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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
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1992-1993
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-046
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession contains an incomplete set of collecting cards produced by the company Club Pro Set in 1992-1993. The sets were separated by their assigned reading level: Gold - High School, Silver - Middle School, and Bronze - Elementary School. These cards were a licensed product and were produced through the Office of Product Development ...
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Merrie Spaeth Collection of Davy Crockett Trading Cards
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Spaeth, Merrie
Topps
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1956.
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0873
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One hundred sixty (160) cards, with color photographs of scenes from the Disney film "Davy Crockett" on one side, and a number, title, (such as "Bowie's Last Stand"), and a synopsis of the scene on the other side. The collection is divided into two series, the first series being the orange backed cards, which were issued first, and Series two cons...
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National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director
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1964-1973
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26.5 cu. ft. (53 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 197
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records are chiefly files of the Director's Office, 1964-1969, 1971-1972. During the earlier period a complicated subject-numeric system was in use. In 1971 a simpler subject-numeric plan was used and replaced before the end of that year by a straight alphabetic subject file, which is the current office filing system. A full history ...
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undated
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2004.0058
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of four cosmonaut trading cards, featuring individually the four Soviet members of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov, Commander of Soyuz 19; Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, flight engineer for Soyuz 19; and Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko and Nikolai Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov, back-up flight crew. Als...
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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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Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service
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circa 1984-2004
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11.69 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-135
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. The records are arranged by exhibition title, followed by the exhibition ID number and the dates of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies, ...
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McDermott, Joyce
Strickland, Lloyd A.
- Dates:
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1936
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0743
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Lloyd A. Strickland purchased these souvenir cards while attending the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany.
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Korda, Ronald S., -1996
Korda, Catherine
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1952-1996
- Size:
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57 Cubic feet (259 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0545
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sports and trading cards, 1952-1996, amassed by card collector Ronald S. Korda. The sports cards are subdivided by sport. Baseball cards, (1952-1996), comprise the vast majority of the sports cards, while football (1968-1996) and hockey (1968-1996) are the two next largest subseries. There are lesser quantities of cards for basketball, and only a few each for all other sports, such as racing, skiing, etc. Non-sports cards cover a large variety of popular culture topics, including motion pictures, television programs, popular music, toys, games, cars and trucks, comics, fantasy art, and many other subjects. Some ephemeral items are also included in the collection, such as sticker albums, posters and programs
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Steyskal, Beatrice Morgan
- Dates:
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circa 1955-1985
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1198
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of greeting cards with machine woven and handwoven fabric inserts. Also included among the materials are machine woven fabric bookmarks.
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Norcross, Arthur Dickinson, d. 1968
Tuck, Raphael, fl. 1880s
Norcross Greeting Card Company (New York (N.Y.))
Rust Craft Publishers (Boston, Mass.)
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1800-1981
bulk 1880-1881
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202 Cubic feet (179 boxes, 362 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0058
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collections consists of the records of both the Norcross Greeting Card Company founded in New York City in the 1920s and The Rust Craft Greeting Card Company, founded in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906. Both the Norcross and Rust Craft companies collected antique greeting cards. Also includes a small number of modern cards by other manufacturers, circa 1930-1980. Collection represents development of the greeting card industry, social trends in the United States and technology of the printing industry from 1924 through 1978.