Edmund A. Laport Collection
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Laport, Edmund A.
- Dates:
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1923 - 1949
- Size:
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0016
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Edmund A. Laport, a former director of broadcast engineering for the Radio Corporation of America.
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Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Roess, Harold R.D. (radio engineer)
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circa 1920-1964
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0048
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These papers document the career and interests of Roess, especially radio rebroadcasting stations, radio navigation, radar, antennas, Naval Research Laboratory projects, and radio broadcasting. Includes blueprints, schematics, technical literature, reprints, manuals, photographs, correspondence, and notes.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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1893-1992
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2.44 Cubic feet (consisting of 4.5 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, 2 flat boxes (partial), 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Radios
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier, 1877-1956
Cardwell Condenser Corporation (Lindenhurst, New York)
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1898-1941
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0915
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, an engineer, and his experiments in wireless technology. Materials include Greenleaf Pickard notebooks and patents issued to Nikola Tesla.
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Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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circa 1880-1950
- Size:
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220 Cubic feet (700 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0055
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection forms a documentary record of over half a century of the history of radio, with the greatest emphasis on the period 1900-1935. The collection includes materials that span the entire history of the growth of the radio industry. It is useful for those historians and other researchers interested in technological development, economic history, and the impact of applications of technology on American life.
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Blum, Morris
WANN Radio Station (Annapolis, Maryland)
- Dates:
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1940-1999
- Size:
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13 Cubic feet (32 boxes and 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0800
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the creative, technical and political aspects of managing WANN Radio Station in Annapolis, Maryland during the mid-Twentieth Century. Key areas of research include black radio stations; Annapolis African American communities; marketing to Black communities; political activism through media; Black-Jewish community relationships; church, community and media activism.
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Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
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1982-2001
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8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-149
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by John P. Meehan, Audio-Visual Production Specialist; Jacquie Gales Webb, Producer; Paul B. Johnson, Director; and other Radio Smithsonian staff, documenting the planning, development, and execution of original radio series and programs. Radio productions documented in this accession ...
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Science Service
- Dates:
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circa 1920s-1970s
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19 cu. ft. (38 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-094
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Science Service was established in 1920 through the efforts of the E. W. Scripps Company in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the National Research Council (NRC). In 1919 Scripps had established the American Society for the Dissemination of Science. ...
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Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Caruthers, Felix P.
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1952-1984
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0812
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers, mostly technical, relating to Caruthers' development of automated machine tools. The papers include technical reports and notes; schematics for specific inventions including diagrams, graphs, photographs and plans bound together; patents and related correspondence; operators' manuals; copies of papers delivered by Caruthers at engineering events; and assorted trade literature.
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Porter, John C.
Armed Forces History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Navarre, Jack B., 1925- (merchant seaman)
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1943-1946
- Size:
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0.01 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0405
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Jack B. Navarre's service in the Merchant Marine's and Navy between 1943 and 1946.