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Condon, Robert B.
Condon, Robert Scofield, 1896-1973 (engineer)
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circa 1924-1973
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3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0428
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of correspondence, photographs, and copies of patents issued to inventor Robert Scofield Condon.
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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
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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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O'Connell, Rosalie Melita
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1912-1917
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0187
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains 205 photoprints, including 149 informal outdoor portraits and 46 studio portraits. Although the photographs, post cards, and other materials have been physically removed from the cyanotype album, album captions for the photographs are preserved in copy photographs made before the materials were removed during conservation t...
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Roebling, Charles Gustavus, 1849-1918
Roebling, Ferdinand W. (Ferdinand William), 1842-1917
John A. Roebling's Sons Company
Roebling, John Augustus, 1806-1869
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1836-1975
bulk 1930-1950
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18.5 Cubic feet (62 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0981
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the work of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, builders of bridges. The materials consist primarily of photograph albums documenting some of the bridges, tramways, ski lifts and chair lifts that Roebling's Sons Company was involved with. The documentation also includes specifications, patents, and reference materials about the engineering process of building bridges and bridges in general.
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1865–1872
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24 Reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAAHC.FB.M1908
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 24 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M1908. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Office of the Disbursing Officer for Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872. The records of the disbursing officer are the only field records for Missouri, but they reflect his overall responsibility for freedmen affairs in the state. These records consist of bound volumes and unbound records, containing materials that include letters sent and received, registers of marriages, and other records relating to freedmen's claims and bounty payments.
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National Congress of American Indians
- Dates:
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1933-1990
bulk 1944-1989
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251 Linear feet (597 archival boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.010
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The National Congress of American Indian (NCAI), founded in 1944, is the oldest nation-wide American Indian advocacy organization in the United States. The NCAI records document the organization's work, particularly that of its office in Washington, DC, and the wide variety of issues faced by American Indians in the twentieth century. The collection is located in the Cultural Resource Center of the National Museum of the American Indian.
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1865–1872
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65 Reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAAHC.FB.M1907
- Repository:
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 65 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M1907. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Mississippi headquarters for the Assistant Commissioner and his staff officers and the subordinate field offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872. The files contain some pre–Bureau record series, dated 1863–1864, that were created by military commanders and U. S. Treasury agents who dealt with refugees and freedmen during the Civil War. These records consist of bound volumes and unbound records, containing materials that include letters sent and received, monthly reports, registers of complaints, and other records relating to freedmen's claims and bounty payments.
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Bay State Gas Company.
- Dates:
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1858-1929
- Size:
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0.75 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1049
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document an investigation by M.L. Webb, an attorney from Massachusetts, into possible trust violations by the coal and gas industry of New England, New Jersey, and Delaware in the late nineteenth century. Documents assembled by Webb include patents, stock records, photographs, correspondence, hand written notes, published materials, and investigation notebooks.
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Morrow, Stanley J.
- Dates:
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circa 1865-1887
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434 Copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.R4468
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Stanley J. Morrow depicting Plains Indians, agencies, and United States Army installations and expeditions. About half of the subjects relate to American Indians, including Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan, Ponca, Crow, Cheyenne, Bannock, Hunkpapa, Oglala, and other Teton Sioux including "Loafer Band," Yanktonai, Santee, Sisseton and W...
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Tylander, Charles
- Dates:
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bulk 1970s-2000s
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2.21 Cubic feet ((8 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2013.0043
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 6,479 postcards collected by Charles C. Tylander. The postcards represent many national and international airlines including Adria Airways (Germany/Slovenia); Aer Lingus (Ireland); Aeroflot (Russia); Aeromexico (Mexico); AeroPeru (Peru); Aero Trasporti Italiani (ATI) (Italy); Air Afrique (France); Air Alger...