Betty McGettigan Collection of Duke Ellington Memorabilia
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Yim, Ken
Rider, Doug
English, Fred
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1969-1986
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0494
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The bulk of this collection consists of materials pertaining to Queenie Pie, a comic opera in seven scenes. Also included are publicity, correspondence for the opera, Ellington's autobiography Music is My Mistress, and a script for the Ellington work, My People.
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Erie Railroad Company
ConRail
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Olevsky, Walter
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ca. 1880-1980.
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57 Cubic feet (59 boxes, 95 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1082
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of six hundred sixty eight (668) glass negatives relating to the Erie Railroad Company. Subjects include stations, train cars, railroad employees, employees' recreational activities, ferries, construction, street scenes, and resort hotels; drawings of structures built by the various railroads which, at the time of the donation, ...
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Sterling Drug, Inc.
Winthrop Chemical Company
History Factory (Chantilly, Virginia)
Bayer Company
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1867-1993
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120 Cubic feet (261 boxes, 16 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0772
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains domestic and foreign advertising for both pharmaceutical and consumer health care products; sales and marketing materials for pharmaceuticals aimed at physicians, such as brochures, package inserts, reports, catalogs, price lists, manuals; the company's business and administrative papers, including annual reports, news relea...
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Mosher, Robert
- Dates:
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2003
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1203
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of nine black and white silver prints by Robert Mosher of monuments in Washington, DC and Arlington, Virginia with a focus on the visitors.
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Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
Gay Officers Action League. GOAL
Becker, John M.
Gay Officers Action League. GOAL
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1915-2019, undated
bulk 1980-2019
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59 Cubic feet (177 boxes, 20 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1146
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains a variety of periodicals, photographs, correspondence, business and advertising ephemera (corporate and non-profit, personal), organizational records and ephemera, created by, for, and in reaction to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community.
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Hauber, Joseph R.
Stubblebine, Donald J., 1925-2010
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1866-2009, undated
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285 Cubic feet (600 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1211
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One of the most comprehensive collections of material relating to musical stage and film productions, the collection consists of an assortment of material including sheet music written specifically for or included in stage and screen musicals, television programs, Big Band performances, and radio. Some productions may have been produced under more ...
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Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation.
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1932 - 2009
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16.5 Cubic feet (40 boxes, 2 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0594
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, administrative records, operational records, company newsletters, news clippings, photographs, photograph albums, and audio-visual materials.
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McKinley, Ray, 1910-1995 (musician, bandleader)
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1945-1994
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19.5 Cubic feet (56 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0635
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Ray McKinley Music and Ephemera consists of music, scores, sideman books, photographs, correspondence, news clippings and magazine articles, business records, awards, audio and videotapes, 45 rpm commercial recordings, and miscellaneous biographical notes. The records date from the the late nineteenth century to 1996 and document the profession...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1839-1986, undated
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94 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S16
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 16: Country, Western, and Folk Music contains approximately 11,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards country, western, and folk music in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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circa 1833-1944
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0.59 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 4 folders, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Clothing
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Clothing forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana