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McPherson, Aimee Semple
Mack, Connie
Long, Huey
Lauder, Harry, Sir
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1925-1975
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0.6 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0409
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes over 200 replies (160 of which comprise the book) to Mrs. Moore's letter requesting a quotation or a bit of poetry important to the recipient; a copy of her book, "Famous Personalities and Their Philosophies," and materials relating to the speeches both Mrs. Moore and her daughter gave about this collection of letters, such as notes, clippings, etc.
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Archives Center Scrapbook Collection
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circa 1880s-2002
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13 Cubic feet (51 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0468
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of miscellaneous late nineteenth/early twentieth century scrapbooks containing postcards, trade cards, greeting cards, decals, and other ephemera.
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Browning, Bil
Davis, Jerame
Davis, Jerame Joe, 1975-
Browning, William Dale, 1972-
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1972-2015, undated
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3.15 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1334
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bil Browning and his husband, Jerame Davis were activists for LGBT issues, locally in Indiana as well as nationally in Washington, D.C.
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Pickens, Alton
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1943-1969
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0.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.pickalto
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Archives of American Art
Business and personal letters to Pickens (1943-69), notes and other papers relating to his art instruction (1950-53), art exhibition announcements (1955-56), financial records (1949-56), and four leftist political magazines from the 1940's, one of which contains some of Pickens' sketches. In addition, there are a few photographs of unknown subjects...
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Katz, Gloria
Huyck, Willard
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circa 1870s-circa 1900
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2.38 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A2015.05
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Contains photographic prints, in formats including albumen prints (many hand-colored), collotypes, gelatin silver prints. All images but one are of Japanese origin and depict Japanese people and scenes. The other image depicts a group of yogis in India.
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Johnson, Victor S., Sr., 1882-1943
Johnson, Victor, Jr., 1906-
Aladdin Industries, Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).
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1889-2003
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50 Cubic feet (120 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0844
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approximately 50 cubic feet of material documenting Aladdin Industries Inc., manufacturers of vacuum ware and lunch boxes. The majority of the material dates from 1947 to the 1970s. The strength of the collection is with the lunch box documentation and product development, marketing, and sales records. There is some int...
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Dodd, Sharon Donovan
Donovan, Christine
Donovan, James F. Jr., Dr.
Donovan, Marion (Marion O'Brien), 1917-1998 (inventor)
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1949-1999
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7 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 2 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0721
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, patents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and subject files about various inventors and ideas. Collection documents women inventors, American culture, 1950s-1970s, and products designed for women and the home. Donovan's papers offer a near complete invention record, including both successes and failures, as well as patent and trademark correspondence.
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Rosenthal, Tony, 1914-2009
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1954-1980
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7 Microfilm reels
- Collection ID:
- AAA.roseberm
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, biographical material, financial and legal papers, photographs, sketches, printed material and files on sculpture projects.
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Brown, Brian Ivan
Kearns, Robert W.
Kearns, Timothy
Quan, John
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1963 - 1999
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8.5 Cubic feet (24 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1406
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the inventive career of physicist and engineer Robert W. Kearns. Kearns invented and patented in 1967 the windshield wiper system with intermittent operation (US 3,351,836), among other inventions. The papers include notebooks, correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, patents, drawings, and trade literature.
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Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
Custom Craft
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1931-1971
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320 Boxes
The materials in the subseries are black and white silver gelatin negatives.
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0618.S04.02
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The vast majority of the negatives are individual portrait sittings but there are some family and group portraits. The box numbers in the finding aid are the old freezer box numbers and are not reflective of the physical number of boxes; when the negatives were rehoused, the physical number of boxes were reduced and the old freezer box numbers were...
