Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
Collection is arranged in eight series.
Subseries 1.1: Architecture and Structures, undated
Subseries 1.2: Bridges, Cantilever, undated
Subseries 1.3: Bridges, Concrete Arch and Beam, undated
Subseries 1.4: Bridges, Masonry Aqueducts, undated
Subseries 1.5: Bridges, Metal Arc, undated
Subseries 1.6: Bridges, Metal Truss, undated
Subseries 1.7: Bridges, Movable, undated
Subseries 1.8: Bridges, Suspension, undated
Subseries 1.9: Canals, undated
Subseries 1.10: Hydraulic Engineering, undated
Subseries 1.11: Machine Tools, undated
Subseries 1.12: Materials Handling, undated
Subseries 1.13: Power, undated
Subseries 1.14: Railroad Mileage Maps, undated
Subseries 1.15: Steam Boilers, undated
Subseries 1.16: Steam Turbines, undated
Subseries 1.17: Tunneling Machine Tools, undated
Subseries 2.1: Coal, undated
Subseries 2.2: Iron, undated
Subseries 2.3: Mining, undated
Subseries 2.4: Oil, undated
Subseries 2.5, Rubber, undated
Subseries 2.6, Steel, undated
Subseries 2.7, Timber, undated
Subseries 3.1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undated
Subseries 3.2: Processes, undated
Subseries 3.3: Visual Aids in Chemical Education, undated
Subseries 4.1: Companies, undated
Subseries 4.2: Equipment, undated
Subseries 5.1: Charts, undated
Subseries 5.2: Equipment, undated
Subseries 5.3: Locomotives, undated
Subseries 5.4: Parts, undated
Subseries 5.5: Railroad Cars, undated
Subseries 5.6: Repair Report Forms, undated
Subseries 5.7: Shop Scenes, undated
Subseries 5.8: Toppling Over, undated
Subseries 5.9: Yard Scenes, undated
Subseries 5.10: Unidentified, undated
Subseries 6.1: California, undated
Subseries 6.2: Canada, undated
Subseries 6.3: General, undated
Subseries 6.4: New York, undated
Subseries 6.5: United States National Parks, undated
Subseries 6.6: Washington, DC, undated
Subseries 7.1: Butter, undated
Subseries 7.2: Coffee, undated
Subseries 7.3: Corn, undated
Subseries 7.4: Cotton, undated
Subseries 7.5: Potatoes, undated
Subseries 7.7: Poultry, undated
Subseries 7.8: Sugar, undated
Subseries 7.9: Tea, undated
Subseries, 7.10: Tobacco, undated
Subseries 7.11: Turpentine, undated
Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection, 1886-1931, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection was processed by Kamina Gager, intern, 2024; and Tyler Gibson, intern 2024; supervised by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist, March 2024. Lantern slides digitized by Noah Steward, digital imaging technician, March 2024. Finding aid encoded by Kamina Gager, intern, 2024; and Tyler Gibson, intern 2024.
Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry.
