Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 95-116
National Museum of American History. Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Exhibition Records, circa 1955-1985
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | National Museum of American History. Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering |
Title: | Exhibition Records |
Dates: | circa 1955-1985 |
Quantity: | 10 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 95-116 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records that document research, exhibition planning, and collecting activities of the Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering for the Hall of Civil Engineering and the Hall of Heavy Machinery in the National Museum of American History. Materials include the correspondence and memoranda of Robert M. Vogel, Assistant Curator, 1958-1960, Associate Curator, 1962-1966, and Curator 1967-1988; Robert P. Multhauf, Curator, 1955-1964; Eugene S. Ferguson, Curator 1958-1960; Edwin A. Battison, Associate Curator, 1958-1969, and Curator, 1970-1977; and Carlene E. Stephens, Museum Technician, 1974-1977, Museum Specialist, 1977-1983, and Curator, 1983- . Records also include exhibition photographs, working blueprints of mechanical instruments, and articles pertaining to the history of heavy machinery. |
Descriptive Entry
These records document research, exhibition planning, and collecting activities of the Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering for the Hall of Civil Engineering and the Hall of Heavy Machinery in the National Museum of American History. Materials include the correspondence and memoranda of Robert M. Vogel, Assistant Curator, 1958-1960, Associate Curator, 1962-1966, and Curator 1967-1988; Robert P. Multhauf, Curator, 1955-1964; Eugene S. Ferguson, Curator 1958-1960; Edwin A. Battison, Associate Curator, 1958-1969, and Curator, 1970-1977; and Carlene E. Stephens, Museum Technician, 1974-1977, Museum Specialist, 1977-1983, and Curator, 1983- . Records also include exhibition photographs, working blueprints of mechanical instruments, and articles pertaining to the history of heavy machinery.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Battison, Edwin A.
- Ferguson, Eugene S.
- Multhauf, Robert P.
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Hall of Civil Engineering
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Hall of Heavy Machinery
- Stephens, Carlene E., 1949-
- Vogel, Robert M.
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 95-116, National Museum of American History. Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
Ferguson, Eugene S.
Hall of Heavy Machinery
Hall of Heavy Machinery Finished
Miscellaneous [Heavy] Machinery
Miscellaneous [Heavy] Machinery Calumet & Hecla Inc.
Materials Handling - Hoists & Moving Belts - Earth Moving Equipment
Materials Handling - Hoists & Moving Belts - Eiffel Tower Elevators
Materials Handling - Hoists & Moving Belts - Elevators & Escalators
Materials Handling - Hoists & Moving Belts - Hoists & Lifting, etc.
Materials Handling - Hoists & Moving Belts - Holmes Bros. Inc.
Materials Handling - Hoists & Moving Belts - Otis Elevator Co.
Pumping General
Pumping - Metro. District Commission (Chestnut Hill)
Pulsometer Engineering Company
Pumping- Worthington Pumps
Refrigeration
Refrigeration- General
Refrigeration- Carrier Centrifugal Refrigeration Comp.
Refrigeration- Frick Co.
Refrigeration- Gorrie Ice Machine
Refrigeration- Hall of Refrigeration
Refrigeration- Demonstration for Hall of Heavy Mach.
Refrigeration- Linde Sulzer-Wolf Compressor
Refrigeration- Linde Refrigeration Process
Refrigeration- Recold Corp. H. T. Jarvis, President
Transmission of Power - Transmission Machinery (Mill Work)
Power Machinery
Internal Combustion General
Power General - Animal
Power General - ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Power General - Brown University
Power General - Cornell University
Power General - Main, Charles T. Inc.
Power General - Museums, England, London Science
Power General - Museums, Henry Ford
Power General - Museums, The Hagley
Power General - Museum of Steam & Marine, Engineering
Power General - Syracuse University
Power General - Willock, William W. Jr.
Power General - Wind
Power Internal Combustion
Internal Combustion, Diesel - A-M
Internal Combustion, Diesel - N-Z
Internal Combustion, Bryant Strossner
Internal Combustion, Edgar J. Kates
Internal Combustion, Gas- General
Internal Combustion, Diesel - Atlas Imperial
Internal Combustion, Diesel - Busch
Internal Combustion, Diesel - M.A.N.
