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Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Creator
Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department
Underwood and Underwood
Compiler
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
Topic
African American women
Agriculture -- Corn
Agricultural crops -- Fields
Agricultural laborers
Agricultural machinery
Agricultural products
Architecture
Bananas -- Costa Rica
Bananas -- Jamaica
Bearings (Machinery)
Bridges
Butter
Butter -- New York
Canals
Children -- 20th century
Coal mines and mining
Coffee
Coffee industry -- Brazil
Coffee -- Jamaica
Coffee -- Mexico
Cotton
Cotton farming
Cotton industry
Engineering
Hydraulic engineering
Laborers
Machine-tools
Maple sugar
Materials handling
Mine shafts
Mining engineering
Oil
Oil industries
Onions
Poultry industry
Potatoes
Power
Railroads
Railroads -- 19th century
Railroads -- 20th century
Rubber -- Ceylon
Rubber -- Congo
Rubber plantations
Steam-boilers
Sugar
Tires
Tobacco
Tunnels
Turbines
Turpentine -- North Carolina
Water-supply
Provenance
Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
Creator
Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department
Underwood and Underwood
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Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection
Summary
A collection primarily of 19th and early 20th century lantern slides relating mostly to engineering, agriculture, railroads, mining, and extractive industries collected by the Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Extent
44 Cubic feet (132 boxes)
Date
1430-1945, undated
Custodial History
Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry in 2007.
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.1013
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Blueprints
Drawings
Lantern slides
Photographs
Sketches
Citation
Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection, 1758-1945, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged in nine series. Series 1: Engineering, 1581-1945, undated Subseries 1.1: Architecture and Structures, 1891-1945, undated Subseries 1.1.1: Arches and Masonry, 1891-1945, undated Subseries 1.1.2: Architecture, undated Subseries 1.1.3: Building -- Moving, undated Subseries 1.1.4: Construction of Log Cabin, undated Subseries 1.1.5: Factories and Industrial Sites, undated Subseries 1.1.6: Heating and Ventilating, undated Subseries 1.1.7: Hoisting and Movement of Heavy Objects, circa 1900-1915, undated Subseries 1.1.8: Structures and Erection Techniques, 1896-1897, 1927, undated Subseries 1.1.9: Moving the Obelisks, undated Subseries 1.1.10: Rock Drilling and Riveting, undated Subseries 1.1.11: Steel Mills, undated Subseries 1.1.12: Steel Mills -- Bethlehem Steel Company Blast Furnace, circa 1945 Subseries 1.1.13: Structural Engineering, undated Subseries 1.1.14: Tall Steel Frame Buildings, 1900-1930, undated Subseries 1.2: Bridges, Cantilever, 1891-1934, undated Subseries 1.2.1: Beaver, Pennsylvania -- Cantilever, undated Subseries 1.2.2: Bridges -- Cantilever, 1892-1934, undated Subseries 1.2.3: Chinese Cantilever -- Muli [Sichuan China], undated Subseries 1.2.4: Forth Cantilever -- [Forth Bridge], Scotland, undated Subseries 1.2.5: Memphis Cantilever [Memphis and Arkansas Bridge], 1891-1894, undated Subseries 1.2.6: New Quebec Cantilever [Quebec Bridge (French: pont de Québec)], 1907-1916, undated Subseries 1.2.7: Old Quebec Cantilever [Quebec Bridge (French: pont de Québec)], 1906-1907, undated Subseries 1.2.8: Red Rock Cantilever [Red Rock Bridge], undated Subseries 1.3: Bridges -- Concrete Arch and Beam, 1758-1921, undated Subseries 1.3.1: 29th Street Baltimore Concrete Arch [29th Street Bridge], undated Subseries 1.3.2: Bridges -- Masonry Arch, 1865-1912, undated Subseries 1.3.3: Cappelan Concrete Arch [Cappelen Memorial Bridge], undated Subseries 1.3.4: Concrete Arch, 1897-1921, undated Subseries 1.3.5: Dujour Masonry Arch [Point-du-Jour Bridge?], undated Subseries 1.3.6: Masonry Arch [Pont Neuf or New Bridge] over Seine [River], undated Subseries 1.3.7: Martins Creek Viaduct [Kingsley Bridge] -- Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, 1916-1920 Subseries 1.3.8: Old and New London Bridge, 1758, undated Subseries 1.3.9: Sur La Seine Concrete Arch, undated Subseries 1.3.10: Sur L' Elorn Concrete Arch, undated Subseries 1.3.11: Tournelle [Pont de la Tournelle] Concrete Arch, undated Subseries 1.3.12: Tunkhannock [Tunkhannock Creek] Viaduct, undated Subseries 1.4: Bridges -- Masonry Aqueducts, 1792-1933, undated Subseries 1.4.1: Aqueducts -- Masonry, 1932, undated Subseries 1.4.2: