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Whitman Chocolates
- Dates:
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1878 - 1954
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0437
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials trace the evolution of product packaging and advertising of Whitman's Chocolates. Includes business records and photographs of early product displays.
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1920 - 2016
undated
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2 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 2 oversize map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1430
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and musical career of Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros.
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Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company Records and Blumenthal Family Papers
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Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Blumenthal, M.L.
Blumenthal, Joseph
Blumenthal, Barbara B.
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1856-2010
bulk 1900-1969
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1344
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records from Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company, manufacturers of chocolate and cocoa products, including well-known candies such as Snocaps, Raisinets, and Goobers. They were located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company was sold to Ward Foods Incorporated in 1969. This collection also includes material collected by and about the Blumenthal family and from M.L. Blumenthal, noted illustrator of the early 20th century.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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circa 1800-1964
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0.98 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Cocoa
- 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: Cocoa and Chocolate 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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Amos, Christine
Amos, Wally
Famous Amos Cookie Company
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1975-1996
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7 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0112
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Famous Amos Collection consists primarily of business records, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting the career and life of Wally Famous Amos and the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie company he created.
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Eskimo Pie Corporation.
Nelson, Christian Kent, 1893-1992
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1921-1996
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15 Cubic feet (31 boxes, 19 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0553
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed advertisements, photographs (including negatives and slides), sales presentation materials and packaging; patent and legal information, clippings, posters, scripts for radio commercials, sheet music for jingles, etc. Also includes personal papers (correspondence) of Christian Nelson, inventor of the Eskimo Pie.
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Cummings, Steven M.
- Dates:
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1993-2005
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0.06 Linear feet (1 oversize folder)
11 Photographic prints (Gelatin silver., 16 x 16 inches)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-043
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from 1993-2005, contains 11 gelatin silver photographic prints by Steven M. Cummings. The images depict mostly African-American men in scenes of daily life in the Washington, D.C. area.
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1880-1940
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0.02 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.288
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection consists of 11 chromolithograph trading and advertising cards dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Images depict Native individuals and groups throughout North America, but tend to focus specifically on Northeast, Great Lakes, and Plains communities.
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circa 1899-1955
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126 chromolithographs (126 trade cards (13 sets))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-005
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection consists of 126 chromolithographic trade cards (13 sets) published by the Leibig Company between 1899 and 1955. These trade cards were included with products sold in Europe, such as chicken soup and chocolate. The cards focus on African art and material culture and showcase distinctive ethnic types, artistic and craft traditions, cultural performance, dress/costume and leadership. Sets include In Transvaal, In Abyssinia, Scenes of Africa, In East Africa I, Madagascar, In East Africa II, Life Among the Congolese People, Wild Animals of the Congo, The Italian Empire, Congolese Craftsmanship, Hunting and Fishing in the Belgian Congo, Peoples of the Belgian Congo, and History of the Belgian Congo I-III. Captions on the cards appear in French, Italian and German.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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1793-1967
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1.92 Cubic feet (consisting of 4 boxes, 1 folder, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Coffee
- 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: Coffee 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