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Humphrey, Joseph
Humphrey, Marion
Humphrey Family
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ca. 1905-1906.
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1196
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of postcards dating from 1903 to 1907, including some that are unsent and undated. Many are addressed to members of the Humphrey family, but the individual who created the album is unknown.
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Minor, Frank (photographer)
Armstrong, W. L., Mrs.
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1865-1885
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0183
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 8" x 10" and 10 4" x 5" glass photonegatives, some marked "1885", one marked "1865" and "Libby Prison"), but most seem from ca. 1885; silver gelatin except two silver collodion plates, one of which bears the "1865." The large plates were stored in a nineteenth-century wooden, grooved plate box (now stored separately). Images depict buildings and...
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CIGNA
Seymour, Frank
- Dates:
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1852 - 1957
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1232
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents firefighting and fires in American history through newspaper and magazine illustrations, ephemera, and photographs. The emphasis is on large urban fires (New York City and Chicago) and industrial fires in the northeastern United States. There are some illustrations of cartoons, rescues, poems, fires on ships and clippings about great floods in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
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Lenkowsky, Mandel
- Dates:
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1935-1952
- Size:
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2.18 Cubic feet (2 records center boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0099
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes notebooks containing scientific notes and mathematical calculations, a random assortment of journals and periodicals, published reference books, and a few advertising and promotional brochures all pertaining to American experimental military and commercial vertical flight from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. The collection also contains photographs of the following helicopters: Sikorsky XR-1, XR-4, YR-4, XR-5, XR-6, XR-6A, VS-300; Kellet XO-60 and XO-61; and Rotachute P-4. Also included are photographs of helicopters by Pitcarin, Landgraf, Greyhound Bus, Spratt, Berliner, Ochmichen, and DeBothezat.
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Wilhelm
White, Sydney Victor
Lord, R. H.
Petit, Pierre, 1832-
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ca. 1870-1900
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1 Folder
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0191
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains twelve photoprints in the cabinet print format, although only nine are true albumen cabinet prints. The subjects depicted are European scientists. Except as otherwise noted in the listing, biographical information about the subjects was located in standard biographical references, such as Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Chambers' Dictionary of Scientists, and World Who's in Science.
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Still, George A., Dr.
Bean, Arthur Sanders
- Dates:
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1887-1941
- Size:
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2.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0021
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes photographs, brief biographies and some correspondence of 105 prominent osteopaths, all submitted in 1918 apparently as the result of a circular written request by Dr. George A. Still, a trustee of the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, and a great-nephew of the founder of that institution, Dr. A.T. Still. Oth...
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McCombs, Solomon, 1913-1980 (Creek)
- Dates:
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1941-1974
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2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.1974.0401
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Reflecting the professional activity of Solomon McCombs, Creek Indian artist, and promoter of his people's culture, these papers include correspondence, lectures, unpublished writings, photographs, and various other items collected by the artist. The bulk of the correspondence consists of two categories of incoming letters pertaining to McCombs' ...
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Seele, Charline
Seele, Jean W. (Jean Warren), 1924-1993
- Dates:
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1963-1983
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0759
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approx. 1,065 color photographs (chromogenic prints), negatives and slides of rural scenes, mostly in Kansas.
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Washburn Wire Company
- Dates:
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1934-1979
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0074
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records consist of a copy of a legal agreement to convey real property between the Company and the City of New York; diagrams showing designation of buildings; illustrations; Business Plan and Loan Request, 1979-1980, 1980-1981; photographs; book of Plans for Plant Revision, which contains: monthly and yearly production charts, real estate ma...
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Vogel, Robert M.
Sawyer, William D.
- Dates:
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1988
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1329
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains a manuscript history of the Corliss Engine written by William Sawyer. The documents include text with written edits and illustrations.