Professional Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Beers, Royce. L., 1888-
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content: Royce L. Beers Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0880, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes some of Beers' patents dating from 1900-1945 and photographs of Gorgona in the Panama Canal Zone dating from circa 1912-1913. Correspondence, photographs, and a banquet program relating to the National Association of Manufacturers' Modern Pioneers award in 1940, which honored outstanding inventors and research scientists, are also found among the materials. In addition, there is an award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for fifty-five years of service, including a portrait of Beers from 1969. The materials are arranged in chronological order.