Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Booth, Virginia
- Dates:
-
1936 - 1998
- Size:
-
3 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0729
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to Virginia "Jimmie" Booth's career as a buyer for Lord and Taylor, where she worked for Dorothy Shaver. Papers include correspondence; photographs; original drawings by designer Clare Potter; printed material including articles, magazine advertising and catalogs; a scrapbook of clippings and memorabilia.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
- Dates:
-
1910-2011
- Size:
-
11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 12-107
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of the papers of Donald Baird (1926-2011), paleontologist, anthropologist, geologist, and seventeenth and eighteenth century firearms authority. He became a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1949 (Vice President, 1983-1984; President, 1984-1985; Honorary Life Member, 1991; J. T. Gregory Award, 1996). ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Treasurer
- Dates:
-
FY 2000-FY 2006
- Size:
-
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-084
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of insurance information for foreign liability, commercial package, umbrella coverage, directors and officers liability, auto insurance, folklife festival, exhibitions, etc.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Vernon, Victor
- Dates:
-
1903-1948
bulk 1915-1920
- Size:
-
0.43 Cubic Feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0221
- Repository:
-
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This scrapbook collection chronicles Vernon's aviation career and includes numerous photographs from the 1915-1920 period, with an emphasis on Curtiss flying boats, the Curtiss Model H America, the Curtiss rebuilt Langley Aerodrome, and Curtiss tractors. Besides the photographs, the scrapbooks contains many newspaper clippings covering Vernon's inv...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Dickerman, Nelson, 1881-1952
Urbanski, Pauline
Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
-
1880-1965.
- Size:
-
3.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0542
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to the career and life of mining engineer Nelson Dickerman: letters, photographs, clippings and diaries kept during his mining career. Much of the material is personal, rather than professional, relating to Dickerman's family and children. Family photographs include baby books.
Found In
Celluloid Corporation Records
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Hyatt, John Wesley (inventor)
Celluloid Corporation.
- Dates:
-
1883 - 1943
- Size:
-
3 Cubic feet (3 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0009
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of trade catalogs, price lists, notebooks, promotional literature, patents, a salesman's kit (including samples), photographs and prints of plant buildings, personnel, celluloid molds and by-products documenting the Celluloid Corporation.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Massie, Thomas
McLurkin, James
- Dates:
-
1995; 1997.
- Size:
-
1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, 5 hours)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0603
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of approximately 5 hours of original, master and reference video footage and photographs, documenting Thomas H. Massie and James McLurkin in 1995 and 1997. Massie invented the Phantom Haptic Interface, an electronic device giving existing computer technology the ability to simulate the sense of touch. James McLurkin inven...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Counselor to the Secretary for Community Affairs and Special Projects
- Dates:
-
1994-1999
- Size:
-
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-131
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists primarily of records documenting the administrative activities of Miguel A. Bretos as Counselor to the Secretary for Latino Affairs, 1994-1995, and Counselor to the Secretary for Community Affairs and Special Projects, 1995-1998. A few records relate to American Endeavors, which was not under the Counselor's purview. M...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Porter, Richard W. (Richard William), 1913-1996
- Dates:
-
circa 1930s-1980
- Size:
-
6.54 Cubic feet (6 records center boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1997.0037
- Repository:
-
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of six feet of material documenting Porter's many scientific contributions. The following types of material are included: photographs, lecture notes, correspondence, trip notes, newspaper clippings, symposium programs, papers, and periodicals, circa 1930s-1980s.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Oehser, Paul Henry, 1904- interviewee
- Dates:
-
1974-1975
- Size:
-
7 audiotapes (reference copies). 12 digital .mp3 files (reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9507
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...