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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
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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
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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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Baziotes, William, 1912-1963
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1933
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2 Items (volumes (on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.baziwills
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Two hard-cover sketchbooks, ca. 1933. One (auction no. 90.5) contains 42 single-sided drawings and 26 double-sided drawings, in both pencil and pen and ink. The second (no. 115.5) contains 71 single-sided drawings and 26 double-sided drawings, all in pencil except for one charcoal drawing on frontispiece. The sketches are primarily of people; some ...
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Hartgen, Vincent A. (Vincent Andrew), 1914-2002
Brown, Robert F.
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1981 Oct. 2-1984 Nov. 28
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5 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
92 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hartge81
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Vincent Hartgen conducted 1981 Oct. 2-1984 Nov. 28, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
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Library Company of Philadelphia. Print Dept
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[ca. 1850]-1890
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0.2 Linear feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.librcomp
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Photographs of 19th century artists, including Thomas Sully, Rembrandt Peale, Frederick de Bourg Richards, Edward Moran, John Moran, William Trost Richards, Edmund Darch Lewis, George Bacon Wood, Isaac Williams, James Reid Lambdin, Samuel Bell Waugh, Peter Frederick Rothermel, the Sartain family, the Sartain home, John Sartain, Samuel Sartain, Will...
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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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Salemme, Antonio, 1892-
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1907-1965
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525 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.saleanto
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, photographs, exhibition materials, interviews, sketches, and a scrapbook.
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Browne, John C., 1838-1919
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1884
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17 Pages ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.browjohc
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Browne describes a January, 1860 meeting convened to discuss the formation of the Society. He lists officers Constant Guillou, Fairman Rogers, S. Fisher Corlies, Coleman Sellers, and Frederick Graff; early photographic developments such as the globe lens, dry plates, and magnesium light; excursions made, an 1867 exhibit of prints by Salomon and Reu...
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Claghorn, James Lawrence, 1817-1884
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1849-1882
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0.8 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.clagjame
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Letters (1849-1856), business records (1849-1856), a visitors' register (1873-1885), and a scrapbook (ca. 1866-1885) concern the acquisition of paintings and prints for Claghorn's collection.
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Lightner, Adam Mortimer, fl. 1838-1840
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1840 Jan.18-19
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2 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lighadam
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Letters with typescript from Lightner to his uncle John C. Duchman and to his grandmother Duchman relating the struggles and the impressions of a young poor American artist living in Rome.