Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Records
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation (Mt. Vernon, Ohio)
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
NMAH.AC.0961
Archival Resource Key
27 Cubic feet
68 boxes, 1 map-folder
1870-1961
These records document the activities of the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and Grove City, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam, gas, and oil engines, compressors, and furnaces.
English
, Spanish; Castilian
.
Conditions Governing Access
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 archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated by the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, through Robert S. Warren, Manager of Advertising and Public Relations, in 1965 and 1969.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into eleven series.
Series 1: Background Materials, 1895-1944
Series 2: Correspondence, 1866-1961
Series 3: Financial Materials, 1888-1929
Series 4: Newsletters, 1917-1942
Series 5: Product and Sales Materials, 1870-1961
Series 6: Advertising Materials, 1921-1945
Series 7: Printed Materials, 1902-1953
Series 8: Photographs, 1881-1930s
Series 9: Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings, 1909-1930s, undated
Series 10: Glass Plate Negatives, 1906-1913, undated
Series 11: Drawings, 1906-1944
Biographical / Historical
C. & G. Cooper Company was founded by Charles (1811-1891) and Elias Cooper (1814-1848) in 1833 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Situated in Central Ohio, abundant supplies of coal, iron and natural gas were available to the Cooper brothers as well as proximity to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lines. Previously, the brothers opened a coal mine in 1832 and then a foundry for casting metals. Their principal products were plows, carding machines, and special power machinery. In 1848, Elias Cooper died and Charles Cooper sold an interest in the Company to T.L. Clark and the firm changed its name from to C. & E. Cooper to Cooper & Clark. In 1852, John Cooper (1824-1916), the younger brother of Charles and Elias, joined the company and became known as Coopers & Clark. T.L. Clark retired in 1853 and the company became C. & J. Cooper.
In 1852, the company built its first blowing engine and with the growth of the railroad system and a demand for railroad equipment, the company responded with manufacturing steam locomotives. In 1865, F.L. Fairchild (d. 1912) joined the company as a partner and the firm became known as C.& J. Cooper & Company. J.C. Debes, a mechanical engineer formerly of the George H. Corliss Works, began working for the company in 1865 designing Corliss engines that came to market in 1869. Corliss engines would become a principal product of the company by 1886. Colonel George Rogers (son-in-law of Elias Cooper) joined the company when John Cooper retired and the name once gain changed to C. & G. Cooper & Company. By 1881, Desault B. Kirk (son-in-law of Charles Cooper) and son, C.F. Cooper (d. 1894) along with E.H. Fairchild and B.F. Williams became active partners in the company. In 1929, Cooper merged with Bessemer Gas Engine Co. of Grove City, Pennsylvania, to form Cooper-Bessemer Corporation. Cooper Machinery Services is the current equipment manufacturer for Cooper-Bessemer engines.
During World War One and World War Two, the company made munitions—steel shells, special purpose lathes, surface grinders and multiple-head cutting off machines—to aid the Allies. Its work contributed to faster and more efficient production for the war effort and earned it the Maritime "M" and Army/Navy "E" Awards. Over the years, the company's products included: simple and compound Corliss engines, gas and diesel engines, rolling mill engines, marine engines, compressors, and power units for ice and refrigeration, cotton-ginning and oil-milling.
Sources
Cooper Machinery Services (last accessed on April 12, 2022 https://www.cooperservices.com/our-company/heritage/cooper-origins/the-history-of-cooper-bessemer/)
C. & G. Cooper Company, Seventy-Five Years of Engine Building, Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1900.
100 Years of Power, Cooper-Bessemer, 1833-1933, 1933.
Preferred Citation
Archives Center, Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Records, National Museum of American History.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2022.
Ownership and Custodial History
Collection transferred to the Archives Center from Division of Work and Industry, 2006.
Related Materials
Materials at the National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Trade Literature Collection
Includes Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, Chapman Engineering Company, and Hope Engineering and Supply Company.
Scope and Contents note
These records document the activities of the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, manufacturers of steam, gas, and oil engines; compressors; and furnaces through correspondence, financial materials, trade literature and photographs.
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Advertising
Airbrushing
Air-compressors
Cashbooks
Correspondence -- 1900-1950
Catalogs -- 20th century
Engines
Diesel motor
Drawings -- 19th century
Drawings -- 20th century
Financial records
Furnaces
Letterpress copybooks
Marine engines
Photographs -- 1850-1900
Price lists
Newsletters
Photographs -- 1900-1950
Steam-engines
Trade literature -- 20th century
Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Background Materials
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1895-1944
Certificate of Incorporation for C. & G. Cooper Company
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1895
1
1
By-Laws
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undated
1
2
Bessemer Gas Engine Company, letterhead
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undated
1
3
C. & G. Cooper Company, blank agreement
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1880s
1
4
100 Years of Power, 1833-1933
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1933
1
5
C. & G. Cooper Company, Seventy-Five Years of Engine Building
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1909
1
6
Mt. Vernon, Ohio history (republican Industrial Edition)
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undated
1
7
Our Bit Being a Brief Story of Our Part in the Fight for World Freedom
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1918
1
8
Cooper, Charles G.
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1922
1
9
Corbin, John P.
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1925
1
10
Memorial to Frank Louis Fairchild, Director of C. & G. Cooper Company
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1912
1
11
Kirk, Desault B. (son-in-law of Charles Cooper) biographical information
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undated
1
12
Leonard, Archie W.
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1926
1
13
Thomas, Fred H.
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1932
1
14
Wallace, Harry A.
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1924
1
15
Chapman-Stein Company (management list)
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undated
1
16
Announcements (corporate)
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1929, 1931, undated
1
17
Invitations
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1944, undated
1
18
Army-Navy E Award
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1944-04-08
1
19
Cooper-Bessemer Employee Profit Sharing Plan
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1944
1
20
New Employee Handbook
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undated
1
21
C. & G. Cooper Company luncheon menu
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1928
1
22
Vistors Guide
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undated
1
23
United States Maritime Commission, Maritime "M" Pennant and Victory Eagle Flag Award
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[1944?]
54
10
Mount Vernon News
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1935
1
Correspondence
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1866-1961
Letterpress Book
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1866-04
1
24
Correspondence
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1881, 1885, 1890
2
1
General engineering correspondence
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1914-1936
2
2
General engineering correspondence
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1918-1936
2
3
General engineering correspondence
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1924-1932
2
4
Correspondence, miscellaneous
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1924-1961
2
5
Diesel engine testimonials
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1926-1937
2
6
Type 16 refrigeration unit testimonials
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1935
2
7
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, press release
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1936
2
8
Financial Materials
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1888-1929
Branch Journal for Tulsa, Oklahoma
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1928-1929
54
1
General Ledger Trial Balance
Archival Resource Key
1920-12-1921-11
54
2
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book and ledger
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circa 1872-1877
3
1
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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1888-1896
3
2
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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circa 1891-1895
3
3
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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circa 1895-1899
3
4
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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circa 1899-1903
3
5
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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1890-1903
4
1
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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1903-1912
4
2
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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cicra 1903-1907
4
3
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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circa 1901-1911
4
4
C. & G. Cooper Company, cash book
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circa 1911- 1914
4
5
Newsletters
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1917-1942
Scope and Contents
This series consists of select newsletters published by and for the employees of C. & G. Cooper Company and Cooper-Bessemer Corporation.
The Bessemer
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1929-01-26
54
3
Scope and Contents
Bi-monthly publication compiled by the Bessemer Gas Engine Company.
The Bessemer
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1929-04-06
54
3
The Bessemer Monthly
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1919-07
5
1
The Bessemer Monthly
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1919-09-1919-12
5
1
The Bessemer Monthly
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1917-02-1917-03
5
2
The Bessemer Monthly
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1917-05-1917-06
5
2
The Bessemer Monthly
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1917-08
5
2
The Bessemer Monthly
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1920-02-1920-03
5
3
The Bessemer Monthly
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1920-07
5
3
The Bessemer Monthly
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1922-01-1922-04
5
4
The Bessemer Monthly
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1921-01-1921-12
6
2
The Bessemer Monthly
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1922-06
5
5
The Bessemer Monthly
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1922-08
5
5
The Bessemer Monthly
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1922-11-1922-12
5
5
The Bessemer Monthly
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1923-03
5
6
Scope and Contents
Includes a feature article on "Local Color from the Mexican Oil Fields."
