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Lyon, Lucius, 1800-1851
Moore, Hiram
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1835-1932
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0.15 Cubic Feet (1 tray)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1429
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Hiram Moore's invention of a harvesting machine.
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Steel, R. Wallace
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1864-1903
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2 Cubic Feet (1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1449
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents railroad engineer R. Wallace Steel and his work with railroads, primarily in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Hereford, John W.
- Dates:
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1827
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0066
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Letter, September 5, 1827, by Hereford, Meridianville, Madison County, Alabama, to his father in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It describes his family's journey from Virginia to Alabama with stops in several counties of Tennessee looking for places to settle, and visiting relatives.
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Came, Charles, 1806-1881
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1838-1979
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0.25 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0661
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approximately .25 cubic feet of correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, and books documenting Charles Came. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from Charles Came to his second wife, Cynthia (Chadwick) Came which were written during his travels throughout upstate New York. The correspondence is not incl...
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Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Sharpe, Weiss and Company
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1856-1889
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4.75 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0399
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Invoices and letters from merchants and manufacturers with whom Sharpe, Weiss and Company, and their successors, did business; and two reels of microfilm of Sharpe and Weiss's account books.
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Anderson, Poul
Kallesoe, Line
Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1866
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 folder; 2 letters, 27.5 cm. x 22 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0042
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two letters from Line Kallesoe, a Danish immigrant in Philadelphia, to her sister Emma in Denmark, discuss Line and her children's poverty after the death of her husband.
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Turrell, Orlando B.
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
Caldwell, Edwin
Camby, Henry B.
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1817-1889
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0135
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Letters and memoranda written by Ludington family members to George Ludington, cashier of the Bank of Kent, Ludingtonville, New York.
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Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers
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MacDowell, Helen Sandford, 1889-
Pease, L.F.
Prince, Georgiana K., 1861-1915
Sandford Greeting Card Company
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1831-2004
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8 Cubic Feet (37 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1252
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the business activities of the Sandford Card Company and include the papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford, founder of the company, and her immediate family.
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Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Land, Charles H., 1847-1922
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
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1860-1957
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0834
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents inventor and dentist Charles H. Land and consists of correspondence, financial records, patent records, articles, printed material, writings, sermons and photographs.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Moffat, Reuben
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1852
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1101
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents personal correspondence between Reuben Moffat and his father, John Little Moffat. The materials consist primarily of letters written during the year 1852 and detail Reuben Moffat's attempts to obtain a patent for his electric gold washer and magnetic separator invention.