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Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Consolidation Coal Company
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1885-1940s
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23 Cubic feet (99 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1007
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the building, operation and daily life of coal mining communities in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio between 1911 and 1946. The collection is a valuable for the study of mining technology and the social conditions of the time period and regions.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas
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1906-2003
bulk 1906-1918
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5 Film reels
5 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0969
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the engineering firm of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas through reports prepared for a variety of clients.
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Bailey Willis Glass Plate Photonegatives Collection
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Willis, Bailey, 1857-1949
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circa 1904
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160 Items (Glass plate photonegatives, Box 1-13, 12.7x20.3 cm, 15.2x25.4 cm)
119 Items (Modern copy prints, Box 14-15, 12x19.5 cm)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1991.06
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Bailey Willis Glass Plate Photonegatives Collection consists of 160 glass plate photonegatives and 119 modern copy prints mostly of Japanese subjects. Depicting Meiji-era Japan and traditional paintings, the photographs are attributed to the prominent American geologist Bailey Willis, who travelled to Japan in 1904 in his return trip from China to ...
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Brumit, Patricia.
Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Brumit, Joseph L., CDR.
Boyadjian, Torkom, 1920-1987
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1794
1964 - 1971
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3 photographic prints (8 x 10 inches.)
1 map (framed , 25.5 x 21.5 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2004-001
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection contains one framed map of Abyssinia circa 1784, measuring 25.5 x 21.5 inches, by cartographer and engraver Emanuel Bowen, and three 8 x 10 inch photographs depicting Ethiopian artist Afewerk Tekle (1971), Patriarch 'Abuna Tewoflos (1964) and Emperor Haile Selassie I (1967) respectively. Each photograph bears the signature of its subject. The photograph of 'Abuna Tewoflos was taken by Selassie's court photographer, Torkam "Tony" Boyadjian. Selassie's portrait is an official presentation photograph, with a green leather frame adorned with the emperor's coat of arms in gold, signed and dated by Selassie.
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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
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1815-1966
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72 Cubic feet (245 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0071
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of records primarily of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Additionally, there are records of the Lehigh Navigation Coal Company and subsidiary companies including the Alliance Coal Mining Company. These records mostly describe anthracite mining in the vicinity of Mauch Chuck and Summit Hill, Pennsylvania. Also include...
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United States National Museum. Division of Mechanical Technology
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circa 1899 and undated
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 97-034
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of registrar cards that document objects acquired in the Division of Mechanical Technology, United States National Museum prior to 1912, when that Division was known as the Division of Technology reporting to the Department of Anthropology. Some of the cards also date to when Mechanical Technology was a section of ...
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Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951
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circa 1914-1922
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1 Print (platinum)
13 Prints (possibly aquatint)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.90-17
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs relating to Arctic peoples that were part of a set made in connection with Robert Joseph Flaherty's documentary, Nanook of the North. They consist primarily of portraits of Arctic peoples, as well as images of a kayak in Hudson Bay, an man in the ice fields, and a close up image of a husky dog.
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Rehor, John A.
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1925-1942.
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1075
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Over nine hundred official company photographs documenting the history of the railroad. Subjects include trains, locomotives and cars; employees and employee gatherings and events; structures such as stations, track, bridges, crossings, towers, coaling stations.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Holly Manufacturing Company
Worthington Corporation
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1840-1982
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18 Cubic feet (54 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0916
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the products and business activities of the Worthington Corporation, its predecessors and its subsidiaries. The records focus on the products that the Worthington Corporation produced, including steam pumps, hydraulic pumps and gas engines.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1829-1957
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3.01 Cubic feet (consisting of 6.5 boxes, 2 folders, 2 oversized folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Engines
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Engines forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana