Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 16-342
National Museum of American History Division of the History of Technology
Curatorial Records, 1839-2001
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 the History of Technology |
Title: | Curatorial Records |
Dates: | 1839-2001 |
Quantity: | 3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 16-342 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records primarily created by Carl W. Mitman during his tenure as Curator of the Division of Mechanical Technology, 1921-1932, and Head Curator of the Department of Arts and Industries, 1932-1948, United States National Museum. These files create a biographical sketch of a multitude of engineers, inventors, and industrialists. Materials include correspondence, images, clippings, drawings, illustrations, negatives, phonograph records, and other related materials. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records primarily created by Carl W. Mitman during his tenure as Curator of the Division of Mechanical Technology, 1921-1932, and Head Curator of the Department of Arts and Industries, 1932-1948, United States National Museum. These files create a biographical sketch of a multitude of engineers, inventors, and industrialists. Materials include correspondence, images, clippings, drawings, illustrations, negatives, phonograph records, and other related materials.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Mitman, Carl Weaver, 1889-
- United States National Museum. Department of Arts and Industries
- United States National Museum. Division of Mechanical Technology
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 16-342, National Museum of American History Division of the History of Technology, Curatorial Records
Container List
Box 1
Index to Biography Files, undated
Correspondence, 1972-1973
Unidentified Portraits of Inventors and Engineers, undated
"Blog Files - Group Pictures," undated
Abbott, William Hawkins, 1928
Allen, Horatio, 1927
Amman, Othmar H., 1964, 1980
Appleby, John Francis, 1927, 1949
Arnold, Asa, 1927, 1929
Babbitt, Isaac, 1926
Babcock, George Herman, undated
Bachelder, John, 1927
Bacon, Edward Payson, 1927
Baker, Benjamin (Sir), undated
Ball, Albert, 1928
Beard, Ithamar, 1964
Belidor, Betrand Forest de, undated
Bissell, George Henry, 1927
Blake, Eli Whitney, 1927
Bogardus, James, 1927
Bollman, Wendell, 1959-1961
Bonzano, Adolphus, undated
Boomer, James M. E. Clellan, undated
Boss, Clarence M., undated
Boulton, Matthew, undated
Boyden, Seth, 1927
Boyden, Uriah Atherton, 1974
Brayton, George B., undated
Brazier, Robert, undated
Brindley, James, undated
Brooks, Bryan Alden, 1927
Brown, James Salisbury, 1927
Brown, Samuel, undated
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, undated
Burden, Henry, undated
Burleigh, Charles, 1959
Burson, William Worth, 1928
Burt, Horace G., undated
Bryant, Gridley, undated
Calder, George J., undated
Carder, Frederick, undated
Carnegie, Andrew, undated
Chanute, Octave, 1880
Chebyshev, Pofnuty Lvovich, undated
Chezy, Antoine de, undated
Childe, John, undated
Chisholm, Henry, 1986
Clerk, Dugald (Sir), undated
Cochrane, Thomas (Lord), undated
Cohen, Mendes, 1892
Coleman, C. P., 1930
Cooper, Theodore, 1901
Corliss, George Henry, 1929-1930 (2 folders)
Cort, Henry, undated
Crapponne, Adam de, undated
Cross, Hardy, 1922
Crowell, Luther Childs, 1927
Crozet, Claude, 1932
Cubitt, William (Sir), undated
