George B. Grant scrapbook
Philadelphia Bank Note Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bollée, Léon, 1870-1913
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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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.
John D. Crimmins Collection
This collection is comprised primarily of menus. There are also programs, seating plans, invitations, announcements and admission cards from functions attended by John D. Crimmins. Some material bears autographs of other guests and/or rotations made by Mr. Crimmins. There are many items from civic, political, business, Roman Catholic and …
Website Records
This accession consists of the web page for the annual Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day (previously Museum Day Live!) event hosted by the Smithsonian Magazine. The web page, located on the Smithsonian Magazine website, was crawled on September 20, 2019, the day before the event of September 21. The event encourages visitation to participating …
Website Records
This accession consists of the web page for the annual Museum Day Live! event hosted by the Smithsonian Magazine. The web page, found located on the Smithsonian Magazine website, was crawled on September 30, 2016, less than a week after the event of September 24. The event encourages visitation to participating museums across …
Website Records
This accession consists of the web page for the annual Museum Day Live! event hosted by the Smithsonian Magazine. The web page, located on the Smithsonian Magazine website, was crawled on September 28, 2017, and again on September 29, 2017, less than a week after the event of September 23. The event encourages visitation to …
Website Records
This accession consists of several web pages associated with the special edition Museum Day Live! event hosted by the Smithsonian Magazine as they existed on April 13, 2016. Museum Day Live! encourages visitation to participating museums across the nation by providing free admission tickets. This special edition celebrated Women's History Month and …
Edwin Graves Champney papers
Biographical data; letters written from Antwerp, Dusseldorf and Paris to his father, mother and sister Ellen, 1871-1875; 30 diaries, 1854-1864, 1870-1874, 1878-1899, containing brief entries, sketches, notes, cash accounts and expenses, clippings, museum admission tickets, and a list of sales of A MEMENTO OF LEXINGTON, 1887; an undated catalog of pictures exhibited at Mrs. Martha Lowe's …
Bela L. Pratt papers
Biographical materials, letters and correspondence, photographs, diary, subject files, and printed ephemera.
Henry P. Whitehead collection
bulk 1940-1986
The papers of historian Henry P. Whitehead measure 156.91 linear feet and date from 1843 to 2010 (bulk 1945-1986). The collection documents Whitehead's careers, as well as his family and personal life. The collection also includes the personal papers of Tomlinson D. Todd, Elizabeth B. Delaney and the Howard Theatre Foundation. The combined collection is comprised of black theatrical memorabilia; materials relating to civil rights activities in the District of Columbia; and the African American experience in general. Included are playbills, sheet music, admission tickets, newspapers, magazines, books, photographs, clippings, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, sound recordings, research files, and other material.
James Lawrence Claghorn papers
Letters (1849-1856), business records (1849-1856), a visitors' register (1873-1885), and a scrapbook (ca. 1866-1885) concern the acquisition of paintings and prints for Claghorn's collection.
