery.
- Dates:
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1836 - 1976
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0050
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents through corporate records, correspondence, financial records, news clippings, personal papers, photographs, and sales records of several Herder family cutlery businesses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Stong, C.L., 1902-1975 (electrical engineer)
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1952-1976
- Size:
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12.6 Cubic feet (38 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0012
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These papers are the files of the editor of "The Amateur Scientist" section of the Scientific American from 1952 to 1976. They are arranged chronologically by date of article. The feature was started in 1952 as an expansion of "The Amateur Astronomer" section of the periodical. The papers include files of Stong's predecessor and files for arti...
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Burgess, Dana Tai Soon
- Dates:
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1904 - 2018
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1397
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life of Dana Tai Soon Burgess, and that of his Korean American family, dating back to 1904. Included are photographs of his family before and after they immigrated to the United States; some photographs taken during a time when they lived and worked at Kunia Camp, Hawaii; and of Burgess throughout his life. Also include...
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Walker, Jerome
Walker, Cathy Jean
- Dates:
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1864-1917, undated
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1408
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Dr. Jerome Walker's papers discuss the United States Sanitary Commission, its creation, and its role during the Civil War. The papers also discuss Walker's meeting with Abraham Lincoln at the field hospital in City Point, Virginia.
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Mitchell, Ada, 1882-1958
Griffith, Gordon
- Dates:
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1938 July 30-1938 September 9
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1369
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the forty day driving trip made by Ada Mitchell and her son Cecil from Vancouver, Canada to Key West, Florida and back, August-September 1938. This diary was kept by Ada Mitchell and tracks their experiences in all of the places they visited.
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Campbell, Jean H.
- Dates:
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1861 - 1861
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1372
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains three scrapbooks filled with Civil War propaganda primarily from the North's perspective. The scrapbooks include illustrated envelopes as well as clippings from envelopes, magazines, and almanacs.
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- Creators:
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Smith, H. Jay
- Dates:
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circa 1894
- Size:
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33 Prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2420
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
No identifications on photographs. Tentative identifications are: #500 Mesa Verde cliff dwelling. #501 Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. #508 Mesa Verde cliff dwelling: Spruce Tree. #509 Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. #511 Mesa Verde cliff dwellings: Cliff Palace. #514 Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. #515 Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. #516 Mesa Verde cliff dwell...