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Lodish, Richard
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circa 1825-1908
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1421
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ephemeral archival materials from American schools, primarily from the northeastern United States, and primarily in the 19th century. Types of materials include instruction books and kits; students' work books and notebooks; flash cards; lesson books, some on religious subjects; religious tracts; printed lectures; students' report cards; school reg...
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Swatara Railroad Papers
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Swatara Railroad Company
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Agriculture
Donaldson, William
Swatara and Good Spring Railroad
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1805-1894.
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1 Cubic foot (3 vertical boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0272
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Documents relating to the business of the Swatara Railroad Company of Danville, Pennsylvania and particularly of its president, "Judge" William Donaldson. Includes receipts, bills, contracts, operating statistics, financial statements and correspondence, filed chronologically by year.
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Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903
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1802-1904
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0.2 Linear feet (ca. 1000 items (on 4 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.chamjame
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence; diaries; lists of paintings, bills, and receipts; sketchbook and sketches; clippings; tintype photograph; and printed material.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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1878-1879.
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0131
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This Prescription Scrapbook form New York City contains drug prescription receipts, Sept. 27, 1878-Feb. 18, 1879. The receipts are chronologically organized, starting with 46,089 to 48,850. The William B. Parkin & Co. is particularly well represented, along with many other companies and individual physicians.
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Trumbull, John, 1756-1843
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1790-[ca. 1800]
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5 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.trumjoht
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Archives of American Art
A ticket to the American Academy of Fine Arts, undated; a receipt for a subscription, April 27, 1790, signed by Anthony C. Poggi; a written receipt to A. C. Poggi, March 8, 1800, and a receipt for a subscription for a print of the Declaration of Independence "which I hereby promise to deliver according to the Propsals published at New-York on the 1...
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Lyon, Lucius, 1800-1851
Moore, Hiram
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1835-1932
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 tray)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1429
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Hiram Moore's invention of a harvesting machine.
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Jessee, Mark
Marks, Peter, 1843-1883
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1800-1915; undated
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3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1328
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Marks's years as a harpist on the Midwestern minstrel circuit. It primarily consists of sheet music and song books, theater programs, posters announcing minstrel shows, newspaper articles, and personal papers.
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Washington, William Augustine, Colonel, 1757-1810
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1789-1840
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0174
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These papers consist primarily of bills and receipts for a large and varied number of articles. They are for such commodities as blankets, hose, flannel, linen, tea, molasses, calico, muslin, shoes, sugar, ribbons, needles, wheat, oats, salt and silk. Some of the prices are in pounds, shillings and pence, others are in dollars. The papers includ...
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Arnold, Cheney & Co.
Moore, Ernst D. (importer, trader)
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1888-1932
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1.6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0321
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Moore's work as an ivory trader employed by Arnold, Cheney and Co. Includes copies of his diary entries while working as an ivory trader, financial documents, price lists, his writings on the subject of ivory, articles, a map, and photographs.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1794-1964
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3.37 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 6 folder, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.02.Pennsylvania
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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: Pennsylvania forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.2: Geographical Categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
