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Collection Creator:

Hills, Patricia  Search this

Container:

Box 20, Folder 36

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

circa 1984-1985

Collection Restrictions:

This collection is temporarily closed to researchers due to archival processing. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Writings by Patricia Hills: The donor has retained all intellectual rights, including copyright, that she may own.

Collection Citation:

Patricia Hills Papers, circa 1900-2022, bulk 1968-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Patricia Hills papers / Series 8: Writings / 8.1: Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9c0384b82-babc-49c3-ad84-62bbdba99fec

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-hillspat-ref616

Creator:

Smithsonian Education  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2018-05-23T00:14:13.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Education  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Education

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianEducation

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_UBfleABrMro

Author:

Blottière, Sylvie  Search this

Cariou, A  Search this

Éditions Ouest-France  Search this

Subject:

Société nouvelle des faïenceries de Quimper HB-Henriot History  Search this

Faïenceries de Quimper History  Search this

Société nouvelle des faïenceries de Quimper HB-Henriot Histoire  Search this

Faïenceries de Quimper Histoire  Search this

Physical description:

271 pages illustrations (some color) 31 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Expositions

Exhibition catalogs

History

Place:

France

Quimper

Date:

1990

Topic:

Faience--History  Search this

Pottery industry--History  Search this

Potters--History  Search this

Faïence de Quimper--Histoire  Search this

Céramique--Industrie--Histoire  Search this

Céramistes--Histoire  Search this

Pottery industry  Search this

Potters  Search this

Faience  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1154580

Author:

Conrad, Robert Edgar 1928-  Search this

Physical description:

215 pages illustrations 24 cm

Type:

Books

History

Place:

Brazil

Brésil

Brasilien

Afrika

Schwärze

Schwarze

Date:

1986

Topic:

Slave trade--History  Search this

Slavery--History  Search this

Plantation life--History  Search this

Coffee industry--History  Search this

Slave trade  Search this

Slavery  Search this

Plantation life  Search this

Coffee industry  Search this

Esclaves--Commerce  Search this

Esclavage  Search this

Vie dans les plantations  Search this

Café--Commerce  Search this

Esclaves--Commerce--Histoire  Search this

Vie dans les plantations--Histoire  Search this

Café--Commerce--Histoire  Search this

slavery  Search this

Sklavenhandel  Search this

Geschichte  Search this

Kaffeeplantage  Search this

Sklave  Search this

Slavenhandel  Search this

Traite des esclaves--Histoire  Search this

Esclavage--Histoire  Search this

Café--Industrie et commerce--Histoire  Search this

Slaves--Trades  Search this

brazil  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1146161

Author:

International Congress: Pioneers of Photographic Science and Technology (1st : 1986 : International Museum of Photography)  Search this

Ostroff, Eugene  Search this

SPSE--the Society for Imaging Science and Technology  Search this

Physical description:

285 pages illustrations (some color) 32 cm

Type:

Congresses

Congrès

Conference papers and proceedings

History

Date:

1987

Topic:

Photography--History  Search this

Photography--Congresses  Search this

Photographie--Congrès  Search this

Photographie--Histoire  Search this

Photography  Search this

Call number:

TR15 .I62 1987

TR15.I62 1987

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_333559

Author:

Niebur, Louis 1971-  Search this

Physical description:

1 online resource illustrations

Type:

Electronic resources

Criticism, interpretation, etc

History

Place:

California

San Francisco

Californie

Castro (San Francisco, Calif.)

Castro

Date:

2022

20th century

20e siècle

Topic:

Disco music--History and criticism  Search this

Electronic dance music--History and criticism  Search this

Sound recording industry--History  Search this

Gay men--Social life and customs  Search this

Disco (Musique)--Histoire et critique  Search this

Dance music--Histoire et critique  Search this

Homosexuels masculins--Mœurs et coutumes  Search this

Disco music  Search this

Electronic dance music  Search this

Sound recording industry  Search this

Call number:

ML3526 .N54 2022 (Internet)

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1160663

Contributor:

Vryzidis, Nikolaos  Search this

Writer of supplementary textual content:

Rodríguez Peinado, Laura  Search this

Host institution:

Mouseio Islamikēs Technēs (Mouseio Benakē)  Search this

Physical description:

303 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 26 cm

Type:

Congresses

Congress

Conference papers and proceedings

History

Actes de congrès

Place:

Mediterranean Region

Middle East

Mittelmeerraum

Date:

2020

Topic:

