Bobby Tucker Papers
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Tucker, Irma
Tucker, Bobby, 1923-2008
Eckstine, Billy
Jones, Quincy, 1933-
More … - Dates:
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1883-2007, undated
- Size:
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36 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1141
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and musical career of Robert "Bobby" Tucker. The collection particularly emphasizes Tucker's close collaboration with Billy Eckstine over a forty-year period from approximately 1949-1990, and includes original orchestrations of arrangements by Tucker and other arrangers, a complete set of commercial recordings by Eckstine for which Tucker served as arranger, and ephemeral material including photographs, concert programs and news clippings.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
More … - Dates:
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1890-1914.
- Size:
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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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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Moffat, Reuben
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- 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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Chuse Engine and Manufacturing Company. (Mattoon, Illinois)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1915-1921.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1088
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes business correspondence, proposals, contracts, specifications, photographs of engines, and catalogs and advertising.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Meigs, John
More … - 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...
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Grutzner Diesel Company.
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n.d.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1097
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately one hundred fifteen glass negatives of diesels.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1915 - 1980s.
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1089
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs documenting civil and mechanical engineering activities, equipment, facilities, and projects. Some of the subjects are boilers, engines, turbines, lighthouses, aqueducts, bridges, factories, roads, hydroelectric stations, kilns and mills. Few of the images are identified.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Vogel, Robert M.
- Dates:
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ca. 1867-ca. 1926.
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes
)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1090
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 350 stereo cards of engineering subjects, such as bridges, tunnels, lighthouses, canals, quarries, etc., including both U.S. and foreign subjects.
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Clayton Air Compressor.
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1056
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two albums of photographs of Clayton's machines.
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Herrick, Gerard Post, 1873-1955
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1842-1912
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1058
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Herrick's blast furnace and rotary steam engine business, including business correspondence, patent documents, drawings, machine operations data, and publications.