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Daniel M. Leland Account Book, 1789-1791; 1837
- Summary
- Includes account of Daniel M. Leland, Shippensburg, Pa., a general merchant dealing in food and dry goods. Also includes account, 1837, of a merchant from Lexington, ?
- Cite as
- Daniel M. Leland Account Book, Archives Center, National Museum ofAmerican History
- Date
- 1789
- 1789-1837
- 1789-1791 1837
- 18th century
- 19th century
- author
- Leland, Daniel M. merchant
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Colonel William Augustine Washington Papers, 1789-1840
- Notes
- Col. Washington was the sixth son of George Washington's older half brother, Augustine. He was commissioned a captain in the 3rd Virginia Regiment Feb. 1776, wounded at Trenton Dec. 1776, and received his majority Jan. 1777. Promoted to lieutenant colonel Nov. 1778. Wounded again at Cowpers and taken prisoner at Eutaw Springs, 1781. Became a brigadier general 1798, honorably discharged June 1800. A Charles Wilson Peale portrait of Col. Washington is at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia
- Summary
- Bills and receipts for a large number of articles such as linen, tea, salt, molasses, shoes, buttons, etc.; business correspondence; a deed for sale of land in Pulushi Co., Ky., and a record of the final settlement of the estate. Names listed below are persons mentioned in the papers
- Cite as
- Colonel William Augustine Washington Papers, 1789-1840, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1789
- 1789-1840
- 19th century
- 18th century
- collector
- Washington, William Augustine Colonel 1757-1810
- Subject
- Kink, Daniel
- Washington, Augustine
- Mounts, Mernkel P
- Cox, John
- Dougs, William
- Norris, Benjamin
- Con, John
- Kelly, Alexander
- Mitchell, John
- Dave, Caow L
- Hipkins, John
- Riddle, Joshua
- Payton, T
- Rigden, Burnett
- Cunnin, Robert
- Bingman, Thomas
- Fisher, Thomas
- Moore, John W
- Riggs, Elisha
- Washington, Sarah
- Dunlap, John
- Local number
- 1977.3145 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Polly Salmon Account Book, 1785-1787
- Notes
- Cultural History catalog no. 61.1040. Catalog card in control file
- Boston storekeeper
- Summary
- Manuscript account book documenting payments to other individuals. 21 pp.; remainder blank. Money recorded in English currency
- Cite as
- Polly Salmon Account Book, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1785
- 1787
- 1785-1787
- 18th century
- author
- Salmon, Polly (merchant)
- Creator
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 236051 (NMAH Acc.)
- AC0040-0000001.tif - AC0040-0000011.tif
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Captain Henry Piercy Property Account, 1793-99
- Summary
- This one-page property account of Captain Henry Piercy, Alexandria, Va., describes rents received, taxes paid on properties
- Cite as
- Captain Henry Piercy Property Account, 1793-1799, Archives Center,National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1793
- 1793-1799
- 1793-99
- 1790-1800
- 18th century
- author
- Piercy, Henry Captain (landlord)
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 282330 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Joshua Gist Account Book and Related Materials, 1769-1822
- Summary
- Account book of Joshua Gist, Westminster, Maryland, and others,including general account for the purchase and transportation of agricultural products, lists of muster rolls for the Militia of Maryland, 1794-1798. Also, miscellaneous notes of financial obligations, 1769-1800; and a letter, 1798, concerning payment for construction of fortifications of New York Harbor
- Cite as
- Joshua Gist Account Book & Related Materials, 1769-1822, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1769
- 1769-1822
- 1790-1800
- 18th century
- 19th century
- collector
- Gist, Joshua merchant
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 1997.3022 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection, ca. 1920-1975
- Notes
- Funaro was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.; undergraduate degree in biology (entomology), Cornell University, 1923; later taught foreign languages, mainly in high schools. Doctorate, Columbia University, 1958; dissertation on "The Gitano in Spanish Literature." De Wendler-Funaro was an avid amateur collector of insects, shells, minerals, stamps and coins. His interest in Gypsies focused on collection of language specimens, and photography. Apparently served as amanuensis to Steve Kaslov, a Rom Gypsy leader
- Summary
- Print and manuscript materials, photoprints and negatives, either created by de Wendler-Funaro or collected by him. Manuscripts include de Wendler-Funaro's dissertation, drafts of projected books, drafts of projected book dictated by Steve Kaslov. Print materials include those used by de Wendler-Funaro in his dissertation research, and newspaper articles, 1912-1974. Photographs include those taken by de Wendler-Funaro of Gypsies in the United States and Europe, 1922-1966, primarily 1937-1942. Photographs collected from Rom Gypsy families and commercial photographs, mainly of Gypsies in Europe, are also included
- An important aspect of the photographer's work and of the value of this collection is the emphasis on the ethnic diversity of Gypsy groups, countering the inaccurate notion that all Gypsies or all American Gypsies are a homogeneous group--the Rom or Roma. The collection demonstrates ethnic and cultural distinctions among the various Gypsies represented, such as the Rom, Ludar, Romnichels, etc
- Publications
- See review of the film, "American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land," by Matt T. Salo in American Anthropologist, Vol. 102, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 353-354
- Smithsonian educational web site, part of "Migrations in History," at http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/gyp/cdwf.html
- Cite as
- Carlos de Wendler-Funaro Gypsy Research Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1920
- 1975
- ca 1920-1975
- 1920-1980
- 1930-1950
- 1920-1970
- 20th century
- 1900-1950
- photographer
- Wendler-Funaro, Carlos de (language teacher also known as Carl Funaro) 1898-1985
- Alland, Alexander Sr (Alexander Landschaft) 1902-1989
- author
- Kaslov, Steve King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies ca. 1888-1949
- Salo, Sheila
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Kaslov, Steve King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies ca. 1888-1949
