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Primack, Phil
- Dates:
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1978-1983, undated
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1497
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black and white photographs, photographic negatives, contact sheets, color slides, and ephemera documenting selected New England country fairs, photographed and collected by Phil Primack.
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Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair
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Orth, Edward J.
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
- Dates:
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1835-2000, undated
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130 Cubic feet (417 boxes, 25 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0560
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. Also includes material relating to other fairs, the Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (ECHO), New York City tourism and The Walt Disney Company.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1857-1961
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0.57 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 2 map case folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Fairs
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Fairs forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Collier, Nina Perera
- Dates:
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1934-1950
- Size:
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1,500 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.collnina
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence and records regarding the Index of American Design, Federal Art Project, Federal Recreation Project, National Symphony Orchestra Summer Concerts, Washington Summer Concerts Association; New York World's Fair, National Fact Finders Exhibition, Federal Writer's Project, Federal Music Project, Federal Theater Project, and the movement f...
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Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
- Dates:
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1939-1948
- Size:
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1 Reel (ca. 280 items (on 1 microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.smitmarg
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence; writings, speeches and notes; clippings and other printed material; a list of requisitions for interior decoration; sketches; correspondence of Emerson J. Griffith, State Administrator for Oregon's Works Progress Administration; lyrics of George Natanson's song "Hail to Timberline"; and photographs of Griffith and Floyd Dell at Timb...
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Meyerson, Daniel H.
- Dates:
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1915-2000
undated
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16 Cubic feet (43 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0745
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily documents through press releases, news bulletins, guidebooks, souvenirs, maps, ephemera and related publications world's fairs occurring after 1960.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Zim, Larry (Larry Zimmerman), 1931-1987
- Dates:
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1841-1988
- Size:
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46 Cubic feet (123 boxes and 150 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0519
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Memorabilia of fairs and World's Fairs throughout history, both in the United States and abroad, including photographs, stereographs, panoramas and slides; printed materials; postcards; sheet music; philatelic material; stationery and greeting cards; menus and food service items; posters; shopping bags; motion picture films; and other items.
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Gregory, John, 1879-1958
- Dates:
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1924-1966
- Size:
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0.2 Linear feet ((55 items))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.gregjohn
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, legal agreements, financial statements, and photographs of works related to several of Gregory's sculpture commissions, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., the Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C., the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, and Fairmont Park, Pennsylvania...
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Centennial Photographic Co.
Roth, Rodris
Myers, Susan H.
- Dates:
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circa 1862-1920
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0725
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Hundreds of stereographs and other photographic imagery, especially a large number of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; other subjects include: the World's Columbian Exhibition (1893); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Great Sanitary Fair; a large number on Massachusetts, including a set of images from Old Sturbridge; buildings and scenery; miscellaneous other subjects.
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Kirkpatrick, James J, 1922-2008
- Dates:
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1943-1946
- Size:
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0.23 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2012.0006
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of eighty color 35 mm slides taken by 1st Lt. James J. Kirkpatrick, U. S. Army Air Forces, during his World War II service in the Pacific Theater. The collection also contains Kirkpatrick's pilot log (1943-1946) and five copy prints of Kirkpatrick and the aircraft he flew, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain and a Curtiss C-46 Commando.
