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Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
- Dates:
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1949 - 1996
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0.66 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1398
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes advertising materials for Crown Central's credit card and credit check programs, for gifts (cameras, kitchenware) offered by its service station to repeat customers; a set of posters and a design drawing for them, exhorting drivers to drive safely, featuring images of governors of states, President Dwight Eisenhower, FBI Dir...
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Call Carl, Inc.
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1914-1975
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1 Cubic foot (1 box, 2 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1474
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival material, including advertising and business records from the "Call Carl" chain of Washington, DC, automotive service stations. The collection includes photographs of Washington, DC streets in the years before automobiles; photographs of the building exterior; photographs of the interior, including employees at work in the garages as well...
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American Petroleum Institute Photograph and Film Collection
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American Petroleum Institute.
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1860s-1980s
bulk 1955-1990
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45 Cubic feet (122 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0711
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes historic photographs, slides and films on subjects relating to all aspects of the petroleum industry, including exploration, drilling, refineries, tankers, pipelines, automobiles, trucks, aviation, refueling, buildings, coal, gasification, plants, mining, surface mining, fields, land reclamation, coastal zone management, corporate public service, educational programs, crude oil, deepwater ports, and watercraft It also documents numerous products other than gasoline produced by the petroleum industry, such as propane, lubricants, heating oil, and plastics.
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Ward, Frank Elmo, 1912-1964
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1929-1965
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0783
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A very complete collection of records of a "Mom and Pop" rural service station in the post-World War II era. Includes papers illustrating the day-to-day operations of the garage, such as financial records, ledgers, and property records. Also included are personal papers, such as a diploma and letters; and photographs, both personal and of the business.
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Christensen, Janice
- Dates:
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1943-1959
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0.48 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2019.0050
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material chronicling Janice Christensen's Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) service.
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Carey, Denis H.
- Dates:
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1918-1923
bulk 1918
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2.04 Cubic feet ((9 folders) (2 20x24x3 flatboxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0289
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of three scrapbooks and five logbooks belonging to Denis H. Carey. The scrapbooks contain photographs of Royal Navy Air Stations, ships, flying boats, floatplanes and land planes used by the British around 1918. They include approximately 28 different airplanes, 9 different ships and aerial views of various air stations. Th...
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1959-2002
- Size:
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15.11 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0048
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Navy Space Surveillance System (NavSpaSur) was developed between 1958 and 1964 by the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for the detection and tracking of foreign satellites. Operated by the United States Navy from 1961-2004 and thereafter by the US Air Force until its decommissioning in 2013, the system (known as the Space Fence) had three transmitting sites and six receiving stations across the southern United States. Its radar signals detected active satellites and larger pieces of space debris passing through them at altitudes up to 15,000 miles and helped determine their orbital elements. An improved space surveillance radar on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific entered service in 2020.
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U.S. Army Special Services Agency
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1945-1971.
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0785
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival material documenting the recreational activities provided to U.S. Army troops in Europe by the U.S. Army Special Services, ca. 1945-1971. Newsletters comprise the majority of the collection.
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Science Service
- Dates:
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1955-1956
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 20-084
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Beginning in the 1920s, Science Service staff wrote 15-minute radio scripts ("Science Service Talks" and "Science News of the Week") which were mailed every week to several dozen U.S. radio stations and then read on the air by local announcers or scientists. By the early 1930s, Science Service was producing a weekly live-broadcast program for...
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1990
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-230
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of video and audio elements for the production, "Moving America's Mail." This video documents the United States Postal Service and their development of methods to deliver mail. Funded by a grant from the Ford Motor Company, the video was produced in cooperation with the National Postal Museum. Materials include original ...
