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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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Manochio, Dennis
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ca. 1920s-1940s.
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 Boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0533
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Fireworks packaging, labels, wrappers and boxes. Many of the labels contain illustrations and logos with ethnic imagery, often stereotypical, and a variety of other subjects.
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Smith, B. Thomas, Jr.
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undated
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1409
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of posters advertising minstrel shows. The posters feature stereotypical images of black characters.
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Strohmeyer & Wyman
Young, R.Y.
Underwood & Underwood
American Stereoscopic Co.
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circa 1893-1904
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0402
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is composed of two series: (1) 22 stereographs by several publishers, many of which relate to or were actually printed from negatives in the Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection; and (2) a pamphlet. The fourth group of cards illustrates certain aspects of how stereographs were used by various companies, including two...
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Hoffman/Boaz Postcard Collection
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Boaz, Joyce
Hoffman, David
Hoffman, Iris
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1898-1920
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0281
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents both negative and positive images of African Americans, primarily on postcards, as drawings, cartoons, and similar art forms collected mostly during the Civil Rights Movement in America.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1827-1985
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26 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S13
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 13, Agriculture, Business, and Law contains approximately 3,300 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards business, commerce, farming and food, finances, labor, law, and social order in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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CIGNA
Seymour, Frank
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1852 - 1957
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1232
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents firefighting and fires in American history through newspaper and magazine illustrations, ephemera, and photographs. The emphasis is on large urban fires (New York City and Chicago) and industrial fires in the northeastern United States. There are some illustrations of cartoons, rescues, poems, fires on ships and clippings about great floods in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1708-1977
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1,150 Cubic feet (approximately. Series 1 contains approximately 1108 cubic feet consisting of approximately 2050 boxes, approximately 326 oversize boxes, and map case material. Additional material in Series 2-4 is unquantified. With also, some digital images of select collection materials.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Warshaw Collection consists of approximately 1,150 cubic feet of material currently contained in approximately 2,050 vertical document boxes, approximately 326 flat oversize boxes, 34 map case drawers of oversize materials, 56 volumes of photographic photo prints, 17 boxes of 4 x 5 color transparencies and black and white photonegatives, 11 box...
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Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
Rangeloff, Evan
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circa 1910-1991
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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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Valadez, John, 1951-
Rangel, Jeffrey J.
- Dates:
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1996 November 25-1997 May 12
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159 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.valade96
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of John Valadez conducted 1996 November 25-1997 May 12, by Jeffrey Rangel, in Valadez's studio, Los Angeles, California, for the Archives of American Art.
