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Janssen Piano Company.
- Dates:
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1901-1929
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0512
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is composed of six scrapbooks assembled by the Janssen Piano Company of New York. These contain clippings on manufacturing, piano models, and marketing techniques, as well as company-sponsored outings and picnics. Also includes brochures--listing names of Janssen Piano owners in various geographic areas--used as a marketing device.
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1861-1994
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76 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1136
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents various aspects of railroad companies through pamphlets; trade catalogs; operating and service manuals, especially for railroad equipment; specifications; magazines and reprints; bulletins, and articles.
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Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the World's Fair
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Orth, Edward J.
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
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1900 - 1989
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130 Cubic feet (417 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0560
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. Also includes materials on other world's fairs, the Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (ECHO), New York City tourism and Disney.
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
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1976-2000
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12 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-117
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the installation, development, and publicity of exhibitions and visitor response to those exhibitions. Materials include installation photographs, object lists, label copy, scripts, press releases, memoranda, correspondence, and visitor comment books. An exhibitions list is found at the front ...
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of Public Affairs
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1981-1989
- Size:
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-102
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document exhibitions and events at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG). Materials include press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, invitations to openings, correspondence and memoranda, and clippings from other publications where exhibitions were featured.
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Donnald, Morrill
Torrence, Vernon Keith, 1921-1946
Kansas Wesleyan University
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1940-1942
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0.8 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0717
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs, a Kansas Wesleyan University yearbook (with personal messages and inscriptions), diplomas, correspondence regarding Torrence's disappearance, newspaper clippings, his memorial service booklet or program, and a diary which he kept during a week-long adventure as a "hobo" in Kansas.
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Baker, Frances S., 1911-1999
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circa 1900-1993
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0612
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Small cookbooks, primarily in pamphlet form, produced either by the manufacturer of one of the ingredients or by the manufacturer of appliances used in preparing the recipe. These cookbooks also advertise the products represented. Collection includes pamphlets on canning, canning labels, recipes from newspapers, and several regional cookbooks, including Canada and the Pacific Northwest.
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Wells, Ellen B.
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1874-2009
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18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0396
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of cookbooks, but many would accurately be described as pamphlets. Also included are some labels from products that contain recipes. The cookbooks were produced by manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Curatorial Office
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1981-2001
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16 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-020
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the research, development, fundraising, publicity, production, and execution of exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Supplementary areas of exhibitions also covered include related symposiums, lectures, and gallery talks. Among those exhibitions covered are "The Bard Brot...
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Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service
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circa 1977-1999
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28 cu. ft. (28 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-069
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting exhibitions mounted by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). Materials include itineraries, slides, news clippings, scripts, press releases, shipping documents, checklists, loan records, correspondence, photographs, lists, motion pictures, videotapes, audiotapes, a...