The Bessemer Monthly
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1926-10-1926-11
5
7
The Bessemer Monthly
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1927-01
5
8
The Bessemer Monthly
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1927-10
5
8
The Bessemer Monthly
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1928-10-1928-12
5
9
The Bessemer Monthly
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1929-01
5
10
The Bessemer Monthly
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1929-04-1929-11
5
10
Cobesco News
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1929-08-1929-10
5
11
Cobesco News
Archival Resource Key
1929-11-1929-12
5
12
Cobesco News
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1929-06-15
54
4
Scope and Contents
Bi-monthly publication compiled by the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation of Grove City, Pennsylvania.
Cobesco News
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1929-06-28
54
4
Cooper-Bessemer Monthly
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1931-01
5
13
Cooper-Bessemer Monthly
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1931-07
5
13
Cooper-Bessemer Monthly
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1930-01-1930-06
5
14
Cooper-Bessemer News
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1942
54
11
Cooper-Bessemer Monthly
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1930-07-1930-12
6
1
The Cooperator
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1920-06-1920-08
6
3
The Cooperator
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1920-11-1920-12
6
3
Scope and Contents
Also spelled
The Co-Operator
The Cooperator
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1921-01-1921-02
6
4
The Exhaust
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1920-05
6
5
Nickel Cast Iron News (The International Nickel Company)
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1931-12
6
6
Product and Sales Materials
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1870-1961
Catalogs
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1870-1961
C. & G. Cooper Company, catalog
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1870, 1874
6
7
C. & G. Cooper Company, catalog
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1883, 1885-1886
6
8
C. & G. Cooper Company, catalog
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1887, 1889
6
9
Cooper Corliss Engine catalog (mock-up)
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undated
6
10
Cooper-Roberts Company, catalog
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1895
6
11
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation catalogs and product information
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1928, 1961, undated
54
5
Scope and Contents
Includes "95 Years of Engine Building, the C. & G. Cooper Company reprint from the
Oil and Gas Journal, November 15, 1928 and "Tribute to Bessemer Diesel Marine Engine," reprint from Motorship, March 1928.
Price Lists
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1879-1900
C. & G. Cooper Company, price list
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1882, 1885-1886
7
1
C. & G. Cooper Company, price list
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1900
7
2
C. & G. Cooper Company, price list
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1879, 1882
7
3
Sales
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1930-1933
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation product information request postcards
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undated
7
4
Memo to branch managers, salesmen and servicemen
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1933
7
5
Sales Bulletin on type GRA Clutch and type GRF reversing speed reducer
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1930
7
6
Sales Manual on the Development of Industrial Engine Sales
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1930
7
7
Sales Bulletin type GA Pumping and Drilling Engine
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1931
7
8
Ice Refrigeration Sales Manual
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undated
7
9
Trade Literature
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1925-1965
C. & G. Cooper Company, heavy duty Corliss engines
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1910
7
10
Compressors
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1941-1948
7
11
Compressors
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1931-1965
8
1
Diesel engines
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1935-1965
8
2
Diesel engines
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1928-1948
8
3
Diesel generator
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undated
8
4
Diesel locomotove
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undated
8
5
Gas Economizer
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1927
8
6
Gas Engines
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1925-1936
8
7
Gas Engines
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1931-1946
8
8
Gas and Diesel Engines
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1931-1950
9
1
Gas and Diesel Engines
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undated
9
2
Ice Refrigeration related
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1931-1933
9
3
Jet Gas Turbine Engines
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1963
9
4
Marine Diesel Engines
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1938, undated
9
5
Marine Diesel Engines
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1930s-1940s
9
6
Marine Diesel Engines
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1930s-1940s
9
7
Marine/Yachts
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1920s-1930s
9
8
Meehanite
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1937, 1945
10
1
Oil Engines
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1927
10
2
Oil Field Industry
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1928, 1931
10
3
Pumping Engines
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1936-1947
10
4
Victory Tool Shanks
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1942-1943
10
5
C. & G. Cooper Company, spare and repair parts
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undated
10
6
Cooper-Bessemer product catalogs
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undated
10
7
Carbide Milling Cutter Data Calculating Chart
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1946
10
8
Chapman Water Jacketed Gas producer
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1932
10
9
Crane Continous Refiner (Hoane-Crane Corporation)
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1939
10
10
Ferguson Cross Section (Ferguson Engineers)
Archival Resource Key
[1928?]
10
11
Norma-Hoffmann Bearings Corporation
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1931
10
12
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
13
Advertising Materials
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1921-1945
Scope and Contents
Many advertisements feature Cooper-Bessemer products manufactured for the World War I and World War II effort.
In 1915, C. & G. Cooper and Company began manufacturing munitions--steel shells, special purpose lathes, surface grinders and multiple head cutting-off machines--which were all used for shell making. Additionally, the company made forging presses to be installed in Government arsenals, munitions plants and shipyards, and gas engines that could pump natural gas to war industries; marine engines for the emergency fleet; and steam tubines for torpedo destroyer boats.
C. & G. Cooper Company, advertisements
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1921-1922
52
1
C. & G. Cooper Company, advertisements
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1893, 1896, 1911, 1913, 1924, undated
60
1
C. & G. Cooper Company, advertisements
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1923
52
2
C. & G. Cooper Company, advertisements
Archival Resource Key
1923
52
3
Chapman-Stein Engineering Company (allied with C. & G. Cooper Company), advertisements
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1925
52
4
C. & G. Cooper Company, advertisements
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1924
53
1
C. & G. Cooper Company, advertisements
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1925
53
2
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, advertisements
Archival Resource Key
1936
54
6
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, advertisements
Archival Resource Key
1937
54
7
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, advertisements
Archival Resource Key
1938
54
8
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, advertisements
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1940
54
9
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, advertisements
Archival Resource Key
1940
55
1
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, advertisements
Archival Resource Key
1940
55
2
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, miscellaneous advertisements
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1941-1942
55
3
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, industrial advertisements
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1943
55
4
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, miscellaneous advertisements
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1943
55
5
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, miscellaneous advertisements
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1944-1945
55
6
Scope and Contents
Includes Spanish language advertisements Maquinaria Para Construccion, S.A., representatives in Mexcio for the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation.
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, miscellaneous advertisements
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1940s
55
7
Scope and Contents
This folder consists of color advertisements for Cooper-Bessemer products that support the World War II effort. Advertisements include images of war planes, war ships, and mine sweepers. Also includes a motivational poster titled "The Victory Saboteurs" asking Cooper-Bessemer employees to think first about taking a day-off and being absent from the job and how it will impact the war effort.
Industrial adevrtisements
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1944
10
14
Marine advertisements
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1944
10
15
Oil Field advertisements
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1944
10
16
Printed Materials
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1902-1953
Scope and Contents
Series includes writings and reports about Cooper-Bessemer products and diesel and gas engines broadly.
An Economical Steam Plant Report to Atlantic Mills Cross Compound Cooper Corliss Engine
Archival Resource Key
1902
11
1
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, Two Cast Iron Flywheels Laboratory Report No. 260
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
2
The Diesel Engine, Petroleum Technology, No. 44
Archival Resource Key
1918
11
3
Bessemer Manual of Gasoline Recovery
Archival Resource Key
1920
11
4
Cylinder Sizes and Capacities for Hope 40 H.P. 2-Cylce
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1929
11
5
Why Grove City borough Voted 9:1 for Its Municipal Diesel Plant, Diesel Power
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1930
11
6
Standards of the Diesel Engine Manufacturers' Association
Archival Resource Key
1930
11
7
Southwestern Gas and Electric Company, Industrial Power Rate
Archival Resource Key
1931
11
8
The Laundry Power Plant, When Does It Pay to Use a Gas Engine In a Laundry, Laundry Age
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1931
11
9
Report, Pressure Drop Thru Cooling System of the Type 75 and Type 80
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1930
11
10
Papers delivered before the Gas Division of Oklahoma Utilities Association Convention
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1931
11
11
Western Gas, the Gas Engine as a Load
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1931
11
12
Diesel and Natural-gas Engines
Archival Resource Key
[1931-1932?]
