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Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1928-1989
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3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
23 film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0801
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films, videos, tape recordings, and slides on fashion and clothing.
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Dorothy Shaver Papers
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Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Shaver, Dorothy, 1893-1959
Shaver, Elsie
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circa 1920-1959; undated
bulk 1945-1959
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14 sound recordings
32 cassette tapes
1 electronic discs (cd)
6 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0631
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Dorothy Shaver, one of the best-known female executives in the 1950s; Shaver became the first female president of Lord & Taylor in 1945.
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Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
J.B. Simpson, Inc.
Steen, Enoch
Steen, Richard (merchant)
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1888-1972
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1.6 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0206
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Enoch Steen was born in Norway in 1888. His family moved to the United States and settled in Minnesota in 1890. In 1913 he began working with Meyer & Company, a tailor-to-trade business in Chicago. This company had acquired the American Woolen Mills Company from Sears, Roebuck & Co. in 1900. Meyer & Company also sold clothes under the names of Paragon Tailoring Company and the Lincoln Trading Company. Steen's principal duties were sales and advertising.
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Hart, Schaffner and Marx.
Costume, Division of (NMAH, SI).
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1901-1955
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6 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0426
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection falls roughly into 4 parts. Series 1 is primarily composed of the company's history and its advertising, including a number of style books. The historical materials highlight the firm's importance in the men's clothing industry; the style books are a valuable record of styles in men's clothing during the first half of the 20th cent...
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National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Costume and Furnishings
- Dates:
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1972-1974
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 519
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records chiefly consist of curatorial responses to public inquiries. Included is correspondence from private collectors, museum curators, clothing manufacturers, college professors, historical associations, and individuals.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Costume
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1905-1992
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-185
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of curators Claudia Brush Kidwell and Anne Wood Murray documenting exhibition planning, development, and production in the Division of Costume, and when that Division was known as the Division of Costume and Furnishings and the Section of American Costume which, prior to 1969, was within the Division of ...
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National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Costume and Furnishings
- Dates:
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1974-1977
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-026
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence documenting the research and activities of the Division of Costume and Furnishings during the tenures of Rodris C. Roth, Curator, 1972- ; and Claudia Brush Kidwell, Assistant Curator, 1969-1974, and Associate Curator, 1974- . Materials include curatorial responses to public inquiries, mostly pertaining...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Social History
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1985-1996
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-028
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence documenting the research and activities of the Division of Social History, and its predecessor, the Division of Costume, during the tenure of Claudia Brush Kidwell, Curator, 1978- . Materials include curatorial responses to public inquiries, mostly pertaining to objects in the Museum collections or ...
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Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Rudy, Jerome
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20th century.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0809
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
20th century advertising hand fans. Most of the fans feature a vignette on one side and an advertisement on the reverse. The fans advertise various establishments and products, including funeral parlors, patent medicines, and food products.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Home and Community Life
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1893, 1915, 1964-2006
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-267
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Claudia Brush Kidwell and Anne Wood Murray documenting curatorial and professional activities in the Section of American Costume which, prior to 1969, was in the Division of Political History at the Museum of History and Technology; the Division of Costume and Furnishings; the Division of Costume; and ...