Wurlitzer Company Records
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Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
- Dates:
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1860-1984
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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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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
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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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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
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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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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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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.
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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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Pope, Arthur.
- Dates:
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circa 1899-1900
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57 photographic prints (Photograph album)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2007-004
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This album contains 57 photographic prints, dating from circa 1899-1900, depicting the indigenous peoples of the Belgian Congo (later known as Zaire and presently known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Subjects depicted include costumes, body arts (hairstyles and scarification), funerary rituals, weavers and blacksmiths. Culture groups represented in the collection include the Kasai, Kwango and Luba peoples.
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Nickse, Hugo
Johnson, Hanford
Comstock, Cheney and Co.
Pratt, Read and Company
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1839-1990
- Size:
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84 Cubic feet (106 boxes, 28 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0320
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records documenting Pratt, Read and Company; its early competitor and later partner, Comstock, Cheney and Company; and a number of predecessor, subsidiary and related companies. Other topics include the late 19th century African ivory trade and Pratt, Read's production of troop-carrying gliders during World War II.