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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1860-1936
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18 Cubic feet (55 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0208
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection of engineering reports and correspondence from the Engineering Department of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was most used for the transportation of anthracite coal within Pennsylvania from 1833 through the early 1970s.
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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company Records
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Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
- Dates:
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1866-1927
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17 Cubic feet (51 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0282
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of approximately seventeen cubic feet of records of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, dating from the period 1866-1927. The bulk of the collection comprises 124 letterpress copybooks from the company's Engineering Department. These contain letters and reports sent by engineers located at the major centers of ...
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of
Beers, E.R.
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1909-1938
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6.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0232
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents E.R. Beers's business records, his personal collection of Edison trivia, and correspondence between Beers and General Electric (1909-1922).
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Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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undated
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144 pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS832
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Contents 1. "Nu-mu (Pa-vi-ot-so) Pai-yu-te, 1880." Title on the first page reads: "Pai-yu-te of Humbolt Valley. Nov. 28, 1880." Pages numbered 1-41 (pages 8, 36, 37, 38, 40 and 41 are missing). 38 pages, total. 2. Miscellaneous notes and vocabulary in Paviotso. 11 pages, total. 3. "Nyuma affinities." Kinship terms numbered after schedule of Jo...
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Olmstead, G. Dwoyid (Gilbert Dwoyid), 1914-1985
Williams, Sydney Olmstead
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ca. 1941-1949.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 vertical boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0270
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains one hundred seventy eight (178) film photonegatives by G. Dwoyid Olmstead in 4 x 5 in. sheet and cut film and 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (#120) rollfilm sizes; the rollfilm negatives are cut apart into either individual frames or double image strips. Most of the photographs were taken in the early 1940s in the Hill District, Pittsbur...
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Hollingsworth, Robert K.
Adams, Samuel
- Dates:
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1862-1933
bulk 1862-1865
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1310
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Samuel Adams Papers document a surgeon's perspective on several major battles and events occurring during the United States Civil War.
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Everett Piano Company
Hammacher, Schlemmer & Company
Chickering & Sons Piano Company
Pratt, Read and Company
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ca. 1903-1955.
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0.25 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0511
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Advertisements, catalogs, repair manuals, union materials, and technical drawings related to pianos and piano tuning (companies and organizations listed below). While providing a window into a profession that spans both science and music, this collection contains information concerning economic changes, advertising, trade associations, and technical advances.
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
- Dates:
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Ongoing
- Size:
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42 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.J
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.
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Ottenberg, Simon
Ottenberg, Simon
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between 1978-1992
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3145 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2005-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection primarily includes photographs of Limba peoples taken by anthropologist Simon Ottenberg during field research in northern Sierra Leone within Bafodea Town, the capital of Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom, and Guinea, from October 1978 through July 1980. The collection also includes photographs taken while conducting field research at an Afikpo village-group, in southeastern Nigeria, from January 30, 1988 to February 5, 1988 and in 1992.
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Trigg, Charles W., 1898-1989 (chemist)
- Dates:
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1834-1961
- Size:
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4.5 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0411
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Most material in this collection was generated by Trigg early in his career as an industrial research fellow at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, 1916-1920. It includes laboratory notebooks; formal weekly reports (typewritten) on his investigations; correspondence with his industrial sponsors; a few personal letters and some correspondence relating to ...