Ward's Garage Records
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- Creators:
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Ward, Frank Elmo, 1912-1964
- Dates:
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1929-1965
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0783
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A very complete collection of records of a "Mom and Pop" rural service station in the post-World War II era. Includes papers illustrating the day-to-day operations of the garage, such as financial records, ledgers, and property records. Also included are personal papers, such as a diploma and letters; and photographs, both personal and of the business.
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American-Moninger Greenhouse Manufacturing Co.
- Dates:
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1923-1964
- Size:
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8 Cubic feet (306 architectural plans and drawings.)
The majority of plans are on tracing paper, though there are also some reprographic prints and drawings on tracing cloth.
- Collection ID:
- AAG.MON
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The American-Moninger Greenhouse Manufacturing Corporation Collection includes 306 architectural plans and drawings of greenhouses, solariums, conservatories, garages, and other structures designed by American-Moninger for clients throughout the United States dating from 1923 to 1964.
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- Dates:
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circa 1970s
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2 Items (reproductions , 28 x 21inches)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.2005.7014
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Two signed reproductions of John Robinson's original artwork "Pete" and "Winter Scene." Inscriptions read: "To friend Mr. John Kinard."
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Hampton, James, 1909-1964
- Dates:
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circa 1950-1964
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1 Microfilm reel (71 items on partial microfilm reel)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hampjame
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This microfilm collection contains writings by African American self-taught artist James Hapton in an unknown script. These writings are sometimes accompanied by notes in English, quotations from the Bible, or the word "Revelation." The writings are on loose leaf paper, in a 108-page notebook entitled "St. James: The Book of the 7 Dispensation," an...
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Smithsonian Institution. Business Management Office
- Dates:
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1972-1981
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 84-028
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of memoranda, correspondence, newspaper articles and contracts relating to Colonial Parking (National Air and Space Museum garage); Smithsonian Institution guidebooks, and material on American Bicentennial programs.
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JW Labs (Raleigh, North Carolina).
Katchian, Sonia
- Dates:
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1995
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6 Cubic feet (23 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0793
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
23 color Cibachrome photoprints: portraits of farmers at the Carrboro Farmer's Market, Carrboro, North Carolina. Portraits made 1994 in a garage studio setup near the market, prints by JW Labs, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Call Carl, Inc.
- Dates:
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1914-1975
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box, 2 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1474
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival material, including advertising and business records from the "Call Carl" chain of Washington, DC, automotive service stations. The collection includes photographs of Washington, DC streets in the years before automobiles; photographs of the building exterior; photographs of the interior, including employees at work in the garages as well...
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Frito Company
- Dates:
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1898-2009, undated
- Size:
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4 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1263
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the history and business activities of Frito-Lay, Incorporated and the Doolin family, creators of the company. Materials consist primarily of correspondence, photographs, financial papers, scrapbooks, product packaging, advertisements, company newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and magazine articles.
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- Creators:
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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undated
1846-1936
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (consisting of 1.25 boxes, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Doors
- 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: Doors 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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- Creators:
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Foundation Company (The).
- Dates:
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1887-1969
- Size:
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9 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 28 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0974
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records include sketches, drawings, blueprints, contracts, and reports relating to highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, subways, mine shafts, canals and waterways, dams, concrete buildings, concrete construction, derricks and derrick barges, cranes, caissons and caisson construction, air locks, pumps, jacks, engines, and turbines; also phot...
