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S. Prakash Sethi Advocacy Advertising Collection, 1970s-early 1980s
- Notes
- Dr. Sethi has done extensive research on self-promotional advertisements by corporations. The slides are of advertisements by large companies like Mobil Oil and Bethlehem Steel
- Summary
- 8 posters, 98 color slides, and 271 black and white slides on advocacy advertising for the 1970s and early 1980s
- Cite as
- S. Prakash Sethi Advocacy Advertising Collection, ca. 1970-1990, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1970
- 1990
- 1970s-early 1980s
- 1970-1990
- donor
- Sethi, S. Prakesh (director)
- Subject
- Center for the Study of Business and Government
- Local number
- 1985.3148 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Gilbert L. Johnstone Corporation Panoramic Photoprint, 1919
- Notes
- No information about company available at this time, except for what may be determined from the photograph. The donor indicated that her great-grandfather is shown in the photograph. The "employees' outing" or picnic was held at Midland Park, Staten Island, New York, August 9, 1919
- Summary
- Panoramic silver gelatin print, showing over one hundred men, women, and children posed in rows. Many of the men wear straw hats, and a baseball bat lies in the foreground
- Cite as
- Gilbert L. Johnstone Panoramic Photoprint, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1919
- 1900-1930
- 1910-1920
- 1900-1920
- photographers
- Hughes & Estabrook
- Subject
- Johnstone, Gilbert L., Corporation
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photograph Album, 1935-1940
- Notes
- Album forms a record of vacation travel by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Stauffer, 1935-1940. Their travels were occasioned by Mr. Stauffer's position as commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post of Detroit, Michigan, and the need to attend V.F.W. meetings around the country. Mrs. Stauffer was president of the V.F.W. auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Stern met the Stauffers in Oscoda, Michigan, and both families eventually relocated in Tucson, Arizona
- Summary
- 109 loose pages, bearing 134 black-and-white silver gelatin photoprints, postcards, and a photomechanical reproduction clipped from a publication with a 1939 World's Fair ticket stub. Includes photographs taken in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota with the Mt. Rushmore portraits under construction, Wyoming, Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks, etc.; also snapshots of celebrities Bill Robinson and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson at a Los Angeles barbecue
- Cite as
- Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photograph Album, 1935-1940, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1935
- 1935-1940
- 1930-1940
- 20th century
- 1930-1940 photographs
- 1900-1950
- collector
- Stauffer, Clyde Weaver (policeman) 1899-1984
- Stauffer Mrs. Clyde Weaver
- Subject
- Anderson, Eddie "Rochester"
- Robinson, Bill 1878-1949
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Wainwright Family Papers, ca. 1777-1893
- Notes
- Peter Wainwright, Sr. of New York, who lived in the early 1800s, had two sons, Peter, Jr. and Jonathan. Peter became a banker in Boston, and Jonathan became a minister in New York. Jonathan married Elisa (Eliza) Mayhew, and they had two children, Elizabeth and Mayhew. Peter married Charlotte Mayhew (perhaps the sister of Elisa)
- Summary
- Correspondence among members of the Wainwright family, ca. 1800-1840; early correspondence of Elisa Mayhew, ca. 1777-1800; other correspondence to members of the Wainwright family from friends and business associates; financial and legal materials of the Wainwright Family, 1804-1837, plus undated writings and notes; and other materials containing correspondence, financial, and legal materials of various people (possibly unassociated with the family), 1804-1893
- Cite as
- Wrainwright Family Papers, 1777-1893, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1777
- 1777-1893
- ca 1777-1893
- 19th century
- 18th century
- 1930-1950
- authors
- Wainwright Family
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Subject
- Wainwright, Peter Sr
- Wainwright, Peter Jr
- Wainwright, Jonathan
- Mayhew, Elisa (Eliza)
- Wainwright, Elizabeth
- Wainwright, Mayhew
- Mayhew, Charlotte
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Sea Voyage Journal [manuscript], 8/22/1884
- Notes
- A handwritten journal describing a sea voyage from London to New York and subsequent travels in Canada. Date of arrival in N.Y. was April 14, 1883 (or 1884). No indication of author's identity. The journal is not detailed
- Summary
- A 19-page handwritten journal of a sea voyage in 1884, written on the return trip, presumably back to London
- Cite as
- Sea Voyage Journal, 1884, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1884
- 8/22/1884
- 1870-1900
- 19th century
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Charles Rivers Photographs, 1929-1963 (mostly 1929-1930)
- Notes
- Rivers was born Constantinos Kapornaros (or Kostandinos Kapernaros) in Vahos, Mani, Greece, and immigrated to the U.S. as a child of five or six with his parents. Having lived in Massachusetts, his change of name apparently was inspired by the Charles River in Boston. He photographed the construction of the Chrysler (1929) and Empire State (1930) buildings. An iron worker, Rivers traded tools for a Zeiss Ikon folding camera on lunch hour or when photo opportunities arose. Unemployed in the Depression, he was involved in efforts to create Social Security, unemployment insurance, and housing programs
- In the 1950s Rivers worked in steel fabrication, in a chemistry lab as a technician, and as legislative aide for a New York state senator
- Summary
- 29 silver gelatin photoprints mounted on Fome-core, Masonite, and cardboard, three unmounted silver gelatin photoprints, an album containing 56 silver gelatin photoprints; and approx. 76 silver gelatin photonegatives. Most of the photographs depict the construction of Chrysler and Empire State Buildings: iron workers on the job and on breaks, and buildings at various stages of completion. Also: a demonstration to prevent World War II (1935), a color photoprint of the Civil Rights March and Demonstration in Washington, D.C. (1963), and two magazine clippings from a Soviet publication in which Rivers's "Self Portrait" (1930) was reproduced
- Miscellaneous other negatives document the Pathe News fire in Harlem, shipyard workers, longshoremen, and a portrait of Ruby Bates and Alice White of the Scottsboro boys case
- Cite as
- Charles Rivers Photographs, 1929-1963, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of the artist
- Date
- 1929
- 1929-1963
- mostly 1929-1930
- 1929-1930
- 1930-1940
- 1960-1970
- 1920-1930
- 1900-1950
- 20th century
- 1970-1990
- photographer
- Rivers, Charles 1904-1993
- Subject
- Bates, Ruby
- Pathe News
- Empire State Building New York, N.Y Construction
- Chrysler Building (New York, N.Y.)
