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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Department of Design
- Dates:
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1975-1995
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18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 99-015
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of exhibition files (arranged mostly in alphabetical order), including proposals, designs, planning and development files, exhibition scripts, photographs and slides of objects and installations, meeting minutes, catalogs, and floor plans. Records also include rejected and accepted exhibition proposals, exhibition ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Design and Construction
- Dates:
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1987-1996
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-172
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of one set of silver halide master microfiche (jackets) and seven silver halide (16mm and 35mm) rolls of film of renovation projects. For related paper files, see Accession 96-028.
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North American Aviation, Inc.
- Dates:
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1970
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0.36 Cubic feet ((1 letter document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1996.0059
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of drawings and reports relating to XB-70 Wind Tunnel Model, 1970.
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Herrick, Gerard Post, 1873-1955
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1842-1912
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1058
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Herrick's blast furnace and rotary steam engine business, including business correspondence, patent documents, drawings, machine operations data, and publications.
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Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Caruthers, Felix P.
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1952-1984
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0812
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers, mostly technical, relating to Caruthers' development of automated machine tools. The papers include technical reports and notes; schematics for specific inventions including diagrams, graphs, photographs and plans bound together; patents and related correspondence; operators' manuals; copies of papers delivered by Caruthers at engineering events; and assorted trade literature.
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Elaine Ostroff Universal Design Papers
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Ostroff, Elaine
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1965 - 2009
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16 Cubic feet (37 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1356
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents activist and educator Elaine Ostroff who advocated for improved access for people with disabilities in public places, co-founded the Adaptive Environments Center and who taught universal design in several institutions.
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Jeffers, Grace
Formica Corporation.
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1913-2003
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18 Cubic feet (59 boxes, 11 oversize folders )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0565
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Grace Jeffers Collection of Formica Materials consists of textual files, photographs, slides, negatives, drawings, blueprints, posters, advertisements, product brochures, newsletters, and informational pamphlets documenting the history of the Formica Corporation and the use of Formica brand plastic laminate.
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James Cunningham, Son and Company (Rochester, New York)
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1908-1964
bulk 1908-1929
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10 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1193
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of glass plate negatives and photographic prints of the glass plate negatives depicting horse-drawn hearses (funeral wagons), carriages, and ambulances and motorized vehicles produced by James Cunningham, Son and Company from approximately 1908 to 1929. The majority of the glass plates and photographic prints depict horse-drawn hearses, but there are some motorized vehicles.
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Smithsonian Institution
- Dates:
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1904
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31 Mounted prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.82-31
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National Anthropological Archives
Images of United States National Museum anthropological exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also called the St. Louis World's Fair. Images of the Department of Anthropology's exhibits include those of photographs and models of Mayan and Mesoamerican temples; antiquities from Mexico, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies; and American Indian,...
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1990
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3 videotapes (Reference copies). 6 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9550
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...