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Light, Ken
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1989 - 1993
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0.01 Linear feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-039
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from circa 1989 to 1993 and measures .01 linear feet, includes portraits of African Americans and depictions of African American religious life. The collection is comprised of photographic prints.
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lighting
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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circa 1833-1943
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2.9 Cubic feet (consisting of 5 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, 2 flat boxes (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Lighting
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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: Lighting 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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Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
- Dates:
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1889
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29 pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS468
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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Caldwell & Company.
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1894-[circa 1944]
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56,000 Photographs (Black and white photographs in albums)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CH.1995-79-1
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Smithsonian Libraries
This collection spans the years 1894-circa 1944 and contains approximately 56,000 black and white photographs. The photographs are mounted in 148 large (22"x18") and 93 small (12"x14") albums. About 5,000 are mounted individually. The images depict the full repertoire of Caldwell products. Since all of Caldwell's designs were custom made for each project, these photographs were used to illustrate all of the many designs for lighting they produced.
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General Electric Company
Gotti, Mary Beth
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
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circa 1890s-1969
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5 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0789
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the technology of lighting and various business aspects of the General Electric Lighting Division throughout the 20th century and consists of correspondence, bulletins, price lists, business record books, stock certificates, sales and advertising materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and lantern slides.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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2015
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-320
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two websites and a mobile website maintained by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory which operates the Chandra X-ray Observatory for the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Chandra X-ray Observatory website, crawled on May 29, 2015, includes information about the telescope and its ...
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Goodman, Mary Ellen, 1911-1969
Kennard, Edward A. (Edward Allan), 1907-1989
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undated
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317 Items (ca. pages ca. 317 pages)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7543
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
A collection of witty articles by anthropologists and scholars in related subjects.
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Hartford Electric Light Company.
Foster Wheeler Corporation
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Stone and Webster.
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1920 - 1961
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4 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0968
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Emmet Mercury Boiler Records contains information about General Electric Company and Hartford Electric Light Company's development, installation, and use of William Le Roy Emmet's mercury boiler units. The mercury boiler units used mercury fluid along with steam power to improve cycle efficiency in converting coal or oil to electric power. The collection contains articles, news clippings, reports, instruction manuals, log books, data sheets, photographs, and drawings related to the experimental unit installed at Dutch Point, Connecticut, and the first commercial use of a mercury boiler at the South Meadow Station in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs
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circa 1982-1988
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 90-018
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of videocassettes of training and educational programs. Programs in this accession include "Beyond the Ocean, Beneath the Leaf;" "Of Myths and Men: The American Presidency;" "Museum Careers;" "Museum Bracketmaker;" "Lights Beneath the Sea;" "Children in the Museum;" and "Docents on Tour." Also included are supplemental ...
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Brooklyn Edison Company
Hall, Gretchen T.
- Dates:
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1936
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0.15 Cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1237
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of newspaper clippings, a guidebook titled Edison Wonder House, and photographs documenting the Edison Wonder House, a demonstration home created by the Brooklyn Edison Company in 1936 to showcase the wonders of electricity.