LCL Corporation Records
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Dyer, Randolph N., II
LCL Corporation.
- Dates:
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1927-ca. 1970.
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3.6 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1170
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists mostly of films and photographs on the subjects of freight and containerization, especially railroad containerization. The containerization of building materials is the subject of most of the photographs, especially cement.
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Lodge, Arthur
National Association of Manufacturers
Arthur Lodge Productions.
- Dates:
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1950 - 1959
- Size:
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42.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0507
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
INDUSTRY ON PARADE was a television series created by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) from 1950-1960. The series consisted of weekly episodes that highlighted American manufacturing and business. Hundreds of companies and products were documented during the programs decade-long run.
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Mundel, Marvin Everett, 1916-1996 (industrial engineer)
- Dates:
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1937-1996
- Size:
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15 Cubic feet (36 boxes)
75 motion picture films
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0676
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Marvin E. Mundel Industrial Engineering Collection contains correspondence, reports, data, notes, publications, books, charts, certificates, awards, writings, photographs, films and videos that document the life and career of Marvin Mundel, a well-known expert in the field of work management and productivity enhancement.
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Washington Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Steel Company
- Dates:
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1957-1966.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0730
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Motion picture films (16mm on reels, both color and black-and-white) documenting aspects of the steel industry, including manufacturing techniques and examination of the Washington Steel Corporation.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1942-1978
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39 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0684
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-nine 16mm films on various subjects relating to telephone systems and communications, such as pole worker safety; party line etiquette; the transition from silent film to sound film; and the application of satellites, lasers and transistors to sound communication.
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Perkins, James Secor
Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972
- Dates:
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1907-2000
bulk 1911-1924
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5 Cubic feet (19 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0803
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of glass plate slides (negative and positive), photo prints, and stereographs documenting the work undertaken by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth from 1910 to 1924 in the fields of motion study, shop efficiency, and factory organization. Also included are slides dcoumenting the Gilbreth Family, their travels, residences, and friends. The collection also contains the film "The Original Films of Gilbreth The Quest for the One Best Way," 1968 by James S. Perkins.
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Rice, Robert B., 1900-1976
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1936-1945
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet
15 motion picture films (black and white, sound)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0308
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Films depict U.S. Navy personnel carrying out maintenance and repair operations on diesel engines. The films were made under the supervision of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics for Bureau of Ships. 400-500 feet in length, with a voice-over commentary on technical aspects of the work on Bessemer, General Motors, and International diesel engines.
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Acebes, Hector R.
- Dates:
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1949-1953
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206 photographic prints ((2 boxes), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
130 slides (photographs) ((1 vol), color)
23 photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2000-009
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographic images taken by Hector R. Acebes from 1949 to 1953 throughout many countries to include Mali, Tanzania and Morocco.
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American Petroleum Institute.
- Dates:
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1860s-1980s
bulk 1955-1990
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45 Cubic feet (122 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0711
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes historic photographs, slides and films on subjects relating to all aspects of the petroleum industry, including exploration, drilling, refineries, tankers, pipelines, automobiles, trucks, aviation, refueling, buildings, coal, gasification, plants, mining, surface mining, fields, land reclamation, coastal zone management, corporate public service, educational programs, crude oil, deepwater ports, and watercraft It also documents numerous products other than gasoline produced by the petroleum industry, such as propane, lubricants, heating oil, and plastics.
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National Cotton Council
- Dates:
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circa 1945-1999, undated
- Size:
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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.