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Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Air-Conditioning
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
circa 1866-1965
Size:
3.2 Cubic feet (consisting of 5 boxes, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder, 2 flat boxes.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Air
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Air-Conditioning forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

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Digitized Content Historic Maps of Africa collection
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Dates:
circa 1631-1973
Size:
78 Maps
Collection ID:
EEPA.1991-001
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from topographical information, boundaries of colonial territories, and ethnic groups, among other topics. While several depict the continent of Africa in its entirety, many focus on specific countries and geographic regions. There are a particularly large number of maps depicting the West African Coast.

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Digitized Content Joseph-Fidèle Bernard photographs from Alaska
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Creators:
Bernard, Joseph-Fidèle, 1878-1972
Dates:
1921
Size:
11 Glass plate negatives
11 Copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.132
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Joseph-Fidèle Bernard photographs from Alaska consists of negatives taken by Bernard in 1921 among the Inupiaq (Alaska Inupiat Eskimo) and Siberian Yu'pik communities. Bernard was an artic trader, trapper and captain of the schooner "Teddy Bear."

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Digitized Content Photographs of Chief Wolf Wanna
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Creators:
Marotta, Louis
Dates:
circa 1910-1914
Size:
0.05 Linear feet
7 Photographic prints
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.332
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection consists of 5 publicity photographic portraits and 2 photographic performance posters of Native American entertainer and performer Chief Wolf Wanna.

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Luther Douglas Diné (Navajo) slides
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Creators:
Douglas, Luther A., 1919-1976
Dates:
April 1964
Size:
195 Color slides
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.393
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection contains 195 slides that were taken by photographer Luther A. Douglas on the Navajo (Diné) Reservation in April of 1964.

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Digitized Content Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 5: Politics and Political Movements
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Creators:
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Dates:
circa 1817-1982
Size:
19 Boxes
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0300.S05
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 5: Politics and Political Movements contains circa 1,565 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the political history of the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.

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Digitized Content MS 7129 Silhouettes of members of a 1805-06 delegation to Washington, and others
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Creators:
Williams, Moses, 1776-1833
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Dates:
February 1806
Size:
13 Items
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7129
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

In December 1805, Thomas Jefferson hosted a delegation to Washington DC of representatives of Indian tribes from Louisiana Territory. Early in the new year (1806), several members of the delegation traveled to Philadelphia. There they visited Charles Willson Peale's Museum and some had their silhouettes taken by Peale's physiognotrace. Included a...

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Digitized Content Gary Auerbach portraits of Native American people
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Creators:
Auerbach, Gary
Dates:
1992-2003
Size:
44 Prints (platinum)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.2004-13
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection contains individual and group portraits of Native American people. Tribal affiliations include Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Delaware, Isleta, Kickapoo, Mescalero Apache, Navajo, San Carlos Apache, Sioux, Taos, and Tohono O'odham. There are also includes images of weavers, dancers, tipis, Canyon de Chelly, Taos Pueblo, and Taos ceme...

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Copies of Stanley J. Morrow photographs
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Creators:
Morrow, Stanley J.
Dates:
circa 1865-1887
Size:
434 Copy prints
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R4468
Repository:
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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New York Central Railroad Valuation Negatives
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Creators:
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
New York Central Railroad Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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Dates:
1914-1923
Size:
12 Cubic feet (36 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1072
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection consists of photographic negatives relating to a valuation study of the New York Central Railroad dating from 1914 to 1923.

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