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Turner, Lynn
Applegate
Filson & Son
Bairstow, J. B.
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circa 1865-1918
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0210
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of two photograph albums and a number of individual photographs (tintypes and cabinet prints, all portraits), from the turn of the century to approximately 1918. The cabinet prints are from Pennsylvania and Ohio studios. Most of the snapshots seem to have been taken in and around Washington, D.C.
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Nickerson and Collins Refrigeration Photographs
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Nickerson and Collins Co.
- Dates:
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1888-1928
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1044
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of refrigeration equipment manufactured by Nickerson and Collins. Companies represented include: American Butt Copany, Hygiene Ice Company, Hygenic Ice and Cold Storage Company, Boston Terminal Refrigerating Company, Dixie Ice and Cold Storage Company, National Poultry and Egg Company, Alpine Ice Company, Standard Ice Manufctauring Comp...
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Olds, Robert F., 1881- (civil engineer)
- Dates:
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1918-1948
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1.2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0231
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains material from fourteen dam construction projects (1918-1946), including notes, blueprints, reports, drawings, and corres¬pondence. In addition there is cost data (1923-1943), equipment and materials testing data (1939-1945), a notebook, photoprints (1926-1938), related journal articles (1927, 1933, 1940), and miscellaneous r...
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1918
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 item)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1460
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of one panoramic photograph of a military band at Camp Upton, New York featuring Irving Berlin.
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Whitney, George Eli, 1862-1963 (engineer)
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1898-1957
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0463
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers of inventor and engineer George Eli Whitney.
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Mitchell, Ada, 1882-1958
Griffith, Gordon
- Dates:
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1938 July 30-1938 September 9
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1369
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the forty day driving trip made by Ada Mitchell and her son Cecil from Vancouver, Canada to Key West, Florida and back, August-September 1938. This diary was kept by Ada Mitchell and tracks their experiences in all of the places they visited.
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Robrecht, Jack
- Dates:
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1852 - 1983
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1231
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains primarily photographs and postcards relating to firefighting. Many of the photographs are of firefighting vehicles and apparatus, both horse-drawn and gasoline-powered. The cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore are especially well documented, though other cities are represented, including Hamilton, Ohio; Camden, New Jersey; D...
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Valentine, P. O. (33 Homestead, Park, Newark)
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
Belden & Company (45 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J.)
- Dates:
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1897-1963
bulk 1897-1936
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15 Cubic feet (71 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0214
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The contents of the collection date from 1897 to 1936. The bulk of the collection consists of loose-leaf binders of photo prints of forty-one Cass Gilbert buildings under construction between 1908 and 1936. (This represents less than half of his firm's total output.) The volumes are arranged alphabetically by name of building. A few additional ph...
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Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, 1899-1984 (policeman)
Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, Mrs.
- Dates:
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1935 - 1940
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0139
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of a disassembled photograph album, featuring images from the travels of Stauffer and his wife.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Holling, W. J.
Chandler, Don
Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Ill.).
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1948-1949.
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11 Copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0146
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
11 photoprints of Caterpillar Tractor Co. buildings and products: three photographs of company buildings, including two aerial views, and eight photographs of tractors, including views of machines at work in various locations. Tractors with various models of scrapers are shown in San Antonio, Texas; Whittier, California; and Colquitt County, Georgi...