Internal Combustion, Gasoline - Barnett
Internal Combustion, Gasoline - Daimler
Internal Combustion, Gasoline - General
Internal Combustion, Hot Air General
Gas, Klockner- Humbolt, Deutz
Gas, Lenoir
Gas, Olds
Gas, Otto
Gas, Otto & Langen
Oil, Brayton
Internal Combustion, Oil, General
Gas Turbines, General
Hot Air Engines- Huxtable, Bob
Steam
Steam Engines- Archival Collections
Steam Engines- General - A-C
Steam Engines- General - D-M
Steam Engines- General - N-Z
Steam Engines- Boilers, General
Steam Engines- Baldwin Stationary
Steam Engines- (Buckeye Engine Offered)
Steam Engines- Corliss
Steam Engines- Erie City Iron Works
Steam Engines- General Drawings (for Brooklyn Bridge Use)
Steam Engines- Greene
Steam Engines- Herrick
Steam Engines- Holloway
Steam Engines- Indicators
Steam Engines- Leavitt, E. D. Jr.
Steam Engines- Marine
Steam Engines- Mesta Machine
Steam Engines- General Models
Steam Engines- Municipalities
Steam Engines- N.Y. IRT Reciprocating
Steam Engines- N.Y. Technological Society
Steam Engines- Porter Allen
Steam Engines- Preservation
Steam Engines- Shipman Automatic
Steam Engines- Skinner
Steam Engines- Uniflow
Steam Engines- Models, University of Wisconsin
Steam Engines- Westinghouse
Steam Engines- Reynolds, Herbert B.
Steam Engines- Sun Oil Co.
Steam Turbines, Curtis
Steam Turbines, DeLaval
Steam Turbines, General
Steam Turbines, Parsons Turbine
Box 2
Power Water - Water General
Power Water - Hydraulic Power
Power Water - Campbell Water Wheel
Power Water - Water, Holyoke Water Power Co.
Power Water - Hydraulic Turbine General
Power Water - Water, Bradway Turbine
Power Water - Water, McCormick Material
Power Water - Water, Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Power Water - Water, Pelton Wheel
Power Water - Water, Governors, Hydraulic Turbines
Power Water - Water, Hydraulic Turbine Governors- Sorenson, William E.
Power Water - Water, Governors Hydraulic Turbines Woodward Governor Co.
Heavy Machinery- Museum of History and Technology (MHT)
Civil Engineering
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Brochures
ASCE Programs 1966-1968 Correspondence A-M Items Received
ASCE Programs 1966-1968 Correspondence N-Z Items Received
ASCE Programs 1966-1968 Completed Lists
ASCE Programs 1966-1968 Offered Not Received
ASCE Programs 1966-1968 Estate & Miscellaneous
ASCE
Tunnels- Burleigh Rock Drill thru 1970
Burliegh- I-R Co.
Search for Burleigh Drill by Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt
Hall of Civil Engineering
Hall of Civil Engineering - General
Hall of Civil Engineering, General & Bridges
Hall of Civil Engineering Opening
Civil Engineering, Hall of Civil Engineering, Tunnels
Box 3
General Correspondence
General Correspondence - A
American Society of Tool Engineers General Correspondence
American Society of Tool Engineers Correspondence with Mr. Woodbury, 1956
General Correspondence - B
Biography- Silvio Bedini
Bibliography- History of Inventions
Bibliography Industry, Technology & Industrial Revolution
Bibliography History of Hand Tools
Bibliography- Perpetual Motion
Bibliography- Machine Tool History
Tools- Juvenile
Bibliography- (Juvenile) Inventions & Industrial Revolution
List of Photos
Book Reviews
5 Professor Boston
General Correspondence - C
Carolina Mills- Paul C. Broomfield General Correspondence
General Correspondence - D
Docents
General Correspondence - E
European Trip
L.C. Eichner Instruments
General Correspondence - F
Ferguson, Eugene B.
Ferguson Research
General Correspondence - G
General Correspondence - H
General Correspondence - I
General Correspondence - J
General Correspondence - K
General Correspondence - L
General Correspondence - M
General Correspondence - N
National Cash Register Co.
