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Lyon, Lucius, 1800-1851
Moore, Hiram
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1835-1932
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 tray)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1429
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Hiram Moore's invention of a harvesting machine.
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National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Extractive Industries
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1926-1979
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-125
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that primarily document exhibition planning, development and production activities for the Hall of Agriculture, the Hall of Farm Machinery, the Hall of Forest Products, and the Hall of Nuclear Energy at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), which, prior to 1969, was known as the Museum of...
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Page Tractor Company
- Dates:
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1940-1979
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1005
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Page Tractor Company and its parent company, Pioneer Manufacturing. The papers include customer inquiries and the responses to them, drawings and blueprints, invoices, trade literature, parts catalogs and price lists, and instruction manuals.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
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1950, 1959-1988, 1996, 2004, 2006
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2.09 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 16x20 box) (3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-221
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document planning, development and production activities for the exhibitions A Material World, Loose the Mighty Power: Impressions of the Steam Engine in America, Abandoned Mine Scenes, On Time, Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, as well as the halls of Nuclear Ener...
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Brown, Bernis B., 1888-1960
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1878-1960
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8.5 Cubic feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1047
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the history of farm machinery in America, especially steam-powered machines. The papers include Brown's correspondence with individuals and institutions regarding his research and his collection, notes and notebooks, reference books and history books on farm machines, clippings and articles, newsletters on farming subjects,...
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Custom Auto and Equipment Sales
Parlett, John K., 1937-2005
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1859-2011, undated
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20 Cubic feet (60 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1225
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The John K. Parlett Collection of Agricultural Ephemera, 1859-2011, undated, is a collection of operator's instruction manuals, parts illustrations manuals, dealership materials, farming, farm life, and agriculture-related ephemera. The material is from national companies as well as local manufacturers and businesses.
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Duncan, James T.
Duncan, Paul
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1937-1941
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0827
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Filmed entirely on location at the W. Clark McMillen Farm in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the Paul Duncan Film Collection documents three types of now obsolete farming practices using draft horses and manual labor: making hay (1937), threshing wheat (1939), and cradling & flailing (1941). The film is 8mm, black and white and color. Edge codes date f...
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Science Service
- Dates:
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1907-1970
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-137
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of Science Service subject files pertaining primarily to agriculture, farming, plants, animals, forest and forestry, fishes, mining, chemical technology, manufacturing, the National Park Service, and food. The subject files are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system. E - America HV - Pover...
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Frick Company Records
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Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Frick Company, George (Waynesboro, Pa.)
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1852-1961
bulk 1860-1920
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26 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0293
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents, in correspondence, publications, forms, paperwork, drawings, newspaper clippings, diplomas and photographs, the operations and products of the Frick Company of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam-powered engines (portable, stationary, and traction), sawmills, threshing machines, grain separators and other mechanized agricultural harvesting implements, refrigeration, mechanical cooling systems, and ice making plants, from its founding in 1852 through 1961.
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Meyer, Frank Nicholas
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circa 1900
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1 Print (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-7
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Image of four men working a pumping apparatus, probably in Central China, for irrigation or draining purposes. According to the original catalog card, the apparatus "consists of an endless chain of paddles moving over two axles and forcing water along a trough in the cuds of which the axles are placed. The power is by treadmill or crank moved by ...