Aladdin Industries, Inc. Records
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Johnson, Victor S., Sr., 1882-1943
Johnson, Victor, Jr., 1906-
Aladdin Industries, Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).
- Dates:
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1889-2003
- Size:
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50 Cubic feet (120 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0844
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approximately 50 cubic feet of material documenting Aladdin Industries Inc., manufacturers of vacuum ware and lunch boxes. The majority of the material dates from 1947 to the 1970s. The strength of the collection is with the lunch box documentation and product development, marketing, and sales records. There is some int...
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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circa 1795-1970
- Size:
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14.46 Cubic feet (consisting of 30.5 boxes, 1 folder, 11 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, 1 flat box (partial).)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Food
- 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: Food 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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Broussard-Simmons, Vanessa
Kraft General Foods, Inc.
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
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undated
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0510
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists primarily of cookbooks and similar forms of literature containing recipes and - or information relating to food customs, created by producers and manufacturers of foods products, cooking utensils, kitchen appliances and equipment.
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Corti, Darrrell F.
- Dates:
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1931-1965
bulk 1940-1960
- Size:
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1.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1248
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains wine and food menus from a variety of events, including cruises, banquets, parties and honorary dinners. Some of the menus are autographed and a few are hand-drawn or hand-lettered. A large number of the menus are for events organized by the WIne and Food Society of San Francisco.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
Green, Mary E.
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries
- Dates:
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1883-1980
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes and 1 map-folder
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1061
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Over a period of approximately 25 years, Dr. Mary Eloise Green of Ohio State University collected a wide variety of materials pertaining to food preservation and home canning techniques. She acquired associated pamphlets, manuals, and recipe booklets from companies as well as governmental agencies.
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Kubla Khan Frozen Food Company (Portland, Oregon)
Loy, Percy W.
Wong, Robert
- Dates:
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1931-2006
- Size:
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20.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1316
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Kubla Khan Frozen Food Company, a Portland, Oregon company that manufactures, packages and distributes frozen Chinese food from 1950-present.
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Wells, Ellen B.
- Dates:
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1874-2009
- Size:
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18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0396
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of cookbooks, but many would accurately be described as pamphlets. Also included are some labels from products that contain recipes. The cookbooks were produced by manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers.
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Unanue, Prudencio
Goya Foods, Inc.
Unanue family
- Dates:
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undated
1856-2000
bulk 1960-2000
- Size:
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20 Cubic feet (62 boxes, 6 oversize folders)
8 Sound recordings
15 Video recordings
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0694
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Goya Foods, Inc., supported the cultural life of various communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. The company's current headquarters is in Secaucus, New Jersey. Photographs, calendars, sales promotional materials, cookbooks, packaging, and news clippings. Photographs depict primarily company sponsored events, but a few are family pictures.
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Steinberg, Sally L. (Sally Levitt)
- Dates:
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1920s-1987
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0439
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of ephemeral materials gathered by Sally L. Steinberg while she was researching her 1987 publication, The Donut Book: The origins, history, literature, lore, taste, etiquette, traditions, techniques, varieties, mathematics, mythology, commerce, philosophy, cuisine, and glory of the donut.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Dates:
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1827-1985
- Size:
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26 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S13
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 13, Agriculture, Business, and Law contains approximately 3,300 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards business, commerce, farming and food, finances, labor, law, and social order in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
