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Panama Canal Company
- Dates:
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1903-circa 1939
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6 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1116
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of 719 negatives on various subjects relating to the building of the Panama Canal and the U.S. presence there until the late 1930s.
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Vogel, Robert M.
Boston Water Works
- Dates:
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1895-1932
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (5 Boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1117
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of cyanotype and silver gelatin photographs, print negatives, publications, stamps, and a glass plate negative, documenting the Metropolitan Water Works during its construction.
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Jones, Ernie
- Dates:
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1980
1977
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1118
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection contains product literature, newsletters, and other hand-outs collected from exhibitors by Ernie Jones, a faire attendee. The First West Coast Computer Faire was held in San Francisco, California on April 15-17, 1977, and the Fifth West Coast Computer Faire was held on March 14-16, 1980.
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circa 1904-1914
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (21 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1111
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of glass negatives documenting the building and construction of the Panama Canal.
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Crane, H. Irving
- Dates:
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1927-1950
bulk 1935-1945
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5.5 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1119
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
H. Irving Crane worked as a chemist for Atlantic Research Associates, Inc. (a division of National Dairy Corporation) from 1933-1940s on the production of several products utilizing casein, a protein found in milk. These products include Aralac (a synthetic fiber), Aracide (a fungicide and moth repellent), spray-dried milk, casein paints, and synthetic rubbers. The H. Irving Crane papers document Crane's work as a chemist at Atlantic Research Associates, Inc. and the development of Aralac and Aracide.
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Lehigh Valley Coal Company
- Dates:
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1864-1865, and undated.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1106
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Company records, including specifications, drawings and plans, photographs, and other miscellaneous archival material.
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Kauffman, Christian S.
Cordelia Furnace (Cordelia, Pa.).
- Dates:
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1851-1883
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (3 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1103
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Three volumes of business records from the Cordelia Furnace, Cordelia, Pennsylvania, and its store.
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Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
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1890-1914.
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23 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1099
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials, including photographs, advertising art, catalogs and other trade literature, documenting the equipment, facilities, personnel and products of the S. Morgan Smith Company, engineers and contractors. The subjects of the photographs include engines, fire pumps, generators, paper machinery, turbines, the construction of a dam and hy...
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Moffat, Reuben
- Dates:
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1852
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1101
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents personal correspondence between Reuben Moffat and his father, John Little Moffat. The materials consist primarily of letters written during the year 1852 and detail Reuben Moffat's attempts to obtain a patent for his electric gold washer and magnetic separator invention.
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Leonard, Ronald J.
- Dates:
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1966-2000
- Size:
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5 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1109
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Ronald J. Leonard's work at Travenol Laboratories and Sarns/3M, developing pumps and oxygenators used in cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.