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Puente, Tito
Puente, Margaret
- Dates:
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1962-2001, undated
- Size:
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0894
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographs and personal papers documenting the career of Latin Jazz musican Tito Puente.
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Hamily, David
- Dates:
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1912-1949
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0207
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of statistics on electric train operation, drawings, blueprints, technical papers, train classifications, research and development reports, business and financial correspondence (1933, 1939-1948, 1940-1941), installation and operation instructions, locomotive system test procedures, locomotive operations data and calculatio...
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Valentine, P. O. (33 Homestead, Park, Newark)
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
Belden & Company (45 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J.)
- Dates:
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1897-1963
bulk 1897-1936
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15 Cubic feet (71 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0214
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The contents of the collection date from 1897 to 1936. The bulk of the collection consists of loose-leaf binders of photo prints of forty-one Cass Gilbert buildings under construction between 1908 and 1936. (This represents less than half of his firm's total output.) The volumes are arranged alphabetically by name of building. A few additional ph...
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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
- Dates:
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1866-1927
- Size:
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17 Cubic feet (52 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0282
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of approximately seventeen cubic feet of records of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, dating from the period 1866-1927. The bulk of the collection comprises 124 letterpress copybooks from the company's Engineering Department. These contain letters and reports sent by engineers located at the major centers of ...
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Windsor & Ford (Brick Manufacturing Company).
Charles Ford (company).
Ford & Brother
- Dates:
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1859-1906
- Size:
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4.3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0019
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of invoices and receipts documenting the sale of bricks, purchase of supplies, and expenses for the real estate business; account books, ledgers, and a business diary showing employment records and the shipment of bricks by land and water. Records of Ford and Brother are primarily represented by Charles Ford, and later accou...
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Saint, Lawrence B., 1885-1961
Washington Cathedral
- Dates:
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1926-1936
- Size:
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9.3 Cubic feet (29 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0090
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of chemical formulae developed by Lawrence Saint for use in his stained glass work at the Washington National Cathedral. There are supporting samples, records, and notes.
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Christian, Dorothy H.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Foley, James W.
- Dates:
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1881, 1913-1934
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0250
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains three books and two photographs: Kitchen Diary: Your Daily Friend (Chicago: P. F. Volland & Co., 1913) contains birth dates, addresses and appointments sporadic entries, 1921 1934. The Shakespeare Birthday Book (Mary F. P. Dunbar, ed., London, 1881) has a quotation from Shakespeare for every day in the year; scattered thro...
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- Dates:
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circa 1900
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0292
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous glass photonegatives and lantern slides, originally housed in cardboard plate boxes, some containing newspaper clipping separators with dates as late as 1961. Subjects include a flood in 1911, family photographs and portraits, and buildings, with labels indicating locations such as Chicago, St.Paul, etc. The lantern slides depict art ...
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Washington Society of Engineers
Remington, Charles E.
Ellenberger, William J.
- Dates:
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1905-1985
bulk 1930-1979
- Size:
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13.1 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0972
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Washington Society of Engineers was founded in 1905 with the objective to advance engineering knowledge and maintain a high professional standard among members. Membership was open to all individuals who were actively engaged in any branch of the engineering profession. The records contain membership records, meeting minutes and reports, financial records, correspondence, projects and events details, as well as research documents.
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Meigs, John
- Dates:
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1900-1905.
- Size:
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4.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1095
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photoprints and negatives documenting the construction of several Washington, D.C. bridges. The Washington Aqueduct Bridge is the subject of most of the images. The Washington Channel Bridge, the Potomac Highway Bridge, and the 11th Street Bridge are also included among the images. Additionally, there is a letterpress book, an employee time book, a...