Norcross Greeting Card Collection
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Norcross, Arthur Dickinson, d. 1968
Tuck, Raphael, fl. 1880s
Norcross Greeting Card Company (New York (N.Y.))
Rust Craft Publishers (Boston, Mass.)
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1800-1981
bulk 1880-1881
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202 Cubic feet (179 boxes, 362 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0058
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collections consists of the records of both the Norcross Greeting Card Company founded in New York City in the 1920s and The Rust Craft Greeting Card Company, founded in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906. Both the Norcross and Rust Craft companies collected antique greeting cards. Also includes a small number of modern cards by other manufacturers, circa 1930-1980. Collection represents development of the greeting card industry, social trends in the United States and technology of the printing industry from 1924 through 1978.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Engineering and Industry
Frick Company, George (Waynesboro, Pa.)
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1852-1961
bulk 1860-1920
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26 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0293
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents, in correspondence, publications, forms, paperwork, drawings, newspaper clippings, diplomas and photographs, the operations and products of the Frick Company of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam-powered engines (portable, stationary, and traction), sawmills, threshing machines, grain separators and other mechanized agricultural harvesting implements, refrigeration, mechanical cooling systems, and ice making plants, from its founding in 1852 through 1961.
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Wales, Carroll F., 1918-2007
Brown, Robert F.
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1992 November 10-1993 February 11
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9 Items (sound cassettes Sound recording)
203 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wales92
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview with Carroll F. Wales conducted 1992 November 10-1993 February 11, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
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Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
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circa 1888-1898
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460 Lantern slides (circa)
silver gelatin; 27 mounted panoramas (each made from 3-5 prints)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.54
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National Anthropological Archives
Lantern slides, probably largely collected by Joseph Stanley-Brown while stationed at Dutch Harbor in charge of the Pribilof Island seal fisheries, from 1890-1898. Images of Alaska include scenery, towns, seal hunting and preparation, fishing, whaling, boats, churches, livestock, Inuit and Aleut people, and the Chilkoot Pass and images relating to...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Plant Services
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1965-1986
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9.5 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 89-092
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of fiscal year budgetary/estimate reports, museum maintenance operation attendants, blueprints and drawings, museum exhibit records, correspondence, memoranda, fiscal year employment plans, and construction records pertaining to museum repairs. Museums, buildings and events documented in this collection include: the Na...
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Union Tansfer and Storage Co.
Cayton, Rosa
Cayton, Max
Cayton Family
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1892-1992.
1892-1992
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2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0780
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, photographs, business documents, certificates and advertising materials from the family of Max and Rose Cayton, 1890-1993.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Garrett, John W. (John Work), 1820-1884
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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1827-1987
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33 Cubic feet (76 boxes, 46 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1086
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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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Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943
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1753, 1867-1943
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23.86 cu. ft. (46 document boxes) (2 12x17 boxes) (oversize materials)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7074
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of Leonhard Stejneger consist of manuscripts on Japanese herpetology, Chinese herpetology, Puerto Rican and West Indian herpetology, North American herpetology, poisonous snakes, turtles, fur seals, ornithology, European fauna and the study of life zones; manuscripts, general notes and bibliographic notes and correspondence regardin...
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National Air and Space Museum. Department of Astronautics
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1965-1984, with materials dating from circa 1953
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32 cu. ft. (64 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 398
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection deals chiefly with Durant's tenure as Assistant Director for Astronautics at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Perhaps the single topic of greatest interest is the effort to obtain a building for NASM, which was accomplished on July 1, 1976, when the new museum opened. A parallel theme concerns the drive to plan and com...
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Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909
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circa 1875-1890
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15 Mounted prints (albumen (includes cabinet cards))
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.163
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Charles Roscoe Savage, most of which depict landscapes and natural rock formations in Utah, California, Oregon, and Colorado. The collection also includes portraits of Ute people and images of Ontario Mill and railroad tracks leading into a town. Most of the mounts are stamped with the name of Savage's studio, the Art Bazaar.