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.

 

Search by Scurlock Collection
Black-and-white film negatives (Series 4), Scurlock Studio Records, 1905-1994.
Search by Soap Advertisements
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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    [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
    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
    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
    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
    Dr. James M. Nabrit [color negative], 1962, Name: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Nabrit, James M., Date: 1960s
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Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, 1880s-1970s
Search by Western Union Telegraph Company Records, ca. 1820-1995.
Western Union Telegraph Company Records, ca. 1820-1995.

 
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Civil War Highlights
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Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, 1895-1921
 
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