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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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Caterpillar Tractor Co. Photoprints, 1948-1949
- Notes
- Photographs probably commissioned by Caterpillar for public relations or advertising use
- Summary
- 11 photoprints of Caterpillar Tractor Co. buildings and products: three photographs of company buildings, including two aerial views, and eight photographs of tractors, including views of machines at work in various locations. Tractors with various models of scrapers are shown in San Antonio, Texas; Whittier, California; and Colquitt County, Georgia. Locations of five tractor views unidentified: one shows two stationary tractors, the others show machines at work in roadbuilding and cemetery construction
- Cite as
- Caterpillar Tractor Company Photoprints, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Date
- 1948
- 1948-1949
- 1940-1950
- 1940-50
- collector
- Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.)
- photographer
- Holling, W. J
- Chandler, Don
- Broden
- collector?
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Subject
- Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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James Gallagher Collection, 1924-1931
- Summary
- Materials relating to bridge construction in California. Includes a set of drawings for the San Joaquin River Bridge, Mossdale, California (1924), a California Division of Highways Bridge Department Manual (1931), and booklets by the California Highway Commission containing contracts and specifications for the construction of bridges on state highways (1925-26)
- Cite as
- James Gallagher Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1924
- 1924-1931
- author
- Gallagher, James (civil engineer)
- collector
- Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI
- Subject
- California Department of Public Works Division of Highways
- California Highway Commission
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Japanese American Documentary Collection, 1900s-1982
- Notes
- Documents relate to the involuntary relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. Much of the collection was collected by the Division of Armed Forces History for the exhibit "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution" at NMAH
- Summary
- Souvenirs and memorabilia from World War II, including Christmas cards, notes to friends, camp newsletters, Japanese passports, meal passes, a typescript of a taped interview with Mrs. Kamikawa, Feb. 1982; a panoramic photograph of Manzanar; ration books; photographic albums; etc. Names listed below indicate persons represented in collection
- 2005 addendum : Printed materials from relocations camps, such as newsletters, newspapers, a yearbook, and a comic book
- Additional 2005 addendum : Photograph of a high school class in Amache, California
- 2006 addendum : Book, "Minidoka Interlude", published by residents of the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Hunt, Idaho
- 2010 addendum : One-third cubic foot of newsletters printed in an internment camp in Arkansas, 1940s
- Cite as
- Japanese American Documentary Collection, 1900s-1982, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1900
- 1900-1982
- 1900s-1982
- 1942-1945
- 1940-1950
- 1940-1960
- 1900-1950
- 20th century
- collector
- Armed Forces History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- donor
- Tsukamoto, Mary
- Nitta, Eugene T
- McGovern, Melvin
- Tanaka, Peter Dr
- Ishimoto, Norman
- Subject
- Emi, Frank
- Hashimoto, M
- Kamikawa, Kazu Mrs
- Kamikawa, Juichi
- Kawashiri
- Kihari, Shigeya
- Matsumoto
- Miyake, Takashi
- Oliver, Floyd A
- Ozamoto, T
- Vogel, Mabel Rose
- Wakabayashi, Ron
- Japanese Americans Citizens League
- Local number
- 1986.3118 (NMAH Acc.: Tsukamoto)
- 1986.3132 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3057 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1987.3010 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1987.3020 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3139 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3166 (NMAH Acc.)
- 1986.3163 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2005.3044 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2005.3045 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2006.3077 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2010.3038 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Disasters : stereographs, ca. 1880-1906 (mostly ca. 1900-1906)
- Summary
- Four images of natural disasters, including one of a church in Galveston, Texas, after the "Galveston Disaster"; two lithoprint cards from the San Francisco Fire and Earthquake series; and one unidentified image of a pile of rubble
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1880
- 1880-1906
- ca 1880-1906
- mostly ca 1900-1906
- 1900-1910
- 1890-1910
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Nob Hill and Fairmont Hotel, Chinatown in foreground : glass stereograph, 1906
- Notes
- DUPLICATE RECORD
- Summary
- Original glass stereoscopic negative, published as no. 8711 in the series on the 1906 earthquake, "San Francisco Disaster Series."
- Date
- 1906
- 1900-1910
- photographer
- White, C. W
- publisher
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- NMAH Acc. 270586
- OPPS Neg. 91-16339
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Lumber industry : stereographs, ca. 1890s
- Summary
- Five views of logging, sawmills, and stacked wood, including one color lithoprint
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1890
- 1900
- ca 1890s
- 1890-1900
- 1850-1900
- 1880-1900
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc. Records, ca. 1875-1965
- Notes
- Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc. traces its history to a small retail firm established in 1878, its story as a major roaster and distributor of coffee begins after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Building on its early introduction of vacuum packing and controlled roasting, Hills Bros. quickly became a major West Coast brand and generally extended its marketing to the east
- Summary
- The collection is significant because it is a complete body of materials of Hills Bros. advertising and promotional materials since the firm gained a major portion of the coffee market: newspaper advertisements, advertising cards, posters, streetcar cards, and grocery store window and counter display materials; also information on how these materials were used in advertising campaigns aimed at introducing Hills Bros. to new markets
- Series 4: Television commercials, television programs, "Bridging the Bay" (on the building of the Bay Bridge, 1938-1939), promotional films and videos, etc., and the 1967 NET Festival at the White House with Pres. and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Julia Child; home movie footage, possibly Hills family. Includes 16mm b/w and color film, 3/4" Umatic video, etc
- Photographs, series 6: Both prints and film negatives, many by company photographer Ken Allen. Large group of photographs of grocery store interiors in the 1920s and 1930s; Hills Bros. office interiors and exteriors; plant and factory workers, including women; coffee cultivation, including women laborers in Guatemala and El Salvador; advertising photographs; sales presentation photographs; publicity photographs (including Hollywood stills showing Hills Bros. coffee; store tests, etc. Also photographs showing the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, by Ken Allen
- Photographs, series 9 : Ken Allen's photographs of Bay Bridge construction taken from the roof of a company building, primarily acetate negatives
- Cite as
- Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc. Records, ca. 1875-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1875
- 1965
- ca 1875-1965
- 1929
- 20th century
- 19th century
- 1930-1940
- creator
- Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc
- photographer
- Allen, Ken
- donor
- Nestle Beverage Co
- Subject
- Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)
- Local number
- 1991.3026 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Mammoth trees : stereographs, ca. 1865-1905
- Notes
- In Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Photographs Division
- Summary
- Eleven views of mammoth trees in California, including three by Houseworth, two of which are the house built on the original Big Tree Stump, one by Laurence & Houseworth, three by Anthony, and four unidentified
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1865
- 1905
- ca 1865-1905
- 1860-1910
- 1850-1900
- publisher
- Anthony, E. and H. T
- photographer
- Houseworth, Thomas
- publishers
- Laurence & Houseworth
- Anthony, E. and H. T
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Mining : stereographs, ca. 1865-1900
- Summary
- Eight views, primarily ca. 1898-1900: (1) Mining equipment by Laurence & Houseworth (flat yellow card, # 1007, Placer Mining, Columbia, California); (2) Underwood & Underwood (Alaska), (3-6) Chilkoot Pass, Alaska (incl. one duplicate, by Keystone View Company, (7) unidentified view of mine entrance, on flat orange card, and (8) one color lithoprint, "A Klondike Camp." Views include mines, mining camps, and miners
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1860
- 1900
- ca 1865-1900
- 1880-1900
- publishers
- Keystone View Co. Meadville, Pa
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Laurence & Houseworth
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH