Engineering
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
label: Collection Creator
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department
label: Collection Creator
content: Underwood and Underwood
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content: Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1581-1945, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1013, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Maintained by staff as a group of material on various subjects relating to engineering.  It represents one of the many photographic collections documenting hard to collect objects due to size, space requirements, or availability. Subjects were created by the division and put in alphabetical order by Archives Center staff.  Used for study purposes most of the materials have captions documenting the subject of the lantern slides but few are dated. 

The series is arranged in seventeen subseries: Subseries 1.1, Architecture and Structures; Subseries 1.2, Bridges -- Cantilever; Subseries 1.3, Bridges -- Concrete Arch and Beam; Subseries 1.4, Bridges -- Masonry Aqueducts; Subseries 1.5, Bridges -- Metal Arc; Subseries 1.6, Bridges -- Metal Truss; Subseries 1.7, Bridges -- Movable; Subseries 1.8, Bridges -- Suspension; Subseries 1.9, Canals; Subseries 1.10, Hydraulic Engineering; Subseries 1.11, Machine Tools; Subseries 1.12, Materials Handling; Subseries 1.13, Power; Subseries 1.14, Railroad Mileage Maps; Subseries 1.15, Steam Boilers; Subseries 1.16, Steam Turbines; and Subseries 1.17, Tunneling Machine Tools.