The Simmons Company Records
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Simmons Company
- Dates:
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1892-2000
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9 Film reels
88 Cubic feet (172 boxes, 16 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0731
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Series 1 includes: news articles about the company and the Simmons family; photographs of the machinery, factories, factory workers, products and showrooms; annual reports; various corporate periodicals; audit reports; patents; and materials relating to sleep research conducted by Simmons. Series 2 includes product catalogues, scrapbooks of adverti...
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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1942-1978
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39 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0684
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-nine 16mm films on various subjects relating to telephone systems and communications, such as pole worker safety; party line etiquette; the transition from silent film to sound film; and the application of satellites, lasers and transistors to sound communication.
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Plastics Pioneers Association
- Dates:
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1952 September 18-20
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1 Boxe
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1235
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Audio recordings of interviews with members of the Plastics Pioneers Association about the plastics industry, its origins, and evolution.
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National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
- Dates:
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circa 1979-1990, and undated
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23.69 cu. ft. (23 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 00-001
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the planning, development, and installation of Information Age: People, Information, and Technology, a major exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), which traces the evolution of information-processing and communications technologies from the 1830s to the present. The ...
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Optical and Infrared Astronomy Division
- Dates:
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1957-1979 and undated
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3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 85-215
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, budget records, manuscripts, and publications documenting the operations and programs of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Optical and Infrared Astronomy Division.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Dates:
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circa 1954-1966
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26.5 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 188
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of files from various offices within the SAO as well as the central files located in the SAO administrative office. Retrieval from records is difficult. While there is no apparent order to the records, a table of contents consisting of imposed general headings is provided below in order to facilitate use of the files...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of Special Events
- Dates:
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1975-1989
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-155
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document special events sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, including meetings, dinners and conferences. Files include agendas, guest lists, papers presented at events, newspaper clippings, and some correspondence. Also included in these records are published calendars of e...
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O'Neill, Gerard
- Dates:
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1940s-1993
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26.22 Cubic Feet (75 Boxes)
35.14 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0005
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (1927-1992) was an experimental physicist, educator, inventor, entrepreneur, writer and novelist.
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Ostroff, Elaine
- Dates:
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1965 - 2009
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16 Cubic feet (37 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1356
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents activist and educator Elaine Ostroff who advocated for improved access for people with disabilities in public places, co-founded the Adaptive Environments Center and who taught universal design in several institutions.
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National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
- Dates:
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1921-1922, 1947, 1956-1986
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5.5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-299
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the research, planning, and execution of exhibits by the Department of the History of Science and Technology. Exhibits include the Hall of Petroleum, the Hall of Iron and Steel, and Inventing Standard Time. Some of the materials date to when the department was known as the Division of Indus...