Query: New York (N.Y.) -- Fashion -- 1930-1940
The California Shop Records
Creators:
California Shop.
Kemp, Helen Misch, 1894-1948 (store owner/manager)
Kemp, Barbara
Dates:
1938-1942
Size:
1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0572
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The records of the California Shop, a shop specializing in West Coast decorative arts located in New York City, New York.

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in NMAH.AC.0572 for New York (N.Y.) -- Fashion -- 1930-1940
Alexander Alland, Sr., Photoprints
Creators:
Ostroff, Eugene, d. 1999 (NMAH Curator)
Salo, Matt, Dr.
Haberstich, David E., 1941-
Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
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Dates:
1985 - 1986
1930 - 1943
Size:
0.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0204
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection contains 273 silver gelatin photoprints (Series 1), most of which apparently were made during the 1930s and early 1940s, contemporaneously with the original negatives. All are 8" x 10" or slightly smaller, unmounted except for flush mounted linen on the backs of some prints. The photographs were made primarily in two locations, New York …

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in NMAH.AC.0204 for New York (N.Y.) -- Fashion -- 1930-1940
Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair
Creators:
Orth, Edward J.
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
Dates:
1835-2000, undated
Size:
130 Cubic feet (417 boxes, 25 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0560
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection documents the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. Also includes material relating to other fairs, the Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (ECHO), New York City tourism and The Walt Disney Company.

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in NMAH.AC.0560 for New York (N.Y.) -- Fashion -- 1930-1940
Oral history interview with Gordon Parks
Creators:
Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
Doud, Richard Keith
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
Dates:
1964 Dec. 30
Size:
19 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.parks64
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Gordon Parks conducted 1964 Dec. 30, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art, in New York, N.Y.

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Wood and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor papers
Creators:
Gaylor, Wood, 1883-1957
Gaylor, Adelaide Lawson, 1889-1986
Artists Coordination Committee (New York, N.Y.)
Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
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Dates:
1866-[circa 1986]
Size:
2.56 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.gaylwood
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Biographical material, correspondence, journals, notebooks, address books, business records, writings, sketchbooks, exhibition announcements and catalogs, clippings, photographs, and subject files relating to the artistic careers of Wood Gaylor and Adelaide Lawson, to Gaylor's work as a fashion pattern desiger, and, more broadly, to the New York art scene from the …

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Gladys Reid Holton Ephemera Collection
Creators:
Holton, Gladys Reid, 1898- (museum curator)
Des Grange, Jane
Dates:
1800-1978
Size:
19 Cubic feet (50 boxes, 7 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0466
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A wide range of dated ephemeral material collected by Gladys Reid Holton covering the period circa 1800 to circa 1978.

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Oral history interview with James Lechay
Creators:
Lechay, James
Brown, Robert F.
Dates:
1998 July 9-Aug. 26
Size:
70 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.lechay98
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Interview of James Lechay, conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution at Lechay's home in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on July 9-Aug. 26, 1998.

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Oral history interview with Edith Gregor Halpert
Creators:
Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970
Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-
Dates:
1962-1963
Size:
436 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.halper62
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Edith Halpert conducted 1962-1963, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art.

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Larry Zim World's Fair Collection
Creators:
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Zim, Larry (Larry Zimmerman), 1931-1987
Dates:
1841-1988
Size:
46 Cubic feet (123 boxes and 150 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0519
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Memorabilia of fairs and World's Fairs throughout history, both in the United States and abroad, including photographs, stereographs, panoramas and slides; printed materials; postcards; sheet music; philatelic material; stationery and greeting cards; menus and food service items; posters; shopping bags; motion picture films; and other items.

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in NMAH.AC.0519 for New York (N.Y.) -- Fashion -- 1930-1940
Norcross Greeting Card Collection
Creators:
Norcross, Arthur Dickinson, d. 1968
Tuck, Raphael, fl. 1880s
Norcross Greeting Card Company (New York (N.Y.))
Rust Craft Publishers (Boston, Mass.)
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Dates:
1800-1981
bulk 1880-1881
Size:
1,200 Cubic feet (3,010 boxes, 362 volumes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0058
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collections consists of the records of both the Norcross Greeting Card Company founded in New York City in the 1920s and The Rust Craft Greeting Card Company, founded in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906. Both the Norcross and Rust Craft companies collected antique greeting cards. Also includes a small number of modern cards by other manufacturers, circa 1930-1980. Collection represents development of the greeting card industry, social trends in the United States and technology of the printing industry from 1924 through 1978.

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in NMAH.AC.0058 for New York (N.Y.) -- Fashion -- 1930-1940
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