Wurlitzer Company Records
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Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
- Dates:
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1860-1984
- Size:
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56 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0469
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the history and development of the Wurlitzer Company and consists of company publications, business records, employee files, manufacturing records, sales and marketing records, product information, publicity, advertising, photographs, audiovisual materials, and organ installation drawings.
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Players (Club)
- Dates:
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1848-1941
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1 Reel (ca. 50 items (on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.players
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Letters, mostly from distinguished club members in behalf of candidates for membership, and some membership forms.
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Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1996-1997
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5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-228
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual materials created during the production of the radio program, "Guitar: Electrified, Amplified, and Deified." This program celebrates electric guitar players who changed the course of popular music. This 2-hour program features Joe Louis Walker, The Ventures, Junior Brown, Jim Hall, and Les Paul. The radio...
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Davis, Norman
- Dates:
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circa 1930 - 1977
- Size:
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0.06 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-070
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from circa 1930 to 1977 and measures .17 linear feet, includes images of African American baseball players from the Anacostia community, as well as documents the youth activities organized by the Metropolitan Police Boys Club #11 in the neighborhood. The collection is comprised of photographic prints.
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Zuck, Victor I. , 1908-2004
Zuck, Nathalie A. Peterson, d. 2013
- Dates:
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1935-1964
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1489
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Victor Zuck's work on developing and selling electronic organs, first with the Everett Piano Company of South Haven, Michigan, and then with the Wurlitzer Organ Company of North Tonawanda, New York.
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Cranbrook Foundation
- Dates:
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1912-1960
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640 Items ((on 1 microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.cranfoun
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence; financial records; a draft of a proposed publication about Cranbrook; letters regarding a biography of founder, George G. Booth, and of the Scripps family; miscellaneous items, including an address by George Booth to the Cranbrook School; and clippings.
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- Dates:
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1996-2003
- Size:
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40 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-124.12
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
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Gabriel, Ronald L., 1941-2009
- Dates:
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circa 1912-2009
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1178
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of newslettersDodgers Line Drives, Brooklyn Dodgers Fan Club Newsletter, and Gabe-o-gram, albums of trading cards and Hall of Fame postcards, many of which have been autographed. There are also photographs of teams, individual players, and a photograph of Ronald Gabriel with Babe Ruth. There is a large scrapbook containing over 1000 autographs and several items of baseball ephemera, including placemats, magnets, scorecards, team schedules, programs, and posters.
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King, Ed
- Dates:
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1961-1970.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0559
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The bulk of this collection contains affidavits and legal papers filed in civil action suits which document acts of violence committed against Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers between 1961 and 1964. All activity documented occurred in Mississippi, and much of the violence that occurred was inflicted by police and white civilians. ...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Dates:
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1841-1962, undated
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8 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S29
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 29 contains materials documenting piano in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
