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1980-1982
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7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 84-055
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of project files, including memoranda, blueprints, specifications, and correspondence. Museums and facilities documented include the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution Building (Castle), the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of American Art and National Portrait G...
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circa 1980-1986
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13.78 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (3 document boxes) (16 tall document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 601
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist primarily of ten-inch audiotapes of Radio Dialogue programs, as well as some administrative files, including release forms by participants, schedules, biographical information on WWICS scholar participants, listener responses, and contracts with Longhorn Radio Network. Also included are a few Focus tapes and some cassette...
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Wadsworth W. Mount Papers
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Mount, Wadsworth W., 1907-1985
Mount, John W.
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1920-1984
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10.5 Cubic feet (32 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0352
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials documenting five of Mount's numerous inventions: the solar still, a jet power burner, turnbuckles and swivel connectors for boats, the "wadnut" (a self-tightening fastener), and a method of joining industrial piping. The papers include notes on concepts, and on testing and prototypes; correspondence with patent attorneys and potential industrial users of the devices; photographs; biographical information on Mount; and a general subject file on his inventions.
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1905-1992
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-185
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of curators Claudia Brush Kidwell and Anne Wood Murray documenting exhibition planning, development, and production in the Division of Costume, and when that Division was known as the Division of Costume and Furnishings and the Section of American Costume which, prior to 1969, was within the Division of ...
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Garber, Paul Edward, 1899-1992
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1824-1992
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241.95 Cubic feet (488 boxes plus flat files)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1991.0063
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Paul E. Garber Collection documents Paul Edward Garber's life, both personal and professional, prior to and during his 72-year tenure at the National Air and Space Museum.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1810-1980
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62 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S02
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 2: Armed Forces contains circa 3,400 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the military history of the United States; there are only a handful of foreign imprints. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1852-1933
undated
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0.27 Cubic feet (consisting of .5 box, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Disinfectants
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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: Disinfectants 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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National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
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1978, 1986-2004
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4.5 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-148
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Valerie Neal, Curator, pertaining to the design, development, execution, and installation of the exhibition "Where Next, Columbus?." The exhibition marked the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's voyage and considers the possibilities for future space exploration. Some records ...
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Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
Marx, Groucho (Julius Henry), 1890-1977 (comedian)
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1911-1978, undated
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12 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0269
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers, films, and collected materials of 20th century comedian Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx.
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
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1943 May 31
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5 Photographic prints (black and white , 8 x 10 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-013
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This study collection contains five 8 x 10 inch black and white publicity photographs, dated May 31, 1943, of Liberian officials, U.S. State Department representatives, and Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. personnel, taken as they toured the company's war production plants in Ohio. Each photograph has complete typewritten documentation tipped to the back. Includes images of President Edwin Barclay and President-elect William V.S. Tubman of Liberia, Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
