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Treloar, Elmer, 1902-
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1970-1973.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1078
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of negatives of photographs documenting railroad stations in the United States and Canada. The majority of the slides are of stations in the Midwestern U.S.
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Leslie Company
- Dates:
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ca. 1890-1900.
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1 Cubic foot (2 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1182
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two albums of photographs depicting rotary snow plows for railroads.
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Meigs, John
- Dates:
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1900-1905.
- Size:
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4.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1095
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photoprints and negatives documenting the construction of several Washington, D.C. bridges. The Washington Aqueduct Bridge is the subject of most of the images. The Washington Channel Bridge, the Potomac Highway Bridge, and the 11th Street Bridge are also included among the images. Additionally, there is a letterpress book, an employee time book, a...
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Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Wetherill Company
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ca. 1875-1930.
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80 Cubic feet (48 boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0992
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records document the activities of the Wetherill Plant of the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, originally the Wetherill Company, particuarly the manufacture of steam and diesel engines. Included are engine specification cards; bound lists and charts of specifications and prices; a bound index of drawing numbers, 1886-1928; steam engine ...
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Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
- Dates:
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1890-1914.
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23 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1099
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials, including photographs, advertising art, catalogs and other trade literature, documenting the equipment, facilities, personnel and products of the S. Morgan Smith Company, engineers and contractors. The subjects of the photographs include engines, fire pumps, generators, paper machinery, turbines, the construction of a dam and hy...
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Ogden, Darius
Robbins, Lawrence
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1916-1917.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0995
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black-and-white photoprints of mills, taken ca. 1916-1917, some captioned in shorthand; a notebook, also in shorthand; two postcards of mills; a typescript essay entitled "On the Hunting of Old Mills"; and maps, presumably used to find the mills. Of those captioned, most of the mills in the captioned photographs are in Maryland and Virginia.
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William J. Savage Company (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Whitman, John (President of Oakland Group, Inc.)
- Dates:
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12/8/1983
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0991
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains blueprints, photographs, correspondence, trade literature, and business records relating to the Savage Company's manufacture of crushing, milling and pulverizing equipment.
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James Leffel and Company
- Dates:
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circa 1867-1957
- Size:
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20 Cubic feet (44 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0960
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records contain business and legal records; correspondence; patents and patent files; specifications; charts;blueprints; mechanical drawings and original catalog art; photographs and negatives; catalogs, 1868-1870, 1877-1878, 1883, 1900, 1902, 1924; and clippings.
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Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
- Dates:
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1925-1942.
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1075
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Over nine hundred official company photographs documenting the history of the railroad. Subjects include trains, locomotives and cars; employees and employee gatherings and events; structures such as stations, track, bridges, crossings, towers, coaling stations.
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Charles Edwards Wood Panama Canal Photograph Album
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Wood, Charles Edwards, 1876-1954
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1114
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of photographs taken during the construction of the Panama Canal. Subjects of the photographs include the earliest digging, tree removal, mosquito control, locks, equipment, Wood's family, a fire in Colon that occurred during the building of the Canal, and the first boats to use the Canal. Photographs include images of the Gatun Dam and lo...