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Canals, NMAH.AC.0060
Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143
Roland A. McCrady Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0710
Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs, NMAH.AC.0945
Niagara Falls Power Company Records, NMAH.AC.0949
Modjeski and Masters Company Records, NMAH.AC.0976
George Morison Collection, NMAH.AC.0978
Uriah A. Boyden Papers, NMAH.AC.0982
James Forgie Papers, NMAH.AC.0986
William R. Hutton Papers, NMAH.AC.0987
Snake River Irrigation Project Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1031
Silas H. Woodard Papers, NMAH.AC.1038
Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad Records, NMAH.AC.1074
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090
New York State Barge Canal Photographs, NMAH.AC.1536
Lackawaxen Canal Survey Profiles, NMAH.AC.1546
Nicaragua Canal Collection, NMAH.AC.1550
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060
Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143
Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965
George Morison Collection, NMAH.AC.0978
John A. Roebling Collection, NMAH.AC.0981
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090
Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Engineering, NMAH.AC0060
Charles Richardson Pratt Papers, NMAH.AC.0958
Rudolph Hering Collection, NMAH.AC.0989
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tools, NMAH.AC.0060
Pratt & Whitney Company Scrapbook, NMAH.AC.0093
Max Holland Numerical Control Collection, NMAH.AC.0537
Southwark Foundry and Machine Company Records, NMAH.AC.1107
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Materials Handling, NMAH.AC.0060
James J. Childs Numerical Control Collection, NMAH.AC.0420
World War Two Bomb Damage Photographs, NMAH.AC.1535
Norton Grinding Machine Company Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.1551
Paul Steam-Heating System Company Records, NMAH.AC.1554
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.A.C0060
Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060
Henry Grattan Tyrrell and Mary Maude Knox Tyrrell Papers, NMAH.AC.0948
Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965
Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577
John Frances Little Panama Canal Scrapbook, NMAH.AC.0708
A.R. Van Tassell Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1015
W. A. Fishbaugh Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1021
W. P. Stine Panama Canal Papers, NMAH.AC.1039
Katherine Kingsford Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1040
Richard Fisher Collection of Panama Canal Materials, NMAH.AC.1045
Robert Dearborn Panama Canal Glass Negatives, NMAH.AC.1111
Charles Edwards Wood Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1114
Panama Canal Commission Photonegatives, 1903-circa 1939, NMAH.AC.1116
Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Panama Canal Collection, NMAH.AC.1569
Frick Company Collection, NMAH.AC.293
Erasmus D. Leavitt Collection, NMAH.AC.0966
Edwin Rust Papers, NMAH.AC.1070
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company Records, NMAH.AC.1541
Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, NMAH.AC.0001
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Records, NMAH.AC.0977
Skinner Engine Company Records, NMAH.AC.1087
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060
Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143
Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965
Modjeski and Masters Company Records, NMAH.AC.0976
Niagara Falls Bridge Commission Records, NMAH.AC.1060
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090
Robinson & Steinman Collection, NMAH.AC.1562
Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577
A collection of 19th and early 20th century silver gelatin dry plate lantern slides acquired by the staff of the Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. These materials were collected for research purposes and relate to various engineering and mining subjects. The photographs document engineering activities, equipment, facilities, and projects. Activities include engineering inspection; moving an obelisk; rock drilling and riveting; tunneling; V drive ratio testing; and weighing. Photographs are also of objects including blueprints, boilers, bridges, canals, drawings, Egyptian temples, flywheel governors, and valves.
Images of corporate facilities documented include American Locomotive Company; Cooper-Bessemer Corporation; Fairbanks Morse and Company; Hamiliton; Ingersoll-Rand, Incorporated; and Nordberg Manufacturing Company. In addition, there are images of equipment such as diesels, marine diesel generator set, diesel models, and marine diesel engines. Images were created by photographers and photographic studios including L. C. Handy Photo, Washington, DC; W. H. Lawrence and B. S. Turpin; Underwood & Underwood; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department. Locations include various parts of the United States, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, and Africa.
Condition of the material varies widely with some fragile or broken negatives. Poor quality images also exist probably due to unstable storage environments or the processing of the slides. All slides have been digitized and moved to off-site storage to minimize handling and at the same time increase accessibility.
Collection is arranged in six series: series 1, engineering; series 2, extractive industries; series 3, chemical; series 4, equipment; series 5, railroads; series 6, locations; subseries 7, agriculture; and miscellaneous materials.
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.
