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Cohen, Stuart
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2000
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0.02 Cubic feet (1 box)
49 Photographic prints (Silver gelatin on paper, 16 x 20)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0804
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These photographs depict various scenes in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as photographed in the year 1999, including views of the town and its environs, commerce, and activities of people, especially families. The photographs are part of a self-assigned project, through which Stuart Cohen intended to survey the state of the town as it prepared to greet the new millennium.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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circa 1832-1959
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1.83 Cubic feet (consisting of 3.5 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, 1 flat box (partial).)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Waterworks
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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: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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
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Weldon, John Mitchell (collector and photographer)
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circa 1911-1912
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21 Prints (silver gelatin)
15 Copy prints
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.83-33
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs probably made by John Mitchell Weldon while working in New Mexico. They include images of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, roads, railroads, livestock, a mine, caverns, a ranch, and Navajo and other Southwest peoples. Also included are portraits of Native Americans, which appear to be the work of a professional photographer.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Holly Manufacturing Company
Worthington Corporation
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1840-1982
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18 Cubic feet (54 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0916
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the products and business activities of the Worthington Corporation, its predecessors and its subsidiaries. The records focus on the products that the Worthington Corporation produced, including steam pumps, hydraulic pumps and gas engines.
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Meyer, Frank Nicholas
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circa 1900
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1 Print (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-7
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Image of four men working a pumping apparatus, probably in Central China, for irrigation or draining purposes. According to the original catalog card, the apparatus "consists of an endless chain of paddles moving over two axles and forcing water along a trough in the cuds of which the axles are placed. The power is by treadmill or crank moved by ...
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Vogel, Robert M.
Boston Water Works.
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1895-1932
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0.3 Cubic feet (5 Boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1117
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of cyanotype and silver gelatin photographs, print negatives, publications, stamps, and a glass plate negative, documenting the Metropolitan Water Works during its construction.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Pelton Water Wheel Company
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Brayton, A.P.
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1880-1975
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1093
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to the Pelton Water Wheel Company of San Francisco, California. Materials include correspondence; business records; photographs, including cyanotypes; negatives, images of turbines; advertisements; journals; blueprints; articles; and trade literature, including catalogs.
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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.
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23 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1099
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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
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company.
Leavitt, Erasmus D., 1836-1916
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1871-1917
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20.4 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 82 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0966
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Tracings on linen of steam engines of all types, pumping, histing, air compressing, mining, material handling, power transmission, mine structures, mining machinery, and buildings by Erasmus D. Leavitt, Jr. for Calumet Heclas, Inc. of Calumet, Michigan.
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CIGNA
Seymour, Frank
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1852 - 1957
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1232
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents firefighting and fires in American history through newspaper and magazine illustrations, ephemera, and photographs. The emphasis is on large urban fires (New York City and Chicago) and industrial fires in the northeastern United States. There are some illustrations of cartoons, rescues, poems, fires on ships and clippings about great floods in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.