Procter & Gamble Company Product Packaging Collection
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Deskey, Donald, 1894-
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Procter & Gamble Company
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1940s-1970s.
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1.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0836
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of flat-folded product packages for soap and detergent. Some of the packages were designed by industrial designer Donald Deskey.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1929-1974
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3 Cubic Feet (6 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1448
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers document consulting engineer Morris Jacks and his work with the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium, and the Third Avenue Transit Corporation.
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Madland, Glen
Goldstein, Andrew
Flaschen, Steward
Finn, Bernard S., 1932-
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1996.
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0.25 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0566
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Transcripts and audio cassettes of oral history interviews with pioneers in the field of microelectronics. The interviews document the spectrum of innovative activities in the microelectronics industry.
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Windsor & Ford (Brick Manufacturing Company).
Charles Ford (company).
Ford & Brother
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1859-1906
- Size:
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4.3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0019
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of invoices and receipts documenting the sale of bricks, purchase of supplies, and expenses for the real estate business; account books, ledgers, and a business diary showing employment records and the shipment of bricks by land and water. Records of Ford and Brother are primarily represented by Charles Ford, and later accou...
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Molella, Arthur P., 1944-
Nield, George C.
Potter, Michael
Weitekamp, Margaret
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2011 November 18-19
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1287
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents, through audio, video, and digital images, a symposium held November 18-19, 2011 at the National Air and Space Museum. The theeme of the symposium was innovations in space. Participants discussed invention and technology in the contest of space history and exploration.
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Barden, Henry, 1806-1871
Barden, William Wallace, 1843-1932
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1842-1934
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0824
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business correspondence of homeopathic physicians Henry Barden and his son, William Wallace Barden, of Penn Yan, New York and Barden Family correspondence.
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Szalay, Louis, 1911- (art director)
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1963-1968.
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2 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0412
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Original artwork produced under Mr. Szalay's supervision as Art Department Manager at Ted Bates & Co., 1965-1967. Series 1 consists of 36 comprehensives or "ad comps", circa 1965. Original artwork and mechanicals created for the Blue Bonnet margarine account make up the largest part of the collection, which also includes original artwork and mec...
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Cary Instruments.
Hawes, Roland C., 1908-1999
Applied Physics Corporation.
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1908-1997
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14.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0617
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, handwritten notes and sketches, memorandum reports, catalogs, printed material, patent documents, drawings, blueprints (original and diazo copies), and photographs document Hawes's work in the field of immunnassay, spectrophotometry, scientific apparatus and instruments industry, and administrative duties at Applied Physics Corporat...
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Person, Abigail
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Fox, Sally
- Dates:
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1997
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0646
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains 5 1/2 hours of footage documenting Sally Fox, an inventor of a commercially spinnable naturally colored cotton. This video was created on November 14, 1997.
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Kelker, Nancy L.
- Dates:
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1890-circa 2011
bulk 1968-2005
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1.3 Linear feet
0.001 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.kelknanc
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The Nancy Kelker research material regarding Mel Casas measures 1.3 linear feet and 0.001 GB dates from 1890 to circa 2011 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1968 to 2005. The material includes sound and video recordings of interviews with Casas by Kelker and Vincent Valdez, and a talk by Casas at Georgia Southwestern University; research files that include Casas' business and legal records, correspondence, exhibition records, photographs, and student papers about Casas; and printed materials consisting of clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, journals, newsletters, and posters relating to Casas' activities during his career. One interview transcript is in digital format. The material was compiled by Kelker for the book Mel Casas: Artist as Cultural Adjuster.