Maintained by staff as a group of material on various subjects relating to engineering. It represents one of the many photographic collections documenting hard to collect objects due to size, space requirements, or availability. Subjects were created by the division and put in alphabetical order by Archives Center staff. Used for study purposes most of the materials have captions documenting the subject of the lantern slides but few are dated. The series is arranged in seventeen subseries: subseries 1.1, architecture and structures; subseries 1.2, cantilever bridges; subseries 1.3, concrete arch and beam bridges; subseries 1.4, masonry aqueducts bridges; subseries 1.5, metal arc bridges; subseries 1.6, metal truss bridges; subseries 1.7, movable bridges; subseries 1.8, suspension bridges; subseries 1.9, canals; subseries 1.10, hydraulic engineering; subseries 1.11, machine tools; subseries 1.12, materials handling; subseries 1.13, power; subseries 1.14, railroad mileage maps, subseries 1.15, steam boilers; subseries 1.16, steam turbines; and subseries 1.17, tunneling machine tools.
Images document subjects created by the division. The subjects are arranged as follows: subseries 1.1.1, Arches and Masonry; subseries 1.1.2, Architecture, subseries 1.1.3, Building Moving; subseries 1.1.4, Construction of Log Cabin; subseries 1.1.5, Factories and Industrial Sites; subseries 1.1.6, Heating and Ventilating; subseries 1.1.7, Hoisting and Movement of Heavy Objects; subseries 1.1.8, Miscellaneous Structures and Erection Techniques; subseries 1.1.9, Moving The Obelisks; subseries 1.1.10, Rock Drilling and Riveting; subseries 1.1.11, Steel Mills; Subseries 1.1.12: Structural Engineering; and Subseries 1.1.13, Tall Steel Frame Buildings.
Material document bridges built using structures that project horizontally into space and is only supported on one end. Images relate to subjects created by the division. The subjects are arranged as follows: 1.2.1, cantilever bridge; subseries 1.2.2, Beaver, Pennsylvania; subseries 1.2.3, Chinese Cantilever; subseries 1.2.4, Forth; subseries 1.2.5, Memphis; subseries 1.2.6, New Quebec; subseries 1.2.7, Old Quebec; and subseries 1.2.8, Red Rock.
Images document subjects created by the division. The subjects are arranged as follows: subseries 1.3.1, 29th Street Baltimore Concrete Arch; subseries 1.3.2, Masonry Arch; subseries 1.3.3, Cappelan Concrete Arch; subseries 1.3.4, Concrete Arch; subseries 1.3.5, DuJour Masonry Arch; subseries 1.3.6, Masonry Arch Over Seine; subseries 1.3.7, Martin's Creek Viaduct; subseries 1.3.8, Old and New London Bridge; subseries 1.3.9, Sur La Seine Concrete Arch; subseries 1.3.10, Sur L'elorn Concrete Arch; subseries 1.3.11, Tournelle Concrete Arch; and subseries 1.3.12, Tunkhannock Viaduct.
Images document subjects created by the division. The subjects are arranged as follows: subseries 1.4.1, Aqueducts, Masonry; subseries 1.4.2, Aqueducts, Pont du Gard; subseries 1.4.3, Aqueducts, Segovia; subseries 1.4.4, United States Highway Bridges, Cabin John, Boston; subseries 1.4.5, Bridges, Pile and Viaduct (Wood); subseries 1.4.6, Charlestown Bridge;
Images document subjects created by the division. The subjects are arranged as follows: subseries 1.5.1, American Metal Arch; subseries 1.5.2, Buffalo-Fort Erie; subseries 1.5.3, Crooked; subseries 1.5.4, Eads; subseries, 1.5.5, Niagara; subseries 1.5.6, Arch Street; subseries 1.5.7, Louis; subseries 1.5.8 Niagara Arch; subseries 1.5.9, Little Hell Gate; and subseries 1.5.10, Truss.
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries: subseries 1.8. , Williamsburg bridge; subseries 1.8. , Manhattan Bridge; subseries 1.8. , Oakland, Golden Gate; subseries 1.8. , United States; subseries 1.8. , Foreign; subseries 1.8. , primitive type; subseries 1.8. , Brooklyn Bridge, New York; subseries 1.8. , George Washington; subseries 1.8. , Camden, Philadelphia;
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries 1.9.1, Panama; subseries 1.9.2, Nicaragua; and subseries 1.9.3, other canals.
