United States Department of Agriculture Building Construction Glass Plate Negatives
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United States. Department of Agriculture
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1906-1907.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1096
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains thirty-three glass plate negatives documenting the construction of Laboratory A and B of the Department of Agriculture building in the early 1900s.
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Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI).
- Dates:
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circa 1900
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0292
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous glass photonegatives and lantern slides, originally housed in cardboard plate boxes, some containing newspaper clipping separators with dates as late as 1961. Subjects include a flood in 1911, family photographs and portraits, and buildings, with labels indicating locations such as Chicago, St.Paul, etc. The lantern slides depict art ...
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- Creators:
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Minor, Frank (photographer)
Armstrong, W. L., Mrs.
- Dates:
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1865-1885
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0183
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 8" x 10" and 10 4" x 5" glass photonegatives, some marked "1885", one marked "1865" and "Libby Prison"), but most seem from ca. 1885; silver gelatin except two silver collodion plates, one of which bears the "1865." The large plates were stored in a nineteenth-century wooden, grooved plate box (now stored separately). Images depict buildings and...
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1890-1914.
- Size:
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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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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Dodge Manufacturing Co.
- Dates:
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circa 1910-1924
- Size:
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38 Cubic feet (222 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1092
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of photographs, some prints but mostly negatives, documenting the facilities, products and staff of the Dodge Manufacturing Company between 1905 and 1924. There are exterior and interior views of the factory.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1915 - 1980s.
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1089
- Repository:
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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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Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
- Dates:
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ca. 1910-1920.
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0246
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection designated for miscellaneous glass plates, unidentified and/or of unknown provenance. The plates included here are indexed, but additional items may be added to the collection. There are eight plates, both negatives and positives; subjects include a man with cog railway tracks(?), two images of an observatory and two of the moon, and fou...
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- Dates:
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1915 and undated
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-069
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of 25 glass plate negatives of Symphysurina trilobites which are found in the Canadian Rockies. Additionally there are various black-and-white transparencies, negatives, and prints of unidentified trilobites.
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United States. Panama Canal Commission
Panama Canal Company
- Dates:
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1903-circa 1939
- Size:
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6 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1116
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of 719 negatives on various subjects relating to the building of the Panama Canal and the U.S. presence there until the late 1930s.
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- Creators:
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Bartsch, Paul, 1871-1960
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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13.38 cu. ft. (82 3x5 boxes) (3 5x8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T89015
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of lantern slides, primarily of birds, bird eggs, and nests; ferns and wild flowers; miscellaneous subjects such as people, boats and places; negatives and transparencies; and postcards.