General Correspondence - O
General Correspondence - P
Public Inquiries A through M
Public Inquiries N through Z
Public Inquiries (Perpetual Motion)
General Correspondence - Q
General Correspondence - R
General Correspondence - S
General Correspondence - T
General Correspondence - U
General Correspondence - V
Van Keuren
General Correspondence - W
General Correspondence - X
General Correspondence - Y
General Correspondence - Z
General Correspondence 1955-1957
General Correspondence through-1957 A-L
General Correspondence through-1957 M-Z
Log Public Inquiries 1957-1973
Box 4
MH&CE Public Inquiry thru 1964
MH&CE Public Inquiry 1965-1966
Correspondence MH&CE Steam Power
General Correspondence MH&CE Pumping & Refrigeration
Closed Files HM&CE
Closed General Correspondence 1963 A thru B
Closed General Correspondence 1963 C thru E
Closed General Correspondence 1963 F thru H
Closed General Correspondence 1963 I thru L
Closed General Correspondence 1963 M thru N
Closed General Correspondence 1963-1971 O thru Q
Closed General Correspondence 1963-1971 R
Closed General Correspondence S
Closed General Correspondence 1963-1971 T thru V
Closed General Correspondence 1963-1971 W thru Z
Closed General Correspondence Industrial Revolution
Instruments
Manuscripts
McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
Miscellaneous
Museum and Record Study - Europe
National Machine Tool Builders Association
Northwestern U. (Prof. Hartenberg)
Photographs-Miscellaneous
Pratt & Whitney Co., Inc.
J. K. Schofield - P&W
Severn-Lamb Closed
9. Society for the History of Technology
9. The Wilkie Foundation (Do-All Co.)
Correspondence Civil Engineering (2 folders)
Correspondence Miscellaneous
Box 5
Heavy Machinery & Civil Engineering Closed
Correspondence Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Inter-Office Memos
Alternate Vehicle Regatta, 1975-1976
Chairman
Inter Office Correspondence (By Subject)
Director
Editorial & Publication
Library
Material for Hall of Tools, 1956
Material for Hall of Tools, 1957
Personal
Registrar
Request to Publish
Requisitions
Smithson Bicentennial
MHT Technical Lab
Tool Photo List
Travel Miscellaneous
Travel Otto Mayr
CE Print Traveling Exhibit
Power Hall- A&I Building
David Plowden
Robert Spear - Knight Foundry
Jackson Durkee
David McCullough
Publicity - MHT Building, 1964
Move to MHT
MHT Planning
Purch - Dev Office
Burleigh Drill
Cecil County Sites
Documents Committee DEAD
DCC - Policy Matters Active
DCC - Evolution of Policy & Procedures
DCC - Forms
DCC - Szary & Other Inventories
DCC - Hiring of Archivist
DCC - 6th Floor Library
DCC - Rotated Groups Acquisition SI Archives
DCC - Britchford Williams Recommends
DCC - Funding
DCC - Dead Agendas, Minutes, Memos
DCC - Dead Cases
DCC - Miscellaneous Archival matters: Theft, Care, Etc.
Chain Forge Boston
Old Collections Additions, Lists (Books)
Proposed Energy Exhibit, 1977 (Dead)
Bibliographies
Sci-Tech Steering Committee
SICCIM General
1876 New Phase
Box 6
Science and Technology Steering Committee
1876 Objects Active
Brooklyn Bridge Museum
K. Hudson Project
GWQ other Program
Supplies & Services - Model Builders
Iron Bridge Exhibit
Special Exhibits
IA ICOMOS
Smithsonian Magazine
M&CE - Hall Catalogs
Rossbach Labor History
Jefferson County Historical Society Project
TICCIM - Dead
R. Greenhill
Field Curry
Secretary's Correspondence
Miscellaneous to be filed
HAER
IA Absolutely Miscellaneous
Sites Meriting Study
MAH Publications Policy
Fellow, Etc.
New Curator's Committee
A&I Building
A&I Future
Collections
Historical Metallurgy
Miscellaneous Current - Preservation Projects
Appraisal Tax Affairs
Operating Machinery HAM
Arch Museum & Archives
Correspondence- Internal comb
Savage Project
Trenton Museum
St. Louis Caper
Box 7
Conservation - MHT
Museology
VITA BT AL
Inventors letter & Pats.
CE Hall Corrections
MAH Guide
Erie RR-(DL&W) Wehner
Hotopp's Mystery Tub/Mill
Strobe Light for Pelton Wheel
Accessions for F.Y. 1978
Accessions for F.Y. 1979
Blast Furnace Bibl. Project
Miscellaneous Engineering
Miscellaneous Engineering & Technology
Miscellaneous Engineering & Technology Historical Societies
Miscellaneous Engineering & Technology Museums
Museum of Steam and Marine Engineering
Miscellaneous Engineering & Technology Prudential Insurance Co.
