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Redfield, Edward Willis, 1869-1965
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1900 May 12
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1 Item (folded sheet, 21 x 15 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.redfedwa2
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Handwritten letter, one folded sheet, dated May 12, 1900. Letter was written by landscape painter Edward Willis Redfield to Mr. Morris (possibly Harrison S. Morris, Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). Redfield describes the highlights of the American sections of the Paris Exposition Universalle of 1900, including paintings loane...
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1922-1926.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1029
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sixty-six pages from a photograph album compiled by an anonymous photographer, documenting the Philadelphia-Camden or Delaware River Bridge, now called the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], 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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Modjeski and Masters
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1870-1979
bulk 1900-1940
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60 Cubic feet (139 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0976
- Repository:
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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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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Pennsylvania Steel Company.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1905-1914
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
1 Album
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1024
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of railroad construction photographs documenting numerous unidentified, projects.
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Butler, Mary
- Dates:
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1853-1946
bulk 1884-1946
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1.6 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.butlmary
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of landscape painter Mary Butler date from 1853-1946, bulk 1884-1946, and measure 1.6 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical material, correspondence, and records relating to Butler's long participation in the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Also found are notes and writings, a scrapbook, printed material, and photographs of Butler, her friends, her studio in Ogunquit, Maine, her landscape paintings, and exhibition installations.
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Shanks, Lester
- Dates:
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1876-2010
bulk 1973-2008
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3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1244
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is comprised of the results of Shanks's research on covered bridges, mostly in America but also covered bridges in Canada and Switzerland. Included are albums containing color photographs of covered bridges, slides of covered bridges, postcards depicting covered bridges; maps, and guidebooks; newsletters, magazines, and newspaper clippings on the subject of covered bridges.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1882-1936.
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3.25 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1046
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers and photographs relating to the infrastructure of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, including correspondence, blueprints, inspection reports, plat books, and photographs of tracks and bridges. .
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Steel, R. Wallace
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1864-1903
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2 Cubic feet (1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1449
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents railroad engineer R. Wallace Steel and his work with railroads, primarily in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
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Forgie, James
- Dates:
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1890 - 1949
bulk 1900-1935
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38.8 Cubic feet (85 boxes; 33 map-folders; 18 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0986
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers contain correspondence, reports, drawings, blueprints, cost estimates, contracts, specifications, regulations, legal documents, photographs, profiles, diagrams, clippings, and publications concerning projects which Forgie worked on, especially the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the Midtown Hudson Tunnels in New York City. Also included are...