J. Horace McFarland Company collection
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McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948
American Rose Society
- Dates:
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1899-1974
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30 Cubic feet (2718 photographs: black and white; 450 glass lantern slides; 41 glass negatives; color records; plant patents; publications. )
- Collection ID:
- AAG.MCF
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Archives of American Gardens
The J. Horace McFarland Collection includes over 3,100 photographic images of private and public gardens throughout the United States, as well as some from foreign countries, dating from 1899 to 1963. Many of these images, generated for Mount Pleasant Press (later the J. Horace McFarland Company), were used to illustrate trade catalogs published by the firm as well as journal and newspaper articles. The collection also contains color records that were used as reference aids during the printing process, plant patents, and various publications of the McFarland Company.
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Porter, John C.
Navarre, Jack B., 1925- (merchant seaman)
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1943-2001
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0405
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents individuals who served in the Merchant Marine's and Navy between 1943 and 1946.
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Messmore, George Harold
Messmore and Damon Company
Damon, Joseph
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1892 - 1998
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16 Cubic feet (40 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0846
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records document Messmore and Damon's work in the design and construction of parade floats, museum dioramas, exhibitions, displays and scenery. The materials include business records, photographs, patents, scrapbooks, promotional materials, sound recordings and moving image.
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Moore, Clayton, 1914-1999
Moore, Dawn A.
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1980-1999, undated
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0.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0727
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection assembled by actor Clayton Moore, known as "The Lone Ranger". Moore played "The Lone Ranger", with Jay Silverheels as Tonto, on television from 1949 to 1951, when he was replaced by John Hart.
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Ravnitzky, Michael
- Dates:
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circa 1900-present
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29 Cubic feet (55 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0404
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains a variety of business ephemera similar to that found in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana. The material in the Business Americana Collection is newly acquired ephemera received from many sources including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian Institution staff.
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Rivers, Charles, 1904-1993
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1929-1963
bulk 1929-1930
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0.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0360
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains: twenty-nine silver gelatin photoprints mounted on Fome-Core, Masonite, and cardboard, ranging in size from 5-1/2" x 9-1/4" to 10-11/16" x 13-13/16"; three 5" x 7" unmounted silver gelatin photoprints; a scrapbook which originally contained 56 silver gelatin photoprints, ranging in size from 2" x 3" to 7-1/2" x 9-1/2"; and s...
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Ryder Mobile Homes, Inc.
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circa 1920s-2001
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15 Cubic feet (44 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0777
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents trailer park life, particularly the Ryder Mobile Homes Park founded by Ralph Ryder in New Haven, Connecticut in 1930.
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Taylor, Frances Long, Mrs.
Long, Crawford Williamson, Dr., 1815-1878
- Dates:
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1897
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0120
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Crawford W. Long's use of sulphuric ether on a patient. The materials include glass plate negatives, correspondence, printed documents, and photprints.
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Kidder, Priscilla C. (costume designer)
Priscilla of Boston.
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1940-1996
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4 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0557
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection includes letters, sketches, style books, publicity photographs, tearsheets, articles and clippings, scrapbooks, and business documents relating to Priscilla Kidder, the Priscilla of Boston Company, and the American wedding industry. This collection is extraordinarily useful in documenting the development of wedding fashion during the last half of the 20th century. It also illustrates how a small, family-owned, woman-run business grew into a large, nationally known operation.
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1903 - 1989
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400 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0301
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.
