The engineering records consist of correspondence, notes, drawings, reports, indices, lists of machines, financial information (operating statements) and orders (for machines and parts) related to work done by the Engineering Department. Also included are a floor directory (1930) detailing the departments and a 1919 building permit from the City o...

According to the record keeping practice of the time, letters received were entered in registers alphabetically by initial letter of surname or office of writer and thereunder chronologically by date of receipt. Each entry consists of the date the letter was received, the name or the office of the writer, the date the letter was written and the pur...

Organized alphabetically by name of company or organization. The cards contain the name of the company/organization, a description of the drawing or blueprint and an alphanumeric designation, presumably created by and for the Foundation Company to organize project work. For example, United State Railroad Administartion, organization diagram, GN-50...

Cards are arranged alphabetically by subject. the cards contain the name of the subject, a brief description and an alphanumeric designation for the drawing(s), presumably created by and for the Foundation Company to organize project work.

Book 1 (1880-1884, 73 pages) consists of clippings regarding art news and events, the National Academy of Design's Clarke award, coverage of private art collections and auctions, exhibition openings, artists, art related charity events, and art museums and societies. There is one booklet of the Lincoln Club's charter and by-laws, and additional mis...

The entries in the two volumes of registers of letters received, February 1866–June 1869, are generally arranged by time period, thereunder alphabetically by the initial letter of the correspondent's surname or office, and thereunder chronologically by date of receipt. Each volume contains a name index. Certain irregularities in arrangement and dev...

The engine drawings consist of sketches, calculations, repair parts orders, drafting room specifications, contract orders and construction blueprints. The engines were designed and built for a variety of clients. For example, Engine #241 was designed, built and installed at the Amesbury Electric Light Company in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Many of th...

Volume 20 is a bound scrapbook with numbered pages and an index and some handwritten notes. Its contents include newspaper clippings, hand written notes and drawings, and advertisements/illustrations. Volume 20 contains articles about construction projects that Meigs either worked on or was interested in such as the Pension Building, which he hel...

Records kept by Adams while Director of the New York State Museum in Albany, mainly relating to his efforts to build the museum's collections. Included are correspondence, notes, printed materials and photographs.

The records of New York City's National Academy of Design measure 92.7 linear feet and date from 1817-2012. The records pertain to all three constituents of the tripartite organization consisting of the Academy, a membership body of artists founded in 1825; the school, founded at the same time to promote arts education; and the exhibition program, inaugurated in 1826. Extensive administrative records include minutes, committee files, director files, annual reports, constitutions, and correspondence and subject files of council officers. Exhibition records, also substantive, date to the Academy's first annual exhibition and include gallery and special exhibitions, as well as exhibitions at the Academy's museum, established in 1979. The collection also includes gifts and funding files, especially relating to endowments and prizes; membership records; National Academy Association records; Ranger Fund assignments; extensive files pertaining to the school's administration, courses of instruction, registrations, and attendance; twenty scrapbooks containing clippings and ephemera; Society of American Artists records; correspondence and ephemera from other organizations; transcripts from oral histories with Academy members; extensive photographic material documenting artists, members, the school, exhibitions, buildings, and artwork created by Academy members; artist files containing correspondence, writings, and sketches from those associated with the Academy; and assorted printed material and ephemera.