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Imperial Glass Company.
Corning Museum of Glass.
Ceramics and Glass, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Lancaster Colony Corporation.
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1909-1940
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box, 29 microfiche sheets)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0105
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is divided into two series, Catalogs and Photographs, on fifty nine (59) microfiche sheets. These are photographic reproductions of catalogs of Imperial Glass Products from 1909 to 1912 and of several photographs showing Imperial Glass Company products, their stock numbers and rulers indicating size. Some of these photos are hand ...
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 29: Piano
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1841-1962, undated
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8 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S29
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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 29 contains materials documenting piano in 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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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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circa 1887-1948
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0.53 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Camping
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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: Camping 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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Cidey, Guy
Breslar, Jon, 1949-2005
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1870-1984
bulk 1971-1982
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7.2 Linear Feet (16 boxes, 21 cassette tapes, 12 audio reels, 1 map drawer )
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2007-04
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National Anthropological Archives
These papers document Jon Breslar's fieldwork on Mayotte, Comoro Islands for his dissertation as well as his work developing a new housing policy for Mayotte. The collection contains his professional correspondence, field notes, research notes, his writings, writings by others, newspaper clippings, teaching materials for his Shimaore language course, photographs, maps, plant specimens, and sound recordings.
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National Museum of the American Indian, Office of Public Programs
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1993-2005
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-089
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of production records created by Howard Bass, Cultural Arts Manager, in the planning and development of the recording, "Beautiful Beyond: Christian Songs in Native Languages." Produced in partnership with Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, "Beautiful Beyond" is an anthology of hymns and songs from Native American communit...
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Wolver, Anita Tuohy
Tuohy, Kevin M., 1921-1968 (optometrist, inventor)
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1897-1959
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1.2 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0317
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Technical information on contact lenses, including manuals, brochures, etc. from Solex Laboratories, and articles from professional journals and other publications. Numerous photographs, including a set of color prints, illustrate techniques of fitting, inserting, and removing contact lens. Medical problems, legal cases involving patent infringemen...
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Spillman Engineering Corporation
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Misklea, M. Francis
Allan Herschell Co.
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1879-1956.
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0665
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous documents, catalogs, scrapbooks, photographs and printed material relating to the carousels and other amusement park rides of the Allan Herschell Company (which earlier in its existence was called the Herschell-Spillman Company and the Spillman Engineerng Corporation).
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Smithsonian Institution, International Center
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circa 1985-1987
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 91-136
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
For the most part, these records relate to the organization of the "Generations" exhibition and the International Center's involvement with associated public programs. They include planning and chron files of Cheryl LaBerge, Director, Office of Conference Services. Consists of special events request forms; newspaper clippings; proposal summari...
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National Zoological Park. Department of Animal Programs
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1990-2006
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12 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-101
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the behavior of individual animals, care of animals, breeding, and significant events among the pandas, primates, camels, peccaries, and animals living in the Think Tank. Materials consist of observations and notes by the keepers in the form of daily reports and were likely maintained by Curator ...
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Richards, Allen (collector and photographer)
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circa 1860-1870, 1900, 1936
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13 copy prints
1 mounted print (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-40
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs collected by Allen Richrads, which include portraits of Reverend Allen Wright, his wife Harriet Mitchell Wright, and the 1866 Choctaw delegation to Washington; photographs made in 1898-1911 by Richards' uncle, Edwin Ludlow, that mostly depict Mexican Kickapoos in the state of Coahuila in Mexico; and photographs made by Richards of Kicka...