11
13
Series of illustrated Diesel Engine Lectures (by Ralph Boyer)
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1932
11
14
Facts and Figures Concerning the Operation of Diesels for Water Service, Water Works Engineering
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1932
11
15
Exhaust Valves on Cooper-Bessemer Engines by P.R. Letz
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1933
11
16
An Illustrated Description of the Sewage Treatment Plant at Durham, North Carolina
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1935
11
17
Application of Standard Design of Diesel Engine to Railways
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1936
11
18
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Power Survey of Mt. Vernon Works, AC 3263-3936
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1937
11
19
Electroplating Department, memoranda
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1938
11
20
Babbitting Department, memoranda
Archival Resource Key
1938
11
21
Cooper-Bessemer Product and Service News
Archival Resource Key
1938
11
22
Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Accounting and Control manual
Archival Resource Key
1943
12
1
Diesel Engine Adapted for Oil or Gas, The International Engineer
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1945
12
2
Gas-Diesel Principle Applied to Supercharged and 2-Cycle Engines, Power
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1946
12
3
Normas Y Practicas Americanas para Los Motores Diesel Estacionarios de Velocidades Baja Y Medio
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1948
12
4
Society of Automotive Engineers, Status of Dual Fuel Engine Development
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1949
12
5
Gas Diesel Still Stumps the Trade, Business Week
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1949
12
6
Wear as Applied Particularly to Cylinders and Piston Rings
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1948
12
7
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Modern Gas Engine
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1951
12
8
The Free Piston Type of Gas Turbine Plant and Applications, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Archival Resource Key
1953
12
9
Measuring Standards, memoranda
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
10
Precision Bearings, memoranda
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
11
Cooper-Bessemer Fuel Injection Systems Maintenance Manual
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
12
Manual of Instructions, The Bessemer Oil Engine
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
13
Lower Costs for Ice Refrigeration
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
14
Operation and Conversion (O.F. and G.A.) Oil Engines Instructions
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
15
Fuel Injection in Diesel Engines
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
16
The Grasshopper and the Corliss (Carillon Park, Dayton, Ohio)
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undated
12
17
Gas Engine Power Proves Economical in Clothing Plant, Southern Power Journal
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undated
12
18
Comparison Between Purchased Electric Power and Gas Engine Power Data
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undated
12
19
Report No., 167, Nico Iron
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undated
12
20
Photographs
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1881-1930s
Scope and Contents
This series consists primarily of 8" x 10" black-and-white photographs and negatives documenting equipment manufactured by Cooper-Bessemer. Many of the photographs depict equipment installed at certain companies throughout the United States. Some of the photographs have typescript captions on the back, describing the name of the equipment and where and when it was installed.
Index to Photographs
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1953
13
1
Index to Photographs of Diesel Engine Manufacturers Association
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undated
13
2
C. & G. Cooper building
Archival Resource Key
1881
13
3
Cooper Machine Shop employees
Archival Resource Key
circa 1887
13
4
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company
Archival Resource Key
1895
13
5
[Shop?] employees
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1902
13
6
C. & G. Cooper building
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1907
13
7
C. & G. Cooper Company, factory employees at Mt. Vernon, Ohio
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circa 1909
13
8
C. & G. Cooper Company, horizontal cross compound Corliss condensing 36" x 66" x 60" 80 RPM
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1911
13
9
C. & G. Cooper gas engine with alternator (Libby-Owens-Ford Company)
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1914
13
10
Bessemer Gas Engine Company at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
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1915
13
11
Company gathering
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1917-04
13
12
C. & G. Cooper Company, Second Annual Outing of Department Heads
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1919
13
13
Bessemer Gas Engine Company at Tulsa, Oklahoma Oil Exposition
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1923, 1927
13
14
Diesel Plant
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circa 1920s
13
15
Cooper Twenty Year Club
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1922
13
16
Bessemer engine installations (various locations in the United States)
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1926-1928
13
17
Cooper-Bessemer engines at Hanlon-Buchanan Gasoline Plant
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1935
13
18
Engine 38929 at Magnolia Petroleum Company
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1936
13
19
Hotel Curtis, Mt. Vernon, Ohio
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1930s
13
20
Maritime "M" Award
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1940s
13
21
Japanese Visit to Cooper-Bessemer Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1951
13
22
C. & G. Cooper tandem comp Corliss, Acme Box Company, Baltimore
Archival Resource Key
1954
13
23
Large Cooper engine
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
1
Unidentified negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
2
Corliss condensing engine 26" x 36"
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
3
Stationary Steam Engine with rider automatic cut-off built by C. & G. Cooper
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
4
Bessemer Gas Engine Company, Los Angeles, California, Office
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
5
C. & G. Cooper Company, main office
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
6
C. & G. Cooper Company, gas and oil engine displays
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
7
Aerial view of the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
8
Carl [Critchfield?] engineer for C. & G. Cooper Company on factory floor
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
9
Testing in shop with employees
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
10
C. & G. Cooper Company, unidentified buildings
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
11
Eight throw crank shaft placed in engine for largest diesel engine driven yacht ever built, Titusville Forge Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
12
Chapman Engineering, Marion Plant Group
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
13
Hammer Cooper Chokers (group of unidentified men, possibly engineers)
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
14
Kirck, Desault B. (treasurer)
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
15
Taylor, Zenno E.
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
16
Gas turbine engines
Archival Resource Key
1960s
14
17
Woodward Governor, relief valves, lube oil pump, fuel distributing system
Archival Resource Key
1936
14
18
Engine and compressor installations [Kettleman Hills]
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
19
Unidentified
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
20
Grove City, Pennsylvania and Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Plants
Archival Resource Key
Erection and parts
Archival Resource Key
1930s
14
21
Erection and parts
Archival Resource Key
1930s
14
22
Machines, tools and equipment
Archival Resource Key
1930s
14
23
Buildings and Shops
Archival Resource Key
1930s
15
1
Buildings and Shops
Archival Resource Key
1930s
15
2
Buildings and Shops
Archival Resource Key
1930s
15
3
Erection of Engines and Parts
Archival Resource Key
1930s
15
4
Erection of Engines and Parts
Archival Resource Key
1930s
15
5
Erection of engines and parts
Archival Resource Key
1930s
16
1
Erection of engines and parts
Archival Resource Key
1930s
16
2
Erection of engines and parts
Archival Resource Key
1930s
16
3
Gas engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
16
4
Gas engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
16
5
Gas engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
17
1
Gas engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
17
2
Gas engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
17
3
Gas engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
17
4
Engines, compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
17
5
Engines, compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
18
1
Engines, compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
18
2
Diesel engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
18
3
Diesel engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
18
4
Diesel engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
18
5
Air brush vertical engine views
Archival Resource Key
1920s
19
1
Bessemer parts
Archival Resource Key
1920s
19
2
Bessemer parts
Archival Resource Key
1920s
19
3
Cooper steam rope drive engines
Archival Resource Key
1895
19
4
Cooper steam cross compound tandem engines
Archival Resource Key
1909, undated
19
5
Cooper steam lathe Corliss simple engines
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
6
Cooper steam, miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
1
Scope and Contents
Includes an image of a man, sitting at a desk with engine installed nearby and an image of the 300 H.P. engine at the Packard Motor Car Company featuring H.B. Joy, S.D. Waldon, C.J. Moore and Russell Huff.
Cooper steam engines direct connection to generators
Archival Resource Key
1902-1904
20
2
Cooper steam engines direct connection to generators
Archival Resource Key
1902-1910
20
3
Cooper steam engines direct connection to generators
Archival Resource Key
1902-1910
20
4
Diesel locomotives
Archival Resource Key
1930s
20
5
Diesel locomotives
Archival Resource Key
1930s
20
6
Angle compressors
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
1
Bessemer horizontal gas and oil engines
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
2
Cooper steam early Corliss engines
Archival Resource Key
1902, undated
21
3
Cooper uniflow steam engines (19 x 30 and 33 x 36)
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
4
Cooper steam special applications--pumps, compressors and marine refrigeration
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
5
Cooper steam parts, components, and sub-assemblies
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
6
Early shop views
Archival Resource Key
1909
21
7
Employees
Archival Resource Key
1928-1930
21
8
Multiple engine installations
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
21
9
Multiple engine installations
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
22
1
Multiple engine installations
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
22
2
Multiple engine installations
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
22
3
Hope Engineering Supply Company engines
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
4
Horizontal engines
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
5
Horizontal single engine installations
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
6
Industrial Uses
Archival Resource Key
Air Conditioning
Archival Resource Key
1936
23
1
Electric Power
Archival Resource Key
1930s
23
2
Electric Power
Archival Resource Key
1930s
23
3
Electric Power
Archival Resource Key
1930s
23
4
Electric Power
Archival Resource Key
1930s
23
5
Electric Power
Archival Resource Key
1930s
24
1
Ice Plants and Dry Ice
Archival Resource Key
1930s
24
2
Ice Plants and Dry Ice
Archival Resource Key
1930s
24
3
Other Industrial Uses
Archival Resource Key
1930s
24
4
Other Industrial Uses
Archival Resource Key
1930s
25
1
Other Industrial Uses
Archival Resource Key
1930s
25
2
Other Industrial Uses
Archival Resource Key
1930s
25
3
Installations, non-engine views
Archival Resource Key
1930s
25
4
Installations, non-engine views
Archival Resource Key
1930s
25
5
Installations, non-engine views
Archival Resource Key
1930s
25
6
Laboratory Tests
Archival Resource Key
1930s
26
1
Laboratory Tests
Archival Resource Key
1930s
26
2
Laboratory Tests
Archival Resource Key
1930s
26
3
Line drawings for diesel engines
Archival Resource Key
1920s
26
4
Plant Views
Archival Resource Key
1919-1930s
26
5
Scope and Contents
Includes images of employees working on the factory and shop floors with munitions (1919) and operating equipment.
