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Moore, Earl E.
Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Bowker, William
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1796.
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1 Item
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1213
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An application and recommendation for William Bowker as a "suitable person to keep an inn". Signed by 13 men.
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Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Larson, Mary E.
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1880-1990
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2 cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1464.2004.0005
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection relates to the Slover Family of puppeteers, and documents their lives and activities as they traveled the country with their show.
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Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Larson, Mary E.
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1880-1990
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2 Cubic Feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1464
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection relates to the Slover Family of puppeteers, and documents their lives and activities as they traveled the country with their show.
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Music, Sports and Entertainment, Division of, NMAH, SI
Tom's Hoard House
Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1889 and undated
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1138
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Advertising, postcards, trade cards, and stereographs, depicting African Americans in stereotypical or demeaning ways.
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Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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undated
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3 Cubic feet (photographs)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1292
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is currently unprocessed.
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World War One Theater Lantern Slides
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Culture and the Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1914-1925
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17 glass slides
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1294
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of seventeen glass lantern slides depicting World War I advertising and propaganda images. The images include clothing advertisements, home furnishings, local events, treasury and stamp savings, organizations such as the American Red Cross and Merchant Marines, and tips on rationing.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Culture and the Arts
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1976-2004, 2012
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-064
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Dwight Blocker Bowers, Curator, which document his activities in producing public programs for the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Earlier records date from when Bowers was public programs specialist, 1995-1997, and historian of theater and film, 1997-2012, in the Division of Cultural ...
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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
- Repository:
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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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Parker, Ann
Neal, Avon
Art in America
Ludwig, Saul
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1957-1959
1963
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0658
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is arranged in two series. Series 1: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALLAN LUDWIG, 1957-1959 408 photoprints with captions. The photos were originally divided into 6 volumes. These were then consolidated into 3 binders. The original 6 divisions have been maintained here. Each photograph has been numbered. The number corresponds to the "List of Ide...
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Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Rudy, Jerome
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20th century.
- Size:
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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.