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Elmer Treloar Collection of Railroad Station Negatives
Creators:
Treloar, Elmer, 1902-
Dates:
1970-1973.
Size:
0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1078
Repository:
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 Photograph Albums
Creators:
Leslie Company
Dates:
circa 1890-1900
Size:
1 Cubic foot (2 volumes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1182
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Two albums of photographs depicting rotary snow plows for railroads.

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Washington, D.C. Bridges Collection
Creators:
Meigs, John
Dates:
1900-1905.
Size:
4.5 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1095
Repository:
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 …

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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives
Creators:
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
Dates:
1915 - 1980s.
Size:
2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1089
Repository:
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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards
Creators:
Vogel, Robert M.
Dates:
circa 1867-circa 1926
Size:
2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1090
Repository:
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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Archives Center Ethnic Imagery Collection
Dates:
1889 and undated
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1138
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Advertising, postcards, trade cards, and stereographs, depicting African Americans in stereotypical or demeaning ways.

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T.B. Cryer Company Records
Creators:
T.B. Cryer Company
Dates:
1890 - 1950
Size:
2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1085
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

These records contain plans and specifications for plumbing and heating systems installed in a residence, schools, and public buildings in Newark, Orange, West Orange, Rahway, and Montclair, New Jersey.

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S. Morgan Smith Company Records
Creators:
Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
Dates:
1890-1914.
Size:
23 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1099
Repository:
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 hydroelectric station by the …

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Robert Wetherill Company Records
Creators:
Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Wetherill Company
Dates:
circa 1875-1930
Size:
80 Cubic feet (48 boxes )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0992
Repository:
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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Marion John Hartung Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Reports
Creators:
Hartung, Marion John, 1886-1978
Dates:
1906-1907
Size:
0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1033
Repository:
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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