Plant Views
Archival Resource Key
1930s
26
6
Plant Views
Archival Resource Key
1930s
26
7
Marine Uses
Archival Resource Key
Fishing boats
Archival Resource Key
1930s
27
1
Private Yachts
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
27
2
Private Yachts
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
27
3
Marine Engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
27
4
Marine Engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
27
5
Marine Engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
28
1
Tugs, pushers, freighters, ferries and tankers
Archival Resource Key
1930s
28
2
Tugs, pushers, freighters, ferries and tankers
Archival Resource Key
1930s
28
3
Tugs, pushers, freighters, ferries and tankers
Archival Resource Key
1930s
28
4
Tugs, pushers, freighters, ferries and tankers
Archival Resource Key
1930s
29
1
Marine Applications
Archival Resource Key
1930
29
2
Marine Engine Illustrations
Archival Resource Key
1930s
29
3
Oil and Gas Production Uses
Archival Resource Key
Helium Company, Dexter, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
4
Diesel engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
29
5
Gas engine driven generators and auxiliary equipment
Archival Resource Key
1930s
29
6
Gas engine driven generators and auxiliary equipment
Archival Resource Key
1930s
30
1
Gas engine driven generators and auxiliary equipment
Archival Resource Key
1930s
30
2
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
30
3
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
30
4
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
30
5
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
31
1
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
31
2
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
31
3
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
31
4
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
31
5
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
32
1
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
32
2
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
32
3
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
32
4
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
33
1
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
33
2
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
33
3
Gas engine driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
33
4
Gas driven compressors and pumps
Archival Resource Key
1930s
34
1
Oil Well Sites
Archival Resource Key
1929-1930s
34
2
Oil Well Sites
Archival Resource Key
1929-1930s
34
3
Oil Well Sites
Archival Resource Key
1929-1930s
34
4
Tulsa Trade Show
Archival Resource Key
1930s
32
5
Vertical Engine Installation Views
Archival Resource Key
1930s
35
1
Vertical Engine Installation Views
Archival Resource Key
1930s
35
2
Vertical Engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
35
3
Vertical Engines
Archival Resource Key
1930s
35
4
J.S. Abercrombie Company, Sweeny, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
1
Amerado Petroleum Company, Healdton, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
2
Anderson Ice Company Plant, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
3
Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1936
36
4
Arkansas Natural Gas Company, Sterlington, Louisiana
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
5
Atlantic Petroleum Company, Leonard, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
6
Battery Cabinet
Archival Resource Key
1920
36
7
Barnsdall Oil Company, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
8
Big Lake Oil Company, Texan, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1928
36
9
Boulder Ice and Cold Storage Company, Fort Smith, Arkansas
Archival Resource Key
1928
36
10
C.F. Brown and Company, Alhambra, California
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
11
Captain Van Pelt (boat)
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
12
Carmelita Yacht
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
13
Carter Oil Company, Seminole, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
14
Central Ohio Natural Gas Company, Granville, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
15
C. & G. Cooper Company, West End Machine Shop
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
16
Cities Service Gas Company, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
17
Coline Oil Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
18
Columbia Gas and Electric Company, Branchland, West Virginia
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
19
Consolidated Utilities Company, Hunnewell, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
20
Consolidated Gas Company, Eastland, Texas, and Flushing, Long Island, New York
Archival Resource Key
1931
36
21
Continental Construction Company, Fritch, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1931
36
22
Crystal Ice Company
Archival Resource Key
1931
36
23
Dauntless Towing Line, Inc., New York Harbor
Archival Resource Key
1931
36
24
Dearborn (tug boat)
Archival Resource Key
1931
36
25
Del Ray Oil and Refining Company, Venice, California
Archival Resource Key
1930
36
26
Diesel Engines
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
27
Dixie Gulf Gas Company, Waskom, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
28
Ellwood City Forge Company Power Plant
Archival Resource Key
1934
36
29
Empire Company, Cushing, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
1934
36
30
Empire Gas and Fuel Company, Cambridge, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1934
36
31
Excelsior Brink Company, Fredonia, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1928
36
32
Forth Worth Packing Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
33
City of Gainesville, Florida
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
34
General Electric Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
35
Globe Gasoline Company, Blackwell, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
36
Gulf Refining Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
37
Gypsy Oil Company
Archival Resource Key
1929
36
38
Hope Engineering and Supply Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
39
Houston Gulf Gas Company, Edna, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
40
Houston Pipe Line Company, Edna, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
41
International Fruit Company (lemon plant)
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
42
Illinois Oil Company
Archival Resource Key
1927
36
43
Illinois Pipe Line Company, Brookville, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
1931
36
44
Independence Water Works, Independence, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
45
International Fuel Supply Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
46
Jewell Ice Cream and Milk Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
47
Kanawha Sand Company, Parkersburg, West Virginia
Archival Resource Key
1935
36
48
Larutan Fuel Company, Honeywell, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
49
Libbey Owens Sheet Glass Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
50
Liberty Glass Company, Sapulpa, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
51
Magnolia Gas Company, Mineola, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
1
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Archival Resource Key
1927
37
2
Marland Oil, Ponca City, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
1927
37
3
Marland Refining Company, Retta, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
1927
37
4
[McDauld?] Milling Company, McDonald, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
5
McKinley Station, Kane, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
6
McMann Oil and Gas Company, Burkburnett, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
7
Medina Gas and Fuel Company, West Salem Station
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
8
Mid Continental Petroleum Company
Archival Resource Key
1927
37
9
Mid East Gas Company, Perryton, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
10
Midway Gas Company, Taft, California
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
11
National Carbon Company, Clarksburg, West Virginia
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
12
National Oil and Development Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
13
New York Motor Boat Show
Archival Resource Key
1937
37
14
Northern Gas and Pipe Line Company, Clifton, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1930
37
15
Northern Gas and Pipe Line Company, Mullinville, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1931
37
16
Northern Natural Gas Company, Mullinville, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
17
Ohio Fuel Gas Company, Medina, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
18
Ohio Fuel Supply Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
19
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, Owasso, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
20
Owens Bottle Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
21
Pacific Gasoline Company, Inglewood, California
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
22
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Greensburg, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1936
37
23
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Louisburg, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1931
37
24
People's Gas Light and Coke Company, Chicago
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
25
People's Pulpit Association, Staten Island, New York
Archival Resource Key
1932
37
26
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Archival Resource Key
1935
37
27
Plymouth Locomotive Works, Plymouth, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
28
Poteau, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
29
Power barge "Energy," Terrebonne, Louisiana
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
30
Power cylinder showing the tie belts
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
31
Pure Oil Company, Van, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
32
Rentschler Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
33
Riverside Ice Company, Fort Worth, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
34
Rowan Drilling Company, New Mexico
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
35
Salem Glass
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
36
Sears Roebuck Company, Dallas, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
37
Sentinel Gin Company, Sentinel, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
38
Sinclair Oil and Gas Company Plant
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
39
Six-cylinder Cooper-Bessemer diesel engine
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
40
Skelly Oil Company, Kingsville, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
41
Southern Natural Gas Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1930
37
42
Southern California Gas Company (Midway Gas Company), Taft, California
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
43
Snow gas engines
Archival Resource Key
1902
37
44
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
45
Stanolind Pipe Line Company, Ada, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
46
Stroke compressors cylinders 20"
Archival Resource Key
undated
37
47
Texas Company Gasoline Plant
Archival Resource Key
1920
38
1
Texas-Louisiana Power Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
2
Thomas Jefferson Swimming Pool, New York City (E. 112th Street and First Avenue)
Archival Resource Key
1936
38
3
Scope and Contents
This park was planned and named by the Board of Aldermen in 1894, though the land for it was not purchased until 1897. The park opened on October 7, 1905 to provide organized play to the children of "Little Italy," as the crowded tenement district in East Harlem was then known.
The pool opened in 1936, one of eleven immense outdoor public pools the Parks Department opened that summer. The heroically scaled pools project was financed by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), as part of a massive effort to alleviate adverse health conditions and provide safe recreation in predominantly working-class communities.
