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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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circa 1877-1948
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14.73 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (3 12x17 boxes) (10 tall document boxes) (7 microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7184
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers include original logbooks for the Fish Commission vessels Albatross, Fish Hawk, Grampus, Halcyon, Yvonne, and Danglade containing hydrographic and dredging data; transcribed records of some of that data; accession records, transmittal records, lists, and correspondence concerning specimens taken by the Commission; material co...
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Paige, Susie (bookseller)
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1900-1984
bulk 1960-1984
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0263
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection primarily consists of greeting cards and postcards but also includes political literature and a high school diploma relating to African Americans and their history and culture in American society.
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Fogel, Byron J.
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1961 - 2007
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0419
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
More than 400 placemats collected between 1961 and 2007 from throughout the United States and abroad. The collection consists of advertising placemat used by a variety of restaurants, hotels, casinos, and expositions.
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Holaday, Duncan
Institute for Intercultural Studies
Chin, Woon Ping
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May 1978
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1 Film reel (22 minutes, color sound negative; 800 feet, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1981.01
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Human Studies Film Archives
Footage of a ngaben a Balinese Hindu cremation ceremony in the village of Penyaringan, Bali, May, 1978, documents one of the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders whereby the dead, through cremation, are transformed into purified spirits whose assistance can be enlisted in human affairs. Documentation includes: ngenteni...
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Kirkpatrick, James J, 1922-2008
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1943-1946
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0.23 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2012.0006
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of eighty color 35 mm slides taken by 1st Lt. James J. Kirkpatrick, U. S. Army Air Forces, during his World War II service in the Pacific Theater. The collection also contains Kirkpatrick's pilot log (1943-1946) and five copy prints of Kirkpatrick and the aircraft he flew, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain and a Curtiss C-46 Commando.
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Keystone View Company
Underwood & Underwood
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1882-1930
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240 Stereographs (black and white, 9 x 22 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1986-022
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The photographs document African businesses, cities, industry, landscapes, peoples and resources. The collection documents various locations within Kenya, Tanzania, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa. Peoples represented include Kikuyu, Maasai, Bangi, Chagga, Ndombe, Poto, Bangala, Zulu, and Kongo peoples. There are many images of agriculture, hunting, making pottery, mining diamonds and gold, church services at a Catholic mission, a gathering of chiefs at a court, a lion-killing ceremony, and war dances. Businesses and industries shown include coffee plantations; the DeBeers Diamond Mine; a diamond mine compound and crushing mill; fishing boats; a hemp plantation; ivory trade; a market; and the stock market.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars (Napa, California)
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1960-2006
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0816
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collections documents the growth and development of the American wine industry, 1996-2002, using the Stag's Leap Wine Cellars as a case study. Materials include oral and video histories, photographs, business records, and printed materials.
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Beer, Paul
DiGiovanni, Felix V.
Bellis, Tom
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Circa 1938
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102 Photographic prints (Black and white, silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.1995-41
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Paul Beer and Felix DiGiovanni depicting indigenous people, primarily the Guahibo, as well as the natural and cultural features of the Vaupés region of Eastern Colombia.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1834-1951
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1.92 Cubic feet (consisting of 4 boxes, 1 folder, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dairy
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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: Dairy 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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Cooper, Madison, 1868-1946
Madison Cooper Company (Watertown, N.Y.)
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1900-1963
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1054
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Madison Cooper was an inventor and manufacturer of refrigerating systems in the early twentieth century. Cooper received several patents for his refrigeration inventions, including several refrigerating apparatuses, an air-circulating system, a process for preventing the formation of frost on refrigerating surfaces and a refrigeration train car. The collection spans 1900-1963 and includes his United States and foreign patents, his publications related to refrigeration, and a few documents and photographs related to Cooper and the Madison Cooper Company.