Textile fabrics  Search this

Textile industry--History  Search this

Textile industry  Search this

Textiles  Search this

Textile Industry  Search this

Textiles et tissus  Search this

Textiles et tissus--Industrie et commerce  Search this

Textilien  Search this

Textile fabrics--History  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1145802

Author:

Koops, Matthias  Search this

Former owner:

Hackney College Library DSI  Search this

Printer:

Jaques and Co.  Search this

Donor:

Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry DSI  Search this

Physical description:

[2], vi, [1], 8-273, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates illustrations (etching) 21 cm

Type:

Books

Half bindings (Binding)

History

Straw fibers (Paper)

Woodpulp fibers (Paper)

Place:

Europe

Date:

1801

Topic:

Paper industry--History  Search this

Papermaking--History  Search this

Writing materials and instruments  Search this

Writing materials and instruments--History  Search this

Paper industry  Search this

Call number:

TS1090 .K66 1801

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1078172

Editor:

Yuan, Xuanping 1963-  Search this

Physical description:

2, 24, 193 pages chiefly color illustrations 29 cm

Type:

Pictorial works

Tu ji

History

Place:

China

Chine

Zhong guo

Date:

2016

Topic:

Silk industry--History  Search this

Textile design  Search this

Textile design--History  Search this

Soie--Industrie--Histoire  Search this

Textiles et tissus--Dessins--Histoire  Search this

Gu si chou--si zhi gong yi  Search this

Silk industry  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1078732

Editor:

Henan Sheng wen wu kao gu yan jiu yuan  Search this

Zhongguo wen hua yi chan yan jiu yuan  Search this

Nara Kokuritsu Bunkazai Kenkyūjo  Search this

Physical description:

2 volumes illustrations (some color), maps 29 cm

Type:

Books

History

Place:

China

Gongyi Shi

He nan sheng

Gong yi shi

Gongyi Shi (China)

Date:

2016

Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960

Topic:

Three-color ware  Search this

Ceramic industries--History  Search this

Pottery, Chinese  Search this

Ceramic industries  Search this

Ci yao yi zhi--fa jue bao gao  Search this

Pottery, Chinese--Tang-Five dynasties  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1079057

Author:

Blatz Brewing Co  Search this

Subject:

Blatz Brewing Co  Search this

Blatz Brewing Co History  Search this

Physical description:

12 unnumbered pages illustrations (some color), music 14 x 19 cm

Type:

Books

Pictorial works

History

Place:

Wisconsin

Milwaukee

Date:

1893

[1893?]

Topic:

Beer industry--History  Search this

Breweries--History  Search this

Brewers--History  Search this

Brewing industry--History  Search this

Beer industry  Search this

Breweries  Search this

Brewers  Search this

Brewing industry  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1079704

Author:

Kenkel, Steve  Search this

Sorensen, Loretta  Search this

Physical description:

154 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 28 cm

Type:

Books

History

Place:

Iowa

Shelby County

Shelby (Comté)

Date:

2013

Topic:

Corn industry--History  Search this

Hybrid corn--History  Search this

Agricultural implements--History  Search this

Corn--Machinery--History  Search this

Museums--History  Search this

Maïs--Industrie--Histoire  Search this

Agriculture--Outillage--Histoire  Search this

Musées--Histoire  Search this

Agricultural implements  Search this

Corn industry  Search this

Corn--Machinery  Search this

Hybrid corn  Search this

Museums  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1148040

Creator:

United Shoe Machinery Corporation  Search this

Names:

Emhart Corporation.  Search this

Extent:

145 Cubic feet (296 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Papers

Photographs

House organs

Catalogs

Scrapbooks

Commercial catalogs

Albums

Magazines (periodicals)

Advertisements

Clippings

Research

Legal records

Motion pictures (visual works)

16mm motion picture film

Business records

Place:

Massachusetts

Beverly (Mass.)

New England

Date:

1898 - 1987

Summary:

The collection documents the activities of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation of Beverly, Massachusetts, manufacturers of shoe machinery equipment. The collection consists of engineering records, legal records, research and development records, employee/personnel records, correspondence, company catalogs, product literature, advertising materials, photographs, and moving images.

Scope and Contents:

This collection is among the largest and most complete bodies of business records in the holdings of the Archives Center. The records document in considerable detail the firm's engineering department and research and development efforts in shoe making machinery and in related technical areas, especially during World War II and as it attempted to diversify its activities after the war. There is detailed information, much of it on microfilm, about the leasing of United Shoe Machinery (USM) machines. The records also provide insight into the USM's culture of corporate paternalism, including its athletic and relief associations and its industrial school. The collection is rich in visual materials depicting both the machines made by the firm and the employees and the facilities.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into seventeen series.

