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Koppers Company.
Bartlett-Hayward Company.
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1882-1950
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6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0993
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records of the Bartlett Hayward Company deal chiefly with the manufacture, erection, and sale of gas holders. Included are record books of drawings, 1882-1906, 1912, 1918; design calculation books; 1904-1935; trade literature, 1945; order books, 1920-1921; order progress reports, 1926-1929, 1946-1950; specifications, calculations and data; no...
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Caldwell, William E., 1890-
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1914 - 1969
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1.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0971
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily printed materials relating to power plants and boilers in the city of New York: articles and reprints, technical journals, trade literature, notes, reports, charts, and graphs, and test data; also publications containing descriptions and specifications on individual power stations in New York.
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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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Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
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1890-1914.
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23 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1099
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials, including photographs, advertising art, catalogs and other trade literature, documenting the equipment, facilities, personnel and products of the S. Morgan Smith Company, engineers and contractors. The subjects of the photographs include engines, fire pumps, generators, paper machinery, turbines, the construction of a dam and hy...
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Ogden, Darius
Robbins, Lawrence
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1916-1917.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0995
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Black-and-white photoprints of mills, taken ca. 1916-1917, some captioned in shorthand; a notebook, also in shorthand; two postcards of mills; a typescript essay entitled "On the Hunting of Old Mills"; and maps, presumably used to find the mills. Of those captioned, most of the mills in the captioned photographs are in Maryland and Virginia.
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Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
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1881-1950
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99.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0977
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contain photographs of gas engines, steam turbines, machine tools, foundry and manufacturing methods, and automobile engines, 1896-1921; instruction books, bulletins, and catalogs, 1889-1950; engine lists for compound, junior compound, and standar...
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Krainik Gallery (Falls Church, Va.)
Krainik, Cliff
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1886-1887
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
2 Albums
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1023
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two photograph albums containing photographs of railroad bridge construction in Minnesota , on the St. Croix River, the Clearwater River, and the Soo River. The photographs, most of which are captioned and dated, include images of such things as cutting, filling, bridges and piers, camps, and surveying. A few images of towns and people are included...
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Bissell, Hezekiah
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1920-1928
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0.2 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1445
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the reminiscences of Hezekiah Bissell, a railroad engineer who worked in the western United States with the Union Pacific Railroad, and in Peru.
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Darnell, Victor C.
Berlin Iron Bridge Company (East Berlin, Conn.).
Berlin Construction Company (East Berlin, Conn.)
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1890-1953
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (1 box, 5 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1032
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Blueprints and plans for facilities built by the company, including coal-handling bridges, coal unloading towers, dock trestles, and coal-handling plants and two photograph albums from the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin, Connecticut. The images in one of the albums are mostly of factory scenes. The other album contains mostly images of bri...
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National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges.
Drake, Beata
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1954-1981.
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0998
- Repository:
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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...
