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Digitized Content Engineering Notebook Collection
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Creators:
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Dates:
1835-1930
Size:
0.3 Cubic feet (1 box )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0225
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection of personal notebooks of civil engineers.

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Digitized Content Herbert Mercer Photography Collection
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Creators:
Mercer, Herbert
Dates:
1916-1926
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NASM.2008.0029
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

Herbert Mercer served with the United Kingdom's Royal Flying Corps (Royal Air Force) from 1916 until 1945, and was stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, in the early 1920s. While there, he photographed a variety of aircraft that were either stationed in Iraq or Egypt or landing there for refueling. This collection contains eleven photographs taken by Mercer in Iraq and Egypt.

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Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Museums
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1818-1943
Size:
1.17 Folders (consisting of 2.5 boxes, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Museums
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: Museums 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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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Data Processing
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
undated
Size:
0.27 Cubic feet (consisting of .5 box, 1 folder.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Data
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: Data Processing 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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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Military
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1841-1966
Size:
2.47 Cubic feet (consisting of 5 boxes, 1 folder 8 oversize folders, 2 map folders.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Military
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: Military 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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Program Records
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. International Center
Dates:
1986-1989
Size:
3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 91-059
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records that document the planning and execution of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts in its entirety, from initial planning through its closing. Subjects include finances, personnel, programming, publicity, and operations.

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Digitized Content United States Army Around the World Trip (Leslie Arnold) Collection
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Creators:
Arnold, Leslie P.
Dates:
1924
Size:
1.32 Cubic feet (2 legal document boxes and 1 flatbox)
Collection ID:
NASM.XXXX.0518
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

In 1924, as a lieutenant in the Army Air Service, Leslie P. Arnold was a crew member in one of the three Army planes that flew 27,000 miles around the world in 175 days. This collection consists of Leslie Arnold's handwritten diary and annotated navigational charts of the journey as well as a scrapbook with images of the trip including the aircraft, gasoline tanks, pilot crew, and air-to air shots.

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Records
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Creators:
Entomological Society of Washington
Dates:
circa 1950-1968
Size:
6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 82-008
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records of the Entomological Society of Washington, including general correspondence; membership records; records relating to the Society's journal, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington; fiscal records; and minutes of executive committee meetings. Also included is correspondence relating to a c...

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Digitized Content D. Ward King Road Grader Collection
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Creators:
King, D. Ward
Dates:
1902-2005
Size:
0.75 Cubic feet ( 2 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1332
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Photographs, publications and correspondence related to D. Ward King's invention the King Road Drag, or the Split-Oak drag, which improved rural travel in the early 20th century by introducing a simple design and low-effort system for grading poor-quality roads. The King Road Drag was promoted heavily across the United States and Canada via the "Good Roads Campaign" originally sponsored by the railroad companies in the early decades of the twentieth century.

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Digitized Content Henry Booth Collection
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Creators:
Booth, Henry, 1895-1969
Dates:
1942 - 1974
Size:
2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0726
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers document Henry Booth's invention, use, and marketing of the PhotoMetriC custom tailoring system.

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