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Stansbury, Jacqueline
Stansbury, Benjamin H., 1935-1996
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1955 - 1995
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5 Cubic feet (15 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1350
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the inventing and design work of Benjamin Stansbury.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
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1925-2010
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8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-217
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Bernard S. Finn, Curator Emeritus of electricity collections, documenting exhibition planning, development, and production at the National Museum of American History. Earlier records date from when Finn was in the Division of Information Technology and Society; the Division of Electricity and Mode...
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Edmund A. Laport Collection
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Laport, Edmund A.
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1923 - 1949
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0016
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Edmund A. Laport, a former director of broadcast engineering for the Radio Corporation of America.
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Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Elk Rapids Iron Company
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Rust Boiler Company
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1890-1928
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5 Cubic feet (14 boxes and 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1070
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers, comprised mostly of business correspondence (typescript, handwritten, and letter press books), from Edwin Rust's career as an engineer, specializing in boilers and steam engines. Also included are agreements, receipts, telegrams, blueprints, sketches, job cost records, rate of wages (Antrim Iron Company), daily labor reports (Elk Rapid Iron...
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Maertz, J.F., Department Store (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
Keystone View Company
Rau, William H.
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1887-1930
bulk 1900-1930
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8 Cubic feet ((29 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0945
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of lantern slides and stereographs produced by several companies: Keystone View Company, Better America Lecture Service, Incorporated, American Press Association, J. Stanley-Brown, William H. Rau, and J. F. Maertz Department Store. The lantern slides were primarily intended to be used for educational presentations about the United States, other countries, history, and society. Many of the slides and stereographs are accompanied by descriptive text and in some instances by small cards--one card for each slide--and in other instances directly on the back of a stereoview. The majority of images were taken from 1900 to 1930.
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Leigh, Douglas
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1903-1999
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17.6 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.leigdoug
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Archives of American Art
The collection measures 17.6 linear feet and dates from 1903 to 1999 (bulk 1924-1992) and documents the career of advertising designer and executive Douglas Leigh. Found are 83 volumes of publicity scrapbooks that contain mostly photographs, clippings, printed materials, and scattered letters, drawings, and blueprints. Also included are professional correspondence; photographs of project installations, aerial advertising, and entertainers; plaques and awards received by Leigh; and printed material, which includes clippings, press kits, advertising materials, designs and original sketches for projects by Leigh. The material reflects Leigh's continuously imaginative use of a wide range of media in promoting his clients' products. Among the projects/campaigns represented are 7up, Airships (Tydol, Flying Red Horse, MGM, Wonder Bread and others), Allied Chemical Tower, Amoco, BlueCross-Blue Shield, Camel cigarettes, Coca-Cola, EPOK, Eveready, Flamingo Frozen Foods, Four Roses Whiskey, Fram Oil Filters, Helmsley Building, Old Gold Cigarettes, Pan Am Building, Pepsi-Cola, R. J. Reynolds, Schaefer Beer, Spectaculars, Stag Beer, Times Tower Building, and Wilson Whiskey.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Detroit Edison Company.
Bak, Anders K., 1892-
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1923-1970
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1065
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains papers assembled by Anders K. Bak, a Danish mechanical engineer and employee of the Detroit Edison Power Company. The papers include personal correspondence concerning the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; papers on the Parsons Steam Turbine; papers and blueprints on work done at the Barton Power Station in Manchester, England; and Detroit Edison Company background material, blueprints, articles, power plant test reports, information and data.
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Plunkett, Billy, Mrs.
Merriam, Eva Billings
Merriam, Billy
Christiani, Norman, Mrs.
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1897 - 1902
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2 Cubic feet (6 oversized folders, 1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0079
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents four scrapbooks containing photographs, programs, flyers, business cards, periodical illustrations, and letterheads of vaudeville and medicine shows from 1897-1902. Also included are two audiotapes containing comments by the donors about the scrapbooks.
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McIntosh, Seymour and Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
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circa 1886-1939
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93.6 Cubic feet (174 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0985
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records document the design, manufacture, and operation of steam and diesel engines by McIntosh, Seymour and Company of Auburn, New York.
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Cooke, Weldon B., 1884-1914
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1911-1948
bulk 1911-1914
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1998.0001
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Weldon B. Cooke Collection consists of newspaper articles and photographs relating to Cooke and the various aircraft he built or flew, including the Diamond, Wiseman-Cook, Sandusky Tractor, and Aeromaid aircraft. There are also severala few broadsides from events Cooke participated in, along with a program and ticket from the "3rd International Aviation Meet, 1912."