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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Holling, W. J.
Chandler, Don
Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.).
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1948-1949.
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11 Items
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0146
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 photoprints of Caterpillar Tractor Co. buildings and products: three photographs of company buildings, including two aerial views, and eight photographs of tractors, including views of machines at work in various locations. Tractors with various models of scrapers are shown in San Antonio, Texas; Whittier, California; and Colquitt County, Georgi...
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Walter Kidde & Company
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bulk 1930-1950
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0.54 Cubic feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0021
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 350 photographs, negatives, and illustrations, dating from the 1930s through the 1940s, from the Walter Kidde & Company archive. Subjects include Kidde fire suppression and air flotation systems, and military, commercial, and general aviation aircraft of the period. The collection also includes thirty-three...
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Cass Gilbert Collection
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Valentine, P. O. (33 Homestead, Park, Newark)
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
Belden & Company (45 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J.)
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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1897-1963
bulk 1897-1936
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15 Cubic feet (71 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0214
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The contents of the collection date from 1897 to 1936. The bulk of the collection consists of loose-leaf binders of photo prints of forty-one Cass Gilbert buildings under construction between 1908 and 1936. (This represents less than half of his firm's total output.) The volumes are arranged alphabetically by name of building. A few additional ph...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Olds, Robert F., 1881- (civil engineer)
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1918-1948
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1.2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0231
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains material from fourteen dam construction projects (1918-1946), including notes, blueprints, reports, drawings, and corres¬pondence. In addition there is cost data (1923-1943), equipment and materials testing data (1939-1945), a notebook, photoprints (1926-1938), related journal articles (1927, 1933, 1940), and miscellaneous r...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
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1860-1940
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3.25 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1046
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers and photographs documenting the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
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
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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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Roebling, Charles Gustavus, 1849-1918
Roebling, Ferdinand W. (Ferdinand William), 1842-1917
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
John A. Roebling's Sons Company
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1836-1975
bulk 1930-1950
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18.5 Cubic feet (62 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0981
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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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Untermyer, Samuel, II
Lord And Burnham
Waring, John, b. 1820
Tilden, Samuel J., 1814-1886
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circa 1940
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0.25 Cubic feet (119 glass 35mm slides; 1 photographic print (2 1/2 X 3 1/2 in). , 2" x 2")
- Collection ID:
- AAG.UNT
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Archives of American Gardens
The Untermyer Family Slide Collection includes 119 glass 35mm slides documenting the grounds of Samuel Untermyer's estate, Greystone. In addition to general garden views, the images depict architectural features, vistas from the property, and interior shots of Greystone's greenhouse. The slides are not captioned or dated. The photographer was Samuel Untermyer II, the grandson of Samuel Untermyer.
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Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
Rangeloff, Evan
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circa 1910-1991
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3.5 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0716
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes thirty-eight punchboards, all unpunched and in very good to excellent condition, and featuring a range of products and imagery. The collection also includes two punchboard manufacturers' catalogs from the 1940s, which detail the money-making opportunities for jobbers and retailers. The collection also contains corresponde...
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Ostroff, Eugene, d. 1999 (NMAH Curator)
Salo, Matt, Dr.
Haberstich, David E., 1941-
Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
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1985 - 1986
1930 - 1943
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0.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0204
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains 273 silver gelatin photoprints (Series 1), most of which apparently were made during the 1930s and early 1940s, contemporaneously with the original negatives. All are 8" x 10" or slightly smaller, unmounted except for flush mounted linen on the backs of some prints. The photographs were made primarily in two locations, Ne...
