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National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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1962-1965, 1975-1976
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-147
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Robert M. Vogel, Curator, which document planning, development and production activities for "1876: A Centennial Exhibition" at the Arts and Industries Building, particularly in regard to the Ingersoll-Rand Company rock drill and Cameron steam pump platforms, and for the refrigeration section of t...
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Nickerson and Collins Refrigeration Photographs
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Nickerson and Collins Co.
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1888-1928
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1044
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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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Carbondale Machine Company.
Hendricks Manufacturing Company.
Hiller, Nicholai H., 1868-1963
Hiller, Paul W.
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1890-1937
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1105
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Nicholai H. Hiller's career as a mechanical engineer for Carbondale Machine Company and Hendricks Manufctauring Company. The materials include patents, lecture notes, design drawings, instruction manuals, trade literature, notebooks and card files on various refrigeration subjects. Additionally, there are eleven bound vol...
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Cooper, Madison, 1868-1946
Madison Cooper Company (Watertown, N.Y.)
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1900-1963
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1054
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Madison Cooper was an inventor and manufacturer of refrigerating systems in the early twentieth century. Cooper received several patents for his refrigeration inventions, including several refrigerating apparatuses, an air-circulating system, a process for preventing the formation of frost on refrigerating surfaces and a refrigeration train car. The collection spans 1900-1963 and includes his United States and foreign patents, his publications related to refrigeration, and a few documents and photographs related to Cooper and the Madison Cooper Company.
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Aronson, David, 1923-2015
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1955-1970
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3.3 Cubic feet (10 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0947
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the correspondence and technical documents related to David Aronson's work as an engineer with the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation. The correspondence files relate to acceptance or rejection of products and procedures used in the development and production of the company's products, responses to submissions to...
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Baldwin-Southwark Corporation
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Southwark Foundry and Machine Company
De La Vergne Engine Company
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circa 1868-1945.
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342 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1107
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of engineering drawings of steam engines, blowing engines, turbines, generators, testing machinery, steam hammers, boilers, machine tools, and other machinery manufactured by the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, circa 1880-1916; transfers of patent rights, reports, lists, financial documents, and other material concern...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Engineering and Industry
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1835-1930
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0225
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection of personal notebooks of civil engineers.
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Frick Company, George (Waynesboro, Pa.)
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1852-1961
bulk 1860-1920
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26 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0293
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents, in correspondence, publications, forms, paperwork, drawings, newspaper clippings, diplomas and photographs, the operations and products of the Frick Company of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam-powered engines (portable, stationary, and traction), sawmills, threshing machines, grain separators and other mechanized agricultural harvesting implements, refrigeration, mechanical cooling systems, and ice making plants, from its founding in 1852 through 1961.
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Cooper-Bessemer Corporation (Mt. Vernon, Ohio)
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1870-1961
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27 Cubic feet (68 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0961
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records document the activities of the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and Grove City, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam, gas, and oil engines, compressors, and furnaces.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1826-1958
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1.47 Cubic feet (consisting of 3 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Refrigeration
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Refrigeration forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
