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Pelton Water Wheel Company
Brayton, A.P.
- Dates:
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1880-1975
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1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1093
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relating to the Pelton Water Wheel Company of San Francisco, California. Materials include correspondence; business records; photographs, including cyanotypes; negatives, images of turbines; advertisements; journals; blueprints; articles; and trade literature, including catalogs.
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Carbondale Machine Company.
Hendricks Manufacturing Company.
Hiller, Nicholai H., 1868-1963
Hiller, Paul W.
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1890-1937
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes; 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1105
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Nicholai H. Hiller's career as a mechanical engineer for Carbondale Machine Company and Hendricks Manufctauring Company. The materials include patents, lecture notes, design drawings, instruction manuals, trade literature, notebooks and card files on various refrigeration subjects. Additionally, there are eleven bound vol...
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Frank Klepetko Michigan Mining Cyanotype Album
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Davis, Henry
Klepetko, Frank, 1856-1925
- Dates:
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circa 1880
- Size:
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1042
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Album of cyanotype photographs of mills, mines and mining equipment, and the shipping of iron ore, mostly in Michigan.
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Beers, Royce. L., 1888-
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circa 1900-1969
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1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0880
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents stokers and fuel burners and includes patents, awards, articles, notebooks, graphs, drawings, tables, and company publications.
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New York Department of Public Works
- Dates:
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1933-1935
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1027
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs that document the construction of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in New York during various stages of construction, construction crews, and pier interiors.
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Foundation Company (The).
- Dates:
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1887-1969
- Size:
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9 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 28 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0974
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records include sketches, drawings, blueprints, contracts, and reports relating to highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, subways, mine shafts, canals and waterways, dams, concrete buildings, concrete construction, derricks and derrick barges, cranes, caissons and caisson construction, air locks, pumps, jacks, engines, and turbines; also phot...
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Washington Society of Engineers
Remington, Charles E.
Ellenberger, William J.
- Dates:
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1905-1985
bulk 1930-1979
- Size:
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13.1 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0972
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Washington Society of Engineers was founded in 1905 with the objective to advance engineering knowledge and maintain a high professional standard among members. Membership was open to all individuals who were actively engaged in any branch of the engineering profession. The records contain membership records, meeting minutes and reports, financial records, correspondence, projects and events details, as well as research documents.
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Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton), 1853-1925 (collector and possible photographer)
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circa 1900-1910
- Size:
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300 Negatives (circa, nitrate)
1,160 Lantern slides (circa)
14 Prints (silver gelatin)
15 Copy negatives (glass)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.98
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs collected and made by Helen Hamilton Gardener, probably during a world cruise following her husband's retirement from active duty in Puerto Rico in July 1902. The photographs document people, activities, cities, and tourist sites in Japan, China, Egypt, France, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere. Gardener's lecture notes and a clipping from t...
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Maynard, Thomas
- Dates:
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undated
1710-1865
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0786
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of a variety of legal documents that relate to slavery and African-Americans.
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Nagle Engine and Boiler Works
- Dates:
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circa 1890-1939
- Size:
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11.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 40 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1083
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection contains documents related to Nagle Engine and Boiler Works, including photographs, drawings, correspondence, and catalogues.
