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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Darnell, Victor C.
Berlin Iron Bridge Company (East Berlin, Conn.).
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1890-1953
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2 Cubic feet (1 box, 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1032
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Blueprints and plans for facilities built by the company, including coal-handling bridges, coal unloading towers, dock trestles, and coal-handling plants and two photograph albums from the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin, Connecticut. The images in one of the albums are mostly of factory scenes. The other album contains mostly images of bri...
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Whitney, Baxter D.
Winchendon Historical Society, Inc.
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1870-1957.
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1 Cubic foot (3 vertical boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0267
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes many photographs and engravings of various types of Whitney wood working machines. These are mounted on stiff backings and include advertising and promotional materials for reproduction in trade journals and other publications. A historical summary, "The Baxter D. Whitney Story", is reprinted from the January 1957 issue of...
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Kuenzig Books
Sheldon, Charles Gates, 1899-1960
Breck Company.
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1902-1959
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3.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1423
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the work of Charles G. Sheldon, the illustrator who created beautiful images of women for the "Breck Girls" advertising campaign from 1936-1957. Includes photographs of sitters, Breck advertising materials, Breck Company internal publications and newsletters, magazines with cover illustrations by Sheldon, a high school year...
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Whitman Chocolates
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1878 - 1954
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0437
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials trace the evolution of product packaging and advertising of Whitman's Chocolates. Includes business records and photographs of early product displays.
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Charles Grafton Page Papers
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Page, Charles Grafton, 1812-1868
Poinier, Lois W.
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1844-1870
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0933
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relate to American inventor Charles Grafton Page, an early developer of electromagnetic machinery.
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Anderson, Larz, 1866-1937 (probable photographer)
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circa 1904
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31 Prints (silver gelatin)
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- NAA.PhotoLot.87-2R
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Larz Anderson in the Southwest, possibly on a trip to visit Matilda Coxe Stevenson, probably at Zuni Pueblo in 1904. The collection documents scenery, pueblos, American Indians, ranches, and cliff dwellings in the American Southwest, mostly New Mexico. There are also images of Larz Anderson, his wife Isabel Anderson, and frien...
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Zisfein, Melvin B.
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1947-1995 and undated
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3.43 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-002
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Included in this collection are articles, reports, notebooks, photographs, slides, and certificates and awards. There is very little personal correspondence, but papers written by Zisfein contained in this collection seem to represent some of his major writings. Of special note are 15 notebooks kept by Zisfein at NASM, which contain notes ...
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Gammell, R. H. Ives (Robert Hale Ives), 1893-1981
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1883-1981
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29 Volumes ((on 3 microfilm reels))
0.4 Linear feet (Addition)
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- AAA.gammr
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Archives of American Art
REELS 4675-4677: Twenty-six diaries (1919-1981) and 3 notebooks with sketches, relating to European travel (1928-l930). There are no diaries for 1921-1928. The diaries were begun in Paris to record ideas and concepts relating to painting. They were later expanded to include reflections and thoughts about people, and they also reflect Gammell's stro...
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Sievan, Maurice
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1934-1983
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0.2 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sievmaur
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, biographical information, exhibition catalogs, photographs, and printed material.
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Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957
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1935-1937
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6 Items ((on 1 partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.taylfrah
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence between Francis Henry Taylor, director of the Worcester Art Museum, and Charles Sawyer, curator of the Addison Gallery of American Art regarding the WPA Federal Art Projects in New England. Included are: a letter from Sawyer to Taylor, Sept. 11, 1935, regarding "the Government art projects. ... I am anxious to keep these projects fro...