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S. Morgan Smith Company Records

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Creator
Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
Names
Atlanta Water and Electric Power Company
Collector
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
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
Place
Atlanta (Ga.)
York (Pa.)
Topic
Dams
Engines
Fire pumps
Generators and generating stations
Hydraulic engineering
Hydroelectric power plants
Power plants
Turbines
Water-power
Provenance
Donated to the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) in 1968 by the Allis-Chalmers Company.
Creator
Allis-Chalmers
S. Morgan Smith Company
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S. Morgan Smith Company Records
Summary
This collection documents the products and facilities of the S. Morgan Smith Company through photographs and trade literature.
Biographical / Historical
The S. Morgan Smith Company was an engineering company located in York, Pennsylvania. It was founded by S. Morgan Smith, who patented one of the first washing machines, in 1877. The company became notable for its high-powered water turbines and other hydraulic machinery. The S. Morgan Smith Company later became Allis-Chalmers.
Extent
23 Cubic feet (105 boxes; 4 map folders)
Date
1890-1914.
Ownership and Custodial History
Transferred from the Division of Work and Industry to the Archives Center in 2007.
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.1099
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Advertisements
Catalogs
Photographs
Trade literature
Citation
S. Morgan Smith Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into three series Series 1: Company Records, 1877-1961 Series 2: Catalog Art, undated Series 3: Glass Plate Negatives,
Processing Information
Collection processed by Sally Johnson, intern, and Geoff Kelly, intern; supervised by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2023.
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
Advertisements
Catalogs
Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Glass -- 19th-20th century
Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Glass -- 1890-1920
Trade literature
Scope and Contents
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 making machinery, turbines, the construction of a dam and hydroelectric station by the Atlanta Water and Electric Power Company, and the Mathis Dam near Atlanta.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at [email protected] or 202-633-3270.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503511636019-1503511636021-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep834bcaf09-d452-4e04-abdd-10162af29786

In the Collection

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  • Gantry

  • Blue Ridge Power Company, illegible

  • Scroll case main inlet, Roosevelt Power Company

  • Columbia Power Company Goor(?) Rock Station

  • Unidentified runner and flume, catalog illustration, negative broken

  • Standard Smith wheel with open steel draft tube

  • Pattern shop

  • Vertical shaft wicket gate turbine with spiral case partially in place, control rods, worker standing in draft tube, shop floor

  • Unidentified

  • Unidentified

  • Unidentified wheel, copied from water wheel catalog

  • Mathis Dam

  • Workers sitting on large wheel case, shop floor

  • Sheldon R. Boright, three horizontal turbines on common shaft

  • Unidentified

  • Connecticut Light

  • Falls

  • Mitchell data sheet, three-halves power

  • Vertical shaft wicket gate turbine with spiral case partially in place, control rods, worker standing in draft tube, shop floor

  • Unidentified

  • Montana Power Company, Butte, Montana, Remarks, 45 degree view

  • 15' wicket case casting on flat car, Montana Power Company, Holter Development

  • Drawing, governor cylinder, Georgia Power Company, Tallulah Falls

  • Connecticut Light

  • S. Morgan Smith Company, governor, Chattanooga and Tennessee Power Company, retouched

  • Front view, Turlock and Modesto

  • Kimberly Clark, Niagara Mills, south runner standing horizontal

  • I Shirt (?)

  • Unidentified

  • Trade Literature

  • Speed ring, engineering drawing

  • Unidentified

  • Unidentified

  • Turners Falls Power and Electric Company, testing gate in foundry

  • Unidentified

  • Remote end of scroll case turbine with pressure regulator, Tonopah Mining Company

  • Meredith Linen Mills

  • Montana Power Company, draft tube

  • Elevation of turbines, gearing and shafting

  • Sump tank, engineering drawing

  • Unidentified small runner, catalog illustration

  • Unidentified

  • Engine lathe

  • Catalog illustration Blackstone and Elmer water wheel

  • S. Morgan Smith 13, Turbine in steel case with draft tube, governor, and generator, overall: 24 inches by 21½ inches

  • Large gate valve

  • Kimberly and Clark, Flutter gate valve

  • Great Falls Power Company, Main Unit, generator base (complete) on large boring

  • Scroll case turbine

  • Connecticut Light

  • Engineering drawing, Leffel sparks vertical turbine and generator

  • Vertical scroll case turbine with pit liner, for Great Falls Power Company

  • Engineering drawing, governor flyballs

  • Wesselhoeft and Wisner Engineers, Manizales Development, scroll case, relief valve and flywheel

  • Photo of tracing

  • Engineering drawing #307, vertical shaft guide bearing

  • Turbine runner

  • Control stand, for Great Falls Power company

  • Vertical scroll case turbine for Northern Canada Power Company, Ltd., Wawaith Station, in shop

  • Unidentified

  • Unidentified

  • Shop view of rolled and punched plates for flumes

  • Corporation of Remj? pair of turbines, shaft side

  • Engineering drawing #307, end elevation bearing

  • Interior of tunnel

  • Power house and dam

  • Runner with worker, shop floor scene

  • Drawing, governor cylinder, Georgia Power Company, Tallulah Falls

  • Great Falls Power Company, Main Unit, plan of scroll case with cylinder removed, R.S.(?) blurred, causing vibration of crane

  • Wateree Power Company, Charlotte, North Carolina, Type "O"

  • Unidentified

  • East wall, switch house

  • Testimonial by Oconee River Mills

  • Catalog illustration, Warren(?) water wheel installation

  • Unidentified

  • Governor

  • Unidentified

  • Engineering drawing, cross section of scroll case turbine, Great Falls Power Company

  • Trade Literature

  • Horizontal boring mill, shop scene

  • Falls

  • 30" special turbine in steel case, 112' head, Guinle and Company

  • S. Morgan Smith 2, Scroll case turbine with Smith-Kaplan runner and generator, overall: 27 inches by 34½ inches

  • Southern Aluminim Company, drill working on shaft

  • Gate ring, engineering drawing

  • Unidentified

  • Unidentified

  • Single horizontal wheel in steel case, Heart's Delight Farm, Chazy, New York

  • Washington Mills, pair of 24" McCormick turbines and rope drive

  • Unidentified

  • Shop view wicket gate turbine

  • Unidentified

  • Catalog illustration, Delphos Iron Works True American water wheel

  • Drawing of turbine and generator for Village Storage Dam

  • Drawing of water wheels

  • Peoples(?) Power and Electric

  • Peoples(?) (unintelligible)

  • Great Falls Power Company, Main Unit, runner

  • Unidentified

  • Pair of wheels in steel case

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