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GSS Printing Equipment Company.
Graphic Arts Collection (NMAH, SI)
Information Technology and Communications, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
Harris Automatic Press Company, Dayton, Ohio
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2003 - 2003
1889 - 1995
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6.5 Cubic feet (13 boxes and 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0928
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the Harris Automatic Press Company, manufacturers of a printing press with an automatic feed primarily through drawings and photographs.
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Cushing, Lily Emmet, 1909-1969
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1929-1972
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4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.cushlily
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter Lily Emmet Cushing date from 1929 to 1972 and measure 4.0 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical material; letters from friends including Henri Bernstein, Alfred M. Frankfurter, Katharine Graham, Nancy Kefauver, and Walt Kuhn; personal business records including financial material concerning the Maynard Walker Gallery; notes and writings; art work; printed material; and photographs.
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1987-1990
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files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9531
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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...
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Imperial Glass Company.
Corning Museum of Glass.
Ceramics and Glass, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Lancaster Colony Corporation.
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1909-1940
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box, 29 microfiche sheets)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0105
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is divided into two series, Catalogs and Photographs, on fifty nine (59) microfiche sheets. These are photographic reproductions of catalogs of Imperial Glass Products from 1909 to 1912 and of several photographs showing Imperial Glass Company products, their stock numbers and rulers indicating size. Some of these photos are hand ...
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United States Department of Agriculture photographs relating to a sugar expedition to New Guinea
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United States. Department of Agriculture
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1928-1929
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2 acetate negatives
3 nitrate negatives
100 Prints (ca. 100 prints: silver gelatin)
120 Prints (ca. 120 glass negatives)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-8
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National Anthropological Archives
Images of settlements, people (including Negritos), artifacts, agriculture (especially sugarcane), headdresses, tattooing and body marking, members of the expedition, and the expedition's plane. This collection contains photographs by every member of the expedition. Other images are from Frank Hurley's documentary, "Pearls and Savages", or were m...
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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
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1906-1947
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9 Cubic Feet (18 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0029
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The years before World War I were spent in patent litigation for aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and Orville and Wilbur Wright.
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Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939
Phillips, H. C.
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undated
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60 items (ca. 60 pages)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1930
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National Anthropological Archives
Contents of the Mooney peyote files prepared by David F. Aberle. May 2, 1952. Bureau of American Ethnology file number 1930, Peyote. James Mooney. One bound book (100 pages) mottled cover 10 x 15", containing notes on Peyote, about 60 of which have notes. Comments by David F. Aberle. No date in book. Handwriting unclear, many abbreviations, pencil ...
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Jantzen, Carl C.
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1925-1977
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7 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0233
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Carl C. Jantzen and John C. Zehntbauer founded the Portland Knitting Company in 1910 as a retail store selling knitted products (i.e. sweaters, hosiery, jackets). Carl Jantzen later invented an automated circular knitting machine that allowed the company to make light-weight materials for swimsuits. In 1916, the company first used the name Jantzen as their trademark and went on to specialize in swimsuits.
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Wheeler, Perry H., 1914-1989
University of Georgia
Garden Club of America
Emory University
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1880-1984
bulk 1950-1965
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25.75 Cubic feet
3,958 photographic items
- Collection ID:
- AAG.WHE
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Archives of American Gardens
The Perry H. Wheeler Collection includes the design, client and business records of Perry H. Wheeler, a landscape architect best known for his work on numerous townhouse gardens in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., during the 1960s as well as the redesign of the White House Rose Garden in collaboration with Rachel Lambert ('Bunny') Mellon during the Kennedy administration.
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Kit Manufacturing Company.
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1951-1995.
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0.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0518
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials documenting the manufacture and sale of Kit Mobile Homes.