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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Cotton, Robert, Sir
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1984-1985.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1022
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Fifty-eight titled photographs taken by Sir Robert Cotton, of scenes along the C & O Canal, including locks, acqueducts, canal station; and cyclists and joggers along the towpaths.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Western Electric Company.
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1925.
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1036
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This album, prepared for a Bell System conference in Chicago, 1925, contains black-and-white photographs of the Hawthorne, Illinois Works of the Western Electric Company including views of buildings and grounds, offices, laboratories, shops, and the rod and wire mill.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Dodge Manufacturing Co.
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circa 1910-1924
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38 Cubic feet (222 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1092
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of photographs, some prints but mostly negatives, documenting the facilities, products and staff of the Dodge Manufacturing Company between 1905 and 1924. There are exterior and interior views of the factory.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Waddington's Antique Auction House (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1912
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1031
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A photograph album documenting an irrigation project on the Snake River in Arizona, precise location unknown. The images depict a dam, construction camp, excavation, ferries, cranes, pumping stations, canals and personnel.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Grutzner Diesel Company.
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undated
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1097
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Approximately one hundred fifteen glass negatives of diesels.
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LCL Corporation Records
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Dyer, Randolph N., II
LCL Corporation.
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1927-ca. 1970.
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3.6 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1170
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists mostly of films and photographs on the subjects of freight and containerization, especially railroad containerization. The containerization of building materials is the subject of most of the photographs, especially cement.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Plowden, David
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1970-1976
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1019
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs Plowden took of bridges, aqueducts and viaducts all over the United States and a few in Canada. The photographs are of various types of bridges: truss, suspension, covered. Some photographs feature close-up details of architectural elements, such as arches, chains, towers and ornamentation.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1867-1927
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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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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1922-1926.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1029
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sixty-six pages from a photograph album compiled by an anonymous photographer, documenting the Philadelphia-Camden or Delaware River Bridge, now called the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
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Page Tractor Company
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1940-1979
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1005
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Page Tractor Company and its parent company, Pioneer Manufacturing. The papers include customer inquiries and the responses to them, drawings and blueprints, invoices, trade literature, parts catalogs and price lists, and instruction manuals.