Series 1: Historical and Background Materials, 1901-1985

Series 2: Executive Records, 1927-1987

Subseries 2.1: United Shoe Machinery, 1927-1975

Subseries 2.2: Emhart Corporation, 1976-1987

Series 3: Correspondence, 1890, 1901-1915

Series 4: Wilson Palmer Files, 1925-1952

Series 5: Research and Development Department Records, 1914-1980

Subseries 5.1: Background, 1947-1974

Subseries 5.2: Financial Information, 1947-1975

Subseries 5.3: Reports, 1962-1973

Subseries 5.4: Facilities, 1947-1975

Subseries 5.5: Personnel, 1942-1979

Subseries 5.6: Labor, 1961-1970

Subseries 5.7: Subject Files, 1943-1977

Subseries 5.8: Project Files, 1914-1968

Subseries 5.9: New Development (ND) Project Files, 1924-1970

Subseries 5.10: Experimental (EX) Project Files, 1931-1938

Subseries 5.11: Automatic Controls Project, 1939-1979

Subseries 5.12: Baseball Stitching Machine Projects, 1949-1973

Subseries 5.13: Component Inserting Projects, 1954-1960

Subseries 5.14: Automatic Control Research Notebooks, 1939-1976

Subseries 5.15: Baseball Stitching Machine Research Notebooks, 1942-1956

Subseries 5.16: Component Inserting Research Notebooks, 1956-1965

Subseries 5.17, General Research Notebooks, 1939-1968

Series 6: Legal Records, 1900-1968

Subseries 6.1: Court Exhibits for Machine History, 1910-1951 (bulk 1948-1950)

Subseries 6.2: Leases, Cancellation Letters, Shipments, and Transfers (Microfilm), 1900-1958

Subseries 6.3: Patent Search, 1949

Series 7: Engineering Records, 1904-1979

Series 8: Employee/Personnel Materials, 1908-1981

Series 9: Mutual Relief Association Incorporated, 1902-1951

Series 10: Athletic Association, 1929-1962

Series 11: Industrial School Records, 1909-1938

Subseries 11.1: English for American Citizenship (Industrial Series), 1912, 1919-1921

Subseries 11.2: English for American Citizenship (Intermediate Series), 1921

Subseries 11.3: Text Books, 1909-1938

Series 12: Northwestern University Students' Cooperative Work, 1951-1960

Series 13: Aberthaw Construction Company Records, 1918-1920

Subseries 13.1: Correspondence, 1918-1919

Subseries 13.2: Reports, 1919-1921

Subseries 13.3: Purchase Orders, 1919-1920

Subseries 13.4: Receiving Records, 1919-1920

Series 14: Publications, 1898-1987

Subseries 14.1: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Catalogs, circa 1899-1961

Subseries 14.2: Beverly Today, 1979-1985

Subseries 14.3: Machinery Division Newsletter,1969-1970

Subseries 14.4: The Three Partners,1914-1920

Subseries 14.5: USM Today,1968-1976

Subseries 14.6: Quarter Century Club News, 1977-1987

Subseries 14.7: H.E. Smith & Company Catalogs, 1898-1930

Series 15: Product Literature, 1952-1979

Series 16: Advertising and Marketing Materials, 1902-1981

Series 17: Photographs, 1907-1960s

Subseries 17.1: Employees, 1907-1981

Subseries 17.2: Equipment/Products, 1961-1972

Subseries 17.3: Factories/Buildings, 1920s-1960s

Subseries 17.4: Trade Shows, 1954, 1968-1973

Subseries 17.5: Miscellaneous, undated

Subseries 17.6: Postcards, 1906-1938

Subseries 17.7: Prints from Glass Plate Negatives, undated

Subseries 17.8: Albums, 1915-1950s

Subseries 17.9: Film Negatives, 1956-1958

Subseries 17.10: Glass Plate Negatives, 1915-1923

Series 18: Audio-Visual Materials, 1934-1972

Biographical / Historical:

The United Shoe Machinery Company was formed in 1899 by the consolidation of the most important shoe machinery firms in the industry: Goodyear Shoe Machinery Company; Consolidated McKay Lasting Machine Company; and McKay Shoe Machinery Company. By this merger, conflicting patents were eliminated and patents supplementing each other were brought under United control to permit their prompt combination in a single machine or process. To ensure efficiency, the new company also continued the practice previously followed by its constituent firms of renting machinery that it manufactured instead of selling it. The authorized capital of the new company was twenty five million dollars. After the 1899 merger, United grew quite rapidly. In 1903, it began construction of a new factory in Beverly, Massachusetts about thirty-five miles from Boston. At its peak, this company employed 9,000 workers and produced eighty-five percent of all shoemaking machines in the United States. By 1910, it had an eighty percent share of the shoe machinery market with assets reaching forty million dollars, and it had acquired control of branch companies in foreign countries.