Miscellaneous Engineering & Technology Universities
Civil Engineering - Bridges
Bridges - Archival collections
Bridges - General, A Thru D
Bridges - General, E Thru L
Bridges - General, M Thru Z
Bridges Bollman
Bollman Savage Bridge
Bridges, Britannia
Bridges, Brooklyn
Bridges, Construction
Bridges, Fink, Albert
Bridges, Hale, Enoch
Bridges, Harpers Ferry
Bridges, Howe, William
Hutton Papers
Bridges, Linville, Jacob H.
Bridges, Menai
Bridges, Models
Bridges, Niagara
Bridges, Plauen (Germany)
Bridges, Purdue University
Bridges, Rock Rapids Concrete
Bridges, Roebling
Bridges, Steinman, D. B. (Dr.)
Bridges, Tavanasa
Bridges, Topeka
Bridges, Tyrrell, Henry G. Collection
Bridges, U.S. Steel
Bridges, Verrazano-Narrows
Buildings
Buildings, Architecture & Building Construction
Buildings, Clifford T. L. Cryer Plumbing & Heating
Buildings, Oil Heat Industry News Bureau
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering
ASME Collections
Civil Engineering Collections
Civil Engineering - General A Thru M
Civil Engineering - General N Thru Z
ASCE Archives
Civil Engineering ASCE
Greenhill & Constr Photos
Civil Engineering, Association of American Railroads and Railroads
SI ASCE Brochure
Civil Engineering, ASCE History & Heritage Committee
Civil Engineering, B&O RR
Civil Engineering, Search for Alfred P. Boiler Collection
Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering, Magazine
Civil Engineering, Condit, Carl W.
Civil Engineering, Robert A. Cummings Collection (Cummings & Simpson)
Consulting Engineers Council
Civil Engineering, Eiffel Tower U.S.A.
Engineering News-Record Memorial, 1973
Civil Engineering, Professor James K. Finch
Civil Engineering, Forgie Collection
Civil Engineering, Search for Edward Hungerford C.E. Collection
Civil Engineering, Jervis Library (Dr. Dillon)
Civil Engineering, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society
Civil Engineering, Societe Beige Des Ingenieurs
Civil Engineering, Societe Des Ingenieurs Civils de France
Civil Engineering, Mrs. Walter J. Beadle Re: Prof. Spofford's Collections
Civil Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Civil Engineering, Union College
Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering, General
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering, Pre Stressed Concrete
Civil Engineering, Dams
Dams - Olds Collection
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering, Dredging
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering, Gas Systems
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering, Roads
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering, Miscellaneous Hydraulics, Valves, etc.
Civil Engineering, Burleigh Drill, 1973
Miscellaneous Civil Engineering, Canals
Tunnels
Tunnels, Compressed Air Magazine (S. M. Parkhill)
Tunnels, Mrs. Fred Dana Marsh
Hall of Civil Engineering, Bethlehem Steel Company
Tunnels, Rock Drilling - General
Tunnels, General
Requests for Publication Approved
Requests for Publication App. (SI-36)
Request for Quotations
Request for Quotations
Research Programs
Research Project, 1969
Research Program, 1963-1964
Research Program, 1961-1962
Box 8
Requisitions - Requisitions Outside
Outside Requisitions, 1978
Outside Requisitions, FY 1977
Outside Requisitions, 1976
Outside Requisitions, 1975
Requisitions Buildings Management
Conservation & Research Lab
Supply Division Miscellaneous
Rubber Stamp Allotment - 1971
Photos - Memos for Payment
Memos for Photos OD Funds
Memos for Payment OD Funds
Transactions (Accessions, Shipping, Invoices, Exchanges, Photo Orders)
Intra Transfer for Specimens, 1971-1976
Specimen Restoration Record
SI 226 Storage of Specimen, 1971
Personnel
Closed
Recruitment
Personnel Applications
Plan of Operation 1967
Personnel - Docent Technician
Personnel - Miscellaneous Position Descriptions
Personnel - Summer Interns
Students
Personnel - Volunteer Students
Tom Tearman
M&CE New Specialist Job
Committees Internal (Dead)
SHOT Advisory Council
ASCE Fellows
IA Conference, Bath 11-67 & 68
Newcomen Soc. Summer Meeting, 1973
CCCCP Conference, March 1974
ACI Meeting - Boston, April 1975
MHT Security Committee
Safety Subcommittee
Michael Robbins
Liebs/Vermont
Langenbach & Nichols
Kemp, Emory
Catching & Coppola
Zangrando/Schneider
Satterthwaite, Sheafe
SITES - L&B Railway Show
Computer Catalog
Otto Kuhler
IA HABS HUD NT
Columbia University
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Greenhill & Constr, Photos
Industrial Archeology
Industrial Archeology, IA Miscellaneous
Projects
Baltimore Harbor Expressway
Tide Mills
Society for the History of Technology (Kranzberg)
IA B&O Railroad Survey
IA Bridges
Erie Railway Survey
IA Dudley Shuttles, Inc.
