Mortimer Spiller Company Records
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Spiller, Mortimer
Spiller, Harley
Mortimer Spiller Company
- Dates:
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1954 - 1989
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2.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1387
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the Spiller Company's work in developing print advertising and advertising novelties such as advertisements placed on balloons, blotters, clipboards, calendars, hats, etc. Many of the products they developed advertisements for were toys and novelties. The collection includes design drawings, a notebook, business records, co...
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Kennedy, Anne Judd
Stewart, Rex (William), Jr., 1907-1967 (cornetist)
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1958-1967
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4 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0506
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twenty audiotapes of interviews Kennedy conducted with Rex Stewart, in addition to documentary material such as correspondence and clippings.
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Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
- Dates:
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1949 - 1996
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1398
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes advertising materials for Crown Central's credit card and credit check programs, for gifts (cameras, kitchenware) offered by its service station to repeat customers; a set of posters and a design drawing for them, exhorting drivers to drive safely, featuring images of governors of states, President Dwight Eisenhower, FBI Dir...
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DePasquale, Dolores
Ventura, Charlie, 1916-1992
- Dates:
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19XX
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1308
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and career of jazz saxophonist Charlie Ventura.
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SpectraMetrics (Burlington, Massachusetts)
Elliott Laboratories (Andover, Massachusetts)
Elliott, William G., 1932-2014
Elliott, Mark
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circa 1958-1988
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6.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1361
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Elliott's work in developing the SpectraSpan Spectrometer and related technologies including the use of echelle gratings and argon plasmas with the spectrometer. It also documents his companies, SpectraMetrics, and Elliott Laboratories. The collection contains correspondence; photographs, including lantern slides; business ...
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Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
Hashimoto, Kazuo
Kilby, Jack
Hashimoto Corporation
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1954-1994.
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2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0874
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of material documenting early telephone answering devices.
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International Standards Organization (ISO).
Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Bemer, Robert M.
- Dates:
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1958-1979
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4.6 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0310
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, reports, publications, meeting minutes, and bulletins of standards committees relating to ALGOL, COBOL, and the International Standards Organization (ISO) subcommittee on character sets (ANSI X3L2). The ALGOL records include correspondence to the ALGOL Maintenance Subcommittee (Association for Computing Machinery) and information a...
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Whaley, Thomas L.
- Dates:
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1941-1979
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1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0652
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Whaley's association with Duke Ellington and his career as a copyist, pianist, composer and arranger. The collection includes letters, photographs, music manuscripts, business records, writings, and printed materials including magazine and newspapers articles, concert programs, and catalogs.
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Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
Rangeloff, Evan
- Dates:
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circa 1910-1991
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0716
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes thirty-eight punchboards, all unpunched and in very good to excellent condition, and featuring a range of products and imagery. The collection also includes two punchboard manufacturers' catalogs from the 1940s, which detail the money-making opportunities for jobbers and retailers. The collection also contains corresponde...
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Servodyne Corporation
Gunnarson, John
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1955-1971
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0839
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Servodyne Company attempted to develop a prototype of the household microwave. The business records cover the operations and meetings of the company, as well as the corporation's financial troubles and liquidation following its bankruptcy in 1968. Also included are design details and photographs of the ovens.