Gold Bond-Good Humor Collection
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Good Humor Corporation.
- Dates:
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1927 - 1991
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0451
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographs related to the Good Humor Company and its products, game shows using Good Humor products, and celebrities (such as Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower) eating Good Humor products. There are also articles about Good Humor, product catalogs, training manuals, cartoons, brochures, decals, and samples of product packaging...
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Kovan, Florice Whyte
Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)
- Dates:
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1942-1948, 1991-1993
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0503
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes 7 VHS videotapes and 1 audio tape produced by Florice Whyte Kovan, containing interviews and recollections by some band members. Studio portraits and snapshot photographs in 3 scrapbooks, which also contain display advertisements and newspaper clippings from about the band, 1940s. Snapshots include documentation of the band's travels and l...
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Brown and Williamson.
Johnson, Virgil
American Tobacco Company.
Benson and Hedges.
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circa 1890-1997
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25 Cubic feet (26 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0645
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
As a teenager, Virgil Johnson [b.1918] became interested in the designs and symbols on cigarette packs like "Black Cat" and "White Roll", and he began actively collecting in the 1930s. His interest intensified during the 1940s when he was stationed in North Africa and across the Mediterranean region as a photographer with the U.S. Navy. Mr. Johnson collected cigarette packs for over fifty years, and was a member of the Cigarette Pack Collector's Association. Approximately 6000 cigarette packages, foreign and American, arranged in 24 albums. Manufacturers include names such as those shown below.
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United States. War Production Board.
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Garfield & Co.
- Dates:
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1909-1969
- Size:
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15 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 11 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0820
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Garfield and Company, a pharmaceutical manufacturer in New Jersey during the twentieth century. Garfield and Company, founded by Isidor Z. Garfield (1863-1951), made Seidlitz Powder, a commonly known medication composed of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium sodium tartrate that was used as a mild cathartic by dissolving it in water and then drinking it. Materials include customer files, invoices, correspondence, advertising and packaging materials, calendars, posters, financial records, and an oral and video history with Julius Garfield, son of Isidor Z. Garfield.
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Grepke, Donald, 1932-
Grepke, Carolyn, 1937-1995
- Dates:
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circa 1880-1998
- Size:
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70 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0752
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of paper dolls dating from circa 1880 to 1998.
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Ashley, Burton E., 1908-
- Dates:
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1930-1952
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665 negatives (photographic) (black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
520 negatives (photographic) (duplicate negatives; black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
10 postcards (black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
157 slides (photographs) (color)
338 photographic prints (+ contact prints , black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
1 photographic print ((panograph), black & white, 6.3 x 20 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1979-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The photographs are cityscapes and landscapes taken by Burton E. Ashley in Egypt, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia during the early 1930s and early 1950s. The images include views of Cape Town, South Africa; Cairo, Egypt; Port Said, Egypt, and Mozambique. Architecture depicted includes buildings in Tanzania, a mission in Zambia and the Mohammed Ali Mosque in Cairo. Additionally, there are images of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and rivers and waterfalls including the Luangwa, Nile, Zambezi and Victoria Falls. The collection also includes photos of animals, geological features and vegetation.
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Binney & Smith, Inc.
- Dates:
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1897-1998
- Size:
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24 Cubic feet (64 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0624
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Binney & Smith, Inc. creators and manufacturers of Crayola crayons. Includes documentation on 20th century advertising, commercial packaging, commercial imagery, and retail merchandising: newsletters, annual reports, research and development records, color charts, advertising materials, and product information, including catalogs and price lists.
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Eskimo Pie Corporation.
Nelson, Christian Kent, 1893-1992
- Dates:
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1921-1996
- Size:
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15 Cubic feet (31 boxes, 19 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0553
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed advertisements, photographs (including negatives and slides), sales presentation materials and packaging; patent and legal information, clippings, posters, scripts for radio commercials, sheet music for jingles, etc. Also includes personal papers (correspondence) of Christian Nelson, inventor of the Eskimo Pie.
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Landor Associates
Landor, Walter
- Dates:
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circa 1930-1994
- Size:
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146 Cubic Feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0500
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the career of designer Walter Landor and the significant body of commercial imagery and packaging produced by Landor Associates design firm. Contains corporate and business records of Landor Associates, personal papers of Landor, oral history interviews, films, videotapes, and other audiovisual resources.
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Steinberg, Sally L. (Sally Levitt)
- Dates:
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1920s-1987
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0439
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of ephemeral materials gathered by Sally L. Steinberg while she was researching her 1987 publication, The Donut Book: The origins, history, literature, lore, taste, etiquette, traditions, techniques, varieties, mathematics, mythology, commerce, philosophy, cuisine, and glory of the donut.