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            2602 Archival description results for United States of America

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            Schantz, Austin : Colorado.
            SCA118-GA215-7-113 · File · [before 1942]
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Snapshots taken between 1917 and 1942 of Austin Schantz and his life in Colorado. The photographs are largely unidentified, although some identifications are present. Includes images of Denver, Colorado during a snowstorm ; Colorado mountains and landscapes ; mining operations ; Christmas and New Years decorations ; animals ; buildings, ; Arthur Schantz at his cabin and holding fish ; as well as unidentified others.

            Schantz family.
            SCA118-GA252-4-9 · File · July 1944
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            A snapshot of members of the Schantz and Hamilton families and a dog standing outside and smiling at camera. From left to right: Charles C. Hamilton, Ruth Schantz, Ruth Hamilton, Elizabeth Joan Schantz (back), Sally Schantz, and Worth Flagler Schantz.

            Schantz family.
            SCA118-GA252-4-8 · File · January 31, 1897
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            Photograph of members of the Schantz family and friends seen seated together in a residential home.

            Back row: Etta Schantz, [Kathryn Ellis]
            Middle row: H. Goodwal Dickerman, Charlotte Hayes Moyer, Harry Rollin Moyer, Orpheus Moyer
            Front row: Carrie Flagler Schantz, Ruth Schantz, Mary Emma Moyer.

            SCA185-GA160-2-14-109 · Item · January 3, 1928
            Part of Harry Byers fonds.

            Group portrait of Harry Byers (front row, centre) with and what appears to be his Kansas Sweeney Tractor Machine Company class. There is a banner above the class that says "SAS Kansas City" [Sweeney Automobile School], and Harry Byers is holding a sign that says "Plate 1157 Jan. 3, 1928."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-4 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing two women cleaning marble statues with the caption "clean marble with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-2 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing a woman scrubbing a tub while a baby bathes in a smaller tub with the caption "clean baths with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-5 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing a woman scrubbing a tin pan while a young girl shows a cat its reflection in another. Caption reads "clean tins with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-1 · Item · [ca. 1870-1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing three women washing dishes with the caption "Wash dishes with Sapolio." Verso reads "There is no one article known that will do so many kinds of work in and about the house and do it so well as Enoch Morgan's Sons Sapolio. (Each cake is wrapped in Tin Foil, and surrounded with Ultramarine Blue-Band, and bears the above device) always note this. A cake of Sapolio, a bowl of water and a brush, cloth or sponge will make house cleaning a quick and easy job, will clean paint and all painted surfaces, will clean marble, mantles, tables and statuary, will clean oil-cloths, floors, shelves, etc., will clear bath tubs, wash basins, etc., will clean crockery, glassware, etc., will clean kitchen utensils, of all kinds, will clean windows without splashing of water, will polish tin, brass and copperware, will polish knives as you wash them, will polish all metal surfaces and will clean all household articles and is better and cheaper than soap, emery, rotten stone, etc. John Wanamaker, Grad Depot, Phila."

            Sapolio advertisement
            SCA339-GA384-5-3 · Item · [ca. 1870–1900]
            Part of Women's domestic work advertisements collection.

            Advertisement trade card for Sapolio showing three women polishing glassware with the caption "clean glass with Sapolio." Verso reads "1809 1880 Enoch Morgan's Sons' Sapolio for cleaning & polishing. Hand Sapolio for the toilet and bath. Sapolio being put up in an attractive style some persons think is a fancy article but the fact is that one cake is equal to three cakes of any 'mineral soap' and will do more and better work."

            SCA237-GA236-3 · File · October 3, 1825
            Part of Sol Eisen collection.

            File consists of one receipt, in French, for work performed by an enslaved Black female named Maria on a chain gang in New Orleans in 1825. Translation reads "Wages for negress on the chain: The city treasury will pay to Mr. D. Fitch the sum of 11 piastre and 50 cents for forty six days of work by his negress Maria, employed by the public works from August 9 to October 3." The document is signed by David Fitch and Precend Lament [?] and is dated at New Orleans, Oct. 3, 1825.

            Attached to the receipt is what appears to be a clipping from the vendor catalogue which listed the item for sale. It reads:
            "174. NEGRO CHAIN GANG LABOR RECEIPT. Printed document, in French, signed, one page, oblong small quarto. Nouvelle-Orleans, 1825. Interesting if not gruesome document. Receipt for labor in the chain gang performed by a negress."

            Ration coupons and scrip
            SCA43-GA23-3-15 · File · 1920
            Part of John Walter fonds.

            File contains an two envelopes with examples of German ration coupons from the 1920s and examples of scrips from Rochester, New York and Multnomah County in Oregon. The ration coupons include a pencil identification that reads: "Walter Johann".

