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Rila, Carter
Ainsworth Bridge Company
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1883-1884
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0.15 Cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1030
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of one bound photograph album, 1883-1884, documenting the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge over the Snake River. The images depict machinery, piers, boats, and construction workers.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Adams, Nettie
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1903-1905
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1066
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of an album of 208 mounted photographs documenting the Connecticut River Bridge in Hartford, Connecticut. Subjects include the bridge, approaches, and street construction work.
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Victor C. Darnell Bridge Construction Photographs
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Darnell, Victor
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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undated
1908-1913
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1018
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of bridge construction projects collected by Victor Darnell was an early student of civil engineering and a pioneering civil engineer.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Morgan, Nathan W.
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ca. 1902-1972.
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10 Cubic feet (29 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0965
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These papers contain materials relating to the design and construction of highway bridges: scrapbooks of clippings compiled by Morgan on suspension, concrete arch, moveable, steel arch, timber, concrete, steel simple span, cantilever, and stone bridges; photographs of American bridges taken by Morgan, 1938; clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and bo...
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Robinson, Holton Duncan, 1863-1945
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1889 - 1938
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0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0963
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business papers, patents, and photographs of bridges documenting the work of Holton Duncan Robinson, world-renowned engineer in suspension bridge cable design and construction.
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National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
- Dates:
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1962-1984
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-098
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Robert M. Vogel, Associate Curator, 1962-1966; Curator, 1967-1985, documenting exhibition planning, development and production for "Building Brooklyn Bridge: The Design and Construction, 1867-1883", which was at the National Museum of American History from May 4-September 14, 1983. Topics covered ...
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Foundation Company (The).
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1887-1969
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9 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 28 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0974
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records include sketches, drawings, blueprints, contracts, and reports relating to highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, subways, mine shafts, canals and waterways, dams, concrete buildings, concrete construction, derricks and derrick barges, cranes, caissons and caisson construction, air locks, pumps, jacks, engines, and turbines; also phot...
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Krainik Gallery (Falls Church, Va.)
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1886-1887
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
2 Albums
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1023
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two photograph albums containing photographs of railroad bridge construction in Minnesota , on the St. Croix River, the Clearwater River, and the Soo River. The photographs, most of which are captioned and dated, include images of such things as cutting, filling, bridges and piers, camps, and surveying. A few images of towns and people are included...
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Edwards, Llewellyn Nathaniel, 1873-1952
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1873-1911
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1025
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of two photograph albums documenting two Canadian drawbridges. One album, covering the years 1889 to 1911, documents the Coteau Bridge in Quebec. The Coteau Bridge crosses the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. It includes images of the bridge, the construction crew, and machinery. The other album, covering the years 1873 to 19...
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Enterline, Stevenson
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Eney, William J.
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1905-1986
bulk 1905-1916
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0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1026
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the construction of the first and second Quebec Bridges over the St. Lawrence River. Construction on the first bridge began in 1900 and the bridge collapsed before completion in 1907. Construction on the second Quebec Bridge, which is the longest cantilever bridge in the world, was completed in 1917.