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Still, George A., Dr.
Bean, Arthur Sanders
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1887-1941
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2.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0021
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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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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
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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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Faul, Jan, 1945-
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1991
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0441
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is a set of twenty-four black-and-white silver gelatin prints entitled "Potomac: East and West," by Jan Faul, 1991. They include agricultural landscapes, cemeteries, industrial buildings commercial buildings in rural areas, etc., in the Potomac River region of Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Each image contains a small area hand-colored by the photographer, providing a subtly mysterious, often whimsical or humorous effect.
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Ed King Collection of Civil Rights Material
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King, Ed
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1961-1970.
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0559
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The bulk of this collection contains affidavits and legal papers filed in civil action suits which document acts of violence committed against Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers between 1961 and 1964. All activity documented occurred in Mississippi, and much of the violence that occurred was inflicted by police and white civilians. ...
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Christian Heurich Brewing Company (Washington, D.C.)
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1883 - 1913
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1104
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of three unbound volumes of invoices, orders, and receipts from manufacturers and importers of beer-related supplies purchased by Christian Heurich Brewing Company of Washington, D.C., 1883-1913.
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Bukowski, Henry S., 1922-
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
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ca. 1930s-1940s
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0678
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs and postcards of entertainers, mostly jazz musicians and leaders of dance bands, etc., and related memorabilia.
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Wurtz, Henry, 1828-1910
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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1861-1885
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2 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0006
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Wurtz's scheme, presented in a report to the stockholders, was a new method for the dry distillation of non-caking coal to obtain liquid oils and paraffin. Included in this box are: the report to the stockholders of the Union Chemical Manufacturing Co., 1883; patent specifications, 1881; correspondence with the Patent Office, prospectus on coal distillation, 1885; a notebook of minutes from meetings of Union Chemical Manufacturing Co., 1881-1883.
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Taylor, Frances Long, Mrs.
Long, Crawford Williamson, Dr., 1815-1878
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1897
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0120
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Crawford W. Long's use of sulphuric ether on a patient. The materials include glass plate negatives, correspondence, printed documents, and photprints.
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Duncan, James T.
Duncan, Paul
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1937-1941
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0827
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Filmed entirely on location at the W. Clark McMillen Farm in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the Paul Duncan Film Collection documents three types of now obsolete farming practices using draft horses and manual labor: making hay (1937), threshing wheat (1939), and cradling & flailing (1941). The film is 8mm, black and white and color. Edge codes date f...
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Howell, Juanita
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
Howell, Chet
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1934-1958
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0255
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Mostly newspaper publicity and rodeo programs. 67 full- and half-page sheets from mostly small-town papers, with predominantly local news. The programs for performances at fairs sometimes include agricultural information, what was being judged, and the cash prize amounts. Most of the programs contain advertisements for small-town services and produ...