Cullen, William, 1839
Curie, Marie and Pierre, undated
Cutting, James Ambrose, 1927
Dalzell, Robert M., 1927
Dancel, Christian, 1927-1928
Danforth, Charles, 1927
Daniels, Fred Harris, 1927
Darling, John Henry, 1959
Davis, Frank P., 1900
Deedge, James, undated
Deere, John, 1927, 1937
DeJuhasz, Kalman J.,
DeLaval, Carl, undated
Derleth, C., Jr., 1924, 1927
Diesel, Rudolf, 1964
Dixon, Charles Y., 1959
Dixon, Joseph, 1927
Dodge, Grenville Mellen, undated
Donovan, Cornelius, undated
Drake, Edwin L., 1927
Dudgeon, Richard Grant, undated
Dunbar, Robert, 1927-1928
Dunn, John Wesley, 1928
Dunwood, William Hood, 1927
Durham, Caleb Wheeler, 1929
Eades, James Buchanan, 1886, 1928-1929
Edgar, Charles, 1928
Edwards Lewellyn N., 1935
Edwards, Talmadge, 1928
Eickermeyer, Rudolph, 1928-1929
Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave, 1889
Ellet, Charles, undated
Emerson, James Ezekiel, 1928
Emerson, Ralph, 1927
Emery, Albert Hamilton, 1927
Ericsson, John, undated
Erie Railroad Engineers, 1927-1928
Esterbrook, Richard, 1928-1929
Esterly, George, 1928-1929
Evans, Oliver, 1896, 1906, 1927-1940
Ewbank, Thomas, 1938-1941
Fairbairn, William (Sir), undated
Fellows, Edwin R., undated
Fink, Albert, 1867
Flad, Henry, undated
Fowler, John (Sir), undated
Francis, James Bicheno, undated
Freyssinet, Eugene, undated
Galwha, A. L., 1992
Gaskill, Henry Freeman, 1889
Gerber, Heinrich, undated
Giffard, Henri, undated
Gilbert, Charles P., undated
Gilbert, Chester G., 1914-1919
Gilpin, H. E., undated
Girard, Pierre Simon, undated
Glidden, Joseph Farwell, 1928-1929
Goddard, Calvin L., 1929
Goddard, R. H., 1935
Goddu, Louis, 1928-1929
Goodrich, Benjamin Franklin, 1928
Goodwin, Hannibal, 1935, 1944
Gorrie, John, 1935, 1944
Graff, Fredrick I., Sr., undated
Graff, Fredrick, Jr., 1931
Grattoni, Severino, undated
Greathead, James Henry, undated
Greiner, John Edwin, undated
Greist, John Milton, 1928-1929
Grimmell, Fredrick, 1928
Gunn, James Newton, 1928-1929
Hall, Thomas, 1927
Hammond, James Bartlett, 1932, 1952
Hanford, Allen J., undated
Hartness, James, undated
Haupt, Herman, undated
Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg, 1898, 1908
Hawkshaw, John (Sir), undated
Hayden, Joseph Shepard, 1929-1930
Hayward, Nathaniel, 1929
Heim, Lewis R., undated
Hennebique, Francois, undated
Herdic, Peter, 1930
Hermany, Charles, undated
Herreshoff, James Brown, 1930
Herrick, Gerardus Post, undated
Hildebrand, William, undated
Hill, Louis C., undated
Hoad, William C., 1930
Hobbs, Alfred Charles, 1928
Hobson, Joseph, 1905
Hodgkinson, Eaton, 1868
Hoe, Richard M., 1927
Holeman, M. L., undated
Holland, Clifford Milburn, 1928
Holland, John Philip, 1948
Holley, Alexandre Lyman, 1955, 1979-1981
Holloway, Joseph Flavius, 1928
Holmes, Israel, 1928
Holzwarth, Hans, 1973
Box 2
Hornblower, Jonathan, Sr. and Jr., 1999
Hornblower, Josiah, 1875, 1921
Hotchkiss, Benjamin Berkeley, 1929
Houdry, Eugene J., 1980-1981
House, Henry A., 1931
House, Royal Earl, 1939
Howe, Frederick Webster, 1928-1929
Howe, William Bell White, 1931
Howell, John Adams, 1929
Hubbard, Henry Griswold, 1929
Hughes, Howard R., 1931
Hunt, Alfred Ephraim, 1928
Hunt, Charles Wallace, 1928, 1930
Huntington, John, 1929
Hussey, Curtis Grubb, 1928
Hutton, W. R., 1880
Hyde, Charles Gilman, 1970
Hyatt, Thaddeus, 1962
Imhotep, undated
Ingersoll, Robert Hawley, 1929
Ingersoll, Simon, 1929-1930
Isherwood, Benjamin Franklin, 1929-1930
Jeffery, Joseph A., 1929
Jenkins, Nathanial, 1929
