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Danske filminstitut
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circa 1915-1986
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10 Cubic feet (23 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0543
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains primarily black-and-white silver gelatin photographic prints, produced by film studios and distributors for advertising and theater lobby display purposes. The films are mostly American, although the collection includes some European and Japanese films. Some films are accompanied by small booklets in Danish.
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Cruikshank, D. Tucker
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bulk 1927-1943
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1490
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of daily programs for the Strand Theatre in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
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Sardino, Robert C.
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1914-1981, undated
- Size:
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2.1 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1471
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of motion picture exhibition ephemera (lantern slides, publicity photographs, and paper) saved by Robert L. Sardino during his years working in motion picture theaters in Syracuse, New York.
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Motion Pictures
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1893-1969
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2.96 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversize folders, 8 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Motion
- 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: Motion Pictures 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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American Public Power Association
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1950 - 1982
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1337
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Persuasive printed materials offered by the Association to member utilities, to use as ads in local newspapers or as bill stuffers, on public interest subjects such as holiday safety, energy saving, the conveniences of electric appliances, and other topics; persuasive printed materials, mostly offered by investor-owned utilities, in opposition to p...
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National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions
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circa 1970-1988
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11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-323
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audio and visual recordings of National Portrait Gallery exhibitions and announcements used for broadcast. Major exhibitions documented within this collection include: "American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776," and "Champions of American Sport." Materials consist of 16mm film and magnetic audio tracks.
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Thomas, John E.
- Dates:
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1960s-1970s
- Size:
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11 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1324
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approximately 1,700 television commercials on 16mm film, for products including cars and trucks; food and beverages, including snack foods, convenience foods and soft drinks; cleaning products; pet food; clothing; candy; tobacco products; airlines; toiletries; household products and other things.
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Pan American World Airways, Inc.
- Dates:
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1958-1980
bulk [ca. 1960s-1970s]
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2.63 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box) (2 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1992.0027
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 25 16 mm films, four tape/slide sets on travel, seven individual slides and a tape of Pan American 'Theme' music. The film footage includes the history of the company; promotional films for travel and services; television commercials; introduction to Boeing 747 service; and training films for employees.
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Ryan, Frank J.
- Dates:
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1936-1982
- Size:
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16 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0871
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials relating to Ryan's career as an athlete, a sports coach at Yale, an inventor, and an author. Includes photographs, the patent for Ryan's electro-mechanical football game, scrapbooks of newsclippings, Ryan's instructional books on sports, brochures, reprints of articles and other printed materials relating to Ryan's instructional ...
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Smithsonian World
- Dates:
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1990-1991
- Size:
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23 Cubic feet (16 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0418
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents "Selling the Dream" was an hour long television documentary that aired in early 1991 as part of the public television series, Smithsonian World.