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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
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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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Jack Robrecht Collection of Firefighting Photographs
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Robrecht, Jack
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1852 - 1983
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1.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1231
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains primarily photographs and postcards relating to firefighting. Many of the photographs are of firefighting vehicles and apparatus, both horse-drawn and gasoline-powered. The cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore are especially well documented, though other cities are represented, including Hamilton, Ohio; Camden, New Jersey; D...
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1886-1964
undated
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1.49 Cubic feet (consisting of 3 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Fires
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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: Fires and Firefighting 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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Republic Aviation Corporation
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bulk 1960s
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0.02 Cubic feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0027
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of thirty-one black and white three by four glass lantern slides and sixty film slides of Republic's work with Project Fire.
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Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Gibson, John Arthur, 1849-1912
Abram, Charles, Chief
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1917-1923
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7 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS539
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National Anthropological Archives
Onondaga text.
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Walter Kidde & Company
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bulk 1930-1950
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0.54 Cubic Feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0021
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 350 photographs, negatives, and illustrations, dating from the 1930s through the 1940s, from the Walter Kidde & Company archive. Subjects include Kidde fire suppression and air flotation systems, and military, commercial, and general aviation aircraft of the period. The collection also includes thirty-three...
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Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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undated
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11 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1487
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
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[ca. 1964]
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4 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lichroy
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Preliminary sketch for the painting "As I Opened Fire" [1964] and the comic strip on which it was based.
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Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924
Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897
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July 9, 1909
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5 Items (ca. 5 pages)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1691
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Also Story of the Meteor or Fire Dragon, by Gatschet, translated into Miami by J.P. Dunn.
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Fredette, Raymond H.
- Dates:
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bulk 1960s - 2000s
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3.4 Cubic feet ((10 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2015.0030
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 3.44 cubic feet of material pertaining to the book The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 by Raymond H. Fredette including correspondence; photographs and negatives; reference material; research notes; drafts and proofs; reviews; and business and financial records. There is extensive corres...