Volume 20
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Meigs, Montgomery C., 1816-1892
label: Collection Photographer
content: Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers
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content: Montgomery C. Meigs Papers / Series 1: Scrapbooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1884 May 22 to 1885 March 5
container: label: Container
content: Box 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Text
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content: Volume 20 is a bound scrapbook with numbered pages and an index and some handwritten notes. Its contents include newspaper clippings, hand written notes and drawings, and advertisements/illustrations.

Volume 20 contains articles about construction projects that Meigs either worked on or was interested in such as the  Pension Building, which he helped design and construct. There are also a variety of drawings and printed illustrations for construction projects from around the world. Meigs included numerous stories relating to real estate values and transactions. There are many illustrations of new yacht designs and depictions of yachts, both luxury and racing, in action. 

Some of the publications featured in Volume 20 includeForest and Stream, The Evening Star, The Daily Evening Telegraph, The Daily Graphic, and the The New-York Daily Tribune.