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Smith, Loretta Thomsen (collector)
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1900-1970.
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0147
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two scrapbooks containing postcards, stamps, and hand-written information about various states of the United States. The initial pages in volume 1 contain information about the early history of postcards in Europe and the United States.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1844-1966
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3.68 Cubic feet (consisting of 8 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Tours
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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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Riner, Ed
Riner, Novie Ocy, 1890-1964
Riner, Mattie Keel, 1896-1980
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1912-1932
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1 Boxe (30 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0629
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of the surviving postcards sent to Mattie Keel by Mr. Riner on a 1932 trip, plus cards sent to Ms. Keel by earlier suitors, 1912-1915.
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North Carolina Museum of History
Buckingham, C. O.
Washington News Co.
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circa 1906
- Size:
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1 Folder
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0413
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Three picture postcards of Washington, D.C., one postmarked 1906; all are photomechanical reproductions of photographs: two color photolithographs of: (1) the Library of Congress (printed in Germany, addressed, with Christmas greeting, postmarked 1906); (2) the Lincoln Memorial (publ. Washington News Co., copyright C.O. Buckingham, no message, unma...
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Rotary Photo
Frange, William
Fairchild Aerial Surveys
Brown Bros.
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circa 1927-1930
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box, 53 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1165
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographic postcards collected by Dr. Rudolf Wolff, a pediatrician from Krefeld, Germany during a trip to the United States in the early 1930's and brought back to America when the family immigrated in 1936.
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Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection
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National Philatelic Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
Extractive Industries, Division of.
Blenkle, Victor A., Dr., 1900-1978 (physician)
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circa 1880-circa 1970
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10 Cubic feet (29 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0200
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of postcards gathered by Dr. Victor A. Blenkle, a twentieth century physician. The postcards primarily concern geographical locations and landmarks in the United States and Western Europe, but also include materials from six other continents.
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Bird, William L.
- Dates:
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1877 - 2010
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6.5 Cubic feet (19 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1288
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of archival materials assembled by National Museum of American History Curator William Lawrence Bird. The materials were used as background research for the publication of his book Holidays on Display (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), and as exhibit objects for the exhibit by the same name that opened shortly after the museum's architectural renovation (November 2009-September 2010). The materials include advertising and trade literature, especially for department stores and with emphasis on the display of toys; catalogs; photographs and slides; postcards; parade programs; design drawings; correspondence; stock certificates, and miscellaneous items relating to department stores and their displays, parades and the amusement industry.
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1887-1986
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2 Photographic prints (color)
6,859 Postcards (color, 10 x 15 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2001-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Picture postcards collected by Stephen Grant, Education Official, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while serving in Africa.
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1898-[ongoing]
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61 Volumes
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-014
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection includes postcards from 45 African countries. Subjects include agriculture; animals; artists; body arts; cityscapes; cultural landscapes; dance; education; expeditions; flora; industry; leaders; marketplaces; medicine; military; missionaries; music; portraits; recreation; rites and ceremonies; and transportation, among many other topics.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
- Dates:
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circa 1544-1988
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1,108 Cubic feet (consisting of approximately 2,050 of boxes, approximately 336 oversize boxes, map case material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. Series 1 is organized into two sub-groups. The first is divided into 468 subject categories. The second sub-group is divided into 68 geographical categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.