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United States. War Production Board.
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1943-1945
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0341
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records of the War Production Board concerning watches (including clocks and timers) so that both the civilian population and the military would be supplied with adequate and reliable timepieces.
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Crocker, Judith A.
Faust, Herbert M. (salesman, manager)
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1918-1949.
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1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0397
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relate to Mr. Faust's diverse career, including information on advertising in the 1920s, including two marketing studies from 1920 1922 of Sabetha, Kansas; his War Production Board experience, 1943-1944, which demonstrates the magnitude of that operation, its contribution to the war effort, and the extensive involvement of the American public in the salvage effort; and correspondence relating to his employment with and retirement from the Mutual Broadcasting Company, 1945-1948. These papers constitute a personal record of a successful career which reached its peak with important wartime civilian service.
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United States. War Production Board.
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Garfield & Co.
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1909-1969
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15 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 11 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0820
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Garfield and Company, a pharmaceutical manufacturer in New Jersey during the twentieth century. Garfield and Company, founded by Isidor Z. Garfield (1863-1951), made Seidlitz Powder, a commonly known medication composed of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium sodium tartrate that was used as a mild cathartic by dissolving it in water and then drinking it. Materials include customer files, invoices, correspondence, advertising and packaging materials, calendars, posters, financial records, and an oral and video history with Julius Garfield, son of Isidor Z. Garfield.
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Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
Rangeloff, Evan
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circa 1910-1991
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0716
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes thirty-eight punchboards, all unpunched and in very good to excellent condition, and featuring a range of products and imagery. The collection also includes two punchboard manufacturers' catalogs from the 1940s, which detail the money-making opportunities for jobbers and retailers. The collection also contains corresponde...
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Hardy, Thora M. Plitt, 1902-
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1940-1948
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0.1 linear meter.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7144
- 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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Smithsonian Institution
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1867-1940
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60.45 cu. ft. (91 document boxes) (7 half document boxes) (15 12x17 boxes) (3 16x20 boxes) (2 cu. ft. large oversize box) (67 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 70
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The exposition records of this collection provide an account of the Smithsonian's involvement in twenty-two domestic and foreign expositions between 1876 and 1908. The depth of coverage in the records is uneven, but they still convey a wealth of information about Smithsonian participation in expositions, chiefly during the last quarter of...
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Smithsonian Institution. National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board
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circa 1960-1975
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13.58 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 581
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the activities of NAFMAB, including collecting and accessioning, planning for a site, exhibits design, and carrying out various projects. Also included is a multi-volume chronology of events, 1946-1973, in addition to copies of files of NMHT curator Mendel L. Peterson, who represented the Smithsonian on a preliminary ...
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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
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1906-1947
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9 Cubic feet (18 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0029
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The years before World War I were spent in patent litigation for aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and Orville and Wilbur Wright.
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John Guy Gilpatric Collection
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Gilpatric, John Guy, 1896-1950
- Dates:
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1910-1950
bulk 1910-1918
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2.17 Cubic feet (10 folders, 3 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0220
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
John Guy Gilpatric (1896-1950) was one of America's earliest aviators. Although not officially an Early Bird, he first learned to fly in 1912 at the age of sixteen. That same year he gained notoriety by setting a new American record when he reached an altitude of nearly 5,000 feet with a passenger on board. During his teenage years, Gilpatric gave flying lessons and flew in air exhibitions, eventually becoming employed as a test-pilot. He later worked as an aviation instructor in Toronto, Canada, teaching the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Following the United States' entry into World War I in 1917, Gilpatric enlisted in the Army Air Service as a First Lieutenant, where he was stationed overseas as Engineering Officer, First Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). The collection contains four scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, licenses and identity cards, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and periodicals, which chronicle his aviation career and military service.
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Claussen, Pete
- Dates:
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1941-1943
- Size:
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7 Cubic feet (21 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0860
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
American magazines and magazine covers dating from 1941 through 1943 with illustrations of the American flag collected and donated by Pete Claussen.