Source
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/thomas-jefferson-park/history last accessed April 13, 2022)
Tulsa Ice Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
1936
38
4
Tulsa Oil Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1927
38
5
United Fuel Gas Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
6
United Gas Improvement Contracting Company, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
7
United States Sheet and Window Glass, Shreveport, Louisiana
Archival Resource Key
1921
38
8
Ventura Fuel Company, Ventura, California
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
9
Vertical power cylinder
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
10
Waskom Compressor Station, Waskom, Texas
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
11
Water Pumping Station, Wayland, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
12
Western Gas Company
Archival Resource Key
1931
38
13
Wilcox Oil and Gas Company, Pampa, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1927
38
14
Wichita Gin Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
15
Willow River Power Company, Hudson, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
16
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920s-1930s, undated
38
17
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920s-1930s, undated
38
18
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920s-1930s, undated
38
19
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920s-1930s, undated
38
20
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920s-1930s, undated
38
21
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
39
1
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
39
2
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
39
3
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
39
4
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
39
5
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
39
6
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
28
5
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s, undated
28
6
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
Scope and Contents
This series consists of air brushed black-and-white photographs, primarily of engines, generators, parts, and some buildings, mounted on mat board with annotations about dimensions, where to add color and text and other production notes. Some of the photographs are described and numbered, noting a negative number, the type of engine, the name of a building and the name of the company and location of the engine installation. In some instances, the original photographers name is noted. However, most are unidentified.
Some mat boards also contain who completed the art work. Cooper-Bessemer contracted with outside firms and indivduals such as Arthur J. Olson of Cleveland, Ohio; the Powers-House Company; Terry Engraving Company, Columbus, Ohio; the Bartlett Orr Press File; and Chasmar-Winchell Prep Art Department; and Wightman-Hicks, Inc.
These images were presumably used for assembling the company catalog, product literature, and other promotional materials. Air brushing allowed artists to create highly rendered images with a high level of realism.
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings (for Hope Engineering Supply Company)
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
56
1
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings (for Hope Engineering Supply Company)
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
56
2
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings (for Hope Engineering Supply Company)
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
57
1
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
57
2
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
57
3
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
58
1
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
58
2
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1909-1930s, undated
58
3
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings (for Hope Engineering Supply Company)
Archival Resource Key
59
3
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
40
1
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
40
2
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
40
3
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
40
4
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
41
1
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
41
2
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
41
3
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
41
4
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
41
5
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
42
1
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
42
2
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
42
3
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
42
4
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
43
1
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
43
2
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
43
3
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
43
4
Air Brushed Photographs/Renderings
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Scope and Contents
Includes a photograph of men setting up a new type ten Bessemer direct driven air compressor, El Dorado, Arkanasas, 1916.
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Includes horse drawn carriages, farm scenes, aerial view of factory, men working in factory, machinery, the C. & G. Cooper Company logo, and a rendering for the publication
Our Bit Being A Brief Story of Our Part in the Fight for World Freedom 1918.
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Negative 1, Foundry from cupola looking west
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Negative 2, Homestead steel wheels
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Negative 3, Engine parts
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Negative 4, Shaft and return crank of Jones & Laughlin Aliquippa engine
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Negative 5, Crank side of tandem engine at Homestead
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Negative 6, Concrete erecting shop during construction - 1906
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Negative 7, Power plant of Foltansbee Bros.
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Negative 8, Train containing Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company's engine
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Negative 9, Old Cooper locomotive
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Negative 10, Tandem engine for Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Plant. Valve gear side
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Negative 11, Tandem engine for Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Plant. VG side showing bed plate
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Negative 12, Piston valve engine for Wallpaper v. Manufacturers, England
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Negative 13, Showing machine for grinding cylinder pockets
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Negative 14, Machine shop looking east
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Negative 15, Standard girder engine Valve gear side
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Negative 16, Power Plant New Orleans sewage disposal system
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Negative 18, Valve gear side of Duquesne tandem LP cylinder and bed
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Negative 19, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company engine from HP valve gear side
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Negative 20, Lawrence Portland Cement Company engine. Tandem valve gear side
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Negative 21, Crank side of girder frame engine
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Negative 22, Victor Talking Machine tandem, valve gear side
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Negative 23, Engine parts
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Negative 24, Erecting shop during construction
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Negative 26, The J&L tandem engine (retouched photograph)
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Negative 28, View in machine shop, wheel floor looking west
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Negative 30, Victor Talking Machine Company's engine. Crank side
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Negative 33, Engine showing single wrist plate gear, square corner cylinder
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Negative 34, Light out board block
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Negative 35, Letter from Hartford & Springfield Street Railway Company
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Negative 36, Jones and Laughlin engine, valve gear side
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Negative 37, Engine parts, piston spider
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Negative 40, Wheel floor showing large rope wheel in lathe
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Negative 41, Jones and Laughlin #1968 valve gear side (retouched photograph)
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Negative 42, "Madonna" Tennessee Coal Iron Railroad Company, Franklin Foundation
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Negative 43, 1909 valve gear
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Negative 44, 1909 valve gear
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Negative 45, 1909 valve gear
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Negative 46, Mt. Vernon bed. Crank side
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Negative 47, Front view of pipe shop
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Negative 48, Grinding machine
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Negative 50, Engine parts
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Negative 51, Concrete erecting shop during construction
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Negative 52, Engine parts
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Negative 53, Office of the C. & G. Cooper Company
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Negative 54, Cross compound hoisting engine. Reverse arrangement
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Negative 56, Duquesne Steel Works tandem engine Valve gear side
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Negative 57, Duquesne Steel Works tandem engine LP cylinder and bed
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Negative 58, Packard Motor Car engine HP valve gear side
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Negative 59, Cylinder pocket grinding machine
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Negative 60, Power plant of Follansbee Bros.
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Negative 61, Wheel lathes and wheels
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Negative 62, Lackawanna Steel Co. engine
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Negative 63, Duquesne Steel Works engine Valve gear side. Retouched photo
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Negative 64, Duquesne Steel Works engine crank side. Retouched photo
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Negative 65, Governor arrangement and rope pulley on International Harvester
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Negative 66, Power plant of Waltham Watch Co. showing crank side of bed
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Negative 67, Mt. Vernon bed showing depression for crank
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Negative 68, Mt. Vernon bed showing rocker arm bracket & main journal oil catcher
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Negative 69, C. & G. Cooper Company plant seen from NW elevator grain bins
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Negative 70, Bed plate with jack shaft journal Youngstown Iron & Steel Roofing Co.
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Negative 71, Heavy duty back blocks as made for Thomas Steel Company
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Negative 72, Shalt and return crank of J&L Aliquippa engine
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Negative 73, Heavy duty back blocks used on Duquesne Steel works engine
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Negative 74, Power plant of Simmonds Manufacturing Company
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Negative 75, Corbin Screw Company engine 22 & 44 x 88cc showing HP valve side
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Negative 76, Tandem engine for Homestead Steel Works
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Negative 77, Tail rod guide and support on HP of 36 & 66 x 60" 1 HP engine
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Negative 78, HP crank side of 42 & 84 x 60" Lackawanna steel engine
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Negative 79, Standard girder frame engine Crank side
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Negative 80, Large rope wheel installed for Follansbee Brothers
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Negative 81, View of old style gear showing engaging hook
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Negative 82, Engine parts
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Negative 83, Cross compound single piece bed DC engine
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Negative 84, 28 & 56 x 48" engine for Republic Iron & Steel Co. using 1909 valve
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Negative 85, 36 x 60" engine. Valve gear side for the Thomas Steel Company
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Negative 86, Compound (tandem) engine for Lawrence Cement Co. Valve gear aide
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Negative 87, View in erecting shop showing engines in course of erection
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Negative 88, Heavy duty back block for Duquesne Steel Works. Showing block
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Negative 89, Valve gear side of steam cylinder for vertical blowing engine
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Negative 90, Birdseye view of Cooper's Foundry from top of erecting shop
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Negative 91, View of Lundbohm compressor engine showing governor, etc. HP side
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Negative 92, View of Lundbohm compressor engine showing VG arrangement. HP side
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Negative 93, View of Lundbohm compressor engine showing valve gear. LP side
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Negative 94, Power plant of Waltham Watch Co, Crank side of cylinder
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Negative 96, Duquesne Steel Works engine VG side of slide and bed
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Negative 97, Power plant of Wallpaper Manufacturer, Ltd. London, England
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Negative 98, International Harvester engine bed end crank side
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Negative 99, Simple heavy duty DC - single piece engine crank side
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Negative 100, American Lithograph engine Valve gear side
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Negative 101, American Lithograph engine Crank side
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Negative 102, Piston valve engine for Wallpaper Manufacturer, Ltd.