Jerome, Chauncey, 1929
Jerome, Isaac, 1972
Jerome, William, 1972
Jervis, John Bloomfield, 1929, 1967
Johnson, John Butler, 1899-1900, 1929-1930
Johnston, John, 1935, 1937
Johnston, Samuel, 1929
Jones, Amanda Theodosia, 1929
Jones, Evan William, 1904, 1929-1930
Joyce, Walter, undated
Judson, Egbert Putnam, 1929-1930
Kaplan, Victor, undated
Kates, Edgar, 1949
Katte, Walter, 1930
Kelly, William, undated
Kendall, Amos, undated
Kennedy, A. B. W., undated
Kent, William, 1930
Kettering, Charles F., 1979
Kidder, Willington Parker, undated
King, Charles B., 1948
King, Howard L., 1956, 2001
Kirkwood, James P., undated
Klatt, Oscar H., undated
Klein, Joseph Frederic, 1929-1930
Knight, Edward Henry, 1929
Knight, Jonathan, 1958
Knowles, Lucius James, 1927
Kuhen, Richard, Jr., 1959
Laboon, John F., 1985
Lamb, Isaac W., 1929
Lambot, J. L., undated
Landon, Charles, 1937
Lane, Johnathan Homer, 1959
Larned, Joseph Gay Eaton, 1929
Latham, Albert, undated
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, undated
Lawrence, Richard S., 1859, 1929-1930
Lay, John Louis, 1929-1930
Leavitt, Erasmus Darwin, undated
Ledlie, James Hewett, 1930
Leffel, James, 1929
Leslie, John, undated
Lewis, Nelson Peter, undated
Leybourn, William, 1958
Leyner, John George, 1929-1930
Linde, Carl von, undated
Lindenthal, Gustav, undated
Linville, Jacob Hays, 1959, 1964
List, G. Friedrich, undated
Livingston, Robert, 1964
Lloyd, Marshall Burns, 1929
Lombard, Nathaniel, 1896, 1961-1965
Long, Stephen Harriman, 1944, 1978
Looney, Charles T. G., 1944-1947, 1973
Low, Fred Rollins, 1936
Lubbock, John, undated
Luten, Daniel B., undated
Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1929
Mahan, Dennis H., undated
Maillart, Robert, 1966, 1968, 1981
Mandragos, N. C., 1932
Manning, Charles Henry, 1975
Marks, Amasa Abraham, 1930
Mason, William B., undated
Matthews, John, 1930
Maxim, Hudson, 1930
Maynard, Edward, 1930, 1946
Maynard, George Colton, 1893
McAdam, John Loudon, 1959
McCallum, Daniel, 1959
McCormick, John B., 1918
McCoy, Bill, undated
McCoy, Elijah, 1929-1930
McKay, Gordon, 1930
McNaught, William, 1971, 1985, 1993
Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham, 1864, 1902, 1935, 1983, 1965, 1985 (2 folders)
MeLan, Jos, undated
Melville, David, 1930, 1998
Melville, Herman, 1899
Mergenthaler, Ottmar, 1928-1930
Merritt, Israel John, 1930
Metezeau, Clement, undated
Mifflin, Samuel Wright, 1971
Miles, Walter S., 1958
Mitchell, Alexander L., undated
Mitman, Carl, 1958
Monge, Gaspard, undated
Monier, Joseph, undated
Monsarrat, Charles N., undated
Montgomery, James, 1987
Montgomery, William, 1987
Morison, George Shattuck, 1938, 1963
Moses, Robert, undated
Munger, Robert Sylvester, 1930
Munn, Orson Desaix, 1930
Murdock, William, undated
Murphy, Thomas, 1930
Murray, Robert, undated
Myddleton, Hugh (Sir), undated
Mylane, Robert, undated
Naulty, Edwin Fairfax, 1914
Neff, Elmer H., 1901
Newcomen, Thomas, 1895
Nicholson, William Thomas, 1930
Noble, Alfred, 1902, 1914, 1959
Nordberg, Bruno Victor, 1884
Norton, Wendell Phillip, undated
Noyes, La Verne W., 1930
Otis, Elisha Graves, 1930
Otto, Nikolaus August, 1961
Ourand, Charles, 1892-1899
Paine, Thomas, 1986
Palladio, Andrea, undated
Palmer, Timothy, undated
Papin, Denys, undated
Parrott, Robert, 1930
Parsons, Charles (Sir), undated
Parsons, William Barclay, 1958
Peck, Roger Crossman, undated
Pelton, Lester, undated
Perkins, Jacob, undated
Perronet, J. R., undated
Perry, Stuart, 1931