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries 1.10.1, hydraulics penstocks and pipes; subseries 1.10.2, Mississippi River revetment; subseries 1.10.3, Boston Water Works bridges; subseries 1.10.4, construction, conduits, culverts, and pipes; subseries 1.10.5, lighthouses; subseries 1.10.6, water supply; subseries 1.10.7, pumping and pumping engines; subseries 1.10.8, Lowell water works; and subseries 1.10.9, Newton Water works and sewers.
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries: subseries 1.11.1, lathes; subseries 1.11.2, milling; subseries 1.11.3, boring; subseries 1.11.4, grinding;
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries 1.12.1 Dockside Freight handling equipment; subseries 1.12.2 digging; subseries 1.12.3, excavation; subseries 1.12.4, dredging; subseries 1.12.5, construction machinery; subseries 1.12.6, coal unloading machinery from B & O Railroad; and subseries 1.12.7, piling.
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries:
subseries 1.13. , University of Wisconsin Lab Views; subseries 1.13. , Windmills; subseries 1.13. , Stationery Stam Engines; subseries 1.13. , Steam Engines, Governors; subseries 1.13. , Power Plants; subseries 1.13. , Steam Engines, Early History; subseries 1.13. , Steam Engines with generators; subseries 1.13. , Steam Engines parts and details; subseries 1.13. , Air compressors, blowers, blowing engines; subseries 1.13. , marine engines; subseries 1.13. , refrigeration; subseries 1.13. , internal combustion; subseries 1.13. , gas producers;
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries:
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries subseries 1.14., transportation arteries; subseries 1.14., railway mileage; subseries 1.14., railroad engineering; subseries 1.14., railroad relocation, st. louis; subseries 1.14., subways; subseries 1.14., all testing including test of Professor J.T. Thompson; subseries 1.14., people and portraits; subseries 1.14., engineering profession and surveying; subseries 1.14., concrete general;
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries:
subseries 1.15., furnaces, grates, stokers; subseries 1.15., parts groups; subseries 1.15., condensers; subseries 1.15., auxiliaries; subseries 1.15., parts and details; subseries 1.15., superheaters; subseries 1.15., photographs of erections; subseries 1.15., photographs of installations; subseries 1.15., complete units;
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries:
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries: subseries 1.16.1, turbines; subseries 1.16.2, Hydraulic power, machinery; subseries 1.16.3, ancient muscle power devices; subseries 1.16.4, Hydraulic power dams and power houses
Slides arranged in subjects including subseries
subseries 1.17.1, tunneling; subseries 1.17.2, roads
Contain black and white images relating to the industrial process of extracting raw materials including coal, oil, iron, rubber, steel, and timber from the earth for consumer use. A large portion of the images relate to the mining of the raw materials including process, locations, and equipment. Series is arranged in seven subseries: subseries 2.1, coal; subseries 2.2, iron; subseries 2.3, mining; subseries 2.4, oil; subseries 2.5, rubber; subseries 2.6, steel; and subseries 2.7, timber.
Series is arranged in three subseries: subseries 3.1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) Department of Chemical Engineering; subseries 3.2, chemical processes; and subseries 3.3, Visual Aids in Chemical Education.
Documents the necessary objects used to perform work primarily relating to mining. Series is arranged in two subseries: subseries 1, companies and subseries 2, equipment and machinery.
Contains material from photographic collections relating to rail transportation. Subjects created by the division and maintained by the Archives Center. Series is arranged in ten subseries: subseries 5.1, charts; subseries 5.2, equipment; subseries 5.3, locomotives; subseries 5.4, parts; subseries 5.5, railroad cars; subseries 5.6, repair report forms; subseries 5.7, shop scenes, subseries 5.8, toppling over; subseries 5.9, yard scenes; and subseries 5.10, unidentified.