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Rivers, Charles, 1904-1993
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1929-1963
bulk 1929-1930
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0.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0360
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains: twenty-nine silver gelatin photoprints mounted on Fome-Core, Masonite, and cardboard, ranging in size from 5-1/2" x 9-1/4" to 10-11/16" x 13-13/16"; three 5" x 7" unmounted silver gelatin photoprints; a scrapbook which originally contained 56 silver gelatin photoprints, ranging in size from 2" x 3" to 7-1/2" x 9-1/2"; and s...
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Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
Marx, Groucho (Julius Henry), 1890-1977 (comedian)
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1911-1978, undated
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12 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0269
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers, films, and collected materials of 20th century comedian Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx.
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Gensel, John
Morgen, Joe
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1950-1979
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0763
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to Duke Ellington, once owned by Ellington's publicist Joe Morgen: Morgen's correspondence, much of it relating to appearances by Ellington; photographs; some financial records; some music manuscripts of Ellington's; concert and theater programs; a film of Ellington at the White House in 1969 when he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Nixon; and press releases and newspaper and magazine articles.
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Hendricks, Gordon
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1895-1970
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27 Cubic feet (55 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0369
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Contains Gordon Hendricks's collection of clippings, correspondence, and research notes, and other professional papers related to his books and articles on motion picture history. Includes files on Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, and other pioneers in motion picture inventions.
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Dodd, Sharon Donovan
Donovan, Christine
Donovan, James F. Jr., Dr.
Donovan, Marion (Marion O'Brien), 1917-1998 (inventor)
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1949-1999
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7 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 2 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0721
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, patents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and subject files about various inventors and ideas. Collection documents women inventors, American culture, 1950s-1970s, and products designed for women and the home. Donovan's papers offer a near complete invention record, including both successes and failures, as well as patent and trademark correspondence.
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Underwood & Underwood
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1895-1921
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160 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0143
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of approximately 28,000 glass plate negatives showing views of a variety of subjects.
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Cornell, Joseph
- Dates:
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1750-1980, bulk 1930-1972
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196.8 Linear feet
186 Nitrate negatives
- Collection ID:
- SAAM.JCSC.1
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Research and Scholars Center
The Joseph Cornell Study Center collection measures 196.8 linear feet and dates from 1750 to 1980, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930 to 1972. Documenting the artistic career and personal life of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), the collection is primarily made up of two- and three-dimensional source material, the contents of the artists' studio, his record album collection, and his book collection and personal library. The collection also includes diaries and notes, financial and estate papers, exhibition materials, collected artifacts and ephemera, photographs, correspondence, and the papers of Robert Cornell (1910-1965) and Helen Storms Cornell (1882-1966), the artist's brother and mother.
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Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
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1976
1863 - 1968
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15 Cubic feet (49 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0005
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document Leo H. Baekeland, a Belgian born chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile plastic. The papers include student notebooks; private laboratory notebooks and journals; commercial laboratory notes; diaries; patents; technical papers; biographies; newspaper clippings; maps; graphs; blueprints; account books; batch books; formula books; order books; photographs; and correspondence regarding Baekeland, 1887-1943.
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United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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1898 - 1987
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145 Cubic feet (296 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0277
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the activities of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation of Beverly, Massachusetts, manufacturers of shoe machinery equipment. The collection consists of engineering records, legal records, research and development records, employee/personnel records, correspondence, company catalogs, product literature, advertising materials, photographs, and moving images.
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Takaki, Michiko, 1930-2014
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1921-2011
bulk 1960s
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134.16 Linear feet (167 boxes, 7 rolls, and 7 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2016-23
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The papers of Michiko Takaki, 1921-2011 (bulk 1960s), document her field work among the Kalinga people of the northern Philippines and her professional contributions as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The papers consist primarily of economic and linguistic field data gathered between 1964 and 1968, used in the production of her doctoral dissertation ("Aspects of Exchange in a Kalinga Society, Northern Luzon," 1977) and throughout her anthropological career. The collection consists of field notes, maps, photographic prints, negatives, slides, sound recordings, recorded film, data and analysis, correspondence, working files and drafts, and publications.