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Dr. R. C. Bratten Dental Collection, 1930-1967
- Notes
- Collection represents Dr. R. C. Bratten, dentist from Galion, Ohio, and his practice of over fifty years
- Summary
- Includes patient records; catalogues; correspondence; bills; ledgers; and x-ray records
- Cite as
- Dr. R. C. Bratten Dental Collection, 1930-1967, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1930
- 1930-1967
- 1930-1970
- 20th century
- collector
- Bratten, R. C. Dr (dentist)
- Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Local number
- 312608 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Matthew Mawhinney Industrial Furnace Collection, 1917-1978
- Notes
- Matthew Mawhinney, an engineer specializing in industrial furnace design and operation, collected this material during his career with Salem Engineering Co. and later as a consulting engineer
- Summary
- Several engineering textbooks authored by Mawhinney as well as correspondence relating to his articles in professional journals and presentations to meetings of engineers. His correspondence with industrial companies and photographs of furnaces and other equipment are also included
- Cite as
- Matthew Mawhinney Industrial Furnace Collection, 1917-1978, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1917
- 1917-1918
- 1917-1978
- 1930-1950
- Creator
- Mawhinney, Matthew engineer (collector)
- collector
- Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Salem Engineering Co
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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John B. Walker Cut-Outs Collection, 1815-1908
- Notes
- John Brown Walker was an itinerant artist who made paper cut-out designs that he sent to his friends as presents, decorations, and commemorations. His collection did not come to light until the early 1960s in Geauga County, Ohio
- Summary
- Fifty-four cut-out love tokens, letters, and designs by J.B. Walker, 1880-1907
- Cite as
- John B. Walker Cut-Outs Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1815
- 1815-1908
- 1850-1900
- 1900-1950
- collector
- Coats, Helen Hotchkiss
- artist
- Walker, John Brown 1815-1908
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Burris and Byrd Family Card Sample Case, ca. 1920
- Notes
- The Ohio Card Company was a dealer in postcards, namecards, fine art pictures, games, novelties, etc. The company offered a way of ordering namecards and postcards via the mail using sample books. Acquired in the 1920s (probably in Atlanta, Georgia) by Charlene J. Burris's grandparents (Milton and Mary Lola Johnson) to hold a lock of hair from Ms. Burris's mother (Ouida LaRuth Johnson, b. 1918)
- Summary
- A pocket sample case of greeting cards and postcards offered for sale by the Ohio Card Company of Cadiz, Ohio
- Cite as
- Burris and Byrd Family Card Sample Case, ca. 1920, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Jeanne and Charles Burris and James and Kathryn Byrd and Family
- Date
- 1920
- ca 1920
- 20th century
- manufacturer
- Ohio Card Company
- donor
- Byrd, James
- Byrd, Kathryn
- donors
- Byrd Family
- donor
- Burris, Charlene
- Burris, Jeanne
- Local number
- 1984.3069 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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The Salem China Company Collection, 1930s-1981
- Notes
- The Salem China Company of Salem, Ohio was founded in 1898 by Pat and John McNichol, Dan Cronin, and William Smith, all from East Liverpool, Ohio. From 1898-1960 the company was engaged in both manufacturing and distribution. Since 1960, its function has been distribution only. In addition to the manufacture and distribution of dinnerware, novelty, and souvenirware, the Salem China Co. distributed flatware, crystal, and Corningware and was the American distributor for the James Sadler Company, English manufacturers of teapots. The company supplemented its sales to retail outlets by heavy reliance on bank, movie, drugstore, and supermarket promotions
- Summary
- Includes records of the Salem China Company relating to the administration of the company, its sales and art department, and other material relating to plant operations prior to 1960, when the company ceased manufacturing and became a distributor only. Includes photographs of various promotions, Salem China patterns, factory buildings, sales staff, show rooms, etc. as well as extensive advertising material of the Salem China Co. and its competitors. Another series contains blueprints and drawings of the Salem China Company's plant and equipment. Another series contains bulletins issued by the Associated Industries of Cleveland from 1977 to 1981
- Cite as
- The Salem China China Company Collection, 1930s-1981, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1930
- 1981
- 1930s-1981
- 20th century
- creator
- Salem China Company
- Subject
- James Sadler Company
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Annamae Barlup Myers and Stephen Harriman Diaries, 1883-1894; 1931-1967
- Notes
