Joseph B. Friedman Papers
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Rosen, Judith B.
Reiss, Linda A.
Leeds, Pamela B.
Friedman, Robert A.
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1915-2000
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8 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0769
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to the development of the flexible drinking straw, Friedman's manufacturing company, and Friedman's other inventions, such as an ice cream scoop, fountain pens, and household appliances.
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Falcone Custom Grand Pianos
Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Pratt, Read and Company
Sohmer & Company
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1872-1989
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43 Cubic feet (82 boxes and 11 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0349
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records of Sohmer & Co., date from 1872 through 1989. They fall into fourteen series based primarily on function. Legal, financial, inventory & appraisal, manufacturing, marketing, advertising, and sales are the major series. Photographs, awards, family papers, publications about Sohmer, general publications, "miscellaneous" and corresponden...
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Landor Associates
Landor, Walter
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circa 1930-1994
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146 Cubic Feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0500
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the career of designer Walter Landor and the significant body of commercial imagery and packaging produced by Landor Associates design firm. Contains corporate and business records of Landor Associates, personal papers of Landor, oral history interviews, films, videotapes, and other audiovisual resources.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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circa 1955-1985
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10 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 95-116
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document research, exhibition planning, and collecting activities of the Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering for the Hall of Civil Engineering and the Hall of Heavy Machinery in the National Museum of American History. Materials include the correspondence and memoranda of Robert M. Vogel, Assistant Curator, 1958-1960, ...
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Giacconi, Riccardo
- Dates:
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1955-2002
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82.13 cu. ft. (80 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (1 blueprint storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7416
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document Riccardo Giacconi's professional career, and consist of papers illustrating his scientific work and administrative records relating to the institutions at which he worked. There is extensive documentation of Giacconi's professional activities, including meetings attended, papers presented (and published), his services a...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum
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1860-1908
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76.58 cu. ft. (151 document boxes) (3 5x8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 189
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Most of the correspondence is directed to Goode, with lesser amounts to True, Walcott, and Rathbun. Also, a small amount of correspondence is addressed to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, (Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel P. Langley, 1887-1906) but is generally referred to the Assistant Secretary for response. Much of the material is...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Museum Programs
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1972-1986, with related records from 1879-1899 and 1965-1976
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163.32 cu. ft. (160 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (1 12x17 box) (34 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 342
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the work of the assistant secretary for Museum Programs. The office directed the operations of the Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Office of Exhibits Central, Office of the Registrar, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and the Institution's functions under ...
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1990
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13 videotapes (Reference copies). 39 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9553
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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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D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968
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1921-1983
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2.4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.dharrene
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Austrian born curator, lecturer, and museum director, René d'Harnoncourt (1901-1968), document d'Harnoncourt's activities, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly as they relate to Mexican and Native American art. D'Harnoncourt's career, including his arrival in Mexico in 1925, his curation of the exhibitions, Mexican Art (1930-1932), and Indian Art of the United States (1941), and his work for the Department of the Interior's Indian Arts and Crafts Board from 1937-1944, are documented in small amounts of biographical material and correspondence, published writings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs of d'Harnoncourt and colleagues, and photographs of works of art. The collection also contains a drawing of d'Harnoncourt, and photocopies of caricatures of d'Harnoncourt and others.
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National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
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circa 1925-1937, 1954-1985
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5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 375
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document administrative operations and exhibition programs of the Department of the History of Science and Technology and its predecessors, chiefly from 1958 to 1985. A small amount of the records pertain to technological exhibitions and other activities of curatorial divisions located in the Arts and Industries Building in ...