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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 17-295

Museum of History and Technology. Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries

Curatorial Records, 1878-1961

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Museum of History and Technology. Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries
Title:Curatorial Records
Dates:1878-1961
Quantity:3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 17-295
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of records which document the exhibitions, collections, and research of curators in the Division of Manufacturers and Heavy Industries. People represented include Edward C. Kendall, Curator and Frank A. Taylor, Curator. Some materials date from when the Division of Manufacturers and Heavy Industries was known at the Division of Industrial Cooperation, as well as from when it was part of the United States National Museum and known as the Division of Crafts and Industries, the Division of Engineering, the Division of Mineral Technology, and the Department of Mineral Technology respectively. Materials include correspondence, drawings, object lists, reports, pamphlets, proposals, diagrams, bibliographies, images, clippings, and other related records.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records which document the exhibitions, collections, and research of curators in the Division of Manufacturers and Heavy Industries. People represented include Edward C. Kendall, Curator and Frank A. Taylor, Curator. Some materials date from when the Division of Manufacturers and Heavy Industries was known at the Division of Industrial Cooperation, as well as from when it was part of the United States National Museum and known as the Division of Crafts and Industries, the Division of Engineering, the Division of Mineral Technology, and the Department of Mineral Technology respectively. Materials include correspondence, drawings, object lists, reports, pamphlets, proposals, diagrams, bibliographies, images, clippings, and other related records.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-295, Museum of History and Technology. Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries, Curatorial Records

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Container List

Box 1

Wild Rubber Paintings, Charles Johnson Post, 1953-1955

Box 1 of 3

Zinc exhibit, 1947-1955

Box 1 of 3

Russell Electric Company, 1938

Box 1 of 3

Alloys, 1934

Box 1 of 3

"Alternates and Substitutes," 1942-1943

Box 1 of 3

Aluminum, 1887-1891, 1902-1955 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 3

Johns-Manville Corporation

Box 1 of 3

Aluminum exhibit, 1934-1936

Box 1 of 3

Anhydrite, 1915

Box 1 of 3

Antimony, 1919-1920

Box 1 of 3

Arsenic-Bismuth, 1916-1948

Box 1 of 3

Asbestos, 1907-1934

Box 1 of 3

Asphalt, 1917-1918

Box 1 of 3

Automation, 1955

Box 1 of 3

Mineral technology: Boiler and Furnaces efficiencies and miscellaneous, 1943

Box 1 of 3

Barytes, 1918, 1924

Box 1 of 3

Bauxite and Aluminum, 1916-1923

Box 1 of 3

Beryllium, 1939

Box 1 of 3

Bibliography - General, 1938

Box 1 of 3

Bismuth, 1918

Box 1 of 3

Borax, 1918, 1926

Box 1 of 3

Brick, 1918

Box 1 of 3

Bromine and Calcium Chloride, 1909, 1934

Box 1 of 3

Cadmium, 1919

Box 1 of 3

Carbon Black, 1920-1923

Box 1 of 3

Cement: Soil - Cement, 1941

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Cemented Carbide Tools - Power Metallurgy, 1939

Box 1 of 3

Chalk, 1919

Box 1 of 3

Chrome, 1919

Box 1 of 3

Chromite, 1919-1921

Box 1 of 3

Clay, 1916-1934

Box 1 of 3

Cobalt, 1919

Box 1 of 3

Copper, 1893-1951 (3 folders)

Box 1 of 3

Corundum, 1918-1919

Box 1 of 3

Mining: Laws of Mexico Mineral Trade Notes - Allopathnife, Fuchsite, Tryphalife, etc., 1915-1919, 1939

Box 1 of 3

Cupaloy, 1938-1941

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Diamond, 1923

Box 1 of 3

Diatomaceous Earth - Johns-Manville Company

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Diatomaceous Earth (infusorial), 1920-1929

Box 1 of 3

Dyestuffs, 1916

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Elaterite, 1919

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Electric power, 1911, 1919, 1927

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Energy - Power, 1919

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Explosives, 1915, 1933-1934

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Feldspar, 1917-1922

Box 1 of 3

Fertilizers, 1918-1934 (2 folders)

