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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Century Recording Studios.
Dodd, Ed, (1902-1986?) (cartoonist)
Dodd, Rosemary Wood
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before 1985.
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0.3 Cubic feet (10 items)
Television program:,Videotape cassette.
Master copies :,Vinyl sound discs,,10" diam.,,33-1/3 r.p.m.
User copies:,Audiotapes, open-reel,,7",,7-1/2 ips.
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0165
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Videotapes:,Interview with Dodd, 31:58 running time; and copy of television program, "The Well-Traveled Trail."
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1969 - 2001
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0.75 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-099
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
These records include documents relating to Nancy Shia's service from 1982-1984 as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner of the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC. Materials include correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, annual reports, grant proposals, newspaper clippings, and political fliers. Also contained in the collection are ...
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Sherman Poppen Papers
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Poppen, Sherman, 1930-
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1966 - 2008
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1.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1159
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Sherman Poppen Papers document the snurfer, the predecessor of the snowboard that he invented in 1965. The snurfer, a sled that was ridden while standing up, originally consisted of two skis bound together. Snurfer competitions fueled the development of the snowboard as a piece of sporting equipment. This collection contains material describing the snurfer's place in snowboarding history, and the associated business and legal aspects.
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Gaskin, Mary
Gaskin, Leonard, 1920-
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undated
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30 Cubic feet (129 boxes, 4 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0900
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting the life and career of bass player Leonard Gaskin, as well as documenting the numerous other musicians he was associated with in his long career. Gaskin's career encompasses a wide range of musical genres, including gospel, rock, folk, and Caribbean music. The papers include photographs, newspaper clippings, diaries, music manusc...
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Herman, Woodrow Charles "Woody", -1987
Siefert, Jack William, 1918-
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1913-1990.
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16 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0659
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sound recordings, business records, photographs, correspondence, and concert posters documenting the career of Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Holly Manufacturing Company
Worthington Corporation
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1840-1982
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18 Cubic feet (54 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0916
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the products and business activities of the Worthington Corporation, its predecessors and its subsidiaries. The records focus on the products that the Worthington Corporation produced, including steam pumps, hydraulic pumps and gas engines.
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Blum, Morris
WANN Radio Station (Annapolis, Maryland)
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1940-1999
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13 Cubic feet (32 boxes and 12 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0800
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the creative, technical and political aspects of managing WANN Radio Station in Annapolis, Maryland during the mid-Twentieth Century. Key areas of research include black radio stations; Annapolis African American communities; marketing to Black communities; political activism through media; Black-Jewish community relationships; church, community and media activism.
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Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Marton, Ladislaus Laszlo, 1901-1979 (physicist)
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1932 - 1970
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4.66 Cubic feet (14 boxes, one (1) 16 mm film)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0100
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of materials documenting the history of electron optics, especially electron microscopes. Included are engineering drawings of Marton's devices, designed in Belgium, Stanford and RCA in the 1930s and 1940s; notebooks concerning extensive investigations in electron microscopy; photographs and micrographs concerning developm...
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Kwolek, Stephanie
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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1996 March 25
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0.45 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0596
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of two and one half hours of original (BetaCam SP), master (BetaCam SP) and reference (viewing) copies (VHS), documenting a lecture program for children on March 25, 1996 by Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar. Kwolek discusses her invention of Kevlar as well as her background and life experiences.
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Maidenform, Inc.
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1922-1997
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35 Cubic feet (87 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0585
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Patent and trademark documents, advertisements, sales and marketing material, market research, photographs, packaging, company newsletters and magazines, and business records documenting the history of the Maidenform Company from 1922 to1997.