Harold Lyons Atomic Clocks Collection
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Lyons, Harold, Dr., 1913-1998
Lyons, Sherrie
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1935 - 1991
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0701
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Harold Lyons was a physicist whose primary interest was in atomic frequency standards and atomic clocks. The collection documents Lyons and his work with atomic clocks. The collection includes his research as manifested in published papers, presentations, reports, correspondence, laboratory notes, photographs and diagrams.
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Horn, Walter William, 1908-1995
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1908-1992
bulk 1943-1950
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2.7 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hornwalt
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Archives of American Art
The papers of art historian and World War II Monuments Man Walter W. Horn measure 2.7 linear feet and date from 1908 to 1992, with the bulk of material dating from 1943 to 1950. Walter Horn taught art history at the University of California, Berkeley from 1938 to his retirement in 1974. During World War II, Horn served as Head of the U. S. Army Intelligence Unit of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section (MFAA.) The papers contain biographical materials; professional correspondence; records documenting his service in the MFAA; administrative files relating to his work at the University of California, Berkeley; and scattered photographs.
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Nelson, Scott
Bobcat Company
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1940s-2009
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24 Film reels
56 Cubic feet (128 boxes, 8 oversized folders)
10 electronic discs (cd)
5 electronic discs (dvd)
14 videocassettes (betacamsp)
38 videocassettes (u-matic)
9 videocassettes (vhs)
1 videocassettes (digital betacam)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1129
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Bobcat Company Records document a post-war invention process and American manufacturing system through the case study of a dynamic machine, the Bobcat skid-steer loader. The records focus primarily on Bobcat's products, marketing, and advertising through product literature, photographs, advertisements, posters, newsletters, and audiovisual materials.
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Procter & Gamble Company
Leyendecker, J. C., 1874-1951
Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935
Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green
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1883-1998
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10 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0791
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Print advertisements covering almost the entire history of Ivory Soap, including advertisements designed by artists including Jesse Wilcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and J. C. Leyendecker.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Academic Studies
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1964-1971
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9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 90-118
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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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Gerber, H. Joseph, 1924-1996
Gerber Scientific Instrument Company (Hartford, Conn.).
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1911 - 1999
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75 Cubic feet (182 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0929
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records document the Gerber Scientific Instrument Company, Hartford, Connecticut, and its four subsidiaries: Gerber Garment Technology, Inc., Gerber Scientific Products, Inc., Gerber Systems Corp., and Gerber Optical, Inc. Gerber Scientific designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services computer aided design and computer aided CAD/CAM systems. The records include correspondence, memoranda, product literature, trade literature, patent records, instruction manuals, proposals, engineering records, photographs, technical reports, drawings, press releases, and newspaper clippings.
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National Portrait Gallery. Department of Design and Production
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1981-2002
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8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-054
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two series. Series 1 consists of graphics records and documents the work of the department on such aspects of exhibitions as gallery guides, posters, invitations, label text, banners, letterhead, case labels, brochures, murals, and advertisements. Series 2 consists of installation records and documents the work ...
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Council of American Overseas Research Centers
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circa 1978-1990
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8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 91-147
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes International Center records which document programs of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). Materials include correspondence, memoranda, executive committee and annual board minutes, payroll earning lists, newspaper clippings, questionnaires, membership information, curriculum vitae, security prec...
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Sanford, Marion
- Dates:
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1929-1988
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2.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sanfmari
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of sculptors and close companions Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin measure 2.5 linear feet and date from 1929-1988. The papers include scattered materials created by and about both women, including biographical materials, one folder of correspondence for each woman, a few writings and essays, newsclippings, exhibition catalogs, other printed materials, and four scrapbooks (three about Chapin and one about Sanford). Photographs are of Chapin only and of artwork of both women. There is also one phonograph album transferred onto cassette of a radio interview with Chapin and several motion picture films of Chapin's home movies shot in upstate New York and Paris.
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Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
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1838-2017, undated
bulk 1872-1985
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23.1 Cubic feet (71 boxes, 3 map-size folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0475
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, by 1949.