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Plowden, David
- Dates:
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1970-1976
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1019
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs Plowden took of bridges, aqueducts and viaducts all over the United States and a few in Canada. The photographs are of various types of bridges: truss, suspension, covered. Some photographs feature close-up details of architectural elements, such as arches, chains, towers and ornamentation.
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Franklin Machine Company Providence, Rhode Island
Corliss, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1888
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1930.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1016
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of an album illustrating the history of the Corliss Steam Engine.
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Dodge, W.C.
Clark, Alexander Melville
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1877
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1017
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A British patent issued to Alexander Melville Clark for an improved process for preventing the accumulation of carbon in retorts used for the distillation of carbureted hydrogen. There is a wax seal attached to the end of the patent.
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Weide, Robert Lee
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1910-1933.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1012
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs and photograph albums documenting engineering projects with which Robert Weide was involved. They include the Potomac Electric Power Company plant in Washington, D.C.; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing building in Washington, D.C.;. a hydroelectric plant on the James River for Bedford City, Virginia; a power plant in Salem, Ohio; a p...
Victor C. Darnell Bridge Construction Photographs
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Darnell, Victor
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undated
1908-1913
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1018
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of bridge construction projects collected by Victor Darnell was an early student of civil engineering and a pioneering civil engineer.
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Van Tassell, A.R.
Jackson, Paul
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1900-1956.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1015
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photograph album documenting the work and life of A.R. Van Tassell, an engineer who worked on structures in Hawaii as well as the Panama Canal.
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Sluder, Joyce
Stuck, Leon
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1927-1928
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1008
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A photograph album with black-and-white photographs documenting road building in cities on Long Island, New York.
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Union Copper Mining Company
Giorgianni, Paul J.
Giorgianni, Rachel R.
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1903-1905.
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
1 Volume
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1006
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Weekly reports of accomplishments, some correspondence, supply orders.
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Alabama Mining Institute
- Dates:
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undated.
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1004
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two volumes of photographs, plus negatives, of mining villages in Alabama, featuring company commissaries, hospitals, dining halls, boarding houses, schools, and recreational facilities. The photographs are captioned as to which facilities were for white employees and which for "colored" employees. Companies documented include the Woodward Iron Com...
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Reed, Samuel E., 1872-1964
Reed, Grace Fillmore
- Dates:
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1947-1964
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1001
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbooks kept by Reedand by his wife, Grace Fillmore Reed, after his death) on the subject of bridges. Contents of the scrapbooks vary, and include postcards, photographs with detailed captions, stickers, articles, and clippings. One set of scrapbooks relates to covered bridges, another set relates to all other types of bridges. The scrapbooks ar...