- Local number
- 00036001.jpg (scan of Rivers's self-portrait)
- 2001.3104 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Sohmer & Co. Records, Series IX: Awards, 1876-1976
- Summary
- The awards take several forms, including certificates, diplomas, and plaques. The International Exhibition certificate awarded in Philadelphia in 1876 also includes two bronze medals commemorating the award. The series also includes a one-hundreth anniversary plaque awarded by Sohmer & Co. to dealers for outstanding representation of the Sohmer piano
- Date
- 1876-1976
- creator
- Sohmer & Company
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Sohmer & Co. Records, Series XI: Publications About Sohmer, 1883-1986
- Summary
- Trade paper reprints, newspaper clippings, and copies of magazine articles. They provide contemporary and historical accounts of the company and the family. While the stenographic account from the 1894 "Musical Courier" about the Sohmer v. Sommer case is colorful and informative, testimony regarding advertising costs and costs of building and selling a piano is also revealing. While Sohmer & Co. never entered into the competition for artistic endorsement, Hugo testified that he had spent $ 500,000 on advertising, 1872-1894. This declaration mirrors the importance which Sohmer & Co. attached to advertising. Publications of the 1980's relate to the sale of the Sohmer piano Company to the Pratt-Read Company, and to Pratt-Read
- Date
- 1883
- 1986
- 1883-1986
- creator
- Sohmer & Company
- Subject
- Sohmer, Hugo
- Pratt, Read and Company
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Sohmer & Co. Records, Series XIII: Miscellaneous Records, 1894-1983
- Summary
- Wide variety of materials. "Consumers' Research" contains bulletins produced by this organization, 1948-1963. These bulletins with other enclosures or attachments are relevant to the topics discussed in the letters and correspondence between representatives of Sohmer, "Consumers' Research," and Consumers Union, 1941-1963. The correspondence between Harry J. Sohmer, Jr., and F.J. Schlink of "Consumers' Research" August 13, 1941-February 24, 1942, reveals that the Baldwin Piano Co. illegally used "Consumers' Research" in their advertising and drew misleading comparisons between pianos. Ironically, the correspondence of May 7 and 9, 1963, between Robert L. Smith of Consumers Union and Harry J. Sohmer, Jr., reveals the unsubstantiated accusation that Sohmer was using the 1941 "Consumers' Research" reports to promote sales. Harry Sohmer denied this, insisting that he did not possess a copy of this report and closed by asking for one. The brochures of the Lake Placid Club in New York were probably collected for advertising purposes. The club was a customer of Sohmer & Co., and the company often included the club's name in its brochures for the promotion of Sohmer pianos. The piano examinations of 1961-1962 are appraisal reports of pianos of various brand names. The report describes the piano, defines or diagnoses the main problem with it, and indicates a price for repairing it. Information about school pianos includes letters with construction and sound quality specifications, and a handbook entitled "Wood Colors and Kinds."
- Date
- 1894
- 1894-1933
- 1894-1983
- 1930-1950
- collectors
- Sohmer & Company
- Subject
- Sohmer, Harry J. Jr
- Schlink, F. J
- Smith, Robert L
- Baldwin Piano Company
- Consumers' Research
- Consumers Union
- Lake Placid Club
- Consumers' Research
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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F. W. Stemmler Letterpress Book, 1895-1897
- Notes
- F.W. Stemmler lived in New York City and was involved in a wide range of business activities. The collection represents copies of his letters (about 200 are legible). Nothing more is known of his life
- Summary
- The copies of correspondence (typed and handwritten) concern Stemmler's wide-ranging business affairs, from international banking to personal purchases of horsedrawn carriages
- Cite as
- F.W. Stemmler Letterpress Book, 1895-1897, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1895-1897
- author
- Stemmler, F. W. businessman
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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