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Negative 104, 50 & 96 x 66" vertical blowing engine for Toledo Furnace Co. VG side
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Negative 105, Engine parts
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Negative 106, Engine parts
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Negative 107, Engine parts
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Negative 108, Cooper plant from top of NW elevator and Mill Co. bins
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Negative 109, Engine parts
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Negative 110, Simple direct connected - singlepiece bed valve gear side
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Negative 111, Duquesne Steel Works engine Valve gear side. Retouched photo
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Negative 112, Duquesne Steel Works engine Showing valve gear of cylinders
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Negative 113, Duquesne Steel Works engine Crank side
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Negative 114, View of Cooper plant from erecting shop
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Negative 116, Tandem engine for Edgar Thomson Steel Works. Valve gear side
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Negative 117, View of wheel lathes and wheels
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Negative 118, Name plate for C. & G. Cooper Company
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Negative 119, View of concrete erecting shop, 1906
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Negative 120, Duquesne steel workers cylinders, crank side and 21 men
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Negative 121, Engine part, piston and rod as used for air compressor job
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Negative 122, Engine part, 96" piston as used on Toledo Furnace Company's engine
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Negative 123, Pepperell Mfg. Company Power Plant, Biddeford, Maine
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Negative 124, Southern Cotton Mill
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Negative 125, View of Cotton Mill Building
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Negative 126, View showing boiler room
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Negative 127, View showing condenser and pumps
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Negative 128, View showing re-heater receiver and piping
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Negative 129, View 32 of condenser and pumps
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Negative 130, Valve gear side Mt. Vernon frame compressor, horse power
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Negative 131, Crank side, Mt. Vernon frame, compressor with oil guard, low pressure
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Negative 132, Crank side, Mt. Vernon frame compressor without oil guard, high pressure
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Negative 133, Barring engine, Kriebel type
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Negative 134, Barring engine, Kriebel type
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Negative 135, 1909 valve gear on cylinder
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Negative 136, 30 x 48 cylinder with tail guide, Munice Electric Light Company
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Negative 138, Upson nut tandem engine on erecting floor
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Negative 139, Combined crosshead oiler and reducing motion
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Negative 140, Horizontal-vertical ice machine, Dennedy for Ashland
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Negative 141, Horizontal-vertical ice machine, Dennedy for Ashland
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Negative 142, Packard Motor Car Company, 38 and 70 x 54 cross compound engine in plant
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Negative 143, Crosshead
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Negative 144, Crosshead
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Negative 145, Piston complete assembled
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Negative 147, Bay State Engine, low pressure side
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Negative 148, Bay State Engine, high pressure side
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Negative 149, Gravity gear of Upson nut engine
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Negative 150, Packard Motor Car Company, two engines
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Negative 151, Rolling mill bed plate with two journals
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Negative 153, Gravity gear governor and connections
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Negative 154, Journal block with wedge adjustment
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Negative 155, Gravity gear
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Negative 158, Piston valve engine, gear side
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Negative 159, Piston valve engine, Fogarty crank side
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Negative 160, Uniflow engine, crank side
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Negative 161, Uniflow engine, valve gear side taken looking toward rear end of cylinder
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Negative 162, Unidentified engine
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Negative 163, Main bearing, steam engine frame
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Negative 164, Corliss cylinder showing new type gear, direct drive on admission and wrist plate on exhaust
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Negative 165, Corliss cylinder showing new type gear, direct drive on admission and wrist plate on exhaust
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Negative 166, Engine, Portsmouth, Virginia
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Negative 167, M. Dennedy, horizontal-vertical ice machine showing back of Corliss cylinder, Portsmouth, Virginia
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Negative 168, Piston and rings on rod
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Negative 170, Line drawing, Briquette Machine, American Wood Reduction Company
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Negative 173, 72" stock beds, head end
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Negative 174, 72" stock beds, journal end
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Negative 175, Marshall Field Estate engine 18 x 36 with Johns Governor
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Negative 181, Gloucester electric Company engine, Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Negative 182, Uniflow cylinder and heads 19 x 30
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Negative183, Uniflow cylinder head 19 x 30
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Negative 184, Uniflow cylinder barrel 19 x 30
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Negative 185, Uniflow engine #2679 (19 x 30) built for American G. Company
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Negative 186, Uniflow engine on erecting floor, crank side
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Negative 187, Wheeling turret, shell lathe side view
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Negative 188, Wheeling turret, shell lathe, end view
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Negative 189, Cooper grinder, end view
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Negative 190, Cooper Grinder, front view
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Negative 191, Wheeling plain, shell lathe, front view
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Negative 192, Wheeling plain, shell lathe, end view
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Negative 193, Southwark cutting off machine showing Mr. Bark
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Negative 194, Southwark cutting off machine, from head end
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Negative 195, Southwark cutting off machine from gear end
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Negative 196, Briquet press on car
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Negative 197, Bed casting, bottom side, Hill Proprietary Company
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Negative 198, 36 x 54, bed top side, Broken Hill Proprietary Company
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Negative 203, Turbine casings, torpedo boat destroyers
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Negative 205, Manomet Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts, cross compound engine
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Negative 206, Manomet Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Negative 207, Sharp Mfg. Company engine, New Bedford, Massachusetts, L.P. side
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Negative 208, Sharp Mfg. Company engine, New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Negative 209, Nanquitt Spinning Company, New Bedford, Massachusetts, C. & G. Cooper engine
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Negative 210, Nanquitt Spinning Company, New Bedford, Massachusetts, C. & G. Cooper cross compound engine
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Negative 211, Nanquitt Spinning Company, New Bedford, Massachusetts, C. & G. Cooper engine, front view
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Negative 213, Estabrook-Anderson Engine, valve gear side, 4' fluid 16 C.P. view
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Negative 214, C. & G. Cooper Company, diesel engine
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Negative 214, Unidentified
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Negative 255, Engine parts, fly ball governor
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Negative 256, engine parts, hook gear
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Negative 257, Engine parts
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Negative 258, engine parts, governor pulley and bracket
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Negative 259, Engine parts, angle view and thrust collar
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Negative 260, Engine parts, J.B. Shells
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Negative 261, Engine parts, cylinder head, piston and rod
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Negative 262, Engine parts, cylinder head, piston and rod
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Negative 264, Manomet Mills, pumps, New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Negative 265, Unidentified
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Negative 266, Manomet Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Electric Light engine (American Ball angle compound)
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Negative 267, Manomet Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts, power plant of Cooper engine and rope drive
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Negative 268, Erecting shop old, girder bed engine
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Negative 1265, F.H. Thomas taken by R.L. Boyer
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Negative G-4, 20" x 42" Horizontal tandem gas engine Wheeling Natural Gas Co.
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Negative G-5, Front and back views of main crosshead, compressor type
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Negative G-6, Johns governor with relay taken on erecting floor.
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Negative G-7, Double insulated igniter plug
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Negative G-8, 20" x 42" Horizontal tandem gas engine Wheeling Natural Gas Company
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Negative G-8, 20" x 42" Horizontal tandem gas engine Wheeling Natural Gas Co.
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Negative G-9, 20" x 30 horizontal, double acting gas engine lay shaft side taken from bed end, Cooper Engine 1908 type
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Negative G-10, 20" x 30 horizontal, double acting gas engine cylinder layshaft side showing valve gear, Cooper Engine 1908 type
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Negative G-11, 20" x 30 horizontal tandem, double acting gas engine, inlet pipe side. Taken from tail guide end, Cooper Engine Shop Engine 1908 type T
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Negative G-12, 20" x 42" Horizontal tandem gas engine Wheeling Natural Gas Company
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Negative G-13, 21" main crosshead compressor type assembled with connecting rod, distance rods and compressor crosshead
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Negative G-14, 21" distance piece and base with layshaft bearings 1908 type
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Negative G-15, 20" x 30" Horizontal tandem gas engine 1908 type. Cooper shop
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Negative G-16, 21" tail guide and base
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Negative G-17, 21" distance piece and base showing water crosshead slide and air intake, 1908 type
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Negative 17, Valve gear side of Duquesne tandem cylinders
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Negative G-19, 21" x 30" gas engine bed 1908 type main bearing end showing cross shaft bearing and main side
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Negative G-20, 21" x 24 horizontal tandem, double acting gas engine, inlet pipe side. Taken on erecting floor. Manufacturing gas Company's Engine.
