Samuel Yellin Collection

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Samuel Yellin Collection

circa 1971-1975;circa 1928 -1930

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Samuel Yellin was an American master blacksmith. In 1910, he built the Arch Street Metalworker's studio.

2 Motion picture films; 0.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes); acetate,,16mm.,,Films:,Silver gelatin on,silent.; Photoprints:,fibre-base paper,,8" x 10".,Silver gelatin on

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11662233

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Hofmeister, Richard

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Davis, Myra Tolmach

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Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940

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Samuel Yellin, one of the most important architectural metalworkers in the United States in the early twentieth century, was born in Galicia, Poland in 1885. He was trained in Europe and traveled there before he immigrated to the United States. Yellin settled in Philadelphia, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was appointed as instructor at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, and by 1909 he had established his own shop. Yellin designed and built ironwork for some of the...

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life.

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The Division of Community Life was created by the National Museum of History and Technology in 1978 from the former Division of Ethnic and Western Cultural History. The Division studied the American community, urban life, and popular culture, including education, immigration, and labor movements. In 1995 it was merged into a new Division of Cultural History. Staff included Richard E. Ahlborn, Curator, 1978-1994; Carl H. Scheele, Curator, 1978-1987; Spencer R. Crew, Curat...