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Pelton Water Wheel Company
Brayton, A.P.
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1880-1975
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1093
- Repository:
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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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Lombard Governor Company.
Sorensen, William
American Lincoln Corporation
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1898-1970s.
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6.75 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1091
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of records documenting the Lombard Governor Company: photographs (including glass plate negatives), blueprints, printed material, price lists, reports, catalogs and trade literature, bulletins, and a notebook of patents.
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James Leffel and Company
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circa 1867-1957
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20 Cubic feet (44 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0960
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records contain business and legal records; correspondence; patents and patent files; specifications; charts;blueprints; mechanical drawings and original catalog art; photographs and negatives; catalogs, 1868-1870, 1877-1878, 1883, 1900, 1902, 1924; and clippings.
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Waterworks
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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
- Repository:
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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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Niagara Falls Power Company
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1899 - 1919
- Size:
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7 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0949
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of bound photograph albums and loose photographs documenting the construction of the Adams Power Station (hydroelectric plant) and allied structures of the Niagara Falls Power Company, 1899-1919.
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Bohmer, Josef
- Dates:
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1935-1936
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1 Film reel (37 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1365 feet, 16mm)
Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1979.01
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Edited film of a motorcycle expedition by six Austrians who traversed Africa from October 1935 to March 1936. Footage documents the rigors of overland travel on motorcycle as well as encounters with three tribal groups: Zulus in South Africa, Kikuyu in Kenya, and Latukas in the Sudan. Film includes ceremonial dance at a Zulu wedding, Zulu homestead...
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Haupt, Robert
- Dates:
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1933-1937
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Film reels (25 minutes, black-and-white silent, 965 feet, 16mm)
- Collection ID:
- HSFA.1980.03
- Repository:
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Human Studies Film Archives
Footage taken while Haupt travelled in India and Pakistan while stationed at the Woodstock school in Landour/Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh, one of the so-called "hill stations" of British India. Locations of interest include Mussoorie, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Bombay, the Portugese colony of Goa (India), and t...
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Pelzer, Dorothy West, -1972
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1961-1970
- Size:
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38.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.1989-07
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of notes and photographs, both black and white negatives with prints and color slides. The notes comprise both reading notes and those made in the field. For many of the buildings, the photographs show facades, structual and decorative details, and, often, interior views. For some structures, the photographs also show surr...
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J. & W. Jolly Company.
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ca. 1880-1924.
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2.4 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1009
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records document the activities of the J. & W. Jolly Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Included are turbine test reports from the testing flume of the Holyoke Water Power Company, 1890-1912; photographs of vertical water turbine assemblies and parts, ca 1880; a record of wheels, and turbines, ca1896-1921; and tracings of governors for turbin...
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Boyden, Uriah A. (Uriah Atherton), 1804-1879
Francis, Joseph Sidney
Schultze, Bernhard
- Dates:
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1806-1879
bulk 1830-1879
- Size:
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21 Cubic feet (20 boxes, 45 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0982
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers of Uriah A. Boyden (1804-1879), a Boston civil and mechanical engineer and the inventor of the Boyden turbine. Materials include correspondence, notes, calculations, articles, notebooks, legal documents, financial documents, patents and patent assignments, design drawings, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, business cards, and a print of a daguerreotype.
