Records. Sleep-Sleepy Water Corporation (inclusive), 1914-1974.

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Records. Sleep-Sleepy Water Corporation (inclusive), 1914-1974.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning sleep (file pertains to devices and patent medicines for curing insomnia), 1924-1935; sleep learning, a theory that people could learn new information or be cured of bad habits while asleep, 1956-1974; Sleep Research Foundation, which conducted studies on body activity during sleep, 1957; and Sleepy Water Corporation, a mineral water company, 1914-1943.

7 folders.

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