In 1911, the first of three civil anti-trust suits was brought against United by the United States government. It charged that the 1899 merger had restrained trade and violated the Sherman Act. The Massachusetts District Court ruled that the 1899 merger was not an attempt to restrain trade, only an attempt to promote efficiency. The court also said that the five companies that were merged to form United were not competitive with each other. The government appealed to the Supreme Court, which only affirmed the District Court's verdict.

In 1917, the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, incorporated in 1905, absorbed the United Shoe Machinery Company. The United Shoe Machinery Corporation had its headquarters in Boston and its main manufacturing plant in Beverly, Massachusetts.

The second government suit was brought against United Shoe in 1915. The government claimed that United Shoe's leasing system restricted the shoe manufacturer to exclusive use of United Shoe's products and that it was a violation of the newly enacted Clayton Act. The Massachusetts District Court ruled in favor of the government. The Supreme Court, hearing United Shoe's appeal case, only affirmed the District Court's ruling. In 1923, United modified its leasing policy.

The last government suit against United was filed in 1947 and charged United with monopolizing the trade, manufacture, and distribution of shoe machinery from 1923 to 1947. During this period, United had bought all shares, assets, and patents of twenty one companies that dealt in the shoe machinery manufacture. The court ruled that United had clearly violated the Sherman Act, and United was forced to modify its leasing policies and restrict its purchases of other shoe machinery businesses and its acquisition of patents. In 1968, the United Shoe Machinery Corporation changed its name to USM Corporation. In 1976, United Shoe Machinery Company merged with Emhart Industries and produced the modern-day Emhart Corporation.

In 1989, in order to resist a two billion dollar takeover attempt by a New York investment group (which included oil heir Gordon P. Getty), Emhart merged with Black & Decker Corporation. The merged company operates from Black & Decker's headquarters in Towson, Maryland. The company headquarters in Farmington, Connecticut, were closed in June 1989.

Related Materials:

Materials at Other Organizations

Lynn Historical Society & Museum, Lynn, Massachusetts

Lynn, Massachusetts businesses collection, 1888-1991

Small volumes and pamphlets of shoe and shoe-related industry businesses in Lynn, Massachusetts, including miscellaneous articles and histories on the shoe industry in Lynn, manuals, catalogs, broadsides, patents, handbooks, patterns, price lists, brochures, and legal materials. Businesses represented include Beaudry Machine Company, Beckman Machine Company, Bresnahan Shoe Machinery Company, George W. Emerson & Company, Hamel Shoe Machinery Company, Gregory & Read Co., David Knox & Sons Machinery Company, Krippendorf Kalculator Company (manufacturers of a mechanical device to compute pattern values), Peerless Machinery Company, Quarmby & Hilliker, Machine Builders, Swain, Fuller Manufacturing Company, W.J. Young Machinery Company, and George J. Kelly, Inc. (maker of shoe polish).

United Shoe Machinery Company Records, 1915-1974

Materials assembled by Edward F. McCarthy, director of USM research, including notebooks, diagrams, manuals, brochures, catalogs, code sheets, flow charts, price lists, handbooks, lectures, directories, lexicons, catalogs of other firms, personal notebooks on shoe construction (1927-1931), factory visits to other shoe companies, and production of leading manufacturers (1939-1960), and floor directory of the plant; ledgers listing machines shipped and returned from the Lynn and Puerto Rico plants (nine volumes, 1935-1974); and machine development materials, including patents, chiefly those of Edward Quinn.

Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) Salem, Massachusetts

An accession in 1987 of institutional archives, includes publications, photographs, advertisements, lectures, scrapbook of shoes made for United Shoe Machinery Corporation of Beverly, Massachusetts, shoes from which are in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum (87020).

