Papers, [ca. 1888]-1942, 1900-1939 (bulk).

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Papers, [ca. 1888]-1942, 1900-1939 (bulk).

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Papers collected by Crawford concerning his interests in the beginning of the motion picture and its inventors, and in the beginning of sound film. The collection contains his correspondence in the late 1920s and early 1930s with many film pioneers then still living, and some original documents from the historic period which interested him. Some of the more significant subjects are Lee De Forest, W.K.L. Dickson, Thomas Alva Edison, William Friese-Greene, Eugene Lauste, Bell Laboratories, film apparatus, L.A. Augustin LePrince, and Georges Melies. Material consists of correspondence, photographs of inventors and inventions, and catalogs and patents about inventions. In addition, scrapbooks of news clippings of Crawford's column in Motion pictures today during the mid-1920s.

3 cubic ft.

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.

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LePrince, L. A. Augustin

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De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961

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Lee De Forest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 26, 1873. He was a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1896 and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1899. He was an important contributor in the development of wireless telegraphy in the United States. He started multiple radio broadcasting companies and patented 300 inventions in his lifetime. In 1904, he was awarded the gold medal at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. He died on June 30, 1961. F...

Méliès, Georges, 1861-1938

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Friese-Greene, William, 1855-1921

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Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935

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Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931

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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...

Crawford, Merritt, 1880-1945

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