Aqueducts -- Pont du Gard [Bridge], 1917, undated Subseries 1.4.3: Aqueduct -- Segovia, undated Subseries 1.4.4: Aqueducts -- United States of America (USA), High Bridge; Cabin John; Boston, [Massachusetts] Subseries 1.4.5: Bridges -- Pile and Viaduct (Wood), 1875, undated Subseries 1.4.6: Charlestown Bridge, Boston, [Massachusetts] -- Truss/Draw, 1899-1900, undated Subseries 1.4.7: Metal Viaduct, 1862, undated Subseries 1.4.8: Pecos Viaduct [Pecos River High Bridge], circa 1891-1892, undated Subseries 1.4.9: Wood Arch and Truss, 1792-1933, undated Subseries 1.5: Bridges -- Metal Arc, 1799-1932, undated Subseries 1.5.2: Bridges, Girder, and Tubular, 1799, undated Subseries 1.5.3: Buffalo Fort Erie Bridge -- Metal Arch -- [Peace Bridge, Buffalo New York and Fort Erie, Ontario], undated Subseries 1.5.4: Crooked River High Bridge -- Metal Arch, 1911, undated Subseries 1.5.5: Eads Bridge -- Metal Arch -- St. Louis, [Missouri], 1872, undated Subseries 1.5.6: Foreign Metal Arch, 1799-1932, undated Subseries 1.5.7: Hell Gate Bridge -- Metal Arch, 1913-1917, undated Subseries 1.5.8: Little Hell Gate Bridge -- Truss, 1915, undated Subseries 1.5.9: Nam Ti Metal [Faux Namti Bridge] -- Arch, undated Subseries 1.5.10: Niagara Arch, circa 1896-1897 Subseries 1.5.11: Queensboro Bridge [Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge] -- Cantilever, 1903-1915, undated Subseries 1.5.12: Washington Steel Arch Bridge, 1888-1889, undated Subseries 1.6: Bridges -- Metal Truss, 1763-1934, undated Subseries 1.6.1: American Metal Truss, 1866-1916, undated Subseries 1.6.2: Bridge Accidents and Failures, 1888-1910, undated Subseries 1.6.3: Bridge Construction -- General, 1888-1910, undated Subseries 1.6.4: Bridge Shop Work, 1900, undated Subseries 1.6.5: Bridge Testing, undated Subseries 1.6.6: Caissons, 1763-1934, undated Subseries 1.6.7: Foreign Metal Trusses, 1859-1893, undated Subseries 1.6.8: General -- Miscellaneous Type, 1809-1932, undated Subseries 1.6.9: Municipal Bridge Construction, undated Subseries 1.6.10: Sciotoville [Sciotoville Bridge] -- Continuous Truss, undated Subseries 1.7: Bridges -- Movable, 1899-1930, undated Subseries 1.7.1: Bascule, 1899-1930, undated Subseries 1.7.2: Miscellaneous Types and General, undated Subseries 1.7.3: Swing, undated Subseries 1.7.4: Transporter, undated Subseries 1.7.5: Vertical Lift, undated Subseries 1.8: Bridges -- Suspension, 1801-1932, undated Subseries 1.8.1: Brooklyn Bridge, 1878-1883, undated Subseries 1.8.2: George Washington Suspension Bridge, 1930-1932, undated Subseries 1.8.3: Manhattan Bridge, 1820-1907, undated Subseries 1.8.4: Oakland [San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge] and Golden Gate [Bridge], undated Subseries 1.8.5: Philadelphia - Camden Suspension Bridge [Benjamin Franklin Bridge originally named the Delaware River Bridge], 1818-1925, undated Subseries 1.8.6: Suspension -- Foreign, 1820-1924, undated Subseries 1.8.7: Suspension -- Primitive Types, 1925, undated Subseries 1.8.8: Suspension -- United States -- Miscellaneous, 1801-1927, undated Subseries 1.8.9: Williamsburg Bridge, 1912, undated Subseries 1.9: Canals, 1825-1931, undated Subseries 1.9.1: Nicaragua Canal, 1890-1931, undated Subseries 1.9.2: Panama Canal, 1855-1915, undated Subseries 1.9.3: Other Canals, 1825-1911, undated Subseries 1.10: Hydraulic Engineering, 1581-1927, undated Subseries 1.10.1: Boston Water Works (BWW) Bridges, undated Subseries 1.10.2: Boston Water Works (BWW) Conduits, Culverts, Pipes, undated Subseries 1.10.3: Boston Water Works Miscellaneous Construction, 1894, undated Subseries 1.10.4: Miscellaneous Hydraulic Engineering, 1893, undated Subseries 1.10.5: Hydraulics Penstocks and Pipe, 1910-1927, undated Subseries 1.10.6: Lighthouses, undated Subseries 1.10.7: Lowell Water Works Cons, undated Subseries 1.10.8: Mississippi, River Revetment, 1882-1891, undated Subseries 1.10.9: Newton Water Works, undated Subseries 1.10.10: Pumping and Pumping Engines, 1581-1889, undated Subseries 1.10.11: Sewers, undated Subseries 1.10.12: Water Supply, 1842, undated Subseries 1.11: Machine Tools, 1896-1902, undated Subseries 1.12: Materials Handling, undated Subseries 1.12.1: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Coal Unloading Machinery from Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad, 1826-1930, undated Subseries 1.12.2: Construction Machinery, undated Subseries 1.12.3: Digging and Excavation, undated Subseries 1.12.4: Dockside Freight Handling Equipment, undated Subseries 1.12.5: Dredging, 1920, undated Subseries 1.12.6: Miscellaneous Materials Handling, 1900-1913, undated Subseries 1.12.7: Piling, 