Baldwin Locomotive Works Engine Registers and Order Books
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
- Dates:
-
1822-1956
- Size:
-
7 Cubic feet
6 Microfilm (35 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0157
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of Engine Registers and Engine Order Books. The Engine Registers list all locomotives built by the company from 1833 through 1956. They provide information on the purchasing railroad, date of trial, engine name, construction number, class, track gauge, number of wheels, size of cylinders, number of valves and fuel type. ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Productions
- Dates:
-
1976, 1985-1999
- Size:
-
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-265
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of audiovisual materials created during the production of "Monumental Propaganda;" "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Visions of the Future on Film;" "300 Years of American Papermaking;" "Woody Guthrie's Legacy;" "Phone Philm;" "Men of Greatness, Feats of Daring;" "Covering the Environment: Front Page or Yesterday's News?;" "...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier, 1877-1956
Cardwell Condenser Corporation (Lindenhurst, New York)
- Dates:
-
1898-1941
- Size:
-
1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0915
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, an engineer, and his experiments in wireless technology. Materials include Greenleaf Pickard notebooks and patents issued to Nikola Tesla.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Congress of American Indians
- Dates:
-
1933-1990
bulk 1944-1989
- Size:
-
251 Linear feet (597 archival boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.010
- Repository:
-
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Congress of American Indian (NCAI), founded in 1944, is the oldest nation-wide American Indian advocacy organization in the United States. The NCAI records document the organization's work, particularly that of its office in Washington, DC, and the wide variety of issues faced by American Indians in the twentieth century. The collection is located in the Cultural Resource Center of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Augspurger, Mike
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Cater, Anita
- Dates:
-
1998
2001
2000
- Size:
-
0.25 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0689
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Mike Augspurger was born in 1956 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Working with steel land titanium, he invented an all terrain rear wheel drive handcycle. Collection contains approximately eight hours of video footage documenting Augspurger discussing his life and work and a promotional video titled One-Off Handcycle.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Swanson, Jackie
Swanson, Janese
- Dates:
-
1998
- Size:
-
1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes,)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0642
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Janese Swanson developed video game software, a website, and an array of toys and gadgets aimed at making technology more accessible to girls. The collection contains approximately six hours of original and reference video footage of Swanson's Innovative Lives Presentation, in which she discussed her background and demonstrated her inventions with her daughter, Jackie. The material also includes a brief interview.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Department of Design
- Dates:
-
1975-1995
- Size:
-
18 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 99-015
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of exhibition files (arranged mostly in alphabetical order), including proposals, designs, planning and development files, exhibition scripts, photographs and slides of objects and installations, meeting minutes, catalogs, and floor plans. Records also include rejected and accepted exhibition proposals, exhibition ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Stern, Michael, 1946-
Stern, Jane
- Dates:
-
1890-2008
- Size:
-
17 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1392
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Jane and Michael Stern's travels across the United States collecting data for their books on American material culture subjects, with particular emphasis on food and dining.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
- Dates:
-
1920-2004
- Size:
-
20.9 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.groschai
- Repository:
-
Archives of American Art
The papers of New York City sculptor and teacher Chaim Gross measure 20.9 linear feet and date from 1920-2004. The collection provides comprehensive documentation of Gross's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence with family, artists, writers, galleries, museums, educational institutions, and religious and philanthropic organizations, writings, personal business records, extensive printed and published material including motion picture film and video recordings of four documentaries, one hundred and fifteen sketchbooks spanning the bulk of Gross's career, and photographs of Gross, his family, many friends and colleagues from the art world, his studio, personal art collection, and works of art.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Special Assistant to the Secretary for Bicentennial Planning
- Dates:
-
1969-1977
- Size:
-
1.2 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 341
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of correspondence between Slocum and various persons and organizations he dealt with in carrying out his duties. They also document some of his personal interests, notably numismatics and the work of the English Speaking Union.