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Bay State Gas Company.
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1858-1929
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0.75 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1049
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document an investigation by M.L. Webb, an attorney from Massachusetts, into possible trust violations by the coal and gas industry of New England, New Jersey, and Delaware in the late nineteenth century. Documents assembled by Webb include patents, stock records, photographs, correspondence, hand written notes, published materials, and investigation notebooks.
Lighthouse Postcards Collection
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
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undated
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1055
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Postcards depicting lighthouses in the United States and Canada.
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Nickerson and Collins Co.
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1888-1928
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1044
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of refrigeration equipment manufactured by Nickerson and Collins. Companies represented include: American Butt Copany, Hygiene Ice Company, Hygenic Ice and Cold Storage Company, Boston Terminal Refrigerating Company, Dixie Ice and Cold Storage Company, National Poultry and Egg Company, Alpine Ice Company, Standard Ice Manufctauring Comp...
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Currie, William
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1904-1912
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1043
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
William Currie was a civil engineer and photographer who worked during the early twentieth century. The photograph album documents irrigation systems in the western United States, sewage systems in Louisville, Kentucky, and work on the Panama Canal.
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Stine, W.P.
LaBrose, Susan Stine
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1904-1911.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1039
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
W. P. Stine was an engineer involved in the building of the Panama Canal. He also worked on road building projects in Panama. The collection consists of blueprints, letters, and a letterpress book pertaining to the Panama Canal.
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Woodard, Silas H., 1870-1961
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1899-1932
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, 3 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1038
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers of Silas H. Woodard include the Isthmian Canal Commission Report containing text, maps, profiles, and plates, 1899-1901; photograph albums on the East River Tunnel, 1904-1908; reports on the regulation of the levels of the Great Lakes, 1910-1914; and reports dealing with the development of hydroelectric power on the St. Lawrence River, 1...
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Kingsford, Katherine
- Dates:
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circa 1904-1914
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1040
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of photographs of Panama and the Panama Canal, circa 1904-1914.
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Fisher, Richard
Fisher, Richard, Mrs.
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1902-1968
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1 Cubic foot (4 boxes , 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1045
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Fisher Collection of Panama Canal materials contains materials collected by Richard Fisher, who lived in the Panama Canal Zone during its construction. Materials include books and pamphlets, stereographs, postcards, and panoramic photographs detailing the construction and history of the Panama Canal.
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Western Electric Company.
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1925.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1036
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This album, prepared for a Bell System conference in Chicago, 1925, contains black-and-white photographs of the Hawthorne, Illinois Works of the Western Electric Company including views of buildings and grounds, offices, laboratories, shops, and the rod and wire mill.
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Waddington's Antique Auction House (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
- Dates:
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1912
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1031
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A photograph album documenting an irrigation project on the Snake River in Arizona, precise location unknown. The images depict a dam, construction camp, excavation, ferries, cranes, pumping stations, canals and personnel.