1911-1920, undated Subseries 1.12.8: Air Compressors, Blowers, and Blowing Engines, 1881-1916, undated Subseries 1.12.9: Gas Producers, undated Subseries 1.12.10: Internal Combustion, 1826-1930, undated Subseries 1.12.11: Marine Engines, undated Subseries 1.12.12: Power Plants, 1900, undated Subseries 1.12.13: Refrigeration, undated Subseries 1.13: Power, 1663-1896, undated Subseries 1.13.1: Stationary Steam Engines, 1867-1896, undated Subseries 1.13.2: Steam Engines -- Early History, 1663-1781, undated Subseries 1.13.3: Steam Engines -- Parts and Details, undated Subseries 1.13.4: Steam Engines with Generators, undated Subseries 1.13.5: University of Wisconsin Laboratories, undated Subseries 1.13.6: Windmills, undated Subseries 1.13.7: Loose Materials, undated Subseries 1.14: Railroad Mileage Maps, 1830-1940, undated Subseries 1.14.1: All Testing Including Tests of Professor J. T. Thompson, undated Subseries 1.14.2: Concrete Structures, Techniques, and Production, 1906-1915, undated Subseries 1.14.3: Engineering Professional Surveying, 1200-1731, undated Subseries 1.14.4: People and Portraits, 1850, undated Subseries 1.14.5: Railroad Engineering, 1830, undated Subseries 1.14.6: Railway Mileage, undated Subseries 1.14.7: Railroad Relocation -- St. Louis [Missouri], undated Subseries 1.14.8: Subways, undated Subseries 1.14.9: Transportation Arteries, 1939-1940, undated Subseries 1.14.10: Boilers -- Complete Units, undated Subseries 1.15: Steam Boilers, 1430-1662, undated Subseries 1.15.1: Boilers -- Complete Units, undated Subseries 1.15.2: Boilers -- Furnaces, Grates, and Stokes, undated Subseries 1.15.3: Boilers -- Miscellaneous Auxiliaries, undated Subseries 1.15.4: Boilers -- Miscellaneous Parts -- Groups, undated Subseries 1.15.5: Boilers -- Parts and Details, undated Subseries 1.15.6: Boilers -- Photographs of Installation, undated Subseries 1.15.7: Boilers -- Superheaters, undated Subseries 1.15.8: Condensers, undated Subseries 1.15.9: Steam Turbines, 1430-1662, undated Subseries 1.15.10: Dams and Power Houses, undated Subseries 1.15.11: Hydraulic Power -- Machinery, undated Subseries 1.15.12: Turbines, undated Subseries 1.16: Steam Turbines, undated Subseries 1.17: Tunneling Machine Tools, undated Series 2: Extractive Industries, 1886-1945, undated Subseries 2.1: Coal, 1886-1945, undated Subseries 2.1.1: Coal -- Coke, 1905, undated Subseries 2.1.2: Coal -- Diagrams and Maps, 1889, undated Subseries 2.1.3: Coal -- General, undated Subseries 2.1.4: Coal -- General 1-76, 1908-1930, undated Subseries 2.1.5: Infrastructure and Laborers, undated Subseries 2.1.6: Coal -- International, 1903-1945, undated Subseries 2.1.7: Coal -- Loading Machinery, 1886-1929, undated Subseries 2.1.8: Jack Leg Drilling, undated Subseries 2.1.9: Lansford Breaker Fire Coal Facilities, undated Subseries 2.1.10: Loading Machinery, undated Subseries 2.1.11: Longhole Drilling Method, undated Subseries 2.1.12: Machinery, undated Subseries 2.1.13: Mines, undated Subseries 2.1.14: Mining Communities, undated Subseries 2.1.15: Subsidence, undated Subseries 2.1.16: Forepoling Warden Mine, undated Subseries 2.1.17: Montour Number 10 Mine, undated Subseries 2.1.18: Conveyors, undated Subseries 2.1.19: Coal Land Valuation, undated Subseries 2.2: Iron, undated Subseries 2.2.1: General, undated Subseries 2.2.2: Pig Iron, undated Subseries 2.3: Gemstones, undated Subseries 2.4: Mining, undated Subseries 2.4.1: Diagrams, undated Subseries 2.4.2: Hydraulic, undated Subseries 2.4.3: General, 1904-1924, undated Subseries 2.4.4: Ores and Mines, undated Subseries 2.4.5: Processing Equipment and Infrastructure, 1892-1930, undated Subseries 2.4.6: Shafts, Drilling, and Loading, undated Subseries 2.4.7: United States Bureau of Mines, undated Subseries 2.4.8: L. E. Young -- Box C, undated Subseries 2.4.9: L. E. Young -- Box D, undated Subseries 2.4.10: L. E. Young -- Box E, undated Subseries 2.4.11: L. E. Young -- Box F, undated Subseries 2.4.12: L. E. Young -- Box G, undated Subseries 2.4.13: L. E. Young -- Box I, undated Subseries 2.5: Oil, undated Subseries 2.6: Rubber, undated Subseries 2.6.1: Coke Rubber Rails, undated Subseries 2.6.2: General -- Set One, 1-70, undated Subseries 2.6.3: General -- Set Two, 1-131, undated Subseries 2.6.4: General, undated Subseries 2.7: Steel, undated Subseries 2.7.1: Newcastle Steel Work, undated Subseries 2.7.2: General, undated Subseries 2.8: Timber, undated Subseries 2.8.1: General, undated Subseries 2.8.2: Lifts, undated Series 3: Chemical Processing, 1903-1972, undated Subseries 3.1: Chemical Processes, undated Subseries 3.2: Laboratory and Studies, undated Subseries 3.3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 37A: 1-48, 1903, undated Subseries 3.4: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 47: 1-68, 1903, undated Subseries 3.5: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 52: 1-20, 1913-1920, undated Subseries 3.6: Radiation Studies, undated Subseries 3.7: Visual Aids in Chemical Education, The Museum, undated Series 4: Manufacturing Companies, undated Subseries 4.1: American Bosch Company -- Fuel Injection Equipment, undated Subseries 4.2: American Locomotive Company, undated Subseries 4.3: American Locomotive Company, 650 BHP, Diesel, undated Subseries 4.4: American Locomotive Company, 1020 BHP, Diesel, undated Subseries 4.5: Atlas-Imperial Diesel Engine Company, undated Subseries 4.6: Baldwin Locomotive Works, undated Subseries 4.7: Buda Engine Company, undated Subseries 4.8: Buda Engine Company -- Marine, undated Subseries 4.9: Cooper-Bessenger Corporation, Type EG???, undated Subseries 4.10: Cooper-Bessenger Corporation, ??, undated Subseries 4.11: Fairbanks Morse Marine -- Diesel -- General Set, 1-9, undated Subseries 4.12: Fairbanks Morse -- Marine Diesel, 6A41/ 4M, undated Subseries 4.13: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel, FM 27, 37 E, undated Subseries 4.14: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel, 35F 10M, undated Subseries 4.15: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel, ???, undated Subseries 4.16: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel General Set, undated Subseries 4.17: General Motors Company, 3-71, undated Subseries 4.18: General Motors Company, 184A, undated Subseries 4.19: General Motors Company, ???268???, undated Subseries 4.20: General Motors Company, Models 4-268 undated Subseries 4.21: General Motors Company, undated Subseries 4.22: General Motors Company, undated Subseries 4.23: General Motors Company, undated Subseries 4.24: General Motors Company, undated Subseries 4.25: General Motors Company, undated Subseries 4.26: General Motors Company Miscelleaneous, undated Subseries 4.27: Hamilton -- Diesel, HOR -- Model 8 3/4 x 12, undated Subseries 4.28: Hamilton -- Marine Diesel -- Model 32 - HOR 25, undated Subseries 4.29: Hamilton -- Diesel, HOR--Model 9 DA, undated Subseries 4.30: Hamilton Diesel, undated Subseries 4.31: Ingersoll Rand Incorporated, undated Subseries 4.32: International Harvester Fuel Singler Plunger, undated Subseries 4.33: Long and Alstatler Company, undated Subseries 4.34: Miscelleaneous Manufacturing Companies, undated Subseries 4.35: Nordberg Marine Diesel, undated Series 5: Machinery, undated Subseries 5.1: Blast Furnances, undated Subseries 5.2: Construction, undated Subseries 5.3: Construction -- Brick, undated Subseries 5.4: Construction -- Cement, undated Subseries 5.5: Diagram Miscelleaneous, undated Subseries 5.6: Diesel Engines, undated Subseries 5.7: Diesel Engines -- General, undated Subseries 5.8: Diesel Engines -- Superior Types KNB, undated Subseries 5.9: Diesel Installation -- USS Maumee, undated Subseries 5.10: Drills -- Jumbos, undated Subseries 5.11: Engine Model D, undated Subseries 5.12: Factories and Warehouses, undated Subseries 5.13: Factory Machines, undated Subseries 5.14: Flywheel Governors, undated Subseries 5.15: Furnances -- General, undated Subseries 5.16: Gas, undated Subseries 5.17: General Engines, undated Subseries 5.18: Governors, undated Subseries 5.19: History of Pumps, undated Subseries 5.20: Hoisers, undated Subseries 5.21: Industrial Furnances, undated Subseries 5.22: Industrial Scenes, undated Subseries 5.23: Machines Diagrams and Sketches, undated Subseries 5.24: Machinery -- Miscelleaneous, undated Subseries 5.25: Refrigeration, undated Subseries 5.26: Safety, undated Subseries 5.27: Steam Engines -- General Information, undated Subseries 5.28: Vacuum, undated Series 6: Railroads and Locomotion, undated Subseries 6.1: Charts and Graphs, undated Subseries 6.2: Company Photographs, undated Subseries 6.3: Drawings, undated Subseries 6.4: Toppling Over, undated Subseries 6.5: Interior of Train Cars, undated Subseries 6.6: Locomotion, undated Subseries 6.7: Locomotion -- Miscelleaneous, undated Subseries 6.8: Repair Report Forms, undated Subseries 6.9: Shop Scenes, undated Subseries 6.10: Track Debris, undated Subseries 6.11: Train Car Component Details, undated Subseries 6.12: Train Yards, undated Subseries 6.13: Underside of Locomotives, undated Subseries 6.14: Yard Scenes, undated Series 7: Agriculture, undated Subseries 7.1: Bananas, undated Subseries 7.2: Butter, undated Subseries 7.3: Coffee, undated Subseries 7.4: Corn, undated Subseries 7.5: Cotton, undated Subseries 7.6: Machinery, undated Subseries 7.7: Onions, undated Subseries 7.8: Potatoes, undated Subseries 7.9: Poultry, undated Subseries 7.10: Sugar, undated Subseries 7.11: Tea, undated Subseries 7.12: Tobacco, undated Subseries 7.13: Turpentine, undated Series 8: Travel Photography, undated Subseries 8.1: California, undated Subseries 8.2: Canada, undated Subseries 8.3: Colorado, undated Subseries 8.4: General Landscapes, undated Subseries 8.5: General Locations, undated Subseries 8.6: Landscapes and Locations General, 186-2-36, undated Subseries 8.7: Landscapes and Locations General, 187-18-48, undated Subseries 8.8: New York, undated Subseries 8.9: United States National Parks, undated Subseries 8.10: Washington, DC, undated Series 9: Miscellaneous Materials, undated Subseries 9.1: Duplicates of Navy Slides, undated Subseries 9.2: Miscelleaneous Subseries 9.3: Reliefs, Cravings, and Architecture, undated Subseries 9.4: Wood Products, undated
Processing Information
Collection was processed by Kamina Gager, intern, 2024; and Tyler Gibson, intern 2024; supervised by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist, March 2024. Finding aid encoded by Kamina Gager, intern, 2024; Tyler Gibson, intern, 2024; Tess Harmon, intern, 2024; and Meredith Clowse, intern, 2024. Lantern slides digitized by Noah Stewart, digital imaging technician, 2024-2025.
Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Genre/Form
Blueprints
Drawings -- 20th century
Lantern slides
Photographs -- Lantern slides -- 19th century
Photographs -- Lantern slides -- 1900-1950
Sketches
Scope and Contents
A collection of 19th and early 20th century silver gelatin dry plate lantern slides acquired by the staff of the Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. These materials were collected for research purposes and relate to various subjects. Condition of the material varies widely with some fragile or broken slides. Poor quality images also exist probably due to either the processing of the slides or unstable storage environments. All slides have been digitized and moved to off-site storage to minimize handling and at the same time increase accessibility. The collection is arranged in nine series: series 1, engineering; series 2, extractive industries; series 3, chemical processing; series 4, manufacturing companies; series 5, machinery; series 6, railroads; series 7, agriculture; series 8, travel photography; and 9, miscellaneous materials.
Restrictions
Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
Related Materials
Archives Center, National Museum of American History For related material on Canals, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Canals, NMAH.AC.0060 Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143 Roland A. McCrady Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0710 Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs, NMAH.AC.0945 Niagara Falls Power Company Records, NMAH.AC.0949 Modjeski and Masters Company Records, NMAH.AC.0976 George Morison Collection, NMAH.AC.0978 Uriah A. Boyden Papers, NMAH.AC.0982 James Forgie Papers, NMAH.AC.0986 William R. Hutton Papers, NMAH.AC.0987 Snake River Irrigation Project Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1031 Silas H. Woodard Papers, NMAH.AC.1038 Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad Records, NMAH.AC.1074 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090 New York State Barge Canal Photographs, NMAH.AC.1536 Lackawaxen Canal Survey Profiles, NMAH.AC.1546 Nicaragua Canal Collection, NMAH.AC.1550 For related material on Cantilever Bridges, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060 Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143 Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965 George Morison Collection, NMAH.AC.0978 John A. Roebling Collection, NMAH.AC.0981 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090 Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577 For related material on Concrete Arch and Beam Bridges, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060 For related material on Corliss Steam Engine Company, see the following collections: Frick Company Collection, NMAH.AC.0293 Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Records, NMAH.AC.0961 Robert Wetherill Company Records, NMAH.AC.0992 Evolution of the Corliss Steam Engine Scrapbook, NMAH.AC1016 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAh.AC.1089 For related material on Hydraulic Engineering, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Engineering, NMAH.AC0060 Charles Richardson Pratt Papers, NMAH.AC.0958 Rudolph Hering Collection, NMAH.AC.0989 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090 Boston Water Works Collection, NMAH.AC.1117 For related material on Machine Tools, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tools, NMAH.AC.0060 Pratt & Whitney Company Scrapbook, NMAH.AC.0093 Max Holland Numerical Control Collection, NMAH.AC.0537 Southwark Foundry and Machine Company Records, NMAH.AC.1107 For related material on Materials Handling, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Materials Handling, NMAH.AC.0060 James J. Childs Numerical Control Collection, NMAH.AC.0420 World War Two Bomb Damage Photographs, NMAH.AC.1535 Norton Grinding Machine Company Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.1551 Paul Steam-Heating System Company Records, NMAH.AC.1554 For related material on Metal Arch Bridges, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.A.C0060 Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090 For related material on Movable Bridges, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060 Henry Grattan Tyrrell and Mary Maude Knox Tyrrell Papers, NMAH.AC.0948 Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965 Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577 For related material on Panama Canal, see the following collections: John Frances Little Panama Canal Scrapbook, NMAH.AC.0708 A.R. Van Tassell Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1015 W. A. Fishbaugh Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1021 W. P. Stine Panama Canal Papers, NMAH.AC.1039 Katherine Kingsford Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1040 Richard Fisher Collection of Panama Canal Materials, NMAH.AC.1045 Robert Dearborn Panama Canal Glass Negatives, NMAH.AC.1111 Charles Edwards Wood Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1114 Panama Canal Commission Photonegatives, 1903-circa 1939, NMAH.AC.1116 Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Panama Canal Collection, NMAH.AC.1569 For related material on railroads, see the following collections: Archives Center Lantern Slide Collection, NMAH.AC.0686 Railroad Bridge Construction Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1024 Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge Construction Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1031 Penn Station, New York, Photographs, NMAH.AC.1048 Northern Pacific Railway Photographs, NMAH.AC.1067 New York Central Railway Valuation Negatives, NMAH.AC.1072 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Photographs (PCC and St. Louis), NMAH.AC.1079 Niagara Railroad Negatives, NMAH.AC.1081 Charles B. Chaney Jr. Railroad Photographic Collection, NMAH.AC.1167 Clayton M. Hall Collection of Railroad Photographs, NMAH.AC.1168 Harry A. McBride Railroad Photographs, NMAH.AC.1171 Thomas Norrell Railroad Photographs Collection, NMAH.AC.1174 Pullman Palace Car Company Photographs, NMAH.AC.1175 Haskell and Barker Car Company Photographic Negatives, NMAH.AC.1183 For related material on Steam Boilers, see the following collections: Frick Company Collection, NMAH.AC.293 Erasmus D. Leavitt Collection, NMAH.AC.0966 Edwin Rust Papers, NMAH.AC.1070 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company Records, NMAH.AC.1541 For related material on steam engines, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Engines, NMAH.AC.0060 Frick Company Collection, NMAH.AC.0293 Borsig Steam Engine Records, NMAH.AC.0956 Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Records, NMAH.AC0961 Greville I. Bathe Papers, NMAH.AC.0970 McIntosh, Seymour, and Company Records, NMAH.AC0985 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC1089 For related material on Steam Turbines, see the following collections: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, NMAH.AC.0001 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Records, NMAH.AC.0977 Skinner Engine Company Records, NMAH.AC.1087 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089 For related material on Suspension Bridges, see the following collections: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060 Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143 Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965 Modjeski and Masters Company Records, NMAH.AC.0976 Niagara Falls Bridge Commission Records, NMAH.AC.1060 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090 Robinson & Steinman Collection, NMAH.AC.1562 Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577
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  • Lackawanna steel sheet piling cut to length, punched for splicing, inspected, and in storage at our plant pending shipment

  • 3352.1 Cucaracha Slide looking south and showing how the weight of the broken bank on the left has pushed material into the cut, completely stopping up the pioneer drainage cut

  • Gb-1 Germany, KGL Bayer State Ministry of the Interior, State Construction Administration Bridge

  • 5828 Photograph of portside cranes

  • Three High Blooming Mill, 19

  • 25-12 Aar Bridge at Brugge

  • Driving pin at main pier

  • C446 Photograph of pile driver equipment and cofferdam

  • C39 Erection of Hell Gate Bridge, raising centerpiece of bottom chord, Wards Island side

  • C76 Photograph of a bridge

  • 22-52 View of San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge during erection

  • Masonry Arch Pont Neuf or New Bridge over Seine River

  • C287 Photograph of train car with excavation crane attachment releasing aggregate

  • Wood Arch and Truss

  • 3328.2 Panama Canal, section of cofferdam

  • 186.69 Buffalo, inside breakwater

  • Erection of Vatican Obelisk, 7.1.4, 1585

  • Gc-5 Truss Bridge

  • 23-7 Halsted Street Lift Bridge, Chicago, Illinois

  • Miraflores lower locks, Miter gate moving machine number 127, machine installed complete except short arm and anchor casting on gate leaf, installation of structural steel in decking

  • C471 Type "N," Cement Gun Company

  • Muli bridge, construction Sichuan Province, China

  • The Bone of Contention Between Two Sovereign States: The New Bridge from Camden to Philadelphia, Which Pennsylvania Claims Should be Toll Free, While New Jersey is Committed to Tolls

  • T-28 Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct

  • 13A.7.25 Erection of Quebec Bridge

  • 59.292 Sudbury River Conduit, Boston Water Works (BWW), center wall and puddling