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Negative G-21, Automatic oil pressure relay governor, line drawing
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Negative G-22, Cross section through cylinder and valve gear of 21" type horizontal tandem. Double acting gas engine
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Negative G-24, 24" x 48" snow gas engine. Treat Compressor Station, Homer, Ohio
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Negative G-25, Piston rod for single cylinder. Two cycle Koerting gas engine
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Negative G-26, The J&L tandem engine. Retouched photo
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Negative G-26, Piston and rod for single cylinder Koerting gas engine
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Negative G-27, 20" x 30" horizontal tandem, double acting gas engine inlet pipe side. Cooper Shop Engine 1908 type
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Negative G-28, Line drawing of 1300 horse power, twin tandem double acting gas engine 1911 type
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Negative G-29, Steel shaving 158' long cut from LP piston rod
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Negative G-29, 22" x 48" snow gas engine with Cooper inlet and exhaust VG.
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Negative G-31, 22" x 48" snow gas engine as rebuilt by Cooper Company
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Negative G-32, 22" x 48" snow gas engine before rebuilding by Cooper Company
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Negative G-34, Double insulated igniter plug. Three views shown
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Negative G-35, Two double insulated igniter plugs
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Negative G-36, Double insulated igniter plug, two views shown
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Negative G-37, Double insulated igniter plug, top and bottom view
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Negative G-38, 20" x 30" horizontal tandem, double acting gas engine, layshaft side. Cooper Shop Engine
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Negative G-39, 24" x 48" snow gas engines at Treat Station at Homer, Ohio
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Negative G-40, 24" x 48" snow gas engines at Treat Station at Homer, Ohio
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Negative G-41, 24" x 48" snow gas engines at Treat Station, Homer, Ohio
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Negative G-42, 20" x 30" bed plate showing layshaft, drive gear case oil pump
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Negative G-43, 21" connecting rod, forged
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Negative G-80, Single tandem gas engines DC Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company
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Negative G-106, 24" x 48" T.T.D.A. gas engine front connected to compressor cylinders, snow twin in foreground
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Negative G-107, 24" x 48" T.T.D.A. gas engine view between engines taken from tail guide end, Pavonia Station
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Negative G-108, Exterior view of Pavonia Station, Logan Natural Gas Company
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Negative G-120, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T. and 21 1/2 x 36 T.T.D.A., gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Mansfield Station, Medina Gas and Fuel Company
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Negative G-121, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T. and 21 1/2 x 36 T.T.D.A., gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Mansfield Station, Medina Gas and Fuel Company, right hand side tail side end
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Negative G-122, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T. and 21 1/2 x 36 T.T.D.A., gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Mansfield Station, Medina Gas and Fuel Company
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Negative G-123, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T. and 21 1/2 x 36 T.T.D.A., gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Mansfield Station, Medina Gas and Fuel Company
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Negative G-125, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines, front connected to compressor cylinders, Perrysville Station
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Negative G-126, 14" x 24" Duplex Gas Engine with cut off type valve gear test block
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Negative G-127, 14 x 24 Duplex Gas Engine with cut off type valve gear test block
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Negative G-128, 14 x 24 Duplex Gas Engine showing crank and layshaft drive gears
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Negative G-129, 14 x 24 Duplex Gas Engine with throttling type valve gear on test block
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Negative G-131, 14 x 24 Duplex Gas Engine, view from compressor cylinder end, Clarendon Gasoline Company's Plant
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Negative G-132, 14 x 24 Duplex Gas Engine, view from compressor cylinder end, Clarendon Gasoline Company's Plant
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Negative G-134, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Spencer Station, United Fuel Gas Company
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Negative G-135, 14 x 24 Duplex Gas engine connected to generator, Chas Boldt engine on test block
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Negative G-136, 14 x 24 Duplex Gas engine connected to generator, Chas Boldt engine on test block
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Negative G-137, 4 H.P. Novo gas engine direct connection to Imperial Type 12 air compressor
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Negative G-138, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engine front connected to compressor cylinders
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Negative G-139, 14 x 24 Duplex gas engine at station 1, Detroit City Gas Company
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Negative G-140, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines at Branchland Station, Columbia Gas and Electric Company, taken from south end, old units in foreground
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Negative G-141, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines at Branchland Station, Columbia Gas and electric Company, taken from south end, new units in foreground
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Negative G-142, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Branchland Station, Columbia Gas and Electric Company
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Negative G-144, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines, Berea Station, Berea Pipe Line Company, taken from tail guide end
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Negative G-145, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines, Berea Station, Berea Pipe Line Company, layshaft side one engine
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Negative G-146, 2 STDA gas engines. Berea Station, Berea Pipe Line Company
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Negative G-147, Exterior view, Berea Station, Berea Pipe Line Company, taken from auxiliary house end
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Negative G-148, Exterior view, Berea Station, Berea Pipe Line Company, taken from cooling cooling coil end
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Negative G-149, Exterior view Caney Station, American Pipe Line Company
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Negative G-150, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines at Caney Station, American Pipe Line Company
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Negative G-151, Berea Station, Berea Pipe Line Company
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Negative G-152, Exterior view of Branchland Station, Columbia Gas and Electric Company, front view
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Negative G-153, Exterior view of Branchland Station, Columbia Gas and Electric Company, quartering view
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Negative G-156, 8 inch gas strainer
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Negative G-157, 6 inch exhaust cut out valve
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Negative G-158, 2 STDA gas engines. Berea Station Berea, Pipe Line Co.
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Negative G-158, 14 x 24 Duplex gas engine connecting rod showing construction
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Negative G-159, 14 x 24 Duplex gas engine cylinder
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Negative G-167, 3 STDA gas engines. Spencer Station, United Fuel Gas Co.
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Negative G-170, Exterior view of Spencer Station, United Fuel Gas Company
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Negative G-171, Interior Auxiliary House, Spencer Station, United Fuel Gas Company
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Negative G-172, 25 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines directly connected to generator at Libby's Owens Sheet Glass Company's Plant, layshaft side
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Negative G-173, 25 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines directly connected to generator at Libby's Owens Sheet Glass Company's Plant, layshaft side tail guide end
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Negative G-174, 25 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines directly connected to generator at Libby's Owens Sheet Glass Company's Plant, layshaft side tail guide end
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Negative G-175, 25 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines directly connected to generator at Libby's Owens Sheet Glass Company's Plant, inlet pipe side bed end
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Negative G-176, Gage board at Libby's Owens Sheet Glass Company's Plant
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Negative G-179, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Bucyrus Station, Medina Gas and Fuel Company, layshaft side
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Negative G-181, Exterior view of West Salem Station, Medina Gas and Fuel Company, shows coolers and tank
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Negative G-183, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, West Salem Station, Medina Gas and Fuel Company, west tail end guide
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Negative G-184, 19 x 24 S.T.D.A. gas engine front connected to compressor cylinders, Ashland Station, Ohio Fuel Supply Company, layshaft side tail guide
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Negative G-185, 21 1/2 x 36 S.T.D.A. gas engines front connected to compressor cylinders, Elyria Station, Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Company
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Negative G-403, Export Refining Company Plant at Torrance, California. Owned by the General Petroleum Group
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Negative G-404, Export Refining Company Plant at Torrance, California, owned by the General Petroleum Group
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Negative G-406, Midway Gas Company Plant at Torrance, California
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Negative G-638, Ventura Fuel Corporation, Ventura, California containing two ten Type-19 twin tandems, nine units with 21" low and 11 1/2" high, tenth with 11 1/2" single stage compressors, view shows power end
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Negative G-639, Ventura Fuel Corporation, Ventura, California containing two ten Type-19 twin tandems, nine units with 21" low and 11 1/2" high, tenth with 11 1/2" single stage compressors, view shows compressor cylinder ends
