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National Museum of American History. Division of Transportation
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1946-1985
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15.51 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 528
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of curator's day journals, 1946-1956; a manuscript copy, Wheels and Wheeling: The Smithsonian Cycle Collection, 1974; and administrative files of the Division of Transportation concerning such matters as gifts and grants, annual budgets, minutes of meetings, publications, and historical inquiries regarding objects. A...
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National Museum of History and Technology, Division of Transportation
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circa 1927-1973 and undated
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8.5 linear meters and oversize.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 239
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records chiefly document the operations of the Division of Transportation from its creation in 1957, and the operations of the Section of Land Transportation, 1946-1957. Lesser amounts of records relate to the administration of the land transportation collections prior to 1946 and to the marine transportation collections before 1957...
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company
Reading Company
United Transportation Union
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1910-1986
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1.3 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1172
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed materials collected by Metz during his railroad career, including timetables, rule books, operational manuals, safety manuals, labor union materials, regulations, Metz' IDs and certifications, blank company forms, company newsletters, and internal memoranda and correspondence. The papers relate to several railroads: Western Maryland Railway...
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Interstate Commerce Commission Locomotive Inspection Reports
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Yungmeyer, Martha
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1931-1964
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8 Cubic feet (24 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0241
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records compiled by the Bureau of Rail Safety of the Federal Railroad Administration. Data include names of locomotive builders and railroads operating them.
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Finney, Bill
White, Roger
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1925-1930.
- Size:
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0790
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Nitrate negatives depicting street views with automobiles and railroad cars, in several areas of the country. Many are numbered and dated in ink on the negative. The groups are: views of Newark, Ohio, by Bill Finney, March 19, 1926; Huntington, West Virginia, 1927; Cumberland, Md., by Bill Finney, Oct. 28, 1925; and "Baltimore, Md.--Sharp St. Looking South from Camden St. / for Police Dept. / Oct. 21, 1930.
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Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
White, John H., 1933-
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1880s-1990
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31.33 Cubic feet (94 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0523
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The archivist has arranged the collection into five separate series: Series 1: CAR BUILDERS, arranged alphabetically by company or individual. Series 2: EQUIPMENT - ROLLING STOCK, arranged in two sections: alphabetically by White's heading: Articles in Progress and alphabetical by type of railroad car under White's heading: Research Files for Book ...
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Whitney, George Eli, 1862-1963 (engineer)
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1898-1957
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0463
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence includes about 3 dozen handwritten letters to John H. Bacon from Whitney. Bacon apparently undertook the task of collecting documentation of Whitney's career in the 1950s. Another 30 letters involve former associates of Whitney's, particularly Nathaniel Henry Cooledge (known as "Oliver") who was associated with Whitney as his trust...
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Felton, Samuel Morse, (civil engineer), 1809-1889
Felton, Samuel Morse, (son), 1853-1930
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1841-1930
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0170
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains biographical material on both Feltons; a handwritten bound report by Felton on the construction of the Norfolk Co. Railroad, 1847 1849; correspondence, 1861 1927, to and from both Feltons; various reports on military railroads during the World War years; and news clippings and articles on the Feltons, 1889-1930.
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
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1870-1890
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9 Cubic feet (4 drawers)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0353
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of 202 assembly drawings of locomotives and tenders, prepared to check the clearances and major component parts of the locomotive and retained for engineering reference.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Treloar, Elmer, 1902-
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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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.