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Polly Salmon Account Book, 1785-1787
- Notes
- Cultural History catalog no. 61.1040. Catalog card in control file
- Boston storekeeper
- Summary
- Manuscript account book documenting payments to other individuals. 21 pp.; remainder blank. Money recorded in English currency
- Cite as
- Polly Salmon Account Book, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1785
- 1787
- 1785-1787
- 18th century
- author
- Salmon, Polly (merchant)
- Creator
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 236051 (NMAH Acc.)
- AC0040-0000001.tif - AC0040-0000011.tif
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Captain Henry Piercy Property Account, 1793-99
- Summary
- This one-page property account of Captain Henry Piercy, Alexandria, Va., describes rents received, taxes paid on properties
- Cite as
- Captain Henry Piercy Property Account, 1793-1799, Archives Center,National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1793
- 1793-1799
- 1793-99
- 1790-1800
- 18th century
- author
- Piercy, Henry Captain (landlord)
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 282330 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Line Kallesoe Correspondence, 1866
- Notes
- According to Poul Anderson, the donor and translater of the letters, apparently Peter Kallesoe, a sailor, left Denmark to seek his fortune in the United States, his wife and children to join him later. Family tradition says that he became involved in contraband running, was caught, and died in prison. Not knowing of his death, his wife Line and children arrived in the United States, and encountered the poverty which she describes in the letters. On the voyage to the United States, the ship's mate, named Anderson, fell in love with Line's daughter Techla, and eventually married her, becoming the donor's ancestor
- Summary
- Two letters from Line Kallesoe, a Danish immigrant in Philadelphia, to her sister Emma in Denmark, discuss Line and her children's poverty after the death of her husband
- Cite as
- Line Kallesoe Correspondence, 1866, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1866
- 19th century
- 1860-1870
- author
- Kallesoe, Line
- donor
- Anderson, Poul
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 1977.858 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Blacksmith's Daybook, 1720s
- Summary
- Paper with leather binding. Apparently from Orange County, New York. Describes work done and money received. Localities mentioned include North Sea, "S[ag?] Harbor," and "Ketchabonnock" (Ketchaponack, N.Y.?)
- Cite as
- Blacksmith's Daybook, ca. 1720s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1720
- 1730
- 1720s
- 1720-1730
- vendor
- Larry, Jim
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 71.66 (original museum cat. no.)
- 293460 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Joshua Gist Account Book and Related Materials, 1769-1822
- Summary
- Account book of Joshua Gist, Westminster, Maryland, and others,including general account for the purchase and transportation of agricultural products, lists of muster rolls for the Militia of Maryland, 1794-1798. Also, miscellaneous notes of financial obligations, 1769-1800; and a letter, 1798, concerning payment for construction of fortifications of New York Harbor
- Cite as
- Joshua Gist Account Book & Related Materials, 1769-1822, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1769
- 1769-1822
- 1790-1800
- 18th century
- 19th century
- collector
- Gist, Joshua merchant
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 1997.3022 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Marcus Ward & Co. Newsclipping Scrapbooks, 1800s
- Summary
- Scrapbooks (7) manufactured by Marcus Ward & Co., London, containing newspaper and magazine clippings, primarily from the 19th century, mostly concerned with popular discoveries in anthropology, archeology, and general science. Includes a bookplate from the Mauran family of Rhode Island in each volume, and handwritten marginal notes
- Cite as
- Marcus Ward & Co. Newsclipping Scrapbooks, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1800
- 1800s
- 19th century
- manufacturer
- Marcus Ward & Company
- compilers
- Mauran Family
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Local number
- 239141 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
William Mason Papers, 1844-1854
- Notes
- Mason was born in Mystic, Connecticut. At 15 he was sent to East Haddam to start the machines at a thread manufacturing mill. At 17 he set up the first power loom in the country for the manufacture of diaper linen. He later worked for a manufacturer of cotton machinery that he bought out in 1845, and became the largest manufacturer of machinery in the country. By 1853, he was also manufacturing locomotives and continued to improve them. Died of pneumonia
- Summary
- Papers of William Mason of Taunton, Massachusetts--engine builder, machinist, and manufacturer of locomotives and cotton machinery--consist of bills, receipts, and correspondence concerning the operation of his household, the construction of his residence, and several incidental papers dealing with his business affairs
- Cite as
- William Mason Papers, 1844-1854, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1844
- 1844-1854
- author
- Mason, William 1808-1883 (manufacturer)
- collector
- Domestic Life, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Walter Guyton Cady Papers, 1903-1974
- Notes
- Cady graduated from Brown University (B.Ph., 1895) and the University of Berlin (Ph.D. Physics, 1900). From 1902-1946 he was a professor of physics at Brown. After retirement he did consulting work for industry and the federal government. Cady's principal interests included electrical discharges in gases, piezoelectricity, ultrasonics, piezoelectric resonators and oscillators, and crystal devices
- Summary
- Consists chiefly of Cady's research notebooks on various subjects in physics and a considerable technical reprint file; some records of Cady's consultant work and patents granted
- Cite as
- Walter Guyton Cady Papers, 1903-1974, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1903
- 1903-1974
- collector
- Cady, Walter, Guyton 1874-1973 physicist
- Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Harold R. D. Roess Papers, ca. 1920-1964
- Notes
- Radio engineer for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company; later worked for the Naval Research Laboratory
- Summary
- These papers document the career and interests of Roess, especially radio rebroadcasting stations, radio navigation, radar, antennas, Naval Research Laboratory projects, and radio broadcasting. Includes blueprints, schematics, technical literature, reprints, manuals, photographs, correspondence, and notes
- Cite as
- Harold R. D. Roess Papers, ca. 1920-1964, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1920
- 1964
- ca 1920-1964
- 20th century
- author
- Roess, Harold R.D (radio engineer)
- collector
- Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
- Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Charles Cohill Harris Collection, ca. 1906-1976
- Notes
- Harris, radio engineer and executive, served in various capacities in the Tropical Radio Telegraph Company, a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company, 1916-1963
- Summary
- Correspondence, notes, articles, and photographs assembled by Harris on the history of the United Fruit Company and Tropical Radio Telegraph Company (TRT), 1904-1961. Also includes manuscript histories of companies; material on the application of teletypewriters to radio circuits; blueprints, schematics, reports, and manuals concerning the technical work on TRT; and a scrapbook of William Edgar Beakes, president of TRT, 1939-1943
- Cite as
- Charles Cohill Harris Collection, ca. 1906-1976, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1906
- 1976
- ca 1906-1976
- 20th century
- collector
- Harris, Charles Cohill 1898- (radio engineer)
- Beakes, William Edgar
- Subject
- Fessenden, R.A
- Tropical Radio Telegraph Company
- United Fruit Company
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH