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Joseph A. Numero

CTL-E-3830 · Person · businessperson · 20th century

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Minneapolis businessman; hired Frederick McKinley Jones at Cinema Supplies in 1927 and co-founded the U.S. Thermo Control Company with him in 1949; shared the 1991 National Medal of Technology with Jones.

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RELP87 new entity (2026-10-06). Name-collision check clean. Exists as relationship target (collaborated_with) for CTL-E-1045.

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Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago's main Negro business street, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago's main Negro business street, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Where the Negro and white sections on the South Side meet, the white and Negro children sometimes play together, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Where the Negro and white sections on the South Side meet, the white and Negro children sometimes play together, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
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