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Digitized Content Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
Dates:
circa 1962-1993
Size:
4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 94-088
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession contains records documenting the planning, construction, and maintenance of permanent and temporary exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Materials include scripts, plans, drawings, memoranda, reports, photographs, and related materials documenting Hall 7, "Peoples of Asia and Africa," and Hall 8, "People...

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Digitized Content A. Francis Arcier Collection
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Creators:
Arcier, A. Francis, 1890-1969
Dates:
Circa 1890-1981
Size:
2.97 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
Collection ID:
NASM.XXXX.0072
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

A. Francis Arcier, (1890-1969) was an aviator, scientist, designer and engineer whose pioneering work in aviation design spanned six decades and earned him many honors.

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Radios
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1893-1992
Size:
2.44 Cubic feet (consisting of 4.5 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, 2 flat boxes (partial), 1 map case folder.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Radios
Repository:
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: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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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Mandel Lenkowsky Early Vertical Flight Development Collection
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Creators:
Lenkowsky, Mandel
Dates:
1935-1952
Size:
2.18 Cubic feet (2 records center boxes)
Collection ID:
NASM.1989.0099
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection includes notebooks containing scientific notes and mathematical calculations, a random assortment of journals and periodicals, published reference books, and a few advertising and promotional brochures all pertaining to American experimental military and commercial vertical flight from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. The collection also contains photographs of the following helicopters: Sikorsky XR-1, XR-4, YR-4, XR-5, XR-6, XR-6A, VS-300; Kellet XO-60 and XO-61; and Rotachute P-4. Also included are photographs of helicopters by Pitcarin, Landgraf, Greyhound Bus, Spratt, Berliner, Ochmichen, and DeBothezat.

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Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
Dates:
1992-2008
Size:
9.69 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box)
Collection ID:
Accession 11-064
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the records of Steven D. Lubar, Curator, documenting exhibition planning, development, and production in the Division of Work and Industry, and when that Division was known as the Division of the History of Technology. Also includes the records of Kathleen M. Kendrick, Project Curator and Research Assistant; and ...

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Howe Scale Company Records.
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Creators:
Howe Scale Co.
Dates:
1868 - 1963
Size:
32 Cubic feet (77 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0004
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

These records, 1868 1963, include records of various companies some of which eventually merged into the Howe Scale Company. Included are corporate records: minutes, charters, legal documents, stock certificate books, and correspondence; sales records: newsletters, inter branch correspondence, catalogs and price lists; financial records: ledgers, j...

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Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. International Exchange Service
Dates:
1849-1953
Size:
36.97 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes) (17 12x17 boxes) (8 tall document boxes) (1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 61
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records contain information about receipt of publications for the Smithsonian Library, distribution information, and substantial correspondence documenting the operation of the Exchange Service. Also included is the private log of Jerome H. Kidder. See also Record Unit 27.

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Animal Research Records
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Creators:
National Zoological Park. Department of Zoological Research
Dates:
1967-1997
Size:
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 15-220
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records documenting behavioral research performed by Department of Zoological Research staff and their associates relating to captive and wild animals. The majority of the records were created and maintained by Miles Roberts and primarily documents his research concerning tarsiers, chipmunks, shrews, kangaroo ra...

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Digitized Content Robert Stanton Avery Papers
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Creators:
Avery, Robert Stanton, 1808-1894
Dates:
1855-1894
Size:
2.93 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 12x17 box) (1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7068
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

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Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.9: Black and white negatives for publication
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Creators:
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994
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Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
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Dates:
1948-1949
Size:
2 Boxes
The subseries consists of black and white silver gelatin negatives.
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0618.S04.09
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Scurlock photographic studio was a fixture in the Shaw area of Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1994, and encompassed two generations of photographers, Addison N. Scurlock (1883-1964) and his sons George H. (1920- 2005) and Robert S. (1916-1994). Subseries 4.9 consists of negatives used for publication. An overview to the entire Scurlock collection is available here: Scurlock Studio Records

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