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Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Wetherill Company
- Dates:
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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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Burmister, Donald, 1895-
- Dates:
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1927-1974.
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3 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1068
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Reports, studies, diagrams, and articles relating to consulting projects undertaken by Burmister concerning beach erosion, building and bridge foundations, airports, highways, docks, piers, bulkheads, and land development.
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Petersen, Dean F., 1913-1989
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1952-1977
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0967
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents some of the writings by Dean F. Petersen, a civil engineer specializing in water resource management.
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Treloar, Elmer, 1902-
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1970-1973.
- Size:
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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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Meigs, John
- Dates:
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1900-1905.
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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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Penn Station, New York, Photographs
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Pennsylvania Railroad.
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ca. 1903-1910.
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3.6 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
On paper and glass, silver gelatin.
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1048
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Glass plate negatives and stereographs relating to the construction of Penn Station and the Pennsylvania Railroad's work in New York City, including the Station foundations and the East and Hudson River tunnels.
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T.B. Cryer Company
- Dates:
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1890 - 1950
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1085
- Repository:
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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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Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
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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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Snow, J. Parker
- Dates:
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1882-1933
bulk 1930-1933
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1000
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The J. P. Snow Papers document Snow's history of wooden bridges and his work as a civil engineer. The history was written in the 1930s with Robert Fletcher, Director Emeritus of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth College.
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Skinner Engine Company
- Dates:
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1880-1960.
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29 Cubic feet (81 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1087
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records of the Skinner Engine Company, Erie, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of Universal Unaflow engines, include correspondence and orders, 1905-1939, 1948-1951; drawings, blueprints, tracings, photographs, and files on Corliss engines, diesels, steam turbines, variable steam controls, and Kingsford and Stumpf stationary and marine unaflow engines, 1...