Beverly Historical Society, Beverly, Massachusetts

The United Shoe and Machinery Company Collection contains a large quantity of the company's patents, most of which pertain to the production and manufacture of shoes. Additionally there are patents for golf balls, nail guns, and magnetic closures. The majority of the remaining materials are Quarter Century Club documents ranging from financial and membership records, to pictures and other ephemera. The remainder of the collection consists of miscellaneous objects including sample knives and knife parts from the Booth Brothers Company.

University of Connecticut, Dodd Center

Emhart Corporation Records, undated, 1883-1989

Emhart Corporation was a multinational company located in Farmington, Connecticut. Prior to its 1989 merger with Black & Decker, Emhart operated in over one hundred countries with a worldwide work force of 30,000 employees. Emhart's products included machines for the manufacture of glass bottles and shoes; filling, sealing and packaging machinery; security systems; electronics; chemical products; metal fasteners; rubber processing equipment; and consumer and do-it-yourself products. Brand name products included True Temper® hardware and sporting goods, and Price Pfister® plumbing fixtures. Emhart's domestic roots went back to the American Hardware Company, founded in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1902.

Beverly Public Schools (Beverly, Massachusetts)

Beverly Public Schools/Beverly trade school records, 1909-1995

Materials relating to the establishment and operation of the Beverly trade schools, including trustee minutes, annual reports, curriculum journals, correspondence, photographs, programs and ephemera, and calendars.

Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

[United Shoe Machinery Corporation publications], 1911-1913

Harvard University, Baker Library

[United Shoe Machinery Company, of New Jersey, et al. court proceedings], 1911-1917

United Shoe buildings and properties

The Cummings Properties now owns and leases "the Shoe."

Separated Materials:

Materials at National Museum of American History

The Division of Work and Industry holds artifacts related to the United Shoe Machinery Corporation. Some artifacts include a drafting table (1989.0259.349), tool chest (1989.0259.348), and molds for shoes, shoe heels, shoe welts, threads, needles, awls, and show wax.

Provenance:

The collection was donated by United Shoe Machinery Corporation, through Kevin Cochrane on November 20, 1987.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view materials in cold storage and audio visual materials. Using cold room materials requires a three hour waiting period, reference copies do not exist for audio visual materials. Arrangements must be made with the Archives Center staff two weeks prior to a scheduled research visit. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Industrial workers  Search this

Photography, Industrial  Search this

Tanners  Search this

Shoe machinery industry  Search this

Industrial history  Search this

Baseball  Search this

Genre/Form:

Papers

Photographs -- 20th century

House organs

Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Glass -- 1900-1950

Catalogs

Scrapbooks

Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 19th-20th century

Commercial catalogs

Albums

Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film -- 1900-1950

Magazines (periodicals) -- 20th century

Advertisements -- 20th century

Clippings -- 20th century

Research -- 20th century

Legal records

Motion pictures (visual works) -- 20th century

16mm motion picture film

Business records -- 20th century

Citation:

United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0277

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Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep83f85a875-2e03-4934-b565-4ea239c46d53

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0277

Collector:

Whitman Chocolates  Search this

Extent:

0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Business records

Date:

1878-1954, undated

Summary:

Materials trace the evolution of product packaging and advertising of Whitman's Chocolates. Includes business records and photographs of early product displays.

Scope and Contents:

The collection primarily documents the packaging and display of Whitman's Chocolates. There is a pen and ink sketch from a New York newspaper dated from 1878 which is an image of the Whitman exhibit in Paris, France. Also included are advertisements clipped from newspapers and magazines dated1898 and 1934 as well as undated advertisiements. A scrapbook labeled as Mr. Greenwood's advertising and merchandising portfolio consists primarily of photographs of window displays and products. The window displays are from stores across the United States, including Burlington, Vermont; Louisville, Kentucky; Wichita Falls, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Huntington, West Virginia; Chicago, Illinois; Burlingame, California; Beverly, Massachusetts; Mobile, Alabama; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlantic City, New Jersey and Albany, New York. There are some materials relating to Mother's Day, including a short paper on the history of the holiday which states that the first observance was in Philadelphia in 1908. In addition, there are candy wraps, point of purchase displays, correspondence and a Good Housekeeping Bureau of Foods Sanitation and Health certificate from 1932. A second scrapbook of correspondence, advertisements, order forms, newsletters, and newspaper clippings dates from 1950-1952. There is also a fact book dated 1954 and an undated product book. Lastly, there is an undated photograph of Stephen Whitman. Materials are arranged in chronological order.

Related Materials:

Materials related to Stephen F. Whitman & Son are located in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (AC0060).

Separated Materials:

The Division of Home and Community (now Division of Cultural and Community Life) holds artifacts related to this collection, including packaging for some of its products. See Accession number 1992.0017.