- Kaslov, Pupa
- Jura, Chaiko Gypsy leader
- Local number
- 1986.3054 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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George W. Sims Papers, 1896-1981
- Notes
- Sims is a tax lawyer, Certified Public Accountant, world traveler, and collector of pre-Columbian objects. He was employed in the Panama Canal Zone by the Panama Railroad Company, Commissary Branch, 1915-1916. Between 1918-1919, he served as sergeant 1st class in the aviation section of the Signal Corps. In 1919, Sims and a few friends traveled West on one of the early automobile trips across the United States. After his wife died in 1946, he spent much time on world cruises. He also purchased and restored the 1832 adobe Boronda Home (1946-1950) in Carmel, California
- Sims was a world-wide traveler who collected objects and kept notebooks throughout his life. Native handicraft and art objects he collected in the United States, Europe, Africa, and South America are part of the permanent collections in the Division of Community Life, National Museum of American History, and the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History
- Summary
- Collection documents Sims's activities as a traveller and his interest in historic restoration. Forty-one notebooks, 6,000 color slides, a smaller number of photographic prints, forty-one stereo view cards, and three boxes of personal papers and ephemera. While some images are personal, the majority form a documentary record of various subjects and places and provides biographical information on Sims
- Cite as
- George W. Sims Papers, 1896-1981, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1896
- 1896-1981
- 1960-1990
- 1950-2000
- 20th century
- author
- Sims, George W
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- National Anthropological Archives, NMNH, SI
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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James Arthur Clock and Watch Collection, 1743-1967
- Notes
- James Arthur owned and operated a New York machine shop for patent models. He came to the United States from Scotland in 1871. Fourteen years later he established Arthur Machine Works in New York City for the construction of original and special machinery. He was a skillful, ingenious, highly trained mechanic. While not technically a clockmaker or a watchmaker, he was especially interested in horology and timekeeping devices. From boyhood, clocks and watches were his hobby and he was a discriminating collector
- For more than forty years, he collected watches and clocks from many countries and periods. Arthur was quick to recognize any features of a clock or watch that gave it a distinctive character. His fondness for the fine points of the machinery did not blind him to distinctions of form and beauty in the cases, to originality in the maker, or to the historical significance of the work. He was devoted to the science no less than to the art of timekeeping. Arthur's collection contained some 1,200 watches, 300 clocks, and numerous accessories
- Summary
- These records contain material on the Arthur collection of clocks and watches. Includes publications, inventories, manuscripts, reports, photographs, advertisements, catalogues, newspaper clippings, patents, and business records; correspondence files of NYU curators concerning the administration of the collection; a watch record book of sales of Ezekiel Jones, carried on bookkeeping, 1822 and 1825; and a copy of the Smithsonian-NYU permanent loan agreement, 1964
- Cite as
- James Arthur Clock and Watch Collection, 1743-1967, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Lent by New York University
- Date
- 1743
- 1743-1967
- 20th century
- 1850-1900
- 19th century
- collector
- Arthur, James (machine shop owner) 1842-1912
- lender
- New York University
- Subject
- Jones, Ezekiel
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Washburn Wire Company, Inc. Collection, 1934-1979
- Notes
- The Washburn Wire Company of New York was formed in 1916 and a year later, the Washburn Wire Company was incorporated in Delaware marking the beginning of the consolidation of the two separate operating divisions--one in New York City, and the other in Rhode Island. Washburn Wire Products, Inc. is a wire drawing fabricator. The plant converted rolled steel into many sizes of round, flat and shaped high carbon and alloy, cold rolled and cold-drawn, termpered and untempered wire. Washburn Wire Products, Inc. was the most recent acquisition of the Commonwealth Holding Company, the for-profit arm of the parent organization, the
- Harlem Commonwealth Council, Inc. (HCC). The HCC is a tax exempt, non-profit community development corporation, established in 1967 under the Title 1-D of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Its Manhattan Plant was closed in 1981 in a bankruptcy sale
- Summary
- These records consist of a legal agreement to convey real property between the Company and the City of New York; diagrams; illustrations; Business Plan and Loan Request, 1979-1980, 1980-1981; photographs; book of Plans for Plant Revision; President's comment nd report; and sales literature
- Cite as
- Washburn Wire Company, Inc. Collection, 1934-1979, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1934
- 1934-1979
- 20th century
- author
- Washburn Wire Company
- Subject
- Moses, Robert
- Washburn Wire Company, Inc
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Julius G. Berger Collection, 1909-1918
- Notes
- Berger served as a General Electric Company electrical engineer, a William Gordon Corporation contractor, and eventually began his own electrical design firm. He was educated in 1910 at the Stevens Institute, and enrolled in the General Electric continuing education program at Lynn, Mass
- Summary
- This collection traces the training and employment of an early electrical engineer. It includes 4 manuals filled with Berger's lab training at Stevens and G.E., a lecture notebook, two business correspondence scrapbooks, an industrial power data reference book, and a group of G.E. technical newsletters
- Cite as
- Julius G. Berger Collection, 1909-1918, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1909
- 1909-1918
- 1900-1950
- 20th century
- collector
- Berger, Julius G (electrical engineer) 1888-
- Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- General Electric Company
- Stevens Institute
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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