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1969 - 2001
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0.75 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-099
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
These records include documents relating to Nancy Shia's service from 1982-1984 as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner of the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC. Materials include correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, annual reports, grant proposals, newspaper clippings, and political fliers. Also contained in the collection are ...
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Weissinger (Harry) Tobacco Co.
King, Marian
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circa 1933-1945
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0850
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily unmounted photographs, plus an illustrated souvenir tourist book on Washington, "Washington Album" (ca. 1890), and a text-only anti-trust broadside. The most interesting group is a set of 5 photoprints related to the Boston Globe newspaper, especially several which illustrate the practice of displaying handwritten newspaper headlines for ...
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The Weekly News, (Anacostia [i.e. Washington] D.C.)
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1909
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1.6 Linear feet (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-012.4
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection of The Weekly News newspaper spans from August 7, 1909 to December 11, 1909, and measures 1.6 linear feet. The Washington, DC-based paper was "Devoted to the East Section of the Anacostia River," with the stated motto of "A Paper in Every Home." The Weekly reported on church news and society events, contained advertisements for neighborhood businesses, and listed places of interest, such as the Frederick Douglass Home and the Fort Stanton Civil War Fort.
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Hamilton, Garnette
Jackson, Rose Marie
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1957-1987.
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0273
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The material consists of newspaper articles, photographs, pamphlets, souvenirs, and newsletters on Hamilton's reign as Queen of the Hoboes as well as a brief history of the Hoboes of America Organization from 1908 1987. Among such items are newspaper articles on Garnette Hamilton herself, Hoboes of America's motto, accomplishments, responsibilitie...
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Coca, Imogene
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1879-2008
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7.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 4 framed items, 12 accordion folders, two loose stacks)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1479
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and career of comedian Imogene Coca.
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1965-1969
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1.43 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0068
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection documents William "Pat" Patterson's aviation career with United Air Lines.
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1965-1991
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3.5 Linear feet (1 box; 1 OV poster)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-100
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Sammie Abbott Collection of the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC) ephemera dates from 1965 to 1991 and measures 3.5 linear feet. The collection documents Abbott's role within the committee which successfully opposed the construction of the North-Central Freeway within Washington, DC and Takoma Park, Maryland. Materials include...
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Adler, Charles, Jr., 1899-1980 (engineer, inventor)
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1899 - 1980
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6 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0351
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains correspondence, news clippings, photographs, patents, and printed materials documenting the inventive career of Charles Adler, Jr. Adler is best known for his development of the first traffic actuated signal light in 1928.
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circa 1880s-2002
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13 Cubic feet (51 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0468
- Repository:
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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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Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Zinn, Manfredo
Marx, Dick
Nunez, Raul
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1926-1988
- Size:
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17.4 Cubic feet (86 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0198
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Marlboro Oral History and Documentation Project is the result of a two-year effort supported in part by a gift from Philip Morris, Inc. Sixty oral history interviews and a variety of television commercials, print advertising, promotional materials, packaging, and industry publications were gathered to document Marlboro cigarette advertising. T...