Provenance:

Collection donated by Whitman's Chocolates, through Robert J. Dizutti, 1991, November 13.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

advertising -- Food  Search this

Chocolate processing  Search this

Chocolates -- History  Search this

advertising -- Confectionery  Search this

Chocolate industry -- History -- United States  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 20th century

Business records -- 20th century

Citation:

Whitman's Chocolates Collection of Print Advertisements, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0437

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Whitman's Chocolates Collection

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep826f653d7-f7ad-4a62-8ba0-54a4187649bd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0437

Creator:

Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this

Illustrator:

Blumenthal, M.L.  Search this

Donor:

Blumenthal, Joseph  Search this

Blumenthal, Barbara B.  Search this

Names:

Blumenthal, Moses Lawrence  Search this

Extent:

2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Family papers

Indentures

Financial records

Legal records

Photographs

Clippings

Business records

Reports

Newsletters

Writings

Correspondence

Contracts

Articles

Advertising

Date:

1856-2010

bulk 1900-1969

Summary:

Records from Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company, manufacturers of chocolate and cocoa products, including well-known candies such as Snocaps, Raisinets, and Goobers. They were located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company was sold to Ward Foods Incorporated in 1969. This collection also includes material collected by and about the Blumenthal family and from M.L. Blumenthal, noted illustrator of the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents:

The collection documents the Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company (B*B) business from its founding in 1900. The collection also documents Blumenthal family history and contains material collected by them pertaining to the Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company. Family papers also include land indenture and real estate documents; photographs; letters, writings and ephemera relating to various family members, including papers relating to M.L. Blumenthal's (Moses Lawrence Blumenthal) career as an illustrator during the early 20th century.

The collection is organized in two series.

Series 1: Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company Records, 1856-2009, undated. This series contains historical writings about the company; advertising; photographs of employees, packaging, machinery, and display of the products and the production process. There are also photographs of the company's buildings. This series also includes business papers such as correspondence, contracts, legal and financial documents; reports and papers relating to production; annual reports; account books, bound volumes of the company's newsletter, "Chocolate Chat"; news clippings, and deeds. There are also annual reports for Ward Foods Incorporated, the successor to Blumenthal Brothers after its purchase of the company in 1969. The series is arranged chronologically.

Series 2: Blumenthal Family Papers, 1902-2010, undated. This series includes material collected by various family members pertaining to Blumenthal Brothers as well as family history. These items include correspondence, photographs, advertising, e-mails, and family information in many forms. This series includes copies of formal histories compiled by Mike Blumenthal. This series also includes material relating to the career of Moses Lawrence (M.L.) Blumenthal as an illustrator, including correspondence with major publications of the early 20th century, travel writings, personal correspondence, and a letter from James Montgomery Flagg, creator of one of the iconic depictions of "Uncle Sam". The series is arranged chronologically.

Arrangement:

The collection is organized in two series.

Series 1: Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company, 1856-2007, undated

Series 2: Blumenthal Family Papers, 1902-2010, undated

Biographical / Historical:

According to family research, Samuel Blumenthal entered the United States from Bavaria, Germany in 1849 and his future wife, Henrietta Sternberger, entered the United States in 1859. They married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1864 and settled in Wilmington, North Carolina where they began a family. They moved to Philadelphia in 1887.

Samuel and Henrietta's son, Joseph, founded the Peerless Extract Company in 1895, and by 1900 the business has become Blumenthal Brothers Extract Company. Brothers Joseph, Abraham, Aaron, Jacob, and Moses signed a partnership agreement in 1905. By 1909 they began cocoa cake and powder production. In 1910 they purchased land in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia for a new factory and by 1911 the building was in use. This site was expanded over the years and was the main office and plant for the company.

Over the course of the next fifty years, the company developed and introduced well-known chocolate candies such as Goobers (1925), Raisinets (1926) and later Snocaps and Buddy Bars. Blumenthal Brothers products and their logo B*B became familiar to the chocolate-buying public. The brothers ran the company collectively with Joseph Sr. as president and material buyer, Aaron as factory manager, Jacob as coating department sales manager, Meyer as the New York City sales manager, Abraham as the southern states salesman, and Moses as a part-time employee. Moses' primary career was as the illustrator, M.L. Blumenthal, doing work for such publications as The Saturday Evening Post, The National Magazine, Collier's, the Associated Press, and others.

