This image gallery
represents only a small subset of Archival holdings at the Archives Center
at National Museum of American History. The holdings include more than
seven hundred collections of business records, personal papers, and visual,
magnetic and electronic documents related to the mission of the National
Museum of American History, especially the history of American music,
advertising and marketing, and technology and invention.
Black-and-white film negatives (Series 4), Scurlock Studio Records, 1905-1994.
Soap (Vertical Ephemera Series), Warshaw Collection of Business Americana,
1838-1953.
Highlight
Samples
Don't / wait until the last minute... [trade
card], Name: Finley Acker & Co. (Atlantic City, N.J.), Date: 1890s,
1900s
Fats Waller [photoprint, ca. 1939], Name:
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Waller, Fats, Howard Theatre
(Washington, D.C.), Date: 1930s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s
Chick Webb, Artie Shaw, and Duke Ellington
[photoprint] 1937, Name: Shaw, Artie, Ellington, Duke, Webb, Chick,
Jazz Photographs: Composed and Improvised (Archives Center display
cases, National Museum of American History, March 28-May 10, 2005),
Date: 1990s, 1950s, 2000s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1930s
Every Tub [sheet music] 1938, Name: Basie,
Count, Durham. Ed, Clayton, Buck, Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Inc,
Date: 1930s, 1930s
I'm sharing my soap with Mother now. [Print
advertising.] Family Circle. 1941, Name: Procter & Gamble Company,
Date: 1940s
[Western Union messenger Raymond Taylor
of San Antonio, Texas, with bicycle, holding a loving cup; 1930,
Name: Western Union Telegraph Company, Taylor, Raymond, Date: 1930s
Stock & Grain Quotation furnished by the
Western Union Telegraph [photograph of photomechanical image.],
Name: Western Union Telegraph Company
Publicity photograph of Duke Ellington;
photographers stamp
[Performance picture of man (with crown) and two women.] [color photoprint]./Name:Nell, C. M. (photographer).
I dreamed / I had the / world on a / string
in my maidenform...bra... [etc.] [color advertisement], Name: Maidenform,
Inc, Date: 1990s, 1960s, 1930s, 1950s, 2000s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s,
1980s, 1920s
Dr. James M. Nabrit [color negative], 1962,
Name: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Nabrit, James M., Date:
1960s
![Don't / wait until the last minute... [trade card], Name: Finley Acker & Co. (Atlantic City, N.J.), Date: 1890s, 1900s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/warshaw/AC0060-0000110.jpg "Don't / wait until the last minute... [trade card], Name: Finley Acker & Co. (Atlantic City, N.J.), Date: 1890s, 1900s")
![Fats Waller [photoprint, ca. 1939], Name: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Waller, Fats, Howard Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Date: 1930s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/scurlock/WALLERF.GIF "Fats Waller [photoprint, ca. 1939], Name: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Waller, Fats, Howard Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Date: 1930s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s")
![Tucumcari Mountain [postcard], Name: Baxtone Co., Amarillo, Texas, Date: 1930s, 1920s, 1920s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/ethnicimage/bl379.jpg "Tucumcari Mountain [postcard], Name: Baxtone Co., Amarillo, Texas, Date: 1930s, 1920s, 1920s")
![Chick Webb, Artie Shaw, and Duke Ellington [photoprint] 1937, Name: Shaw, Artie, Ellington, Duke, Webb, Chick, Jazz Photographs: Composed and Improvised (Archives Center display cases, National Museum of American History, March 28-May 10, 2005), Date: 1990s, 1950s, 2000s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1930s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/AC0849.0000002.jpg "Chick Webb, Artie Shaw, and Duke Ellington [photoprint] 1937, Name: Shaw, Artie, Ellington, Duke, Webb, Chick, Jazz Photographs: Composed and Improvised (Archives Center display cases, National Museum of American History, March 28-May 10, 2005), Date: 1990s, 1950s, 2000s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1930s")
![Every Tub [sheet music] 1938, Name: Basie, Count, Durham. Ed, Clayton, Buck, Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Inc, Date: 1930s, 1930s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/AC0301-0000077.jpg "Every Tub [sheet music] 1938, Name: Basie, Count, Durham. Ed, Clayton, Buck, Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Inc, Date: 1930s, 1930s")
![I'm sharing my soap with Mother now. [Print advertising.] Family Circle. 1941, Name: Procter & Gamble Company, Date: 1940s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/ivorysoap/ivory_0207910008.jpg "I'm sharing my soap with Mother now. [Print advertising.] Family Circle. 1941, Name: Procter & Gamble Company, Date: 1940s")
![Stock & Grain Quotation furnished by the Western Union Telegraph [photograph of photomechanical image.], Name: Western Union Telegraph Company](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/westernunion/04020505.jpg "Stock & Grain Quotation furnished by the Western Union Telegraph [photograph of photomechanical image.], Name: Western Union Telegraph Company")
![I dreamed / I had the / world on a / string in my maidenform...bra... [etc.] [color advertisement], Name: Maidenform, Inc, Date: 1990s, 1960s, 1930s, 1950s, 2000s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1920s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/maidenform/01058522.jpg "I dreamed / I had the / world on a / string in my maidenform...bra... [etc.] [color advertisement], Name: Maidenform, Inc, Date: 1990s, 1960s, 1930s, 1950s, 2000s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1920s")
![Dr. James M. Nabrit [color negative], 1962, Name: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Nabrit, James M., Date: 1960s](http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/scurlock/AC0618.005.0000005.jpg "Dr. James M. Nabrit [color negative], 1962, Name: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Nabrit, James M., Date: 1960s")
