Division of Transportation Stereograph Collection
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- Creators:
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1867-1927
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1468
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains stereographs by various makers. Most depict trains, railroads and railroad related subjects such as railyards, railroad bridges, elevated trains.
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- Creators:
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Hall, Clayton M.
- Dates:
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1936-1966, undated
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1168
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of black and white photographic negatives depicting railroad scenes and locomotives in the United States and Canada, taken by Clayton M. Hall of Princeton, New Jersey.
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Perrin, Francis
Mathis-Oster, Patricia
Jiranek, Andrew
Amtrak
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1922-2000
bulk 1968-1990
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13 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1327
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents railroad ephemera, primarily relating to Amtrak and Conrail.
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Smith, Walker R., 1910-
- Dates:
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circa 1936-1991
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
100 Photographic prints (11" x 14", 8" x 10", 6" x 11", 4" x 10", 5"x 7", 4" x 5", and smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0446
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of the rural Maryland village of Doubs and environs; subjects include trains and railroad subjects, farming activities, grocery stores, people at work and play, etc.
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McBride, Harry A.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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ca. 1940s-1950s.
- Size:
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4.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1171
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approxiamtely 3,000 views of railroads, railroad equipment, stations, yards and employees. The emphasis is on American railroads, but the collection includes a few views of railroad subjects in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe, Scandinavia and several island nations.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
New York Central Railroad Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1914-1923
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12 Cubic feet (36 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1072
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographic negatives relating to a valuation study of the New York Central Railroad dating from 1914 to 1923.
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Finney, Bill
White, Roger
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1925-1930.
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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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Dubin, Arthur D. (Arthur Detmers)
- Dates:
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1953-1980
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 83-015
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of correspondence, notes, clippings, brochures, manuscripts, photographs, and similar materials concerning Arthur D. Dubin's research in railroad history, including preparation of his books, Some Classic Trains and More Classic Trains. Much of this collection is unarranged. Files labeled "miscellaneous" correspondence mos...
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Taylor, Miriam Price
Price, Edwin, 1829-1901 (locomotive engineer)
- Dates:
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1893
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0070
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents handwritten reminiscences of Edwin Price's experiences operating steam engines.
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Hamily, David
- Dates:
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1912-1949
- Size:
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0207
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of statistics on electric train operation, drawings, blueprints, technical papers, train classifications, research and development reports, business and financial correspondence (1933, 1939-1948, 1940-1941), installation and operation instructions, locomotive system test procedures, locomotive operations data and calculatio...