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Digitized Content MS 2806 Edward Sapir notes on vocabularies of Algonquian languages
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Creators:
Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Dates:
circa 1911
Size:
28 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2806
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Edward Sapir's typed notes on the vocabularies of various Algonquian languages that he collected in 1911. List of languages covered: Delaware, pages 1-6; Abnaki (Pierreville), page 7-12; Malecite (Riviere du Loup, Thomas Paul), pages 13-17; Micmac, pages 18-23, Cree (Rupert's House), pages 24-25; Montagnais (Louis Clairie, Pointe Bleue), pages 26-2...

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Digitized Content MS 2811 Cheyenne stories and historical accounts collected by Truman Michelson
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
She-Bear, circa 1842-
White Bull, circa 1835-
White Eagle, circa 1853-
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Dates:
1910 August
Size:
56 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2811
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

English texts of Cheyenne stories and historical accounts collected by Truman Michelson at the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. The stories were provided by She-Bear, White Eagle, and White Bull and translated and written down in English by Albert Duster and William Somers. One of the texts is an account by White Eagle on George Cus...

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MS 4151 Stories in the Alabama language with interlinear English
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Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Dates:
1906-1913?
Size:
277 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4151
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

"First set." A. D. 138 pages. "Second set." A. D. 127 pages. Additional stories. T. and A. D. 6 pages. A. D. 6 pages. Manuscript pages are fragile and difficult to read. They have been copied by hand with annotations in Manuscript 7360. All stories in the first set, most in the second set, and the additional stories are published in J. R. Swanton, ...

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Digitized Content Russian Easter Egg Patterns
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Creators:
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Dates:
1888-1896
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0778
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection consists of 172 Russian egg patterns, a popular craft among immigrants from Russia and the Ukraine. The egg patterns are drawn in ink on 3 2" x 5" paper with color combinations of red, green, yellow, black, purple, brown, blue, and burnt orange. The collection is arranged into one series by pattern numbers from 1 to 172.

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Digitized Content Sioux City Ghosts Scrapbooks
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Creators:
Williams, Franklin
Sioux City Ghosts
Dates:
1920s-1983
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0634
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A scrapbook and a photograph album detailing the day-to-day lives on the road of a barnstorming black softball team, five posters advertising appearances of the Ghosts, and a certificate. The scrapbook, kept by one of the players, Franklin Williams, contains his handwritten history of the team, a handwritten schedule, postcards from some of the cit...

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Hazel Hertzberg recorded Interviews of Frank W. Parker and Helen L. Peterson
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Creators:
Parker, Frank W.
Hertzberg, Hazel
Dates:
1975
Size:
2 sound cassettes
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.082
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

Includes Parker's recollections of preliminary efforts in the 1940s to plan a representative and effective pan-Indian organization; of the creation of the National Congress of American Indians and highlights of its history, 1952-1962, when Parker was actively affiliated with it, and Recording Secretary; and of a number of people involved in its initial and continuing stages. Also includes remarks by Helen Peterson, 1953-1961 Executive Director of the organization, concerning the threat of internal pressure to it.

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American Scale and Service Company Records
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Creators:
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
American Scale and Service Company
Dates:
1912-1956
Size:
0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0010
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

These records of this company, located in Kansas City, Missouri, include invoices; bills of material (quantity surveys); sales records with model name, number, date, customer; and promotional literature and specifications.

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Digitized Content Doughnut Machine Company Scrapbooks
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Creators:
Vorchheimer, Bert
Wertheimer, Frederick P.
Vorchheimer, Carol
Dates:
ca. 1928.
Size:
0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0662
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Two scrapbooks dating from 1927-1928 documenting Frederick Philip Wertheimer's advertising and marketing work for the Doughnut Machine Corporation.

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Digitized Content American Bank Note Company Records
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Creators:
American Bank Note Company
Dates:
1860-1987
Size:
4 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1285
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection includes correspondence with various banks and foreign governments, especially those of Canadian provinces, regarding their banknotes or postal stamps; client files, mostly with various companies that contracted with American Bank Note Company to engrave their stock certificates, but also including files regarding two engravers, Herm...

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Archives Center Menu Collection
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Dates:
1937-2017
Size:
3.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1391
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection consists of restaurant menus ranging from 1937 to 2016 from the Unites States, Canada, as well as cruise ships.

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