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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Holling, W. J.
Chandler, Don
Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.).
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1948-1949.
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11 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0146
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 photoprints of Caterpillar Tractor Co. buildings and products: three photographs of company buildings, including two aerial views, and eight photographs of tractors, including views of machines at work in various locations. Tractors with various models of scrapers are shown in San Antonio, Texas; Whittier, California; and Colquitt County, Georgi...
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Japanese American Documentary Collection
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Tanaka, Peter, Dr.
Tsukamoto, Mary
McGovern, Melvin
Nitta, Eugene T.
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1900s-1993
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes and 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0305
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is an assortment of souvenirs and memorabilia, which have survived the years since World War II. Many of them, Christmas cards, high school graduation programs, notes to friends, snapshots, and photographic prints in the form of dance programs reflect the interests and concerns of all teenagers. There are camp newsletters and Japan...
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Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
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1940-1950
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0.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.macdstan4
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Archives of American Art
Nine photographs of Macdonald-Wright, a photograph of 3 unidentified men with a sculpture, 2 color wheels, and 3 color charts.
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California Shop.
Kemp, Helen Misch, 1894-1948 (store owner/manager)
Kemp, Barbara
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1938-1942.
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0572
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographs, typewritten manuscripts and a book that was used as both a visitors log for the shop and a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, announcements and invitations to fashion shows. The manuscripts document Kemp's ideas relating to why she started the California Shop. Photographs document the sho...
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Koerner, Charles W.
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1923-1953
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1432
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A scrapbook documenting Charles W. Koerner's career as head of RKO Pictures in the 1940s. The scrapbook contains letters, a telegram, photographs, programs, a menu, clippings, and miscellany. Some portions of the scrapbook date from before Koerner's time with RKO, including his college years, and portions are from after his death, possibly compiled...
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Weber, Alice
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1945-1948
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1144
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of two photograph albums documenting Alice Weber's work and travels to California, Japan (specifically Okinawa), Hawaii, China and Guam from 1945-1948. The images depict base housing and facilities, Weber's co-workers, aircraft, sheet metal shops, historic sites, agriculture (including cane, pineapple and coffee cultivation in Hawaii), native people, cities, and other subjects.
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Gordon, Robert
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[ca 1940s-1950s]
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0.68 Cubic Feet ((1 legal document box) (1 slim legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0023
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of biographical material on Robert Gordon, papers authored by him and by colleagues on various aspects of rocket propulsion, and his associations with the American Rocket Society, the Aerojet Engineering Corporation and the University of California Department of Nuclear Engineering.
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Briggs, Ernest, 1923-
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circa 1900-2013
bulk 1940-1984
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2.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.brigerne
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter Ernest Briggs measure 2.4 linear feet and date from circa 1900-2013, bulk 1940-1983. The collection documents the life and career of this second generation abstract expressionist through biographical material; correspondence with artists and critics; writings and five diaries that chronicle the changing art world from 1950s-1970s; personal business records; printed material; and a significant amount of photographic material documenting the artist and his work.
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Olmstead, G. Dwoyid (Gilbert Dwoyid), 1914-1985
Williams, Sydney Olmstead
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ca. 1941-1949.
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 vertical boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0270
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains one hundred seventy eight (178) film photonegatives by G. Dwoyid Olmstead in 4 x 5 in. sheet and cut film and 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (#120) rollfilm sizes; the rollfilm negatives are cut apart into either individual frames or double image strips. Most of the photographs were taken in the early 1940s in the Hill District, Pittsbur...
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DeFeo, Jay, 1929-1989
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circa 1940s-1970s
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1.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.defejay
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of artist Jay DeFeo measure 1.3 linear feet and date from circa 1940s to circa 1970s. The collection documents her career through biographical material, correspondence with friends, personal business records, writings, printed material, artwork, and photographs.