Curtiss-Wright Corporation Records
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Curtiss-Wright Corporation
- Dates:
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1868-1972
bulk 1925-1949
- Size:
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146 Cubic feet (228 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0067
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the corporate records of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Included in the collection are technical and engineering reports of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division's operations in St. Louis (Robertson), MO (1935-1945) and Buffalo, NY, (1932-1945), as well as AAS Material Division and AAF Air Technical Services Command memorandum reports collected by Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis and Buffalo technical reference libraries. The collection also contains the files of Curtiss-Wright's Patent Department, which hold records of patents filed by Curtiss-Wright and patent-infringement cases involving Curtiss-Wright. Also included in the collection are specifications issued by and photos commissioned by the Keystone Aircraft Corporation (Huff-Daland Airplanes, Inc. until March 1927), which had been acquired by Wright in 1928 along with Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp., and formed the Keystone Division of Curtiss-Wright until 1932 when Keystone's Bristol, PA factory closed its doors. The collection also contains financial records of the Curtiss-Wright Airports Corporation, which was liquidated in 1936, as well as an extensive negative collection featuring Curtiss-Wright aircraft from the 1930s and 1940s, concentrated especially on the war years.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Publications and Information
- Dates:
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1932, 1946, 1957-1989
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4.43 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-109
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by James C. Cornell, Jr., a public information specialist and publications manager for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) for nearly 40 years. SAO jointly administers the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) with the Harvard College Observatory. Materials prima...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Academic Studies
- Dates:
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1964-1971
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9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 90-118
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of administrative records documenting the activities of the Office of Academic Studies. Materials include correspondence and reports.
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Smithsonian Institution, Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center
- Dates:
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FY 1998-FY 2009
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-199
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the administration of the Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center and its relations with other Smithsonian offices and museums as well as the local tourist industry. These records were created and maintained by Mary Grace Potter, Director, 1975-2000, and Katherine Neill Ridgley, ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Public Affairs
- Dates:
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2003-2005
- Size:
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-063
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of newspaper clippings about Smithsonian Institution museums, curators, exhibitions, and events. Materials include clippings.
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Wodell, Helen Page
Cottrell, Lois Page
Poinier, Lois W.
- Dates:
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circa 1920-1999
- Size:
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154 lantern slides
1 Album
2,243 color slides
2.25 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.PNR
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Archives of American Gardens
The Lois W. Poinier Collection documents the work of Lois W. Poinier, a self-taught garden designer who designed scores of gardens, most of them in New Jersey.
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Bellcomm, Inc.
- Dates:
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1959-1972
- Size:
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81.71 Cubic feet (222 letter document boxes, 1 slim letter document box, 4 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0093
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains the non-book portion of Bellcomm's Technical Library. The material in the collection consists of technical reports prepared by NASA subcontractors and/or NASA facilities during the first decade of space exploration (1960-1970). The collections also includes some reports issued by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Pasadena, CA, including Space Program and Research Summaries, as well as technical and engineering documents.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Dates:
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1860-1961
- Size:
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17.2 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7176
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists primarily of reports, notebooks, notes, photographs, maps, and related materials documenting field research conducted by staff naturalists of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and its predecessor, the Bureau of Biological Survey. The reports, which primarily concern biological surveys conducted in the Un...
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Smithsonian Institution., Directorate of International Activities
- Dates:
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1984-1990
- Size:
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 90-091
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the personal project records of Mary S. McCutcheon while she was involved with the Directorate of International Activities (DIA). The research projects include African Material Culture, Third World, Madagascar, and Latin America History of Science and Technology. These records also consist of budget reports (drafts ...
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Public Affairs
- Dates:
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2011
- Size:
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-069
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of articles and clippings about Smithsonian Institution museums, curators, exhibitions, and events.