Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company Drawings
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Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company
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1948-1950
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1 Cubic foot (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0279
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Engineering drawings (81) of the Centralized Traffic Control Machine electrical circuits of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company (later Norfolk and Western Railway Company). The circuits extend from Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio and include those for mechanical controls, electrical signals, and telephone commu...
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Lanza, Kenneth
Lanza, Anthony, 1925-1995
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1925-1946
undated
bulk 1940-1946
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1.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0910
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
World War II personal papers, photographs, and printed material of Anthony R. Lanza, who served in the U.S. Army in Japan between 1944 and 1946.
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Braden Copper Company
Noerager, A. J.
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1914-1940.
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3.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0017
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of Chilean power stations and equipment; and engineering drawings and blueprints of the Braden Copper Company, Rancaqua, Chile.
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King, Wyncie, 1884-1961
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[ca. 1940-1950]
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54 Items
- Collection ID:
- AAA.kingwync
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Biographical material and illustrations by King.
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Altoon, John, 1925-
- Dates:
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circa 1940-1969
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2.3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.altojohn
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Archives of American Art
Over 300 pencil and pencil and ink drawings, circa 1950s-1960s, mostly contained in sketchbooks and tablets, as well as numerous loose sketches and several mixed-media works on board. Also found are Altoon's letters and a ship's log dating from his years of WWII Navy service in the Pacific.
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Mount, Wadsworth W., 1907-1985
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[ca. 1940s-1977]
bulk [ca.1940s-1950s]
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1.09 Cubic feet ((1 records center box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0368
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains photographs, negatives, blueprints, patents, test reports and correspondence dealing with Mount's rocket application inventions.
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Brodie, Allan, Dr.
Angle, Edward H. (Edward Hartley), 1855-1930
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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1893-1940.
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3.16 Cubic feet (9 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0724
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business and professional papers of Dr. Edward H. Angle, relating to his pioneering work in orthodontics. The papers include letters to and from Dr. Angle; photographs, subjects including Angle, his patients, equipment, skulls and jawbones and other demonstration photographs of orthodontic subjects, including some x-ray photographs (radiographs); n...
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Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
- Dates:
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1949 - 1996
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0.66 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1398
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes advertising materials for Crown Central's credit card and credit check programs, for gifts (cameras, kitchenware) offered by its service station to repeat customers; a set of posters and a design drawing for them, exhorting drivers to drive safely, featuring images of governors of states, President Dwight Eisenhower, FBI Dir...
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Baer, Ralph H., 1922-2014
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1943 - 2015
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16 Cubic feet (44 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0854
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ralph H. Baer was a German-born ordnance specialist, inventor, and engineer. He was a pioneer of early videogame technology. The papers include autobiographical materials; firearms notes, manuscripts, and photographs; and videogame and television engineering notes, diagrams, schematics, and video documentation.
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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
More … - Dates:
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1897-1963
bulk 1897-1936
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15 Cubic feet (71 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0214
- Repository:
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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...
