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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Registrar
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1971-1995
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-085
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document incoming and outgoing shipments of objects loaned by and to the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include shipping invoices and receipts, object lists, correspondence, and memoranda.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1777-1965
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10.22 Cubic feet (consisting of 20 boxes, 2 folders, 9 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, 3 flat boxes (2 full, 1 partial.))
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Steamboats
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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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Robert H. Botts Air-ship Collection
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1902-1904
bulk 1980-1981
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0.1 Cubic feet (2 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0621
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of six black and white photographs of Professor Robert H. Botts (initially known as Barnet Botts) and his air-ship [Botts (R. H.) 1904 Flying Machine] as well as copies of contemporary news accounts and biographical information compiled by donor Dr. William L. Thompson, M.D.
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Rau, William M., 1929-2007
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1900 - 2007
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100 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1306
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 100 cubic feet of photographs, slides, postcards, scrapbooks, brochures, artwork, drawings, and other ephemera documenting engine-powered vessels of the international maritime industry. Brochures: The brochures are from international passenger lines and cruise lines. They detail both individual ships and shipping lines; they also det...
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Visscher, John Paul, 1895-1950
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circa 1922-1945 and undated
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2.36 cu. ft. (4 document boxes) (1 5x8 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7239
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers document Visscher's investigations on marine fouling of ship bottoms and include general correspondence, 1922-1945; photographs of ship fouling; manuscripts; and research notes and reports on ship fouling.
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1969-1975
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3 cu. ft. (6 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7228
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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Harlander, Leslie
Gibson, Andrew
Donovan, Arthur
Cushing, Charles
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1995-1998
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0639
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Original audio cassettes and transcripts of oral history interviews with individuals involved in the transportation industry known as containerization. Arthur Donovan was the principal interviewer.
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1841-1888
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1.29 cu. ft. (3 12x17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T90043
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of New England Whaling Schooner logbooks. All ships seem to have had New Bedford, Massachusetts, as home port. Ships documented include the Active, the Adelia Chase, the Adeline Gibbs, the Ohio, and the Thomas Pope.
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Sargent, Aaron Augustus, 1827-1887
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1883
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2000.0032
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of drawings relating to Aaron A. Sargent's designs for an Aerial Ship in 1883
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Hunt, George
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undated
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13 Drawings
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7031
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National Anthropological Archives
Only two incomplete drawings are in a traditional style; many of the others are of non-Indian subjects. Watercolors are marked "Asseo" on reverse.