Pettit, Henry, undated
Pitot, Henri, 1958
Polhem, Christopher, undated
Porter, Charles Talbot, 1876, 1958
Pratt, John, 1892, 1928
Pratt, Thomas Willis, undated
Prony, Gaspard de, 1958
Prout, Henry Goslee, 1959
Radinger, J. F., undated
Rains, George Washington, undated
Reeves, David, undated
Reeves, Samuel J., 1966
Rennie, John Sr., 1958
Reynolds, Edwin, undated
Rice, Calvin W., undated
Richards, Charles Brinckerhoff, 1959
Riker, Carroll Livingston, 1931
Ripley, Henry C., 1959
Rogers, John R., 1934
Sargent, James, 1931
Sawyer, Sylvanus, 1931
Schneider, Charles Conrad, undated
Schieren, Charles A., 1931
Secor, John A., 1885-1889
Sellers, Coleman Sr., 1939
Sellers, George Escol, 1991
Sergeant, Henry Clark, 1931
Shoemaker, Louis H., 1889
Shaw, Thomas, 1931
Sholes, Christopher Latham, 1927, 1941, 1943
Singer, Isaac Merrit, 1941
Singstad, Ole, 1965
Skinner, Halcyon, 1931
Slade, Frederick J., undated
Smeaton, John, undated
Smith, Charles Shaler, 1927, 1975
Professor Smith, undated
Smith, William Sooy, undated
Souther, John, 1871, 1882, 1900, 1962, 1981, 1998
Spencer, Christopher Miner, 1929, 1932
Starrett, Laroy S., 1932
Stearns, Frederic Pike, undated
Steinman, D. B., 1953-1959
Stephenson, Robert, 1958
Stevens, John Frank, 1958, 1973
Stiles, Norman C., 1879
Stoddard, Joshua C., 1931
Strauss, Joseph, 1899, 1926
Box 3
Stuart, Herbert Ackroyd, undated
Sturtevant, Benjamin Franklin, 1932
Suter, Max, 1959
"Sylvester," undated
Taylor, Frank, 1969, 1988
Taylor, G., undated
Telford, Thomas, 1981
Thomson, John, 1933
Thorp, John, 1928
Thurber, Charles, 1927
Thurston, F. T., undated
Hurston, Robert Henry, 1903
Tilton, Lucian, undated
Timby, Theodore R., 1946
Timoshenko, Stephen P., undated
Town, Ithiel, undated
Trautwine, John Cresson, undated
Tredgold, Thomas, 1958
Trevethick, Richard, undated
Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, 1975
Tschebotarioff, Gregory P., 1977
Tuckerman, Edward, 1887
Tudor, Fred, undated
Tufts, Otis, 1963
Turner, Carmen P., 1990, 1992
Turnwald, W., 1960
Tuthill, Job, 1959
Twining, Alexander Catlin, 1937
Tyrrell, Henry Grattan, 1957
Van Der Weyde, P. H., 1891
Van Kannel, Theophilus, 1996
Van Nostrand, David, 1886
Vauban, Sebastien Le Destre, 1958
Venturi, Giovanni Battista, undated
Vicat, Louis Joseph, undated
Vinci, Leonardo da, undated
Vogel, Robert M., 1963
Von Karman, Theodore, undated
Waddel, John Alexander Low, undated
Warner, Worcester Reed, 1934
Warren, Gouverneur Kembel, 1989
Washington, George, 1935
Waterman, Lewis Edson, 1933
Watt, James, 1883, 1991
Wellman, Harry, 1970
Wellman, Samuel T., 1901
Wenzell, Andrew J., 1878
Wesson, Daniel Baird, 1933
Westinghouse, George, 1904, 1908, 1910, 1936
Weston, William, 1937
Wheeler, Ebenezer Smith, 1913
Wheeler, Holland, 1972
Wheeler, Levi Lockwood, 1959
Whipple, Squire, 1847, 1959-1960, 1966
White, Canvass, undated
White, George W., 1995
White, Josiah, 1978
Whistler, George Washington, 1970
Whittemore, Amos, 1933
Wilcox, Stephen, 1959
Wiley, William Halsted, undated
Wilkins, Edward, undated
Wilkinson, John, 1984
Williams, Benezette, undated
Williams, Jesse Lynch, undated
Willis, Robert, undated
Wilson, Allen Benjamin, 1933
Wilson, George Francis, 1934
Winslow, John Flack, 1934
Wright, Benjamin, 1958
Wisner, George Y., 1959
Wolverton, Irving M., 1959
Wood, F. D., 1982
Woodward, Elmer, 1985
Worthington, Henry Rossiter, 1933, 1993
Wyer, Samuel S., 1918-1919
Wyman, Horace, 1933
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