Electric Guitar Video Documentation
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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1996 November 11-16
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7.5 Cubic feet (15 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0610
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This week-long event explored the intersection of technology and music in the 20th century; it included oral and video histories, exhibitions, concerts, and a symposium discussing the cultural significance of the electric guitar as instrument, technology, and symbol.
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Nixdorff, Louis S., 1906-1992 (Olympic athlete)
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1926 - 1987
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0443
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Louis S. Nixdorff's participation in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He was a member of the University lacrosse team that represented the United States.
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Nye, Bill
- Dates:
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1970 - 2014
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12 Cubic feet (28 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1383
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Bill Nye's early life, his Science Guy persona and its development for his television program Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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Timken Roller Bearing Company
Pauly, Frank G.
United States. Bureau of Mines
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1925-1957
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0380
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily technical papers by Timken engineers, presented in journals and meetings of professional societies. The papers concern the use of Timken roller bearings and other products in locomotives and other rolling stock on U.S. railroads and rapid transit systems. Also articles from trade magazines and brochures advertising Timken products, and a ...
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Moore, Clayton, 1914-1999
Moore, Dawn A.
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1980-1999, undated
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0.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0727
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection assembled by actor Clayton Moore, known as "The Lone Ranger". Moore played "The Lone Ranger", with Jay Silverheels as Tonto, on television from 1949 to 1951, when he was replaced by John Hart.
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Doty, Charles Edward, 1862-1921
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circa 1898-1912
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509 Items (circa 509 negatives and positives, glass)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.73-26A
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made and collected by Charles Edward Doty during his time stationed in Cuba (1899-1902) and the Philippines (1904-1906). Some of the Cuban photographs are marked by the Engineer's Department, with which Doty was employed, and some may relate to his official activities. The bulk of the photographs document the city of Havana as well as...
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Sun, Ming-ju
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circa 1972-2002, undated
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2 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0897
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Fashion drawings and the photographic work of Ming-Ju Sun while as an employee of Garfinckel's Department Store and as an independent artist.
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Robrecht, Jack
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1852 - 1983
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1.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1231
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains primarily photographs and postcards relating to firefighting. Many of the photographs are of firefighting vehicles and apparatus, both horse-drawn and gasoline-powered. The cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore are especially well documented, though other cities are represented, including Hamilton, Ohio; Camden, New Jersey; D...
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1892-1960
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22 cu. ft. (44 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 311
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the administration of William Henry Holmes, first Curator of the National Gallery of Art (NGA), 1907-1920, and Director of the Gallery, 1920-1932. To a lesser extent, it also documents the administration of Ruel P. Tolman, Acting Director of NGA, 1932-1937, and the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), 1937-1946, ...
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J.B. Simpson, Inc.
Steen, Enoch
Steen, Richard (merchant)
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1888-1972
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1.6 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0206
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Enoch Steen was born in Norway in 1888. His family moved to the United States and settled in Minnesota in 1890. In 1913 he began working with Meyer & Company, a tailor-to-trade business in Chicago. This company had acquired the American Woolen Mills Company from Sears, Roebuck & Co. in 1900. Meyer & Company also sold clothes under the names of Paragon Tailoring Company and the Lincoln Trading Company. Steen's principal duties were sales and advertising.
