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Cary Instruments.
Hawes, Roland C., 1908-1999
Applied Physics Corporation.
- Dates:
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1908-1997
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14.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0617
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, handwritten notes and sketches, memorandum reports, catalogs, printed material, patent documents, drawings, blueprints (original and diazo copies), and photographs document Hawes's work in the field of immunnassay, spectrophotometry, scientific apparatus and instruments industry, and administrative duties at Applied Physics Corporat...
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Cass Gilbert Collection
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Valentine, P. O. (33 Homestead, Park, Newark)
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
Belden & Company (45 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J.)
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1897-1963
bulk 1897-1936
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15 Cubic feet (71 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0214
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The contents of the collection date from 1897 to 1936. The bulk of the collection consists of loose-leaf binders of photo prints of forty-one Cass Gilbert buildings under construction between 1908 and 1936. (This represents less than half of his firm's total output.) The volumes are arranged alphabetically by name of building. A few additional ph...
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Travis, Michael
Lavdas, George
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1947-1986
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15 Cubic feet (35 boxes, 1 map-folder
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1347
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains approximately 2,500 costume designs in colored pencil and pastels, on tissue paper mounted on mat boards. The designs were created for entertainers such as Liberace, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dionne Warwick, the Fifth Dimension, Nancy Sinatra, and others. Some were created for the television show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
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Condon, Robert B.
Condon, Robert Scofield, 1896-1973 (engineer)
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circa 1924-1973
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3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0428
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of correspondence, photographs, and copies of patents issued to inventor Robert Scofield Condon.
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Altoon, John, 1925-
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circa 1940-1969
- Size:
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2.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.altojohn
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Over 300 pencil and pencil and ink drawings, circa 1950s-1960s, mostly contained in sketchbooks and tablets, as well as numerous loose sketches and several mixed-media works on board. Also found are Altoon's letters and a ship's log dating from his years of WWII Navy service in the Pacific.
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Sortet?
- Dates:
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1940
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1 Paintings (visual works) (028 in x 031 in)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS414286
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
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Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940
- Dates:
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1920-1937
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13 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.morafran
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Six Christmas cards with original prints by Mora, 1920-1937, sent to Mora's friends, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Shultz, containing information on Mora's activities; one Xmas greeting card with a photo of Mora's daughter, Rosemary, 1920; and six pencil sketches by Mora, completed from pencil scribbles made by the Shultz's and their children.
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
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1922 August 29-September
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50 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1635
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Notepad containing Truman Michelson's Ottawa and Munsee linguistic and ethnological notes. In pencil in writing tablet as follows: pages [1-21]. Ottawa. Michigan. August 29- September, 1922. (23 pages, total; 2 pages written on backs.) pages [22-23]. Munsee. Moraviantown Reserve, Canada. September, 1922. pages [33-45]. Munsee. Six Nations Reserve, ...
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Vargas, Alberto, 1896-1982
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1914-1985
- Size:
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0.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.vargalbe
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Peruvian born illustrator Alberto Vargas measure 0.8 linear feet and date from 1914 to 1985. The collection is comprised of awards and certificates; beauty pageant judging records; correspondence; a diary from 1915; a notebook and poems; pencil drawings; clippings, magazines, music album covers, and artwork reproductions; and photographs of Vargas, his family, at work related events, and works of art.
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Spencer, Niles, 1893-1952
- Dates:
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1826-1972
bulk 1900-1961
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0.6 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.spennile
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Sketches and drawings by Spencer, and art work by others; printed material on Spencer; printed material and a few photographs used as source material for paintings; photographs of Spencer's work; personal photographs including one of Spencer; and a few letters.
