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Savage, John L., 1879-? (civil engineer)
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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1944
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0227
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials concerning dams, power plants, and materials testing in China, for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It consists of a bound volume of preliminary reports, with maps, prepared for China's National Resources Commission by John L. Savage, consulting engineer. Includes a report on the Yangtze River Gorge Project (11/1944) and several other Chin...
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National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges.
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Drake, Beata
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
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1954-1981.
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0998
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is comprised of materials assembled by Ms. Drake on the subject of covered bridges. It includes photographic prints and negatives she took, most of which are captioned with information about location and date of the photograph; postcards, some of them used; newsletters, guidebooks, and publications by various local and national group...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Hering, Rudolph, 1847-1923
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circa 1863-1919.
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8.1 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0989
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains pamphlets and papers, collected by Hering, on waste disposal, m
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National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
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1920-1976, 1991, 1996, 2000-2001
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 20-004
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists primarily of audiovisual materials used in exhibitions at the National Museum of American History. Exhibitions documented include 300 Years of American Papermaking, Rube Goldberg: Comic Art and Invention, and Digilab. Also documented are the Henry R. Luce Hall of News Reporting and the Hall of Printing and Graphic ...
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United States National Museum. Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
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circa 1889-1957
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9.25 cu. ft. (18 document boxes) (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 156
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the history of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1889-1957, and to a greater extent, document the professional and administrative activities of Charles W. Gilmore when he was a staff member with the Division (1905-1945). Materials include daybooks and journals kept by Gilmore, containing the daily work activities ...
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National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
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1981-2005
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-155
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Allan A. Needell, Curator, Space History Division, documenting a variety of curatorial matters, projects, and professional activities. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, reports, policies, meeting materials, and related materials. Prior to 1987, the unit was known as t...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Electricity and Modern Physics
Marton, Ladislaus Laszlo, 1901-1979 (physicist)
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1932 - 1970
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4.66 Cubic feet (15 boxes, one (1) 16 mm film)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0100
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of materials documenting the history of electron optics, especially electron microscopes. Included are engineering drawings of Marton's devices, designed in Belgium, Stanford and RCA in the 1930s and 1940s; notebooks concerning extensive investigations in electron microscopy; photographs and micrographs concerning developm...
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United States National Museum. Division of Insects
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1878-1906
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 138
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records are the official incoming correspondence of the Division of Insects (outgoing correspondence for part of the period is included in record unit 139). Included is correspondence from entomologists and others requesting determinations, loans of specimens, or regarding purchase or gift of specimens for the museum; and correspondence ...
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New England Gravestone Imagery [1650-1815]
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Parker, Ann
Neal, Avon
Art in America
Ludwig, Saul
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1957-1959
1963
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0658
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection is arranged in two series. Series 1: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALLAN LUDWIG, 1957-1959 408 photoprints with captions. The photos were originally divided into 6 volumes. These were then consolidated into 3 binders. The original 6 divisions have been maintained here. Each photograph has been numbered. The number corresponds to the "List of Ide...
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National Museum of American History. Division of Transportation
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1946-1985
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15.51 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 528
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of curator's day journals, 1946-1956; a manuscript copy, Wheels and Wheeling: The Smithsonian Cycle Collection, 1974; and administrative files of the Division of Transportation concerning such matters as gifts and grants, annual budgets, minutes of meetings, publications, and historical inquiries regarding objects. A...