Virgil Johnson Collection of Cigarette Packages
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Brown and Williamson.
Johnson, Virgil
American Tobacco Company.
Benson and Hedges.
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circa 1890-1997
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25 Cubic feet (26 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0645
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
As a teenager, Virgil Johnson [b.1918] became interested in the designs and symbols on cigarette packs like "Black Cat" and "White Roll", and he began actively collecting in the 1930s. His interest intensified during the 1940s when he was stationed in North Africa and across the Mediterranean region as a photographer with the U.S. Navy. Mr. Johnson collected cigarette packs for over fifty years, and was a member of the Cigarette Pack Collector's Association. Approximately 6000 cigarette packages, foreign and American, arranged in 24 albums. Manufacturers include names such as those shown below.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1854-1879
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0.94 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Weather
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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: Weather 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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Grant, Felix, 1918-1993
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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1935-1985
- Size:
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4.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0410
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of 128 albums featuring the music of Duke Ellington, spanning some 50 years of Ellington-based releases.
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Lomas, Stanley
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1947-1990
bulk 1950-1956
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7 motion picture films
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0342
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Stanley Lomas Television Commercial Collection consists of 226 television commercials for products including dishwashing soap, beer, cigarettes, soft drinks, and breakfast cereals. The collection also includes a short 1954 film demonstrating the DuMont Electronicam, a camera designed for simultaneous live broadcast and film recording. There is ...
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Wood, Arthur Bernie, 1921-1986
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1942-2001
bulk 1960-1969
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10 Cubic feet (27 boxes, 2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0962
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A. (Arthur) Bernie Wood (1921-1986) was an advertising designer, consultant, and inventor actively involved in the development of the restaurant franchise industry in America during the 1960s and 1970s. Particularly notable is his work with marketing, promotion, and merchandising for the McDonald's Corporation during its formative years.
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Center for Advertising History
- Dates:
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circa 1984-1994
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7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-078
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession includes records documenting activities of the Center for Advertising History (CAH) in the preservation of advertising history in the United States, primarily through the acquisition of information relating to advertising and projects such as oral history interviews and public seminars. The records consist of correspondence ...
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1855-1960
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0.29 Cubic feet (consisting of .5 box, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Employment
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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: Employment 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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Crocker, Judith A.
Faust, Herbert M. (salesman, manager)
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1918-1949.
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1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0397
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relate to Mr. Faust's diverse career, including information on advertising in the 1920s, including two marketing studies from 1920 1922 of Sabetha, Kansas; his War Production Board experience, 1943-1944, which demonstrates the magnitude of that operation, its contribution to the war effort, and the extensive involvement of the American public in the salvage effort; and correspondence relating to his employment with and retirement from the Mutual Broadcasting Company, 1945-1948. These papers constitute a personal record of a successful career which reached its peak with important wartime civilian service.
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Amos, Christine
Amos, Wally
Famous Amos Cookie Company
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1975-1996
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7 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0112
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Famous Amos Collection consists primarily of business records, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting the career and life of Wally Famous Amos and the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie company he created.
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Skelton, Betty, 1926-
- Dates:
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circa 1920-2005
- Size:
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8.21 Cubic feet (10 legal document boxes, 4 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2002.0002
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
In 2002 Betty Skelton donated a collection of materials outlining her career as an aviatrix and race car driver to the National Air and Space Museum. The donated material consists primarily of news clippings, pamphlets, magazines, photographs, and scrapbooks covering the span of Ms. Skelton's career.