  • A5 Old Roman Aqueduct at Segovia, Spain

  • Central anchor pier

  • C448 Caissons across large body of water

  • 12 International Conveyor Corporation

  • 76 Bridge photograph

  • Henry Hudson Memorial Arch over East River, Looking Towards Hudson

  • 24a-22 Base of tower columns, Singer Building

  • 3313 Preparing for a big blast at Bas Obispo, Panama

  • C-782 Sky view of bridge

  • Eads Bridge over the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri

  • 3307.1 Construction group photograph

  • 3314.1 Group of Spanish laborers, Isthmus Canal Company, Number 28

  • Rhone Near Source

  • C152 Fairbanks-Morse machine

  • Base section of tower column

  • 3334.2 Panama Canal, view north between Contractor's Hill left and Gold Hill Right showing Culebra region

  • 13C.7.23 Plougastel Bridge Plougastel Bridge or Albert-Louppe Bridge,France

  • S.124 Old French machine

  • 60, Engineering Magazine, Triple Boring Machine for Cylinders of Vauclain Compound Locomotives, Baldwin Locomotive Works

  • 41-10 Rear of anchorage, general view

  • 55-68 Quebec Bridge

  • Gg-5 Grand Avenue Suspension Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri

  • 8. Krape Park Rigid-frame Bridge, Freeport, Illinois, architect's conception

  • 62-38 Special rotary planer for Delaware River Bridge steelton shop

  • V28 Truss lift bridge

  • 55-64 Quebec Bridge

  • 41-21 View from roof of Robert Gear Building, Brooklyn

  • Suspension Bridge, Fribourg, Switzerland

  • 9-21 Pont de Lapeyriere Bridge, France

  • 18-27 Bridges over Yssel, Kampen

  • Photograph of a boat and people on a pier

  • Ge-14 Outline elevation of drawbridge designed by A. D. Ottewell for Darling Harbor Bridge completion

  • 59.298 Sudbury River Conduit, Boston Water Works (BWW), view from arches showing structure of bridge

  • 3367.1 Gatun middle locks, construction of center wall, looking north from upper locks

  • Ge-23 Tower Bridge, London, West of Tower Bridge

  • Locomotive on collapsed wooden bridge

  • Cathedral interior

  • 18a-15 Old Tay Bridge

  • Suspension -- Foreign

  • 62-59 The Completed Bridge Illustration

  • 7a-34 Cheser and Grosvenor Bridge

  • Steel beams, 21

  • Philadelphia Camden Suspension Bridge tower detail

  • 53-157 New Jersey Tower erection, traveler raised to first position

  • 59.317 Sudbury River Conduit, Boston Water Works (BWW), arch looking west

  • 3376.2 Slide of Stratified Rock, west bank of canal, Culebra-on-the-Dump, slide involved about 900,000 cubic yards and moved about three feet per day on a slope of one vertical to ten horizontal. View looking towards Culebra

  • 62-15 Section of the caisson through stairwell

  • 27-38 Bridge five miles east of Toronto on Ontario and Quebec Bridge

  • 17-48 Parker Truss, Pawtucket Falls, Lowell, two spans sideview

  • Aqueduct, Segovia

  • 47-50 Pneumatic Riveting Hammer, Cassier's Magazine, page 344

  • 3372.1 Gatun Dam and locks from the east

  • 13082 Boats Bridge Cologne

  • 53-179 New York Anchorage during cable spinning

  • 2775 Bridge photograph

  • 25126-148 Gatun upper locks, Panama

  • Building lock walls

  • 9.6.4 A Caisson from Agostino "Dell Artificiose Machine," engraving, Paris, 1588

  • Gd-1 Platt Street Bridge

  • Photograph of a bridge

  • Over 500,000 gallons daily was wasting into the sewer from this leak, no indication on the surface

  • Crane boat A. La Valley leaving Miraflores Lower Locks, first steam vessel to pass from ocean to ocean through Panama Canal

  • Gb-10 A Modern English Highway Bridge

  • Best swing bridge

  • 26A.3 Irrigation work showing stone arches

  • 1.1.4 Obelisk dimensions after Engelbach

  • C150 Photograph of machinery

  • Seven new highway bridges over the Mississippi River

  • 55-31 Quebec Bridge

  • C-644 Ensemble model

  • Ecuador, Guaranda Bridge

  • C80 Photograph of a bridge

  • 62-2 Proposed Bridge of 1818

  • 3385.2 Blowing up Gamboa Dyke, looking north from hill on east side

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