Historic American Building Survey
IA Mohawk Area Survey
IA New England Textile Mill Survey I
IA New England Textile Mill Survey II
Railroad Stations, Etc.
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
SIA Conferences
Technological Preservation
Hackensack Water Tower
Mills
Correspondents
Allis-Chalmers Co.
Allis-Chalmers, Hydraulic Products Div (York, Pa.)
A
ASME - Recent Responses
ASME Brochure
ASME
Allen, Richard S.
Box 9
Projects
B
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Co.
Bye, Ranulph
C
Catching, H.H.
Combustion Engineering
Consulting Engineer's Joint Council
Cooper Union
D
DeLaVal Turbine, Inc.
Deutsches Museum
E
F
FICCIM - May 1973
G
General Electric Co.
H
Hagley Museum
Hartford Steam Boiler, Etc.
I
Iron Trade - Morrises of Philadelphia
J
Johnson, James
Johnson, Robert L.
Johns Hopkins University
K
L
M
Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg AG
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Museums, England - London Science
Museums, England - Newcastle Science & Engineering
Museums
Museums, Merrimack Valley Textile Museum
N
Nagle Brothers
National Park Service
Newcomen Society in North America
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
O
P
Q
R
Rick, Tom
S
Steinhaus, Max
T
U
V
W
Watts - Campbell & Co.
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Worthington Co.
XYZ
Material for Dead File
General Correspondence
DeLony, Eric N.
I.A. A Thru C
I.A. D Thru F
I.A. G Thru I
I. A. J Thru L
I.A. M Thru N
I.A. O thru Q
I.A. R Thru T
I.A. U Thru W
I.A. XYZ
Inter-Office Correspondence
Division Correspondence Miscellaneous
Archival Materials Offered
1876
Documents Committee
Production Engineering Curator Search
Publications
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Memos & Announcements
Memos Collections Committee
Collections Committee
Box 10
Miscellaneous Personal Robert M. Vogel
Inter-Office Miscellaneous (Memos)
1876 Exhibit Prop Notice
Collections Committee
Association of Curators
Miscellaneous Division Records, Etc.
Bibliographies
Gift Books for Processing
Ms to SI Press for Series Publication
Museum of History and Technology General
Notice of Research Project
Obligations by Object Class and Purpose
Photo Filing Procedure
Revolution Bicentennial News Countdown 1976
Projects - Dorothy Briggs
Publications on M&CE
Publications - USNM (List)
SI-784 Requisitions for Arrangements for Social Event
SI-1711 Shipping Services
Specimen Restoration Record
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) Catalogues
MHT Storage Committee
VITA
Annual Reports of Record and Non-Record Holdings
Form 707 Outgoing
Staff Publications
Old Files
Application for use of Auditorium and Meeting Room
Inter-Office Miscellaneous
Inter-Office Exhibits Department
Dead Division Correspondence
Inter-Office Condemnation
Rating Schedule - Museum Technician & Museum Specialist
Public Image Committee
Inter-Office Research
Miscellaneous Material & Supply
Miscellaneous Catalogs
Miscellaneous Portrait List
Miscellaneous Restorations
Miscellaneous Reviews Referee Reports
Miscellaneous Photos & Archival Services
Miscellaneous Prints
Miscellaneous Radio, TV, Etc.
Temporary Exhibits Committee
Miscellaneous Manuscript
Miscellaneous Architecture
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Model Information
Condemnations
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