Roy C. Kulp Collection of Account Books
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Dibner Library
Kulp, Roy C.
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1755-1904
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3.66 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0149
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-nine account books of farmers, store owners, and artisans living in Pennsylvania, 1755-1904. The books mainly record daily transactions with customers or suppliers and are handwritten in varying conditions of legibility and preservation.
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Frick Company, George (Waynesboro, Pa.)
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1852-1961
bulk 1860-1920
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26 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0293
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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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circa 1968-1970; 1978; 1982-1983; 1985-1987; 1994-1995
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13.04 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (2 tall document boxes) (1 film box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-212
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials documenting 13 productions created by Smithsonian Productions. 1) "The Sawyer and His Mill" was a 1969 exhibition film shown in the National Museum of American History's Agriculture Hall. The 4:50 minute film compared ancient and modern sawmills. It won the Bronze Medal at the International Film and TV...
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1790-1965
bulk 1840-1945
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4.58 Cubic feet (consisting of 10 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Lumber
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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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Daniel, Pete
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1986-1991, undated
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27.2 Cubic feet (83 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0773
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An extensive collection of oral histories conducted by Lu Ann Jones throughout the southern United States between 1985-1991. A few oral histories were conducted by Pete Daniel in the early 1980s. Subjects include all facets of agriculture in the south.
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Nickse, Hugo
Johnson, Hanford
Comstock, Cheney and Co.
Pratt, Read and Company
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1839-1990
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84 Cubic feet (106 boxes, 28 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0320
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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.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
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1950, 1959-1988, 1996, 2004, 2006
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2.09 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 16x20 box) (3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-221
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document planning, development and production activities for the exhibitions A Material World, Loose the Mighty Power: Impressions of the Steam Engine in America, Abandoned Mine Scenes, On Time, Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, as well as the halls of Nuclear Ener...
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White Fathers
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circa 1903-1925
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217 Photographic prints (black and white)
217 Copy prints (black and white)
217 Copy negatives (black and white, 4 x 5 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1987-010
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Society Photographic Album documents the group's missions and the Africans living near them in the East African kingdoms of Rwanda and Burundi (now the state of Rwanda-Burundi). Subjects include individual and group portraits of Africans, including members of the Tutsi royal family and the Tutsi elite, Christian families of Hutu origin, missionaries and Western visitors, and Twa people on an elephant hunt. There are also photos of landscapes, African villages and mission buildings, activities, including dancing and farming.
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Greene, Isabelle Clara, 1934-
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circa 1975-1995
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0.1 Cubic feet (35mm slides)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.GRE
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Archives of American Gardens
The Isabelle C. Greene Collection includes 35mm slides that document select gardens designed by landscape architect Isabelle C. Greene.
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Soule, Thayer
- Dates:
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1946-1985
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Film reels (black-and-white silent; color silent, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1991.20
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Human Studies Film Archives
Film collection contains 34 travel films from around the world made by Thayer Soule, some of which were made with associates, that he used in presenting travel lectures around the country from 1935 to 1995. He was an associate with Burton Holmes, dean of travel lecturers, from 1946 to 1958. Collection also includes still photographs, publicity ma...