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Fluorspar, 1916-1921

Box 1 of 3

Fuel briquetting, 1903-1927

Box 1 of 3

Fulgurites, 1886

Box 1 of 3

Fuller's Earth, 1918-1919

Box 1 of 3

Galena

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Garnet, 1922

Box 1 of 3

Gas, 1897, 1951

Box 1 of 3

Gas, industrial, 1918-1924

Box 1 of 3

Gasoline, 1919-1923

Box 1 of 3

Glass, history and bibliography, 1927-1945

Box 1 of 3

History of glass, 1926, 1949, 1952

Box 1 of 3

Box 2

Mineral Technology - Glass - Plant model and miscellaneous, 1919, 1937

Box 2 of 3

Mineral Technology - Glass, 1942

Box 2 of 3

Mineral Technology - Atom energy, 1945-1954

Box 2 of 3

Mineral Technology - Atom energy, miscellaneous, 1945-1946

Box 2 of 3

Glauberite, 1916

Box 2 of 3

Early gold mining accessories, 1939

Box 2 of 3

Gold mining practices at small gold mines, 1912-1935

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Gold, 1878, 1895, 1915-1934 (2 folders)

Box 2 of 3

Granite, 1918-1920

Box 2 of 3

Graphite, 1892, 1918-1931

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Gypsum, 1918-1919

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Helium, 1920, 1934

Box 2 of 3

Hopeite, 1916

Box 2 of 3

Jadeite, 1888, 1930

Box 2 of 3

Lead, 1917-1940 (2 folders)

Box 2 of 3

Lignite, 1919-1920

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Lime, 1918-1934

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Limestone, 1918-1934

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Lithium minerals, 1916-1920

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Magnesite, 1918-1945

Box 2 of 3

Manjak, 1919

Box 2 of 3

Magnesium, 1920

Box 2 of 3

Manganese, 1919-1934 (2 folders)

Box 2 of 3

Meteorites, 1909-1918

Box 2 of 3

Mica, 1918-1923

Box 2 of 3

Miloschite, 1916

Box 2 of 3

Mineral waters, 1901, 1917

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Mining costs, 1934

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Mining laws, 1919, 1934, 1956

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Molybdenum, 1918

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Monazite, 1918, 1921

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Nickel, 1918-1919, 1940-1942

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Natural gas, 1918-1921, 1934

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Nitrate, 1917-1919, 1925

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Nitrogen, 1912-1919

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Oil fuel, 1921-1931

Box 2 of 3

Box 3

Oil shale, 1920-1923

Box 3 of 3

Ore dressing, 1910, 1934

Box 3 of 3

Parahopeite, 1917

Box 3 of 3

Platinum, 1918-1919

Box 3 of 3

Phosphate rock, 1918-1920, 1928

Box 3 of 3

Poisonous gas, 1915-1918

Box 3 of 3

Potash, 1916-1934 (3 folders)

Box 3 of 3

Potash mining industry, Strassfurt, Germany - Photographs

Box 3 of 3

Potassium salts, 1921, 1927

Box 3 of 3

Pottery, 1914-1918

Box 3 of 3

Power, 1922-1929

Box 3 of 3

Pyrite, 1918-1919

Box 3 of 3

Quartz, 1917

Box 3 of 3

Quicksilver, 1919-1927

Box 3 of 3

Radio program - The World is Yours, 1940-1941

Box 3 of 3

Radium and uranium, 1917-1918

Box 3 of 3

Rubber, 1942

Box 3 of 3

Rust removal, 1947

Box 3 of 3

Rubber, synthetic, 1942

Box 3 of 3

Salt, 1912

Box 3 of 3

Sand and gravel, 1919, 1923

Box 3 of 3

Silica, 1918-1922

Box 3 of 3

Silver, 1902, 1917-1934

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Slate, 1918-1933

Box 3 of 3

Soda compounds, 1918-1919

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Sodium - Sodium salts, 1923

Box 3 of 3

Sulphur, 1918-1925

Box 3 of 3

Talc, 1919-1925

Box 3 of 3

Spelter, 1919

Box 3 of 3

Spencerite, 1916-1917

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Statistics of minerals, 1918

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Stone, 1919-1924

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Strontium, 1915-1929

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Sulphuric acid, 1919-1920

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Temeskamite, 1914

Box 3 of 3

Tests for identifying white metals

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Tin, 1918-1923, 1941

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Titanium, 1913, 1921

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Tripoli, 1920

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Mineral technology - Thorium minerals in 1916

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Tungsten, 1898, 1908, 1918-1919

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Vanadium, 1918

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Varascite, 1912

Box 3 of 3

Water power, 1914-1929

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Water supply, 1931

Box 3 of 3

Wolframite, 1911, 1914

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Zinc, 1917-1961 (2 folders)

Box 3 of 3

Zirconium, 1917-1919

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Zinc: Mining at Franklin, New Jersey, by C. M. Haight and B. F. Tillson, 1917

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