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    <title>Du Mont Laboratories records, 1930-1960 (bulk 1945-1960)</title>
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    <namePart>Du Mont Laboratories</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, television file, government hearings materials, sales and advertising files, administrative files, financial records, and other records relating chiefly to the development and commercial use of the television cathode ray tube.  Includes personal papers of the firm's founder, Allen B. Du Mont.  Correspondents include Keeton Arnett, Leonard Frederick Cramer, Thomas T. Goldsmith, Austin C. Lescarboura, Mortimer W. Loewi, Ernest A. Marx, Jack Poppele, William Allerton Roberts, Irving Sarlin, Albert Steadman, Herbert E. Taylor, Jr., Paul Ware, Elmer Wheeler, and C.J. Witting.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Firm devoted to electronic television and communications engineering.  Organized in 1935 by Allen B. Du Mont; television receiver and manufacturing business sold to Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation in 1958; remainder of the firm merged with Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation in 1960.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012068">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012068</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Arnett, Keeton</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cramer, Leonard Frederick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1910-1987</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Goldsmith, Thomas T. (Thomas Toliver)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1910-2009</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lescarboura, Austin C. (Austin Celestin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Loewi, Mortimer W. (Mortimer Warren)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1967</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Marx, Ernest A</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Poppele, Jack</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, William A. (William Allerton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sarlin, Irving</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Steadman, Albert</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Jr</namePart>
      <namePart>Taylor, Herbert E</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ware, Paul</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1970</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wheeler, Elmer</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Witting, C. J. (Chris James)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1915-2005</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cathode ray tubes</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electrical engineering</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electronics</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Engineering laboratories</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Telecommunication</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Television</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1965</namePart>
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