            SCA207-GA186-20-792b · File · 1982-1983
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of material relating to public relations activities for the years 1982 and 1983. Includes news releases, memoranda, copies of form letters to employees and dealers from John A. Pollock, product photographs with typed cutlines, typed remarks by John A. Pollock given at the 1982 annual meeting, the first issue of the newsletter Electrohome World, and press kits for Electrohome Electronics, Deilcraft furniture, and the 1982 annual meeting.

            File also includes a portfolio from the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce (Morristown, TN) containing news releases about Electrohome's purchase of a production facility there and 16 photographs of the plant during construction.

            SCA207-GA186-20-792a · File · 1982-1983
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of material relating to public relations activities for the years 1982 and 1983. Includes news releases, memoranda, copies of form letters to employees and dealers from John A. Pollock, product photographs with typed cutlines, typed remarks by John A. Pollock given at the 1982 annual meeting, the first issue of the newsletter Electrohome World, and press kits for Electrohome Electronics, Deilcraft furniture, and the 1982 annual meeting.

            File also includes a portfolio from the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce (Morristown, TN) containing news releases about Electrohome's purchase of a production facility there and 16 photographs of the plant during construction.

            SCA207-GA186-32-1588 · File · [ca 1996]
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of photographs, transparencies, and slides depicting Electrohome Projection Systems products and their applications in various corporations and organizations. Applications pictured include: CSX Transportation Control Center (Jacksonville, FL), Canadian Embassy (Tokyo, Japan), Rochester Gas and Electric (Rochester, NY), Thames River Water System (London, UK), National Bowling Stadium (Reno, NV), the Barcelona Stock Exchange (Spain), and others.

            Postcards.
            SCA329-GA373-20 · File · [19--]
            Part of Innis Family fonds.

            File consists of two unused postcards showing Letchworth State Park in New York and the Administration Building of the State University Teacher's College in Geneseo, New York.

            Postcard album.
            SCA173-GA480-2-25 · File · [19--]
            Part of Kaufman Family collection.

            Photograph album with ninety-two postcards of Danish West Indies, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Antigua, St. Lucia, Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, and Florida (United States of America).

            SCA207-GA186-23-1223 · File · [198-]
            Part of Electrohome fonds.

            File consists of photographs and negatives of Electrohome plants and product testing facilities. Includes photographs of the Morristown, TN, plant; the Electrohome (U.S.A.) Inc. branch in Ontario, CA; an aerial photograph of Plant 10 (Cambridge, ON); and photographs of employees testing television and video monitors. One photograph has been mounted on board and retouched.

            Photograph collection.
            SCA83-GA53 · Collection · [186-?]-[19--?]

            Collection consists of 169 19th century American photographs. Included are 115 carte-de-visites, 40 cabinet portraits, 2 albums, 11 miscellaneous photographs and 1 envelope of miscellaneous business and greeting cards.

            Most are albumen type photographs depicting various people including infants, children, and adults. The photographs come from various studios across the United States though the majority come from studios in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Illinois. The photographs, since rehoused, were originally housed in two albums decorated with an intricate relief on the cover and a metal clasp lock.

            SCA440-GA514 · Fonds · 1912

            One photograph album capturing moments of gender expression in the early 20th Century. The album contains family and school photographs, and the images of gender expression centre around a group of students on what appears to be a school trip in Pennsylvania. People who appear to be assigned female at birth are shown wearing typical male clothing of the time, or dressed en homme, and people who appear to be assigned male at birth are shown wearing typical female clothing of the time, or dressed en femme.

            SCA251-GA261 · Collection · 1960-2013

            Collection consists of materials created and accumulated by Paul S. Burtness and Warren U. Ober relating to their research on the events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Includes correspondence with prominent members of the U.S. Forces during World War II, as well as published articles that came out of the research.

            Burtness, Paul S.
            Passport.
            SCA185-GA389-1-7 · File · November 12, 1929
            Part of Harry Byers fonds.

            One United States passport for Harry J. Byers and his wife Violet Byers. In the passport Harry is described as being 6 feet tall, having light brown hair and blue eyes, and a tattoo on his right arm. The passport also includes a photograph of Harry and Violet and visa stamps from countries they visited including Russia, Poland, Germany and the United States.

            SCA118-GA202-7-118 · File · 1921-1928
            Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.

            A promotional notebook published in 1912 by the Alaska Feather & Down Co., Montreal, used by Dorothy Russell to record movies, plays and concerts she attended in Kitchener, Ont., Toronto, Sarnia, Chatham and Chicago, 1921-1928. Included are the names of actors and actresses, the theatre and the date.

            New York Herald.
            SCA11-GA6-239 · File · April 15, 1865
            Part of Ontario history collection.

            File consist of the April 15, 1865 edition of the New York Herald. This edition reports on the assassination of Lincoln.