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Negative G-640, Ventura Fuel Corporation, Ventura, California containing two ten Type-19 twin tandems, nine units with 21" low and 11 1/2" high, tenth with 11 1/2" single stage compressors, view shows exterior of station
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Negative G-551, Pacific Gasoline, Inglewood, compressor end of 5 Cooper Type-75s
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Negative G-552, Southern Counties Gas Company, Santa Paula Plant, exterior
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Negative G-553, Southern Counties Gas Company, Santa Paula Plant, power end of two Cooper Type-80s
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Negative G-744, Magnolia Gas Company's Mineola, Texas compressor station contains three Type-22 twin tandems driving 14 1/2" compressors, view shows compressor end
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Negative G-746, Magnolia Gas Company's Mineola, Texas compressor station contains three Type-22 twin tandems driving 14 1/2" compressors, view shows power end
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Negative G-109, Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Company, indicator attachment to L.R. Co. Type 12 Imperial 4 1/2 x 5 duplex air compressor
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Negative 110, Gasometer type gas regulator with butterfly valve open
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Negative 110A, Gasometer type gas regulator with butterfly valve closed
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Negative G-111, Exterior of Chas Boldt Company, Huntington, West Virginia
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Negative G-112, Exterior of Chas Boldt Company, Huntington, West Virginia
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Negative G-113, 21 1/2" x 36 S.T.D.S. gas engine direct connected to generator, view looking down on engine from tail guide end, Chas., Boldt Company engine in operation
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Negative G-113, 21 1/2" x 36 S.T.D.S. gas engine direct connected to generator, view looking down on engine from tail guide end showing open pipe pit, Chas. Boldt Company
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Negative G-115, 21 1/2" x 36 S.T.D.S. gas engine direct connected to generator, layshaft side showing open pipe pit, Chas. Boldt Company
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Negative G-116, 21 1/2" x 36 S.T.D.S. gas engine direct connected to generator, view looking at engine head on front end, Chas. Boldt Company
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Negative G-117, 24 x 48 T.T.D.A gas engine front connected to compressor cylinders, Pavonia Station
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Negative G-118, 21 1/2" x 36 gas engine front connected to compressor cylinders, Perrysville Station
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Negative G-399, Midway Gas Company Plant, Torrance, California
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Negative G-400, Midway Gas Company Plant, Torrance, California
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Negative G-401, Midway Gas Company Plant at Signal Hill, California
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Negative G-402, Midway Gas Company Plant at Signal Hill, California
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Negative G-405, Midway Gas Company Plant #2 at Signal Hill, California
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Negative G-545, Midway Ventura, two exteriors
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Negative G-546, Midway Ventura, power end, 12 Cooper Types 80s
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Negative G-547, Midway Ventura, down the line over the fly wheels
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Negative G-548, Midway Inglewood, exterior
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Negative G-549, Midway Inglewood, power end, 7 Cooper Type 80s
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Negative G-550, Pacific Gasoline Inglewood Plant, exterior
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Negative G-622, Marland Oil Company, Seal Beach gas lift compressor plant containing 5 type-80 twin units, one of them equipped with 4 1/2" single acting compressors with 1500 pound discharge
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Negative G-624, Negative G-624, Marland Oil Company, Seal Beach gas lift compressor plant containing 5 type-80 twin units, one of them equipped with 4 1/2" single acting compressors with 1500 pound discharge
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Negative G-625, Negative G-624, Marland Oil Company, Seal Beach gas lift compressor plant containing 5 type-80 twin units, one of them equipped with 4 1/2" single acting compressors with 1500 pound discharge showing exterior view
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Negative G-626, Negative G-624, Marland Oil Company, Seal Beach gas lift compressor plant containing 5 type-80 twin units, one of them equipped with 4 1/2" single acting compressors with 1500 pound discharge, showing valve and meter room
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Negative G-627, Negative G-624, Marland Oil Company, Seal Beach gas lift compressor plant containing 5 type-80 twin units, one of them equipped with 4 1/2" single acting compressors with 1500 pound discharge showing single view of high pressure unit
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Negative G-628, Negative G-624, Marland Oil Company, Seal Beach gas lift compressor plant containing 5 type-80 twin units, one of them equipped with 4 1/2" single acting compressors with 1500 pound discharge showing auxiliary equipment
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Negative G-745, Magnolia Gas Company's Mineola Station showing exterior of plant
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Drawings
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Drawing, "This is America!"
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Original art by John Ranck describing the founding of Cooper-Bessemer.
Drawing, Cooper-Bessmer Model RT-248
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Plat belonging to the late John [Hamtrauck?], County of Knox, Ohio (traced from parchment map owned by the Rev. L.W. Mulhane
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E-416, Setting plan for 18" x 36" H.P. left hand Corliss engine, 1859 sold to the Toledo Reduction and Fertilizer Co., Toledo, Ohio
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26" x 19"
1904-09-01
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Shipped November 8, 1904. Engine equipped with girder bed plate, 10 ft. band wheel having 30" face. Steam enters top of cylinders through elbow angle throttle valve
F-321, Setting plan for 20" x 30" H.P. left hand Corliss engine #1929- sold to the Reliance Portland Cement Co., Coplay, Pennsylvania
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30" x 26"
1905-06-22
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Shipped Dec. 1, 1905. Two-piece Tangye bed plate, 12-ft. wheel turned for 15--1-1/4" ropes. Molding and oil pan. Steam enters top of cylinder through 7" elbow angle throttle valve
L-247, Setting plan for 18" x 38" H.P. left hand Corliss engine #2331 sold to the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania
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42" x 36"
1910-06-27
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Shipped Sept. 1, 1910. Combination Tangye bed plate. 13-ft. band wheel with 28" face. Shaft and foundation so made that an additional duplicate wheel could be added at some future time. Molding and oil pan. Steam enters top of cylinder through 7" globe throttle valve
K-199, Setting plan for 8" x 24" H.P. left hand Corliss engine #2177 sold to the Franklin Foundation (an educational institution), Boston, Massachusetts
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Shipped February 20, 1909. This is the smallest Corliss engine C. & G. ever built. Combination Tangye bed plate. 7-ft band wheel with 13" face. Molding and foundation plate. Steam enters top of cylinder through 3" elbow angle throttle valve.
M-208, Setting plan for 20" and 40" x 48" cross-compound Corliss engine #1696 sold to the Cooleemee Cotton Mills, Cooleemee, North Carolina
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49" x 32"
1902-11-02
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Shipped April 29, 1903. Two-piece Tangye bed plates. l8-ft. wheel turned for 31— 1-3/4-" ropes. Molding and foundation plate. Steam enters top of high pressure cylinder through 8" globe throttle valve.
M-236, Setting plan for 48" and 84" x 60" cross-compound Corliss engine #2068 sold to the Lackawanna Steel Co., Buffalo, New York
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51" x 37"
1907-02-01
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Shipped August 1, 1907. 22-ft. flywheel. cylinder through 18" globe throttle valve
J-118, Setting plan for 42" and 74" x 60" right-hand tandem compound Corliss engine #2015 sold to the Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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45" x 29"
1906-07-16
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Shipped November 16, 1906. Two piece Tangye bed plate. 22-ft. flywheel. Steam enters top of high pressure cylinder through 15" globe throttle valve.
M-193, Setting plan for 30" and 52" x 60" double tandem-compound Corliss engine sold to the Page Woven Wire Fence Company, Monessen, Pennsylvania.
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Left-hand side #1479 shipped on November 24, 1899. The right-hand side #1596 was added August 23, 1901. Two-piece Tangye bed plates, 22 foot wheel with 35 2" ropes and moldings. Steam enters top of both high presure cylinders through 10" globe throttle valve.
L-176, Setting plan for l4" and 26" and 40" x 30" horizontal triple-expansion engine #1802 sold to Camden Iron Works, Camden, New Jersey for installation at the New Orleans, Louisiana Sewerage Plant
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42" x 34"
1904-03-08
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Shipped May 11, 1906. Girder bed plates, moldings and foundation plates. Steam enters top of high pressure cylinder through 5" butterfly valves also 5" globe throttle valve. For vertical-shaft centrifugal pump. 3 cylinders 60° apart.
H-314, Drawing of 26" x 36" single vertical condensing Corliss engine with end and side elevations
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F-350, Drawing of 32" x 60" right-hand Corliss engine, equipped with girder bed plate and hand wheel. Elevation and plan
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H-306, Show drawing of 18" x 30" single Cooper Corliss engine equipped with lugs and piston rod for later converting to tandem. Combination Tangye bed plate. Plan and elevations
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N-17, Drawing, front view of 22" x 36" single standard Cooper Corliss engine with girder bed plate for making cut
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N-18, Drawing, back view, of 22" x 36" single standard Cooper Corliss engine, with girder bed plate for making cut
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F-368, Drawing of 22" and 40" x 18" cross-compound engine, equipped with two-piece Tangye bed plates and D.C. generator, elevation and plan
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L-222, Drawing of 42" and 74" x 54" left-hand tandem engine #1968, equipped with two-piece Tangye bed plate and flywheel. Cylinders shown partially in section, for making cut. 1906. Plan and elevation
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Wash rendering of right-hand, horizontal, slide-valve, throttle-governing engine
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"Stationary Steam Engine, With Rider's Automatic Cut-Off Built by C. & G. Cooper & Co. Mt. Vernon, Ohio. J. C. Debes, Del." Unlike any engines shown in Cooper catalogs 1874-1888. Possibly experimental design. Cantilevered guide bed plate.