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Photographic History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Rosenthal, Joseph
Faber, John (photographer)
National Press Photographers Association
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1957-1968
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28 sound tape reels (1/4"audio tapes, open reel)
0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0620
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes conversations with significant photographers and their experiences documenting historic events. Some of the material is associated with John Faber's book, "Great Moments in News Photography" (New York: T. Nelson, 1960). Includes Faber's interview with photographer Joe Rosenthal about his famed Iwo Jima photograph.
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J&B Manufacturing Company.
Huldah's Brook, Inc.
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1903-1924.
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4 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0563
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting J&B's manufacture and marketing of automobile parts to car dealers, jobbers and small retailers; correspondence, information on the supply of auto parts to Latin America, reports from jobbers, and information on parts developed and patented by J&B; information on the company itself, including documentation on factory floor operat...
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Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901 (inventor)
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1871-1938.
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3.6 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0014
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Legal documents, photographs, articles, copies of correspondence, three folders of original Gray correspondence on the Gray-Bell controversy; most of the collection consists of copies of material, or printed matter, collected by Lloyd W. Taylor of the museum staff.
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Espenschied, Lloyd, 1889-? ((electrical engineer) )
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1907-1969.
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11.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0013
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous information on the history of telephonic and wireless communication; considerable personal correspondence about men and events in the field, especially disputed claims of inventions, development, and the like.
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Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
American Scale and Service Company
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1912-1956
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0010
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records of this company, located in Kansas City, Missouri, include invoices; bills of material (quantity surveys); sales records with model name, number, date, customer; and promotional literature and specifications.
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Emmett McBain Afro-American Advertising Poster Collection
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McBain, Emmett
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1971 - 1976
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0192
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains examples of advertisements done by McBain for McDonald, Malboro, and a Chicago Arts Festival entitled "Black Folk Us." The nine posters in the collection date from 1971 to 1976.
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American Express (New York)
Leibovitz, Annie, 1949-
- Dates:
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1988.
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1 Item (1 folder, 15" x 12," in mat with Mylar overlay, 21-3/8" x 18-1/8")
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0588
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Image shows Ella Fitzgerald in red dress and hat with fur (designed by Don Loper), posed with a Mercedez-Benz automobile. The picture was created for an American Express Card advertisement, ca. 1987, part of a popular "portraits" campaign for American Express, for which the photographer won the Clio Award and the Campaign of the Decade Award from A...
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Smith, Walker R., 1910-
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circa 1936-1991
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
100 Photographic prints (11" x 14", 8" x 10", 6" x 11", 4" x 10", 5"x 7", 4" x 5", and smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0446
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of the rural Maryland village of Doubs and environs; subjects include trains and railroad subjects, farming activities, grocery stores, people at work and play, etc.
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Ryan, Francis Carroll (elementary school student)
Herosian, Rocky (former NMAH guard)
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1910-1943
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0295
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes pictorial greeting cards for Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc., and picture post cards, some with written messages; and grade school report cards, health reports, perfect attendance certificates, a Routt College High School commencement program (1937), and other school documents. Most of the material relates to or is addressed to Francis Ca...
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Merker, Walter H., Jr.
PCC and St. L Railroad
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1925-1928
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1079
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographic prints of railroad construction in Pierron, St. Jacob, and Collinsville, Illinois, from 1925-1927.