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Smith, Jeff, 1939-2004
Child, Julia, 1912-2004
Guthrie, Janet, 1938-
Edgecraft Corporation
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1984-2016, undated
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2 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1382
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the development and marketing of the Chef's Choice brand of knife sharpeners.
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Schneider, Wilhelm, 1902-1990
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between 1937-1940
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84 Photographic prints (dupe prints (1 box), black & white, 18 x 13 cm. or smaller)
158 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 4 x 5 in.)
158 Photographic prints (silver gelatin (2 v.), black & white, 18 x 13 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1991-011
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Wilhelm Schneider (1902-1990) to document his experiences as a missionary for the Swiss Basel Mission in Cameroon, 1937-1940. The photographs document the culture of the Weh people and their neighbors in the Cameroon Grassfields during the 1930s. Activities include a funeral ceremony, hair braiding, house building, bridge crossing, food preparation, drum playing, knife sharpening, cotton spinning, field work, market selling and preaching. Architecture depicted includes chiefs' palaces, compounds, a mission school house, shrines and villages. Portraits include chiefs, kings, members of the secret society, kweifo, with their adornments, and other people showing dress, masks, ornaments and scarification.
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Joseph Miller Collection
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Miller, J. & D. (Bronx, New York)
Miller, Joseph (cutlery dealer)
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1895-1992
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0514
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Letters, envelopes and other business records relating to the cutlery business of J & D Miller, Bronx, New York.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1852-1935
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0.74 Cubic feet (consisting of 1.5 boxes, 2 folders, 1 oversize folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Cutlery
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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: Cutlery 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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Hoskins, Sarah
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2002
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0.6 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1124
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collections consists of fifteen black and white photographs of hog slaughter in New Zion, Kentucky, taken by Sarah Hoskins in 2002.
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Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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circa 1870-1956
bulk 1870-1895
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30 Linear feet (70 boxes, 1 oversized box, 20 manuscript envelopes, 4 rolled maps, and 23 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4800
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National Anthropological Archives
Reverend James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895) was a missionary and Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist who conducted extensive research on Siouan tribes and languages.The papers of James Owen Dorsey comprise mostly ethnographic and linguistic materials on various tribes of the Siouan language family as well as tribes from Siletz Reservation in Oregon. These materials include texts and letters with interlineal translations; grammar notes; dictionaries; drawings; and his manuscripts. In addition, the collection contains Dorsey's correspondence, newspaper clippings, his obituaries, and reprints.
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Outes, Felix F.
Bruch, Carlos
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undated
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113 Items (photographs and maps )
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4095
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National Anthropological Archives
Ethnographic photographs: portraits, artifacts.
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United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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1898 - 1987
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145 Cubic feet (296 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0277
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the activities of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation of Beverly, Massachusetts, manufacturers of shoe machinery equipment. The collection consists of engineering records, legal records, research and development records, employee/personnel records, correspondence, company catalogs, product literature, advertising materials, photographs, and moving images.
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Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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1926-1973
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983 Film reels (176 hours 39 minutes, black-and-white color silent sound, 16mm)
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- Collection ID:
- HSFA.2006.02
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Human Studies Film Archives
Titles from IWF's Encyclopaedia Cinematographica of ethographic films ranging in dates from 1926 to 1973. Collection includes German language study guides for each film. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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2016
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4.4 Terabytes (4050 videos, 1301 photographs, born digital)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.TNP
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Project collection contains 4.4 terabytes of born digital video and photographic material collected by four teams in four traditionally Tibetan counties in three provinces in Western China. The materials document traditional nomadic life: herding, gender roles, the making of household items like bas...
