Engineering, Building, and Architecture - Overview
Not many museums collect houses. The National Museum of American History has four, as well as two outbuildings, 11 rooms, an elevator, many building components, and some architectural elements from the White House. Drafting manuals are supplemented by many prints of buildings and other architectural subjects. The breadth of the museum's collections adds some surprising objects to these holdings, such as fans, purses, handkerchiefs, T-shirts, and other objects bearing images of buildings.
The engineering artifacts document the history of civil and mechanical engineering in the United States. So far, the Museum has declined to collect dams, skyscrapers, and bridges, but these and other important engineering achievements are preserved through blueprints, drawings, models, photographs, sketches, paintings, technical reports, and field notes.
"Engineering, Building, and Architecture - Overview" showing 4 items.
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Robert B. Rice Papers, 1915-1954
- Notes
- Rice was a consulting engineer and professor of engineering at Newark College of Engineering, 1928-1936, and at North Carolina State University, 1937-1956
- Summary
- Personal papers and correspondence (ca. 1946-1953) of Rice; publications, mostly on Diesel engines, their components and technical problems; material from Rice's academic career; directories of Diesel engine manufacturers and brochures describing their products; technical manuals and reprints of technical articles
- Cite as
- Robert B. Rice Papers, 1915-1954, Archives Center, National Museumof American History
- Date
- 1915
- 1915-1954
- 1910-1960
- 20th century
- author
- Rice, Robert B. 1900-1976
- collector
- Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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American Society of Civil Engineers Fellows Collection, 1929-1969
- Notes
- This material was solicited from ASCE by Robert M. Vogel of NMAH in 1971-1975. ASCE, through its executive directors, coordinated the collection of the papers from the various authors
- Summary
- Technical papers by Mr. Camp and other Fellows of ASCE, published in The ASCE Journal or other professional journals in the field of civil engineering. They deal primarily with problems of water supply and sewage disposal
- Cite as
- American Society of Civil Engineers Fellows Collection, 1929-1969, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1929
- 1929-1969
- 1930-1950
- 20th century
- Creator
- Wisely, William H. Executive Director, ASCE (collector)
- author
- Camp, Thomas R
- collector
- Zwoyer, Eugene Executive Director, ASCE
- collectors
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- collector
- Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Laing, Kirby
- Martin, Park T
- Morgan, Arthur E
- Newnam, Frank H
- Robinson, Thomas
- Tatlow, Richard T III
- Torres, Ary F
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Frick Company Collection, 1860-1960
- Notes
- The Frick Company of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania was founded by George Frick in 1853. It initially manufactured steam engines, later diversifying into harvesting machinery and other equipment. In 1882, Frick began to produce refrigerating equipment, for which it eventually became best known
- Summary
- Ledger account books of Frick Co. financial operations, including purchasing records and payrolls; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; voluminous hand-written business correspondence; and miscellaneous company publications, including historical summaries of its operations and products and the founder's biography
- Photographs: Depict Frick ice plant in Japan; also Frick equipment in NMAH
- Cite as
- Frick Company Collection, 1860-1960, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1860
- 1860-1960
- 1840-1990
- 20th century
- creator
- Frick Company, George Waynesboro, Pa
- collector
- Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- company founder
- Frick, George 1826-1892
- Local number
- 246881 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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A.R. Van Tassell Photograph Albums, 1900-1956
- Notes
- Engineer involved in building the Panama Canal, as well as structures in Hawai'i and San Francisco
- Summary
- Two photograph albums documenting Van Tassell's engineering career and family life. The photographs include images from the islands of O'ahu and Hawai'i, including photographs of buildings, structures, ships, harbors, a sugar factory, the Kilauea Volcano, mills and the "Rainbow Bridge' near Hilo, which Van Tassell was involved in building. Images of Mexico include the pyramids, street scenes, bullfights, and building construction. Photographs from Havana include the harbor, sugar mill and castle. Other images are from Texas, Long Island, Kentucky, Virginia, and Seattle
- Cite as
- A.R. Van Tassell Photograph Album, 1900-1956, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1900
- 1900-1956
- 20th century
- photographer
- Van Tassell, A.R
- donor
- Jackson, Paul
- collector
- Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Local number
- 2007.3179 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH