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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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undated
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1.19 Cubic feet (consisting of 2.5 boxes, 1 folder, 2 map case folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Streetcars
- 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: Streetcars and Subways 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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Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas
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1906-2003
bulk 1906-1918
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5 Film reels
5 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0969
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the engineering firm of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas through reports prepared for a variety of clients.
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Henry Chalfant Subway Graffiti Series Photographs
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1977-1980
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24 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-124.9
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
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Schlefer, Marion King
King, Howard L.
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1928-1949.
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0990
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One cubic foot of reports on tunnels, including several in the New York subway system.
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Maevis, Alfred
- Dates:
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1903-1969
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1 Cubic foot (5 Boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0954
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection relates to Maevis' work on the New York subway system.
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National Museum of American History
- Dates:
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1946-2001
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-095
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of curatorial records that document the research and work of Robert C. Post. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1973, Post was hired as a museum technician in the Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT). From 1974-1977, ...
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Stewart, Jack, 1926-2005
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1926-2010
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9.9 Linear feet
7.31 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.stewjack
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Jack Stewart papers are dated 1926-2010 and measure 9.9 linear feet and 7.31 GB. A significant portion of the collection concerns Stewart's dissertation, "Subway Graffiti: An Aesthetic Study of Graffiti on the Subway" (New York University, 1989), related research, writings, and exhibitions on the subject. Biographical materials, correspondence, writings, printed and digital material, artwork, sketchbooks, and photographic materials document his career as a painter, muralist, designer, educator and administrator.
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Foundation Company (The).
- Dates:
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1887-1969
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9 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 28 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0974
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records include sketches, drawings, blueprints, contracts, and reports relating to highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, subways, mine shafts, canals and waterways, dams, concrete buildings, concrete construction, derricks and derrick barges, cranes, caissons and caisson construction, air locks, pumps, jacks, engines, and turbines; also phot...
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Forgie, James
- Dates:
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1890 - 1949
bulk 1900-1935
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38.8 Cubic feet (85 boxes; 33 map-folders; 18 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0986
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers contain correspondence, reports, drawings, blueprints, cost estimates, contracts, specifications, regulations, legal documents, photographs, profiles, diagrams, clippings, and publications concerning projects which Forgie worked on, especially the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the Midtown Hudson Tunnels in New York City. Also included are...
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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
Cummings, Paul
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1971 Oct. 13-Dec. 23
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2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)
46 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.evans71
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Interview of Walker Evans conducted 1971 Oct. 13-Dec. 23, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Evans discusses his early life and education; his early desire to become a writer; living for two years in Paris; teaching himself photography; taking pictures for the Farm Security Administration; his later work with FORTUNE and TIME magaz...
