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National Museum of American History. Division of Political History
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circa 1960-1982
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18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 473
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of curatorial correspondence and memoranda pertaining to acquisitions, collections management, restoration of specimens, and exhibition proposals and installation. Also included are public inquiries concerning exhibits, political campaign items, presidential information, American politicians, and inaugural gowns of t...
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Mair, LaVeda
Mair, Francis M., 1916-1991 (commercial artist)
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1935-1994
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56 Cubic feet (104 Boxes, 40 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0548
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Client files, administrative files, artwork, and collected food labels from graphic and industrial designer Francis Mair. Mair specialized in beverage labels and packaging during his many years with Landor Associates in San Francisco. Late in his career, he directed Landor's Museum of Packaging History. His prolific freelance career included designs for furniture, decorative arts, letterhead, and corporate images. His personal artwork included alphabets, typefaces, and sketchbooks. Much of his personal artwork is humorous or erotic.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
Falcon Trio.
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1912-1913
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0160
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Falcon Trio Vaudeville Collection consists mostly of scrapbook pages that cover the career of the Falcon Trio. Included are photographs of the Trio while performing, those probably used for publicity purposes, some personal photographs, and photographs of fellow vaudevillians. Most of the images are unidentified, but beside the Trio, there are ...
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917
Talman, Hugh (photographer)
MacCormack, Forrest (intern)
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circa 1888-1899, 1906, 1993
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0416
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Twenty glass plate negatives and reference copy prints of the images taken between the late 1880s and the early 1900s by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas W. Smillie. The images depict the skyline of Washington D.C., views from the 1893 World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, blueprints for the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, and an unidentified orchestra.
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Dickerman, Nelson, 1881-1952
Urbanski, Pauline
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1880-1965.
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3.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0542
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to the career and life of mining engineer Nelson Dickerman: letters, photographs, clippings and diaries kept during his mining career. Much of the material is personal, rather than professional, relating to Dickerman's family and children. Family photographs include baby books.
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Fournet, Fred G.
Hallmark.
Fournet Drugstore.
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1950-1977, undated
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3 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 8 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0346
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of advertising and promotional materials for products sold by the Fournet Drugstore. In addition, there are photographs of the African American community in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
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Piette, Andre, 1934-1984 (ceramic designer, artist)
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1954-1979
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8 Cubic feet (8 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0129
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Andre Piette's career as an illustrator and designer. The materials include sketches, drawings, tracings, photographs (color transparencies, slides, and prints), and samples of wallpaper, designs for gift wrap, and a few textiles.
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National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
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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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National Museum of American History. Division of Armed Forces History
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1926-1930, 1954-1988
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10.5 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 383
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include correspondence and memoranda documenting research activities, planning exhibitions for the Hall of Naval History, construction of ship models such as the USS Constitution, arrangements for acquiring the gunboat Philadelphia, studies of the submarine Nautilus and the Sperry Gyro-compass, presentation in 1965 of Sir Fr...
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Levitt, Alan
Levitt, Elaine
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1920 - 1960s.
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5 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 3 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0303
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Advertising materials relating to pharmaceutical and other supplies as part of the stock of retail pharmacies from 1920 to the early 1960s, mostly advertisements for cigars, cigarettes, Coca-Cola, Kodak, veterinary supplies, and patent medicines.