Correspondence (16)
Clippings (12)
Business records (9)
Phonograph records (5)
Blueprints (4)
Audiocassettes (3)
Diagrams (3)
Field notes (3)
Laboratory notebooks (3)
Aeronautics, Commercial (4)
Inventors (4)
Atomic clocks (3)
Folk music (3)
Launch vehicles (Astronautics) (3)
African American musicians (2)
Composers (2)
Electric engineering (2)
Electric engineers (2)
Electrical science and technology (2)
Physicists (2)
Sounds (2)
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. (3)
Duke Ellington Orchestra (2)
Ellington, Duke (2)
Folkways Records (2)
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Electricity and Modern Physics (2)
Seeger, Pete (2)
A.O. Smith Company (1)
Aguilar, Héctor (1)
Air Transport Association of America (1)
Aji-no-moto Corporation (1)
Aladdin Industries, Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.). (1)
Albert Trostel and Sons (1)
Allen, Steve (1)
Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Comp (1)
American Antiquity (1)
American Colortype Company (1)
American Helicopter Society (1)
American Indian Development, Inc. (1)
American Institute of Industrial Engineers (1)
American Marconi Company. (1)
American Society of Civil Engineers. (1)
Anderson, William "Cat", 1916-1981 (musician) (1)
Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier) (1)
Asch, Moses (1)
Asian Productivity organization (1)
Baer, Ralph H. (1)
Bagnall, James (1)
Barbar and Coleman (1)
Bechet, Sidney (musician) (1)
Begun, S. Joseph (Semi Joseph) (1)
Bell Aircraft Corporation (1)
10th Naval District Steel Band (1)
Afro-Caribbean cults (1)
Almerico, Tony, 1905- (1)
American Indians (1)
Ast, Anita (1)
Audio Engineering Society (1)
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 (1)
Bannock (1)
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 (1)
Big Shell Band (1)
Boston Chorale (1)
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 (1)
Brokenshire, Norman, 1898-1965 (1)
Brundage, Al (Alfred) (1)
Brute Force Band (1)
Camp, Red (1)
Carroll, Jimmy (1)
Crowley, Daniel J., 1921- (1)
Dakota (Eastern Sioux) (1)
Diné (Navajo) (1)
Indians of Central America (1)
Indians of South America (1)
Kootenai (Kutenai) [Idaho] (1)
Menominee (Menomini) (1)
Salish (Flathead) (1)
San Carlos Apache (1)
Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) (1)
Benítez (Venezuela) (1)
Beverly (Mass.) (1)
Caribbean Area (1)
Glorieta National Battlefield (N.M.) (1)
Hierakonpolis (Extinct city) (1)
Kerala (India) (1)
Newark (N.J.) (1)
Pittsburgh (Pa.) (1)
United States Navy Long Beach Naval Shipyard (1)
United States Rock Island Arsenal (1)
Washington (D.C.) (1)
Archives Center, National Museum of American History (23)
National Air and Space Museum Archives (11)
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (3)
National Museum of the American Indian (1)
Query: Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
Cook Labs records
Cook Labs
Cook, Emory, 1913-2002
1908-2002, bulk 1948-1965
6.3 Cubic feet (Phonograph albums)
63.5 Cubic feet (Open-reel tapes)
8.75 Cubic feet (Business records)
78.55 Cubic feet
CFCH.COOK
The Cook Labs records, which date from 1939-2002, document the activities of audio engineer Emory Cook and his label Cook Labs. The contents include business records, materials relating to recording artists, photographs, and production materials, as well as phonograph records, master recordings and unpublished recordings produced by or associated with the Cook Labs label. The collection also contains two interviews conducted with Emory Cook in 1990: one by Jeff Place and one by Anthony Seeger and Nicholas Spitzer. There are several physical objects relating to Cook Labs including a bag of powdered vinyl, a binaural playing arm, and a condenser microphone.
in CFCH.COOK for Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
Waco Aircraft Company records
Waco Aircraft Company
184.1 Cubic feet (168 Legal document boxes; 35 drawers)
NASM.XXXX.0151
This collection consists of the records of the Waco Aircraft Company. The material includes office files of the company, marketing and sales information, and design data. Also included are original engineering drawings and report files.
