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Mair, LaVeda
Mair, Francis M., 1916-1991 (commercial artist)
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1935-1994
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56 Cubic feet (104 Boxes, 40 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0548
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Client files, administrative files, artwork, and collected food labels from graphic and industrial designer Francis Mair. Mair specialized in beverage labels and packaging during his many years with Landor Associates in San Francisco. Late in his career, he directed Landor's Museum of Packaging History. His prolific freelance career included designs for furniture, decorative arts, letterhead, and corporate images. His personal artwork included alphabets, typefaces, and sketchbooks. Much of his personal artwork is humorous or erotic.
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Whiskey, Liquor, and Spirits
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1743-1963
bulk 1846-1962
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7.38 Cubic feet (consisting of 12 boxes, 2 folders, 11 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, 3 boxes (1 full, 2 partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Whiskey
- Repository:
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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: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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
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Dancer Fitzgerald Sample.
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1945-1946.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0332
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of a single scrapbook of proofsheets and photo proofs from DFS's advertising campaign for Falstaff Beer in the period 1945 1946. The advertisements center around three distinct themes. The first and most comprehensive features a salute to "The Men Who Keep Faith with America." These ads contain handsome black and white w...
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Wells, Ellen B.
- Dates:
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1874-2009
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18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0396
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of cookbooks, but many would accurately be described as pamphlets. Also included are some labels from products that contain recipes. The cookbooks were produced by manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers.
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Ayer (N W) Incorporated.
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1817-1851
1869-2006
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270 Cubic feet (1463 boxes, 33 map-folders, 7 films)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0059
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of records documenting one of the oldest advertising agencies created in Philadelphia. The company then moves to New York and expanses to international markets. During its history NW Ayer & Sons acquires a number of other advertising agencies and is eventually purchased. The largest portion of the collection is print advertisements but also includes radio and television. NW Ayer is known for some of the slogans created for major American companies.
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Broussard-Simmons, Vanessa
Kraft General Foods, Inc.
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undated
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0510
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists primarily of cookbooks and similar forms of literature containing recipes and - or information relating to food customs, created by producers and manufacturers of foods products, cooking utensils, kitchen appliances and equipment.
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Grepke, Donald, 1932-
Grepke, Carolyn, 1937-1995
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circa 1800s-1998, undated
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70 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0752
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Abstract: Collection consists of over a century of paper dolls documenting their use as advertisements, and depictions of popular culture, fashion trends, family lifestyles, gender roles, ideal communities,and cultural heroes.
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Hampson, Albert W., 1911-1990 (artist)
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1926-1968
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6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0561
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of the commercial artwork created by artist Albert W. Hampson dating predominately from during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Orth, Edward J.
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
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1835-2000, undated
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130 Cubic feet (417 boxes, 25 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0560
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. Also includes material relating to other fairs, the Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (ECHO), New York City tourism and The Walt Disney Company.
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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.