Blumenthal Brothers candies took advantage of the burgeoning motion picture business. One of their early molded chocolates was in the shape of Jackie Coogan who had become famous playing "the Kid". The B*B candies were boxed and portioned perfectly for the sale to and enjoyment of the movie going public. They also produced cocoa and coating products for the industrial and home markets.

In the late 1930s and 1940s the second generation of Blumenthals joined the company, sons of the founding brothers. These were Bernhard "Bud", Samuel, Joseph Jr., Lawrence, Mike, J. Robert, and Jack. Joseph Jr., Bud, and Larry joined the armed forces during World War II. Additional real estate was purchased in 1948 as the company expanded and sales grew. By 1950, the company's Golden Jubilee, sales topped $10,000,000. They began producing holiday specific candies in 1951 and issued public bonds for investors beginning in 1958.

The 1960s saw the company employing television advertisements beginning in 1961 on the National Broadcasting Network (NBC). In 1968 papers for a merger with Ward Foods Incorporated were signed and as of January 30, 1969 the sale was finalized. By May 1969 the company name was changed to Ward Chocolate Company and was out of Blumenthal family control.

Separated Materials:

Materials at the National Museum of American History

The Division of Work and Industry holds the following objects: one metal tin stamped "Sweet Milk Chocolate Raisinets"; one small pasteboard box marked, "Raisinets", circa 1960; and one metal tin stamped, "Sunny South Sweet Milk Chocoate Peanuts", circa 1930. See accession 2015.0112.

Provenance:

Donated to the Archives Center in 2015, by Joseph and Barbara B. Blumenthal.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Real property  Search this

Cocoa  Search this

Chocolate industry -- History -- United States  Search this

Chocolate factories -- Pennsylvania  Search this

Chocolate  Search this

Candy  Search this

Factories -- Pennsylvania  Search this

Genre/Form:

Family papers -- 20th century

Indentures -- 19th century

Financial records -- 20th century

Legal records -- 20th century

Indentures -- 20th century

Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- 20th century

Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- 20th century

Clippings -- 20th century

Business records -- 20th century

Reports -- 1910-1940

Newsletters -- 1940-1950

Reports -- 1970-1980

Writings

Family papers -- 19th century

Correspondence -- 20th century

Contracts -- 20th century

Articles -- 20th century

Advertising -- 20th century

Citation:

Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company Records and Blumenthal Family Papers, 1856-2010, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1344

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Blumenthal Brothers Chocolate Company Records and Blumenthal Family Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85eb8e539-4a39-4543-9a5f-27ba063c0710

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1344

Creator:

Hendricks, Gordon  Search this

Names:

Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie  Search this

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931  Search this

Extent:

27 Cubic feet (55 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Correspondence

Clippings

Field notes

Notes

Flip books

Professional papers

Date:

1895-1970

Summary:

Contains Gordon Hendricks's collection of clippings, correspondence, and research notes, and other professional papers related to his books and articles on motion picture history. Includes files on Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, and other pioneers in motion picture inventions.

Scope and Contents note:

This large collection contains correspondence, notes, and copies of documents from many repositories, which were used as research materials for Hendricks's publications in this field, as well as black-and-white photographs. Copies of photographs come from the Edison National Historic Site archives, Eastman House, the Smithsonian, and other museums. Gordon Hendricks stored his research material in grey binders, orange manuscript boxes, clay-colored folders, and black binders, hence the grey, orange, clay and black series. It is not certain whether this arrangement represented an identification or coding system related to separate projects or whether it simply reflects the chronology of his work through a succession of filing and boxing systems.

Hendricks's arrangement has been retained generally, and the series arrangement of the collection reflects Hendricks's original groupings. Series 1 consists of Lantern slides, Series 2 of material found in grey binders, Series 3 of material found in orange boxes, Series 4 of material in clay-colored folders, Series 5 of material in black binders and Series 6 is the miscellaneous series. [These groupings have been identified, as David Burgevin conducted an inventory while the collection was in its original containers.]

These papers contain much correspondence and other materials relating to Hendricks's books in the field of motion picture history, such as copies of manuscripts, and galley proofs. Photographs: Graphic materials included in the collection, such as photographs, frequently are not original but are copies of items from repositories in which Hendricks did research. However, there are a few noteworthy original items, such as examples of motion picture flip books (one partly intact, plus loose fragments from this flip book and others).