- Annamae Barlup Myers was born April 7, 1903 in Ohio and spent most of her life on a farm, first, the "home farm" which her parents bought in 1915, then that of her father-in-law, followed by about seven years in a small Ohio town and a return to the home farm. Her diaries are a record of life in rural Ohio for more than thirty years. The diaries reflect a life busy with household chores, laundry, cooking, churning, gardening, canning, and preserving and helping on the farm. For example, Mrs. Myers helped with the threshing, driving the tractor, and cooking for temporary farm helpers during peak periods. In addition to making some of her own and the children's clothes, Mrs. Myers sewed for friends and neighbors and during some years took care of a small child for pay. The many references during the early years to not having enough money to meet their obligations gradually give way to a picture not of affluence but of more comfortable financial circumstances without the constant worry about bills evident in entries during the thirties and early forties. Although the diaries primarily note the events of family life they also mention major political or historic events with a few emotional overtones
- Summary
- The Annamae Myers diaries record the activities of a farm family in Ohio, 1931-1967. There are daily entries about the weather and frequent mention of trips to the hairdresser and trips to the children's music and dancing lessons and to town for shopping, movies, or to pay bills. The diaries include frequent entries of amounts received for the sale of farm produce, and some financial data are entered at the end of each volume, but such entries are neither regular nor complete. They do however provide information on prices for agricultural products in a rural community. Major political and historic events are noted. There is infrequent reference to the emotions generated by family living and by the historic and political events of the twentieth century. Also includes a few diaries kept by Stephen Harriman, Mrs. Myers' maternal grandfather, with very brief daily entries of the weather, trips to town, visits made and visitors to the farm, and the start of farm operations, i.e., plowing, sowing
- Cite as
- Annamae Barlup Myers & Stephen Harriman Diaries, 1883-1894, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1883
- 1883-1967
- 1883-1894 1931-1967
- author
- Myers, Annamae Barlup (farmer)
- Harriman, Stephen (farmer)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Hotels : stereographs, ca. 1860s-1905 (mostly ca. 1875-1890)
- Summary
- Seventy-two images of hotels and hotel grounds from popular resort areas, including five from Florida, six from Massachusetts, seventeen from New Hampshire, twenty-eight from New York, two from Pennsylvania (one of which is actually an image of a miniature model), and other identified and unidentifed hotels, including an image with bathhouses in the foreground
- Cite as
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1860
- 1905
- ca 1860s-1905
- mostly ca 1875-1890
- 1860-1910
- 1880-1900
- collector
- Warshaw, Isadore d. 1969
- photographer
- Bierstadt, Charles
- photographe
- Pach, G. W
- photographer
- Weller, F.G
- Purviance, W.T.
- Wendt, Julius
- stereograph publisher
- Keystone View Company
- Littleton View Company
- White, F., and Company
- New Jersey Stereoscopic View Company
- Subject
- Tip Top House [hotel]
- Glen House [hotel]
- Profile House [hotel]
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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[Peerless automobile factory photographs series], 1909
- Notes
- All plates originally were in envelopes marked "Auto Plant HCW '09"
- Summary
- Set of 43 glass positive or interpositive images, non-stereoscopic, but derived from stereo pairs, depicting phases of manufacture of the 1909 Peerless automobile at the plant in Cleveland, Ohio
- Cite as
- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1909
- 1900-1910
- 20th century
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- stereograph publisher
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- 89-12289 to 89-12319, etc. (OIPP Neg. Nos.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Timken Roller Bearing Company Collection, 1925-1957
- Notes
- The Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, produced its first tapered roller bearings in the 1890s. The bearings were first used in horse-drawn vehicles and later in automobiles. As automobiles improved in design, power, and endurance, Timken made improvements in its bearings to compensate. The company soon realized that the only way to ensure quality in its product was through the production of its own special alloy steel. It organized the Timken Steel & Tube Company to supply itself and other manufacturers with high-grade steel. In the late 1920s, the company entered the railroad equipment supply market with special tapered bearings for locomotives
- Summary
- Primarily technical papers by Timken engineers, presented in journals and meetings of professional societies. The papers concern the use of Timken roller bearings and other products in locomotives and other rolling stock on U.S. railroads and rapid transit systems. Also articles from trade magazines and brochures advertising Timken products, and a 1925 U.S. Bureau of Mines study of friction in mine-car wheels
- Cite as
- Timken Roller Bearing Company Collection, 1925-1927, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1925
- 1925-1927
- 1925-1957
- 20th century
- collector
- Timken Roller Bearing Company
- donor
- Pauly, Frank G
- author
- United States. Bureau of Mines
- Local number
- 1990.3162 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[William Howard Taft addressing crowd from stand. Glass stereo photonegative.]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 1.1.28 [160A]
- Orig. no. 92-B
- Date
- 1900
- 1910
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- photographer
- Brown Brothers
- publisher
- H.C. White Co
- Subject
- Taft, William H (William Howard) 1857-1930
- Local number
- RSN 5161
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
