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Fisher, Richard
Fisher, Richard, Mrs.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1902-1968
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1 Cubic foot (4 boxes , 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1045
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Fisher Collection of Panama Canal materials contains materials collected by Richard Fisher, who lived in the Panama Canal Zone during its construction. Materials include books and pamphlets, stereographs, postcards, and panoramic photographs detailing the construction and history of the Panama Canal.
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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.)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1897-1963
bulk 1897-1936
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15 Cubic feet (73 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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Hartung, Marion John, 1886-1978
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1906-1907
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1033
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of two bound volumes of mechanical engineering laboratory reports written by Hartung while he was a student at Cornell University.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1915 - 1980s.
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2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1089
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs documenting civil and mechanical engineering activities, equipment, facilities, and projects. Some of the subjects are boilers, engines, turbines, lighthouses, aqueducts, bridges, factories, roads, hydroelectric stations, kilns and mills. Few of the images are identified.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Vogel, Robert M.
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ca. 1867-ca. 1926.
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2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1090
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately 350 stereo cards of engineering subjects, such as bridges, tunnels, lighthouses, canals, quarries, etc., including both U.S. and foreign subjects.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Gallagher, James (civil engineer)
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1924-1931
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0228
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials relating to bridge construction in California. Includes a set of drawings for the San Joaquin River Bridge, Mossdale, California (1924), a California Division of Highways Bridge Department Manual (1931), and booklets by the California Highway Commission containing contracts and specifications for the construction of bridges on state highw...
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Plowden, David
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1970-1976
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1019
- Repository:
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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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Savage, John L., 1879-? (civil engineer)
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1944
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0227
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials concerning dams, power plants, and materials testing in China, for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It consists of a bound volume of preliminary reports, with maps, prepared for China's National Resources Commission by John L. Savage, consulting engineer. Includes a report on the Yangtze River Gorge Project (11/1944) and several other Chin...
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Grutzner Diesel Company.
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n.d.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1097
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately one hundred fifteen glass negatives of diesels.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Schlefer, Marion King
King, Howard L.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1928-1949.
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0990
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One cubic foot of reports on tunnels, including several in the New York subway system.