Biographical/Historical note:

Hendricks was an art historian who wrote works on painters such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Eakins, as well as on early motion picture history, including analyses of inventors of apparatus and technology; in his book THE EDISON MOTION PICTURE MYTH he showed how Edison's assistant, W. K. L. Dickson, and other inventors actually were responsible for the development of cinematic technology for which Edison unfairly took credit. Hendricks apparently was born in 1917 and died in 1980.

Related Materials:

Some materials from this collection, primarily photographs of apparatus, are in the Division of Work and Industry, History Photographic History Collection.

129 black-and-white photographs, many copy prints used as illustrations in Gordon Hendricks books, and other images of early motion picture apparatus are in the Gordon Hendricks Collection in the Photographic History Division. The Collection also includes 240 glass plate negatives, which appear to have been taken in Europe, and a binder of contact prints of the negatives.

Provenance:

Collection donated by Gordon Hendricks, through Guido Castelli, February 13, 1990.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Motion pictures -- History -- 1890-1930  Search this

Motion picture devices -- 1890-1930  Search this

Genre/Form:

Correspondence -- 1930-1950

Clippings

Field notes

Notes

Flip books

Professional papers

Citation:

The Gordon Hendricks Motion Picture History Papers, 1895-1970, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0369

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Gordon Hendricks Motion Picture History Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8cf93c4db-8f6f-425d-9846-e145e308e638

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0369

Collection Creator:

Plastics Pioneers Association  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Disk Reference CD 3-CD 4

Type:

Archival materials

Audio

Scope and Contents:

Standard Tool Company of Leominster, MA, president and treasurer -die production in the plastics industry, history of Leominster MA, early use of injection molding machines.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Copyright status unknown. No releases exist. Collecion items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply.

Collection Citation:

[Plastic Pioneers Association Interviews, September 18-20, 1968], Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Tape number x.

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Plastic Pioneers Association Interviews

Plastic Pioneers Association Interviews / Plastic Pioneer Association Interviews - Reel 2, Side 1

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8caac33e1-d576-40b2-9db3-c7ca775a7d04

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-1235-ref552

Collection Author:

Society for the History of Technology  Search this

Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995  Search this

Container:

Box 120 (Subgroup I), Folder 12

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1992

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Subgroup II: Technology and Culture Records

Series 2: Correspondence, 1965-1988

Files are restricted for thirty years from the most recent date of the correspondence. They may be opened, on a case-by-case basis, through appeal to the SHOT Editorial Committee.

Series 4: Editorial Review of Articles, 1960-1993

Files are restricted for thirty years from the most recent date of the review. They may be opened, on a case-by-case basis, through appeal to the SHOT Editorial Committee.

Series 9: Published Files, 1982-1994

Files are restricted for thirty years from the date of the last correspondence in the individual folder. They may be opened, on a case-by-case basis, through appeal to the SHOT Editorial Committee.

Collection Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees apply when requesting reproductions.

Collection Citation:

Society for the History of Technology Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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Society for the History of Technology Records

Society for the History of Technology Records / Subgroup I: General Records / Series 10: Officers Files / 10.10k: Joyce Bedi Files

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8ea74a524-f2a6-4771-921a-57bc2192a03a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0400-ref3076

Author:

Roediger, David R  Search this

Blatt, Martin Henry 1951-  Search this

Lowell Conference on Industrial History (12th : 1993)  Search this

Physical description:

xxiv, 192 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Type:

Congresses

Place:

Northeastern States

Date:

1998

19th century

Topic:

Slavery--Economic aspects  Search this

Industrialization--History  Search this

Antislavery movements--History  Search this

Social conditions  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_542142

Collection Creator:

Gorrell, Edgar S. (Edgar Staley), 1891-1945  Search this

Container:

Box 1, Folder 6

Type:

Archival materials

Text

Date:

1940

Scope and Contents:

The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 And Airport Development, Address delivered at the Annual Convention of the American Road Builders Association, Chicago, IL, Jan. 31, 1940 (2 copies)

Government and Private Management in Air Transportation, Address delivered at the Engineering and Maintenance Conference, Kansas City, MO, Feb. 5, 1940

The Measure of America's World War Aeronautical Effort, Lecture delivered under the James Jackson Cabot Professorship of Air Transportation at Norwich University, Northfield, VT, Nov. 26, 1940

Collection Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:

Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.

Collection Citation:

Edgar S. Gorrell Collection, Acc. XXXX-0057, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Edgar S. Gorrell Collection

Edgar S. Gorrell Collection / Series 1: GENERAL

Archival Repository:

National Air and Space Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pg2210b0ecf-a346-4179-ab50-40b6c6ad29ee

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nasm-xxxx-0057-ref583