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Digitized Content Providence and Worcester R.R. Account Book
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Creators:
Providence and Worcester Railroad Company
Dates:
1851-1899
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 volume)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0154
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This log book of the Providence, Rhode Island repair shop records the annual summaries of repair costs by various divisions of the Railroad for 1851-1854, as submitted by John B. Winslow, Master Mechanic. It also includes entries recording miscellaneous repairs (mostly minor) and overhauls to locomotives for 1880-1899.

Digitized Content Roy C. Kulp Collection of Account Books
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Creators:
Dibner Library
Kulp, Roy C.
Dates:
1755-1904
Size:
3.66 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0149
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Thirty-nine account books of farmers, store owners, and artisans living in Pennsylvania, 1755-1904. The books mainly record daily transactions with customers or suppliers and are handwritten in varying conditions of legibility and preservation.

Digitized Content Lucretia Deming Family Account Book
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Creators:
Deming, Lucretia
Dates:
1883 January 1-1887 April 27
Size:
0.1 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0173
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This is a single household account book for the period from January 1, 1883 through April 27, 1887, maintained by Lucretia Deming until two days before her death. The final entry is $120.05 for the payment of Litchfield property taxes. The accounts record daily expenditures in substantial detail, i.e oysters, candy, bread, oil, Century Magazine, e...

Digitized Content Timken Roller Bearing Company Collection
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Creators:
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Pauly, Frank G.
United States. Bureau of Mines
Dates:
1925-1957
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0380
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Primarily technical papers by Timken engineers, presented in journals and meetings of professional societies. The papers concern the use of Timken roller bearings and other products in locomotives and other rolling stock on U.S. railroads and rapid transit systems. Also articles from trade magazines and brochures advertising Timken products, and a ...

Digitized Content Cummings Structural Concrete Company Records
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Creators:
Cummings, Robert A., 1866-1962
Dates:
1884-1952 and undated
Size:
20 Cubic feet (25 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0218
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Cummings Structural Concrete Company Records consists primarily of correspondence and business records documenting Robert A. Cummings' firm, consulting work, and participation in professional associations, especially the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1892-1893, circa 1900-1939; technical data and publications on soils testing, 1900-1939;...

Digitized Content Charles W. Trigg Papers
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Creators:
Trigg, Charles W., 1898-1989 (chemist)
Dates:
1834-1961
Size:
4.5 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0411
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Most material in this collection was generated by Trigg early in his career as an industrial research fellow at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, 1916-1920. It includes laboratory notebooks; formal weekly reports (typewritten) on his investigations; correspondence with his industrial sponsors; a few personal letters and some correspondence relating to ...

Digitized Content Benjamin W. Austin Liberian Autograph Collection
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Dates:
circa 1862-1895
bulk 1884-1889
Size:
0.06 Linear feet ((1 box) (4 folders))
Collection ID:
ACMA.06-049
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

The collection, which dates from circa 1812-1895 and measures .06 linear feet, is comprised of correspondence from Liberian elected officials and diplomats, and other individuals involved in the American Colonization Society. The primary recipient of these letters is Benjamin W. Austin, an American autograph collector and historian. The collection also includes a lithograph image of Joseph James Cheeseman, the president of Liberia from 1892 until his death in 1896; a collection of autograph cards bearing the signatures of other members of the Liberian government; and a newspaper clipping of an article on the American Colonization Society.

Digitized Content American Institute Science Laboratory Collection
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Creators:
Arias, Irwin M.
American Institute Science Laboratory
Dates:
1939-2006
Size:
1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1380
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the American Institute Science Laboratory and the students who conducted research in it.

Digitized Content Corbett Reynolds Papers
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Creators:
Reynolds, Corbett
Dates:
1962-2015
bulk 1979-2000
Size:
2 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 16 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1390
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Artwork, photographs, and papers of Columbus, Ohio artist and founder of the Red Party (circuit party) Corbett Reynolds. These papers include materials related to Rudely Elegant, Reynolds's bar and dance club in Columbus.

Digitized Content James Forgie Papers
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Creators:
Forgie, James
Dates:
1890 - 1949
bulk 1900-1935
Size:
38.8 Cubic feet (85 boxes; 33 map-folders; 18 volumes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0986
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The papers contain correspondence, reports, drawings, blueprints, cost estimates, contracts, specifications, regulations, legal documents, photographs, profiles, diagrams, clippings, and publications concerning projects which Forgie worked on, especially the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the Midtown Hudson Tunnels in New York City. Also included are...

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