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Southern Iron & Equipment Company Records
Creators:
Southern Iron & Equipment Company
Bond, Edward
Dates:
1903-1960
Size:
2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0354
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

These records document the rebuilding of locomotives by the Southern Iron & Equipment Company during the period circa 1903-1960. They consist of one folder of "Memorandum of Locomotive Numbers" and a number of 4" x 6" cards recording sales of rebuilt locomotives. The "Memorandum," (forty-eight pages) lists the locomotives by number and shows the …

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Collection Acquisition Purchase Orders
Dates:
FY 1994-FY 1995
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 04-184
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting collections acquisitions and intellectual property for the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Library, now known as the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Branch. Materials include purchase orders, payment memoranda, invoices, blanket authorizations, contracts …

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Frick Company Records
Creators:
Frick Company, George (Waynesboro, Pa.)
Dates:
1852-1961
bulk 1860-1920
Size:
26 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0293
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection documents, in correspondence, publications, forms, paperwork, drawings, newspaper clippings, diplomas and photographs, the operations and products of the Frick Company of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam-powered engines (portable, stationary, and traction), sawmills, threshing machines, grain separators and other mechanized agricultural harvesting implements, refrigeration, mechanical cooling systems, and ice making plants, from its founding in 1852 through 1961.

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World House Galleries records
Creators:
World House Galleries
Dates:
1927-1991
bulk 1953-1980
Size:
9.8 Linear feet (11 boxes, 1 OV)
Collection ID:
AAA.worlhoug
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The records of New York City World House Galleries measure 9.8 linear feet and date from 1927 to 1991, with the bulk of them dating from 1953 to 1980. The collection documents the gallery's general business affairs, sales, and relationships with artists from 1953-1968, and later gifts and sales by founder entrepreneur and art collector Herbert Mayer. Artists for which files are found include Jean Dubuffet, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee and Georgio Morandi, among many others. Additional records include correspondence, inventory records, sales and purchase records, records of gifts and auctions, and shipping and consignment records.

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MS 3429 Manuscripts purchased by the Bureau of American Ethnology 1895-1902
Dates:
undated
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3429
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Manuscripts purchased by the Bureau of American Ethnology 1895-1902. Typed list giving titles, author or sender, date purchased and price paid.

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André Emmerich Gallery records
Creators:
André Emmerich Gallery
Dates:
circa 1929-2009
Size:
311.4 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.andremmg
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The André Emmerich Gallery records and André Emmerich papers measure 311.4 linear feet and date from 1929 to 2009. The collection documents the business of the André Emmerich Gallery as well as André Emmerich's life and activities related to the business of selling art. Gallery records include correspondence; appointment books; administrative and subject files; exhibition files; artist files and accounts; inventory, sales, purchase, and consignment records; chronological files; financial and legal records; printed materials; original artwork; photographic and audiovisual materials. Also found are personal papers and records relating to André Emmerich. A small addition received in 2014 includes general correspondence, administrative files, exhibition files, artists' files, inventory records, consignment records, printed material, photographic materials, and André Emmerich personal papers and records.

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Schaeffer Galleries records
Creators:
Schaeffer Galleries
Dates:
circa 1921-1982
bulk 1935-1950
Size:
1.6 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.schagall
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The Schaeffer Galleries records measure 1.6 linear feet and date from circa 1921 to 1982, with the bulk of the material dating from 1935-1950 when the gallery was most active. Owned by Hanns S. and Kate Schaeffer, the gallery first operated in Berlin from 1925 to 1939 and later in New York City from 1936 to circa 2000. Correspondence, subject and exhibition files, purchase records, printed materials, and photographs document the gallery's operations. Primary correspondents include art collector Arthur C. Tate and the gallery's Pacific Coast Director LeRoy Backus.

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Hugh Stix papers
Creators:
Stix, Hugh
Artists' Gallery (New York, N.Y)
Museum Purchase Fund
Dates:
1947-1963
Size:
0.4 Linear feet ((on 1 partial microfilm reel))
Collection ID:
AAA.stixhugh
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An exhibition announcement and catalog from the Artists' Gallery 20th anniversary exhibition, 1955; letters from artists responding to Stix's request for drawings for the exhibition, including Milton Avery, George Biddle, Isabel Bishop, Victor Candell, Philip Evergood, T. Lux Feininger, Ernest Fiene, Chaim Gross, Morris Kantor, James Lechay, Oronzio Maldarelli, Abraham Rattner, and …

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Department of Art records
Creators:
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) Dept. of Art
Dates:
1896-1908
Size:
9 Linear feet ((on 20 microfilm reels))
Collection ID:
AAA.louipurc
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Biographical sketch on Halsey Ives, Chief of the Department; Halsey Ives' files, including general correspondence, correspondence and material relating to the Art building, confidential letters, letters with artists' biographies for the Handbook for the Exposition, shipping department correspondence, and personal correspondence. Also included are Charles M. Kurtz's files of correspondence …

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Henson Family Papers
Creators:
Henson family
Dates:
1818-1943
bulk 1830-1900
Size:
0.18 Linear feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
ACMA.06-030
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

The Henson Family papers, which date from 1818 to 1943 and measure 0.18 linear feet, document the activities of Tobias Henson and his descendants. The papers are comprised of booklets, correspondence, legal documents, and receipts.

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