Foulke Ticket and Washington Letter
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Foulke, Dr.
- Dates:
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1784
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0.01 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0524
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a ticket from Doctor Foulke to George Washington for Foulke's pneumatics lecture and the first balloon exhibit in America. Framed with the ticket is a letter from Washington, regretting that he cannot attend the lecture.
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Kondratas, Ramunas A.
- Dates:
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2000
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0.12 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0742
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Items relating to Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany, including postcards, pamphlets, guide book, and two tickets.
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Linkous, Eleanor
- Dates:
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1925-1956
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0.12 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0774
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A scorecard and program from the 1925 World Series; a scorecard and program for the 1937 All-Star Game; a program from the National Football League's World Championship game, 1942; and a program and scorecard from the 1956 All-Star Game. All of these games were played in Washington, D.C. Also includes some articles and two ticket stubs from the 195...
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Walsh, Charles, 1877-1912
- Dates:
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1903-1945
bulk 1909-1912
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0.88 Cubic feet (2 flat boxes and 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0046
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection chronicles the exploits of Charles F. Walsh during the years 1909-1912. There are five scrapbooks and three packets of information.
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Norton, Robert H.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Kass, Marcia
- Dates:
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1876
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (2 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0825
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An artificial collection of ephemera from World's Fairs, intended as a growing repository for such miscellany from multiple sources. The initial donation consists of a season ticket, a booklet of souvenir tickets, and one menu from the 1939 New York World's Fair. The 2010 addendum contains eleven graphic works relating to World's Fairs. Eight of th...
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Grant, George B. (George Barnard), 1849-1917
Philadelphia Bank Note Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bollée, Léon, 1870-1913
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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1873-1896
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1 Volume (approximately 70 leaves, ill., 34 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-DL.MSS001780B
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Smithsonian Libraries
Scrapbook compiled by George Barnard Grant (inventor of Grant's calculating machine), a businessman based in Lexington and Boston, Massachusetts, containing printed ephemera, machine manuals, handwritten and typescript notes and correspondence, photographs, patent applications, and other papers relating to calculating machines, inventors, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and Grant's patent dispute with Léon Bollée in the 1880s. Some of the other inventions and companies referenced in the scrapbook include: Baldwin's calculating machine; Reliance Machine Works (B.F. Quimby); Baldwin's arithmometer; Teasdale's calculating machine; American Type Machine Co. (Westcott type casting and setting machine); Babbage's difference engine; Warren on the Thomas De Colmar calculating machine; Warren Bros. calculating engine; Tendollaradder (Grant Calculating Machine Co.); tabulating machine of G. & E. Schuetz; the Pidgin Electric Calculating Machine Co.; Webb's adding machine; Sir William Thomson's harmonic analyzer; L. Bollée's calculating machine; Grant's ciphering hand-organ; and Hattersley composing and distributing machines.
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Lee, Edith Lavinia
Fairmont Seminary (Washington, D.C.)
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circa 1912-1927
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1415
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook compiled by Lee, documenting her time as a student at the Fairmont Seminary in Washington, D.C. in the 1910s. The scrapbook mostly documents the social lives of Lee and other students at the school, especially the dances, sporting events, graduations and other activities at the U.S. Naval Academy. The contents of the scrapbook include a h...
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Rubin, Jamee
Little, Meg
Chase, Kevin
Smucker, Conrad
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2002
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0806
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ephemera from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, including advertising, packaging, program books, ticket stubs, maps, spectator and media guides, and other printed ephemera.
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Henderson, Clifford W., 1895-1939
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bulk 1912-1943
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1 Cubic foot ((3 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2008.0035
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Clifford W. Henderson Papers consists of one cubic feet of material documenting Clifford Henderson's aviation career, especially his role as Director of the National Air Races from 1928 until 1939. The collection includes photographs, including autographed photographs, National Air Races ephemera (programs, tickets, release and indemnity agreement, stationary), and correspondence.
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Newman, Louis
- Dates:
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1895-1999
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4 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0696
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Baseball memorabilia, including postcards, of teams, players, venues and other baseball-related topics; team programs, 1930s-1990s, mostly for minor league teams but including a few major league teams; sheet music; advertising on baseball topics; posters; black-and-white photographs of baseball players and teams; and ephemeral items such as ticket stubs.