Western Union Telegraph Company Records
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- Creators:
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United Telegraph Workers.
Western Union Telegraph Company
- Dates:
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circa 1820-1995
- Size:
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452 Cubic feet (869 boxes and 21 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0205
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents in photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, correspondence, stock ledgers, annual reports, and financial records, the evolution of the telegraph, the development of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and the beginning of the communications revolution. The collection materials describe both the history of the company and of the telegraph industry in general, particularly its importance to the development of the technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection is useful for researchers interested in the development of technology, economic history, and the impact of technology on American social and cultural life.
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Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Office of the Program Coordinator
- Dates:
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1976-1986
- Size:
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7.5 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 87-095
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audio cassette tapes and reels of adult courses and seminars; videotapes of the Smithsonian Lecture Series; and slides used in course presentations.
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- Creators:
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Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Office of Public Affairs
- Dates:
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1974-1991
- Size:
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11.9 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 632
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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Renwick Gallery
- Dates:
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1972-1998
- Size:
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-172
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual recordings that document exhibitions, lectures, gallery talks, symposia, meetings, and concerts held at the Renwick Gallery. Materials include audiotapes, audiocassettes, videotapes, and images.
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Smithsonian Institution, Traveling Exhibition Service
- Dates:
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circa1963-2005
- Size:
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17.69 cu. ft. (17 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-059
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the planning, execution, administration, and promotion of traveling exhibitions. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press kits, photographs, catalog text, itineraries, fact sheets, checklists, meeting agendas, clippings, budgets, proposals, brochures, notes and related records. Records are ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Physical Plant. Horticulture Services Division. Office of the Director
- Dates:
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1972-1990
- Size:
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9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) (1 map case folder)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 94-035
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the administrative, correspondence, and subject files of James R. Buckler, who was hired in July 1972 to oversee the Smithsonian Institution's horticultural program. The records document the development of the program into the Office of Horticulture, of which Buckler became director. The records were not consistently...