Video Game Pioneers Oral History Collection
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- Dates:
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2017-2018
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45.6 Gigabytes (19 .wav files)
12 Documents (12 .pdf files)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1498
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Born-digital audio interviews and transcripts with individuals involved in the early development of video games.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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2000 - 2001
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3 Cubic feet (20 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0771
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-three videotaped interviews of Nobel Prize laureates, conducted in Lindau, Germany, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the United States. The interviews form the core of the Nobel Voices Video History Project and the exhibition "Nobel Voices." Documents and preserves examples of the quest for innovation and its important messages for future generations.
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Joseph Enterprises, Inc. (Location of Meeting--San Francisco, California; )
Pedott, Joseph
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circa 1976-2005, 2008
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2 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0898
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to products developed and marketed by Joseph Enterprises, Inc., including the Chia Pet and the Clapper. The collection includes internal business documentation including correspondence, design drawings, and photographs. Print advertising and packaging samples as well as audiovisual materials make up an important part of the collection. The video collection includes commercials for the Chia and Clapper products as well as clips of product mentions in popular entertainment. In addition, there are two recorded oral history interviews with Joseph Pedott.
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United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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1898 - 1987
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145 Cubic feet (296 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0277
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the activities of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation of Beverly, Massachusetts, manufacturers of shoe machinery equipment. The collection consists of engineering records, legal records, research and development records, employee/personnel records, correspondence, company catalogs, product literature, advertising materials, photographs, and moving images.
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Honda, Margaret
Proctor, Jacob
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2020 August 17
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1 Item ((25 min.), digital, mp4)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.honda20
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview with Margaret Honda conducted 2020 August 17, by Jacob Proctor, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Honda's home in Los Angeles, California.Â
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Hom, Nancy
Ho, Melissa
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2020 August 30
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1 Item ((29 min.), digital, mp4)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hom20
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview with Nancy Hom conducted 2020 August 30, by Melissa Ho, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at Hom's home in San Francisco, California.
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Sun Ra
Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
Taylor, Billy
Stokes, W. Royal, Dr., 1930-
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1940s-2005
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10 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0766
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs of musicians and entertainers, mostly jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, but including many rock and even a few classical performers. The collection also contains tape recorded radio interviews conducted between 1970 and 2003. In addition there are posters relating to musical performances.
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Ganesh, Chitra, 1975-
Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-
- Dates:
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2020 September 1
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1 Item ((27 min.), digital, mp4)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.ganesh20
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview with Chitra Ganesh conducted 2020 September 1, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Ganesh's home in Brooklyn, New York.Â
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Revlon, Inc.
Stevens, Martin
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1936-1986
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0939
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of print and television advertisements and promotional materials created by Revlon, Incorporated, 1936-1986.
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Davis, Norman
- Dates:
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circa 1930 - 1977
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0.06 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-070
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from circa 1930 to 1977 and measures .17 linear feet, includes images of African American baseball players from the Anacostia community, as well as documents the youth activities organized by the Metropolitan Police Boys Club #11 in the neighborhood. The collection is comprised of photographic prints.