N W Ayer Advertising Agency Records
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Ayer (N W) Incorporated.
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1817-1851
1869-2006
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270 Cubic feet (1463 boxes, 33 map-folders, 7 films)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0059
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of records documenting one of the oldest advertising agencies created in Philadelphia. The company then moves to New York and expanses to international markets. During its history NW Ayer & Sons acquires a number of other advertising agencies and is eventually purchased. The largest portion of the collection is print advertisements but also includes radio and television. NW Ayer is known for some of the slogans created for major American companies.
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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June 25-July 6, 2014
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.2014
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Smithsonian Institution. National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board
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circa 1960-1975
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13.58 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 581
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the activities of NAFMAB, including collecting and accessioning, planning for a site, exhibits design, and carrying out various projects. Also included is a multi-volume chronology of events, 1946-1973, in addition to copies of files of NMHT curator Mendel L. Peterson, who represented the Smithsonian on a preliminary ...
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W. Atlee Burpee Company
W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee), 1858-1915
Burpee, David, 1893-1980
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circa 1873-1980
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200 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.BUR2
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Archives of American Gardens
The W. Atlee Burpee & Company records, dated circa 1873-1986, document the firm's business activities developing plant varieties, working with contract seedsmen, and marketing and selling seeds. They include seed trial records, seed contracts, sales and acccounting records, inventories, office correspondence, seed catalogs, promotional and instructional materials, advertisements and advertising reports, contest letters, daybooks, photographs, reference materials, and other items relating to the company and some of its competitors. The collection also includes Burpee family papers.
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Medical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Parke, Davis Company
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1867-1971
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300 Cubic feet (389 boxes, 42 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0001
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Parke-Davis and Company, one of the most important and oldest pharmaceutical firms in America.
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National Zoological Park
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1887-1966
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147 cu. ft. (288 document boxes) (1 tall document box) (4 bound volumes) (71 microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 74
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The earliest records concerning the National Zoological Park date from 1887. They were kept by the Office of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution until 1890, when they were transferred to Holt House, the Park's administrative headquarters. During the late 1960's the records were transferred to the custody of the Smithsonian Institution...
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Smithsonian Institution
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1867-1940
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60.45 cu. ft. (91 document boxes) (7 half document boxes) (15 12x17 boxes) (3 16x20 boxes) (2 cu. ft. large oversize box) (67 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 70
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The exposition records of this collection provide an account of the Smithsonian's involvement in twenty-two domestic and foreign expositions between 1876 and 1908. The depth of coverage in the records is uneven, but they still convey a wealth of information about Smithsonian participation in expositions, chiefly during the last quarter of...
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Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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1856-1989, undated
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65 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0395
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed advertisements, scrapbooks, correspondence, marketing research, radio commercial scripts, photographs, proof sheets, reports, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, television commercial storyboards, blueprints, legal documents, and audiovisual materials primarily documenting the history, business practices, and advertising campaigns of the Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated. Collection documents the professional and private lives of the Hills family; insight into the cultivation, production, and selling of coffee; and construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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Underwood & Underwood
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1895-1921
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160 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0143
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The major part of the collection, series 1-4, contains nearly 28,000 glass plates, including original stereoscopic negatives, interpositives, and both negative and positive non-stereoscopic plates used to produce lantern slides and paper prints. The photographs were taken all over the world. The majority are from the Underwood & Underwood active fi...
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Schiedt, Duncan P., 1921-2014
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1900-2012, undated
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65 Cubic feet (124 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1323
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Duncan Schiedt (1921-2014) was a jazz scholar, writer, photographer, film maker, researcher and pianist. He authored four books relating to jazz history. Many of his photographs and articles were featured in magazines, periodicals and documentaries. Schiedt also collected the work of other photographers on the subject of jazz. The collection primarily consists of photographs created by or collected by Mr. Schiedt.