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Marimekko, Inc.
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1951-1979
bulk 1957-1979
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8.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CH.1997-123-1
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Libraries
This collection covers the period that Ratia was with Marimekko, 1951-1979.It includes scrapbook, press releases, correspondence, brochures, photographs, magazine articles, swatches, and trade catalogs. It contains extensive information about the company's affiliation with D/R and its operations in Finland. It includes a copy of "Phenomenon Marimekko," the catalog from a comprehensive exhibition that was held at the Museum of Applied Arts in Helsinki in 1986. The collection contains legal correspondence and contracts pertaining to D/R's representation of Marimekko in the United States, as well as numerous swatches, sample books, brochures for stockholders, and trade catalogs. Files pertaining to Marimekko's work in Finland is mostly in Finnish and consists of brochures, posters, articles, and sample books, as well as a copy of the publication, "Design in Finland 1983."Additional information on Marimekko's association with D/R can be found in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Archive's Design Research, Inc. Collection.
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John Burbidge and Cile Bellefleur-Burbidge Wedding Design Collection
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Bellefleur-Burbidge, Cile
Priscilla of Boston.
Burbidge, John (costume designer)
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1951-2006
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1.6 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0562
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes Burbidge's design drawings for wedding gowns while employed by the Priscilla of Boston firm, and scrapbooks documenting Cile Bellefleur-Burbidge's wedding cakes.
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
- Dates:
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2012 September 25
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1301
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes DVDs and a program from the Lemelson Center's presentation: The Color Revolution. The Color Revolution traces the relationship of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design, describing the often unrecognized role of the color professional in comsumer culture. The program features Regina ...
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Kidder, Priscilla C. (costume designer)
Priscilla of Boston.
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1940-1996
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4 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0557
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection includes letters, sketches, style books, publicity photographs, tearsheets, articles and clippings, scrapbooks, and business documents relating to Priscilla Kidder, the Priscilla of Boston Company, and the American wedding industry. This collection is extraordinarily useful in documenting the development of wedding fashion during the last half of the 20th century. It also illustrates how a small, family-owned, woman-run business grew into a large, nationally known operation.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1787-1964
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1.45 Cubic feet (consisting of 3 boxes, 2 folders, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Women
- 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: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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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Sun, Ming-ju
Sun, Ming-ju
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undated
circa 1972-2002
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2 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0897
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Fashion drawings and the photographic work of Ming-Ju Sun while as an employee of Garfinckel's Department Store and as an independent artist.
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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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National Cotton Council
- Dates:
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circa 1945-1999, undated
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28 Cubic feet (48 boxes)
224 motion picture films
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1177
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primaily of photographs and films created by the National Cotton Council (NCC) to document cotton production and use and to support the advocacy and educational work of the organization.
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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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Magnin, Ellen Newman
Magnin (Joseph) Stores
Magnin, Donald
Brader-Ashley, Betty, 1924-1986
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1963-1968
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0355
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
103 illustrated advertisements, posters, and store decorations: 51 color, 52 black and white.