Query: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Agriculture and Mining
Pennsylvania State Anthracite Mine Cave Commission Report
Creators:
Pennsylvania State Anthracite Mine Cave Commission
Dates:
1912-1913
Size:
1.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0180
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection consists of the Commission's report, comprising: a 352 page report, including numerous photographs and maps; one 24 page printed copy of the report; one map of the city of Scranton, dated 1912; and eight blueprints of coal field sites.

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Lehigh Valley Coal Company Records
Creators:
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Dates:
1864-1865, and undated.
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1106
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Company records, including specifications, drawings and plans, photographs, and other miscellaneous archival material.

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Swatara Railroad Papers
Creators:
Swatara Railroad Company
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Agriculture
Donaldson, William
Swatara and Good Spring Railroad
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Dates:
1805-1894.
Size:
1 Cubic foot (3 vertical boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0272
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Documents relating to the business of the Swatara Railroad Company of Danville, Pennsylvania and particularly of its president, "Judge" William Donaldson. Includes receipts, bills, contracts, operating statistics, financial statements and correspondence, filed chronologically by year.

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Union Copper Mining Company Letterpress Copy Book
Creators:
Union Copper Mining Company
Giorgianni, Paul J.
Giorgianni, Rachel R.
Dates:
1903-1905.
Size:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
1 Volume
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1006
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Weekly reports of accomplishments, some correspondence, supply orders.

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Nelson Dickerman Papers
Creators:
Dickerman, Nelson, 1881-1952
Urbanski, Pauline
Dates:
1880-1965.
Size:
3.5 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0542
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers relating to the career and life of mining engineer Nelson Dickerman: letters, photographs, clippings and diaries kept during his mining career. Much of the material is personal, rather than professional, relating to Dickerman's family and children. Family photographs include baby books.

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Sharpe, Weiss and Company Papers
Creators:
Sharpe, Weiss and Company
Dates:
1856-1889
Size:
4.75 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 map folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0399
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Invoices and letters from merchants and manufacturers with whom Sharpe, Weiss and Company, and their successors, did business; and two reels of microfilm of Sharpe and Weiss's account books.

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Bernis B. Brown Collection
Creators:
Brown, Bernis B., 1888-1960
Dates:
1852-1972
Size:
8.5 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 1 map folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1047
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the history of farm machinery in America, especially steam-powered machines, with an emphasis on tractors. The collections includes Brown's correspondence with individuals and institutions regarding his research and his collection, writings, research notes, newspaper and magizine clippings, photographs, periodicals, and trade literature. Many of Brown's writings appeared …

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Correspondence
Dates:
1870-1893
Size:
11 cu. ft. (21 document boxes) (25 microfilm reels)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 220
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Most of these records are the official files of George Vasey as botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture and curator of the United States National Herbarium from 1872 to 1893. They include incoming and occasional outgoing correspondence, mostly to Vasey, but sometimes to Jeremiah M. Rusk, secretary of Agriculture; Edwin …

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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company Records
Creators:
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Dates:
1866-1927
Size:
17 Cubic feet (52 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0282
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection consists of approximately seventeen cubic feet of records of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, dating from the period 1866-1927. The bulk of the collection comprises 124 letterpress copybooks from the company's Engineering Department. These contain letters and reports sent by engineers located at the major centers of the company's …

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Edwin G. Rust Papers
Creators:
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Elk Rapids Iron Company
Rust Boiler Company
Rust Engineering Company
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Dates:
1890-1928
Size:
5 Cubic feet (14 boxes and 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1070
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers, comprised mostly of business correspondence (typescript, handwritten, and letter press books), from Edwin Rust's career as an engineer, specializing in boilers and steam engines. Also included are agreements, receipts, telegrams, blueprints, sketches, job cost records, rate of wages (Antrim Iron Company), daily labor reports (Elk Rapid Iron Company) and …

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