Product Cookbooks Collection
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Wells, Ellen B.
- Dates:
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1874-2009
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18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0396
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of cookbooks, but many would accurately be described as pamphlets. Also included are some labels from products that contain recipes. The cookbooks were produced by manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers.
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Princeton University
- Dates:
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1863-1950
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135 Cubic feet (10,690 posters)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0433
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An extensive and comprehensive collection of posters from World War I and World War II.
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Dates:
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1903 - 1989
- Size:
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400 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0301
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
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Ongoing
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240 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.A
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.
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Garrett, John W. (John Work), 1820-1884
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry), 1807-1878
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1827-1987
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33 Cubic feet (76 boxes, 46 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1086
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of correspondence, invoices, drawings, photographs, and negatives and other printed literature documenting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from its inception in 1827 to its merger with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the 1960s.
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1898-[ongoing]
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61 Volumes
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-014
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection includes postcards from 45 African countries. Subjects include agriculture; animals; artists; body arts; cityscapes; cultural landscapes; dance; education; expeditions; flora; industry; leaders; marketplaces; medicine; military; missionaries; music; portraits; recreation; rites and ceremonies; and transportation, among many other topics.
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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
- Dates:
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1840s-1960s
1840s-1960s
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18,000 Items (ca. 18,000 items)
18,000 Items (ca. 18,000 items)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.24
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National Anthropological Archives
The collections consists mostly of original and copy prints. There are also some negatives, artwork, photographs of artwork, and printed materials. Included is a large miscellany of ethnological, historical, and some archaeological subjects collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology from a wide variety of sources. To these have been added some p...
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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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circa 1935-1978
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14000 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35mm)
30000 Slides (photographs) (color)
80,000 Photographic prints (b&w, 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection is comprised of photographic and manuscript materials, primarily created by Eliot Elisofon to document his travels and work. The images portray many aspects of African life and culture including agriculture, wildlife, archaeology, architecture, art and artisans, children, cityscapes and landscapes, leaders, markets, medicine, recreation, ritual and celebration, and transportation. The manuscript materials include correspondence, essays, clippings, puobligations, notes, research, and itineraries.
