Elmer Gates Papers
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Gates, Elmer, 1859-1923
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1894-1988
bulk 1894-1910
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1.5 Cubic Feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1123
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document the life of Elmer Gates (1859-1923), an independent American inventor and psychologist. Gates developed ideas related to experimental psychology and inventions in fields such as metallurgy, electricity, microscopy, X-rays, and pedagogy. Papers include correspondence, photographs, patents, articles and clippings, writings, and estate documents.
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Souther, John
Globe Iron Works (Boston, Massachusetts)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1867-1918
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0.3 Cubic Feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0953
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents entrepreneur and inventor John Souther and his manufacturing companies Globe Works and American Steam Locomotive. Much of the collection consists of documentation and correspondence related to Globe Works' legal affairs.
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Gilman, Georgiana Sandford, 1887-1982
MacDowell, Helen Sandford, 1889-
Pease, L.F.
Prince, Georgiana K., 1861-1915
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1831-2004
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8 cubic feet (37 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1252
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the business activities of the Sandford Card Company primarily in the early part of the century. It includes product designs and samples; advertising and marketing materials, as well as, correspondence and financial papers. In addition, there are the papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford, founder of the company, and her immedia...
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Barden, Henry, 1806-1871
Barden, William Wallace, 1843-1932
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1842-1934
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3 Cubic Feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0824
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business correspondence of homeopathic physicians Henry Barden and his son, William Wallace Barden, of Penn Yan, New York and Barden Family correspondence.
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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
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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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Spillman Engineering Corporation
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Misklea, M. Francis
Allan Herschell Co.
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1879-1956.
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2 Cubic Feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0665
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous documents, catalogs, scrapbooks, photographs and printed material relating to the carousels and other amusement park rides of the Allan Herschell Company (which earlier in its existence was called the Herschell-Spillman Company and the Spillman Engineerng Corporation).
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Came, Charles, 1806-1881
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1838-1979.
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0.25 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0661
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous items relating to Came, including a photograph of Came and another of his wife; letters from Came, primarily photocopies, but with a few originals, mostly to his wife and children; and publications: including pamphlets on electricity, books on medicine and phrenology, and one on marriage; also several recent articles about Came; and h...
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI (National Museum of American History)
Maryland. Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State
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ca. 1740-1965.
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0.33 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0114
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
18th, 19th, and 20th century material deposited with the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, chiefly relating to the practice of medicine in the state. Includes correspondence, papers, certificates, diplomas, patents, maps, notebooks, clippings, prescriptions, pamphlets, photocopies of documents, scrapbooks, photographs, and p...
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Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Marton, Ladislaus Laszlo, 1901-1979 (physicist)
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1932 - 1970
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4.66 Cubic Feet (14 boxes, one (1) 16 mm film)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0100
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of materials documenting the history of electron optics, especially electron microscopes. Included are engineering drawings of Marton's devices, designed in Belgium, Stanford and RCA in the 1930s and 1940s; notebooks concerning extensive investigations in electron microscopy; photographs and micrographs concerning developm...
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Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Land, Charles H., 1847-1922
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
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1860-1957
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0.5 Cubic Feet (1 box, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0834
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents inventor and dentist Charles H. Land and consists of correspondence, financial records, patent records, articles, printed material, writings, sermons and photographs.