Solomon Adler Papers
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Adler, Solomon, 1901-1989
- Dates:
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1916-1980
bulk 1950-1966
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4.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1157
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document independent inventor Solomon Adler's work with sewing machine technology through correspondence, photographs, notes, drawings, sketches, patents, litigation records, and printed materials. The collection provides insight into both an independent inventor's process of invention and Japanese work culture during the post-World War II period.
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undated
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 99-056
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of advertising leaflets from the Singer Sewing Machine Company showing Washington, D.C., buildings and monuments. Historical descriptions of each image are printed on the back of the advertisements.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1854-1951
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2.6 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Sewing
- 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: Sewing Machines 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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Fanning, Robbie
- Dates:
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1903-2002
bulk 1993-2002
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5 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1139
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents materials gathered by Robbie Fanning, publisher of sewing related books and newsletters and includes the history of major sewing machine brands, machine accessories, machine embroidery, machine needles, thread, binding, interfacing, and other sewing notions.
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Singer Manufacturing Company
Singer Company (The), (Fairfield, New Jersey)
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1927-1983
bulk 1960-1977
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11 Cubic feet (3 oversize folders, 20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0169
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The bulk of the collection consists of renderings of sewing machines and related products by industrial designers such as Henry Dreyfuss, Robert P. Gersin, Eliot Noyes, and Malcolm S. Park; by designers of Singer's in-house design department; and by consultants to the firm. Materials include decals, photographs, negatives, patents, and renderings and sketches. This collection documents the influence of industrial design on Singer sewing machines as well as other household products such as vacuum cleaners.
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Goodstein-Aue, Justin H.
- Dates:
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2011
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12 Photographs (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1302
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twelve color prints documenting the Priscilla of Boston dress shop in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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Adedze, Agbenyega
- Dates:
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1989
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375 Slides (photographs) (includes notes. (1 volume), color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1990-006
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Agbenyega Adedze in 1989 documenting textile marketing and production among the Ewe people in Togo and southeastern Ghana, as well as an Ewe festival in Togo. The trip was funded by the National Museum of African Art.
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Brown, F.C. (Fay Cluff)
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1902 - 1964
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4.5 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0693
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
F.C. Brown was a physicist and inventor who created and supervised the development of education exhibits, most notably as organizing director of the New York Museum of Science and Industry (part of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1926-1931. He was also curator of physics exhibits at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, 1932-1937. Much of Brown's scientific research focused on the element selenium. He invented the phonopticon, an improvement on the optophone (invented by Fournier d'Albe, 1912). Material focuses on Dr. Brown's professional life: correspondence, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, and ephemera from the positions he held and research he conducted. Very little personal information is included.
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Staples, Mary Ann.
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[circa 1902]
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1 Volume (27 leaves , all ill. (some col.), 35 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CH.MSS001774B
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Libraries
Scrapbook containing images (mostly color lithographs) excised from contemporary greeting cards, periodicals, trade cards, advertisements, and other kinds of ephemera. Images are mounted on both sides of the leaves.
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Société des Moteurs Gnome et Rhone
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bulk 1941
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0892
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a stock certificate, No. 71,050, for 300 francs of the Société des Moteurs Gnome et Rhone, dated May 15, 1941. Attached are 24 coupons.
