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Niagara Falls International Bridge Company and Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company
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1848-1946
bulk 1890-1929
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8 Cubic feet (22 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1060
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, bridge construction and condition reports, financial records, and other materials created by or concerning the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company (NFSB). The main focus of the collection is company administration and the daily operation of a series of bridges connecting the U.S. and Canada over the Niagara Gorge.
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Morgan, Nathan W.
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1888-1972
bulk 1930s
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10 Cubic feet (29 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0965
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers contain materials relating to the design and construction of highway bridges.
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Dodge Manufacturing Co.
Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
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1886-1931.
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18 Cubic feet (37 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1013
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of 19th and early 20th century lantern slides collected by the Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
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Plowden, David
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1970-1976
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1019
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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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Tyrrell, Henry Grattan, 1867-1948
Tyrrell, Mary Maude Knox
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1886-1941
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2.3 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0948
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Manuscripts, correspondence, business records, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks documenting the career of Henry Grattan Tyrrell, an early-twentieth-century civil engineer and bridge builder who was also a prolific self-published author of hundreds of journal articles and several books. Subjects include aesthetic bridge design, history of bridges, design of movable bridges, and the economical design of factories, shops, and mill buildings.
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Snow, J. Parker
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1882-1933
bulk 1930-1933
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1000
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The J. P. Snow Papers document Snow's history of wooden bridges and his work as a civil engineer. The history was written in the 1930s with Robert Fletcher, Director Emeritus of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth College.
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Modjeski and Masters Company Records
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Modjeski and Masters
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1870-1979
bulk 1900-1940
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60 Cubic feet (140 boxes, 23 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0976
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records document the work of consulting engineers and bridge builders, Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940) and Frank Masters (1883-1974) of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1818-1941
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1 Cubic foot (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Bridges
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Bridges forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Roebling, Charles Gustavus, 1849-1918
Roebling, Ferdinand W. (Ferdinand William), 1842-1917
John A. Roebling's Sons Company
Roebling, John Augustus, 1806-1869
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1836-1975
bulk 1930-1950
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18.5 Cubic feet (62 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0981
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the work of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, builders of bridges. The materials consist primarily of photograph albums documenting some of the bridges, tramways, ski lifts and chair lifts that Roebling's Sons Company was involved with. The documentation also includes specifications, patents, and reference materials about the engineering process of building bridges and bridges in general.
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Morison, George S., 1842-1903
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1846-1903
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30 Cubic feet (61 boxes and 152 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0978
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the career of George S. Morison, a prominent civil engineer, specializing in railroad bridge design. The materials consist primarily of drawings and maps (linen tracings, blueprints, sketches); final bridge reports; photographs; glass plate negatives; daily diaries; correspondence; and published material documenting George S. Morison's participation on the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1898-1903.
