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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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, undated
1771-1921
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3.76 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 3 folders, 3 oversize folders, 1 flat box.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Accounting
- 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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Spicer, Peter, 1795-1873
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1805-1806
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1 Volume (53 pages , 33 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-DL.qMSS001770
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Libraries
Notebook kept by Peter Spicer for recording arithmetical concepts and exercises as a young student, with an emphasis on business and bookkeeping-related skills. Some of the topics covered include: Federal money; simple interest; brokerage; insurance; compound interest; annuities; loss and gain; conjoined proportion; vulgar fractions; decimal fractions; arithmetical progression; and geometrical progression; among others.
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Paul Ma Papers
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Ma, Paul
Ma, Linda
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1976-2000
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1469
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Paul Ma's work as a chef and his efforts to popularize Chinese food in America.
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Conservation and Research Center (National Zoological Park)
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1890-1891, 1960-1976
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2.15 cu. ft. (5 12x17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-035
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of five bound volumes containing necropsy records for animals at the Conservation and Research Center and some animals at the National Zoological Park main facility. Some records also document fecal examination results. One bound volume had originally been a National Zoological Park expense ledger used from 1890-1891 ...
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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circa 1850-1954
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0.49 Boxes (consisting of 1 box, 1 oversize folder, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Cash
- 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: Cash Registers 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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Kost, William Elvidge
Kost, William Cassell, (farmer), 1917-1989
Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1939-1989
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17.66 Cubic feet (53 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0481
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of the Kost family farm, Vermont, Illinois. The farm consisted of 120 acres where small grains, hay, and cattle were raised.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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TBD
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0.45 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.IndustrialEquipment
- 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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Smithsonian Institution, Disbursement Clerk
- Dates:
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1882-1907
- Size:
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1.6 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 165
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include copies of disbursement vouchers, statements, abstracts of disbursements, monthly disbursement statements, cash vouchers, and summary balance and debit statements; also correspondence regarding the history of the disbursement clerk position. Disbursement of funds included both the private and federal side of the Smithsonia...
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Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942
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1893-1904
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7233
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist primarily of Schuchert's incoming correspondence, with some outgoing correspondence, while employed by the USGS and the United States National Museum. The correspondence concerns Schuchert's field work with the USGS and the examination and exchange of specimens.
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New York University
Arthur, James, 1842-1912 ((machine shop owner))
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1743-1967.
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15 Cubic feet (32 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0130
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records contain material on the Arthur collection of clocks and watches. Includes publications, inventories, manuscripts, reports, photographs, advertisements, catalogues, newspaper clippings, patents, and business records; correspondence files of NYU curators concerning the administration of the collection; a watch record book of sales of Ez...