The California Shop Records
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California Shop.
Kemp, Helen Misch, 1894-1948 (store owner/manager)
Kemp, Barbara
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1938-1942
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0572
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of a bound volume used as both a log of visitors to the shop and a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, ephemera, magazine articles, announcements, and invitations to fashion shows. The first few pages of the volume are the guest book. The remaining pages were used as the scrapbook and is in reverse chronological order. Th...
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Arnold, Cheney & Co.
Moore, Ernst D. (importer, trader)
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1888-1932
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1.6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0321
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Moore's work as an ivory trader employed by Arnold, Cheney and Co. Includes copies of his diary entries while working as an ivory trader, financial documents, price lists, his writings on the subject of ivory, articles, a map, and photographs.
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Shanks, Lester
- Dates:
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1876-2010
bulk 1973-2008
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3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1244
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is comprised of the results of Shanks's research on covered bridges, mostly in America but also covered bridges in Canada and Switzerland. Included are albums containing color photographs of covered bridges, slides of covered bridges, postcards depicting covered bridges; maps, and guidebooks; newsletters, magazines, and newspaper clippings on the subject of covered bridges.
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Parke, Davis Company
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1867 - 1971
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179 Cubic feet (177 boxes, 21 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0001
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes engineer's files of equipment used in the Detroit plant; blueprints and linen drawings of the Detroit plant, including building floor layouts, equipment & placement, and computer readouts of the linen drawings; plant operating manuals from the Detroit factory; incomplete sets of the "Parke-Davis Review" and "Parke-Davis Notes"; photographs...
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Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company
- Dates:
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1948-1950
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1 Cubic foot (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0279
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Engineering drawings (81) of the Centralized Traffic Control Machine electrical circuits of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company (later Norfolk and Western Railway Company). The circuits extend from Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio and include those for mechanical controls, electrical signals, and telephone commu...
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Wells, Cady, 1904-1954
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1913-1968
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4.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wellcady
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter Cady Wells measure 4.3 linear feet and date from 1913 to 1968. The collection provides a range of documentation of Wells' life and career, namely as a landscape artist in New Mexico and as a servicemember of the United States Army during World War II. Among these materials are twenty-two personal journals; correspondence with friends, family, and art organizations; preliminary sketches and watercolors; fourteen sketchbooks; photographs; printed material; biographical material; and documents related to his professional affiliations.
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Hobbs, Horton H. (Horton Holcombe), 1914-1994
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1930-1989
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-212
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of field notes of Horton H. Hobbs (1914-1994), an invertebrate zoologist in the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology. These field notes primarily document his research on crayfish and ostracoda. Materials also include data sheets, catalogs, maps, scientific illustrations, and slides.
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Ladd, Harry S. (Harry Stephen), 1899-1982
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1912-1973
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-046
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists primarily of field notes of Harry S. Ladd (1899-1982), a geologist who spent much of his career with the United States Geological Survey (1940-1969) and with the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology (1969-1979). He specialized in the geology of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Materials also ...
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Shafer, Mary C.
Sheppard, Stephen
Vogel, Robert M.
Warner, Peter M.
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1876-1993
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3.3 Cubic feet (10 boxes, 12 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1132
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents World's Fairs from 1876 to 1993.
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Ostroff, Eugene, d. 1999 (NMAH Curator)
Salo, Matt, Dr.
Haberstich, David E., 1941-
Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
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1985 - 1986
1930 - 1943
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0.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0204
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains 273 silver gelatin photoprints (Series 1), most of which apparently were made during the 1930s and early 1940s, contemporaneously with the original negatives. All are 8" x 10" or slightly smaller, unmounted except for flush mounted linen on the backs of some prints. The photographs were made primarily in two locations, Ne...