in NASM.XXXX.0151 for Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
Science Service Astronomy and Astronautics Files
Science Service
41.04 Cubic feet (114 boxes)
NASM.1987.0125
Science Service was founded in 1921 by newspaper publisher Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) and the zoologist William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) as a news service for the purpose of disseminating information on scientific progress to the public, and to "present facts in readable and interesting form." The Science Service Astronomy and Astronautics files in the National Air and Space Archives consists of papers, news releases, articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and technical papers pertaining mainly to astronomy and astronautics and dating from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.
in NASM.1987.0125 for Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
Smithsonian Institution. Management Analysis Office
1960-1980, with related records from 1918
52.5 cu. ft. (52 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
These records for the most part date from 1960, when Ann S. Campbell became Supervisory Management Analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration. These records include correspondence, organization charts, project reports, audit reports, directives (with background information), various task force minutes, MAO internal records, and informational files, reflecting …
in Record Unit 294 for Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
Duke Ellington Collection
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
400 Cubic feet
The collection documents Duke Ellington's career primarily through orchestrations (scores and parts), music manuscripts, lead sheets, transcriptions, and sheet music. It also includes concert posters, concert programs, television, radio, motion picture and musical theater scripts, business records, correspondence, awards, as well as audiotapes, audiodiscs, photographs, tour itineraries, newspaper clippings, magazines, caricatures, paintings, and scrapbooks.
in NMAH.AC.0301 for Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
Vivian E. Garrison papers
Garrison, Vivian, 1933-2013
108.29 Linear feet
NAA.2017-19
Vivian E. Garrison was an applied medical anthropologist who researched the cultural understandings and community treatment structures surrounding mental illness and mental health care among low-income, minority, and migrant communities of the New York metropolitan area. The Vivian E. Garrison papers document this research and consist of clinical and case files; research policies and protocols; presentations and workshops notes; manuscripts and drafts; publications and working papers; correspondence; grant applications; administrative files; sound recordings and films; annotated scholarly literature; and personal biographical material.
in NAA.2017-19 for Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Space History
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
270 Cubic feet (Ongoing)
NASM.XXXX.1183.O
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.
in NASM.XXXX.1183.O for Frequency standards -- 1950-1970
Ted Allan Rathbun Papers
Rathbun, Ted A., 1942-
26 Linear feet (53 document boxes, 4 record storage boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 folder, 3 computer disks)
This collection is comprised of the professional papers of Ted Allan Rathbun. The collection documents his career as a forensic anthropologist and educator through correspondence, publications and teaching materials. The collection includes the publications resulting from his research in South Carolina, Egypt, and Glorieta, New Mexico, as well as a small portion of his research data. His other writings that can be found in the collection include his monographs, journal articles, papers presented at conferences, and reviews he wrote for various journals and publications. The collection also includes materials relating to his consulting activities for law enforcement agencies, and military and historical organizations. Additionally, the collection contains materials related to organizations that he was a member of and his syllabi and lecture notes as a professor at the University of South Carolina. The collection also includes Rathbun's course notes when, as a student at the University of Kansas, he studied under William Bass, Ellis Kerley and other notable anthropologists. Among his correspondents were J. Lawrence Angel, Eve Cockburn, Henry Dobyns, Henry Field, T. Dale Stewart, and T. Cuyler Young.
Medical Sciences Film Collection
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
36 Cubic feet (81 Films, 16mm)
Films vary in subject, production source, and intended audience. Includes both silent and sound black-and-white, and color films with sound.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation Records
212.29 Cubic feet (598 boxes)
This collection consists of the corporate records of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Included in the collection are technical and engineering reports of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division's operations in St. Louis (Robertson), MO (1935-1945) and Buffalo, NY, (1932-1945), as well as AAS Material Division and AAF Air Technical Services Command memorandum reports collected by Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis and Buffalo technical reference libraries. The collection also contains the files of Curtiss-Wright's Patent Department, which hold records of patents filed by Curtiss-Wright and patent-infringement cases involving Curtiss-Wright. Also included in the collection are specifications issued by and photos commissioned by the Keystone Aircraft Corporation (Huff-Daland Airplanes, Inc. until March 1927), which had been acquired by Wright in 1928 along with Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp., and formed the Keystone Division of Curtiss-Wright until 1932 when Keystone's Bristol, PA factory closed its doors. The collection also contains financial records of the Curtiss-Wright Airports Corporation, which was liquidated in 1936, as well as an extensive negative collection featuring Curtiss-Wright aircraft from the 1930s and 1940s, concentrated especially on the war years.