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Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Business Ventures. Product Development and Licensing
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1971-2005
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42 cu. ft. (42 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-001
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the processes of Product Development and Licensing at Smithsonian Business Ventures. The unit's primary function is to generate revenue for the Smithsonian Institution through the licensing and development of products related to collections within the Smithsonian museums. Some of these pro...
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Mair, LaVeda
Mair, Francis M., 1916-1991 (commercial artist)
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1935-1994
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56 Cubic feet (104 Boxes, 40 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0548
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Client files, administrative files, artwork, and collected food labels from graphic and industrial designer Francis Mair. Mair specialized in beverage labels and packaging during his many years with Landor Associates in San Francisco. Late in his career, he directed Landor's Museum of Packaging History. His prolific freelance career included designs for furniture, decorative arts, letterhead, and corporate images. His personal artwork included alphabets, typefaces, and sketchbooks. Much of his personal artwork is humorous or erotic.
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North American Water and Power Alliance.
Ralph M. Parsons Corporation (Pasadena, Calif.)
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1964-1990
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1052
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains executive reports, promotional material, correspondence, articles and publications documenting the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), which was a large-scale, transcontinental water transfer plan designed by the Ralph M. Parsons Corporation in 1964.
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United States National Museum. Office of the Registrar
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1880, 1884, 1888, 1892-1893, 1897-1898, 1901
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 124
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records contain information concerning the shipment of exhibits and supplies to and from expositions in which the Smithsonian Institution participated. The materials document the work of Stephen C. Brown, Registrar, 1880-1919.
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National Air and Space Museum
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1970-1975
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-252
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the activities of the National Air and Space Museum prior to the completion of the National Air and Space Museum building. The majority of the materials document project planning within the Aeronautics Department. Materials also document overall move preparations and facility staffing. Materials ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Provost
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1992-1996
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-043
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document Special Exhibition Fund (SEF) grant activities for significant exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution. The fund was first administered by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities, 1992-1994, and by the Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities, 1994-1996, be...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Under Secretary
- Dates:
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1987
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 90-033
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting Smithsonian Institution (SI) activities during the term of Dean W. Anderson as Under Secretary in 1987. It includes correspondence, memoranda, information booklets from various museums, audit reports, data concerning traveling exhibitions, appointment log, SI credit card program, management agenda...
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National Portrait Gallery. Office of the Registrar
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1981-2001
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-090
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document outgoing loans. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, condition reports, facility reports, loan agreements, black-and-white photographs, and color photographs and transparencies.
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Forman H. Craton Papers
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Craton, Forman H., 1902-1983
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1902-1983
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4.15 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0454
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Diaries and memoirs, profusely illustrated with photographs and other mementos, which describe Craton's life, education and work experience as an engineer at General Electric in minute detail, and include his comments on the culture, current events and politics of the times; and correspondence, mostly letters from Craton to his wife and to his mother.
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Smithsonian Institution. Archives
- Dates:
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circa 1977-1993
- Size:
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-063
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of administrative subject files created and maintained by William W. Moss, former Director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA), 1983-1993. Materials include reports, memoranda, budget material, position descriptions for archivists and archives technicians, annual reports, conservation and preservation informat...