Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
label: Creator
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department
label: Creator
content: Underwood and Underwood
label: Compiler
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
label: Compiler
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
topic: label: Topic
content: African American women
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content: Agriculture -- Corn
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content: Agricultural crops -- Fields
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content: Agricultural laborers
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content: Agricultural machinery
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content: Agricultural products
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content: Architecture
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content: Bananas -- Costa Rica
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content: Bananas -- Jamaica
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content: Bearings (Machinery)
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content: Bridges
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content: Butter
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content: Butter -- New York
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content: Canals
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content: Children -- 20th century
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content: Coal mines and mining
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content: Coffee
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content: Coffee industry -- Brazil
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content: Coffee -- Jamaica
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content: Coffee -- Mexico
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content: Cotton
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content: Cotton farming
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content: Cotton industry
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content: Engineering
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content: Hydraulic engineering
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content: Laborers
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content: Machine-tools
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content: Maple sugar
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content: Materials handling
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content: Mine shafts
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content: Mining engineering
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content: Oil
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content: Oil industries
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content: Onions
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content: Poultry industry
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content: Potatoes
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content: Power
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content: Railroads
label: Topic
content: Railroads -- 19th century
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content: Railroads -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Rubber -- Ceylon
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content: Rubber -- Congo
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content: Rubber plantations
label: Topic
content: Steam-boilers
label: Topic
content: Sugar
label: Topic
content: Tires
label: Topic
content: Tobacco
label: Topic
content: Tunnels
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content: Turbines
label: Topic
content: Turpentine -- North Carolina
label: Topic
content: Water-supply
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
label: Creator
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department
label: Creator
content: Underwood and Underwood
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content: Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: A collection primarily of 19th and early 20th century lantern slides relating mostly to engineering, agriculture, railroads, mining, and extractive industries collected by the Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 44 Cubic feet (132 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1430-1945, undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry in 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1013
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Blueprints
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Sketches
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged in nine series.

Series 1: Engineering, 1581-1945, undated

Subseries 1.1: Architecture and Structures, 1891-1945, undated

Subseries 1.1.1: Arches and Masonry, 1891-1945, undated

Subseries 1.1.2: Architecture, undated

Subseries 1.1.3: Building -- Moving, undated

Subseries 1.1.4: Construction of Log Cabin, undated

Subseries 1.1.5: Factories and Industrial Sites, undated

Subseries 1.1.6: Heating and Ventilating, undated

Subseries 1.1.7: Hoisting and Movement of Heavy Objects, circa 1900-1915, undated

Subseries 1.1.8: Structures and Erection Techniques, 1896-1897, 1927, undated

Subseries 1.1.9: Moving the Obelisks, undated

Subseries 1.1.10: Rock Drilling and Riveting, undated

Subseries 1.1.11: Steel Mills, undated

Subseries 1.1.12: Steel Mills -- Bethlehem Steel Company Blast Furnace, circa 1945

Subseries 1.1.13: Structural Engineering, undated

Subseries 1.1.14: Tall Steel Frame Buildings, 1900-1930, undated

Subseries 1.2: Bridges, Cantilever, 1891-1934, undated

Subseries 1.2.1: Beaver, Pennsylvania -- Cantilever, undated

Subseries 1.2.2: Bridges -- Cantilever, 1892-1934, undated

Subseries 1.2.3: Chinese Cantilever -- Muli [Sichuan China], undated

Subseries 1.2.4: Forth Cantilever -- [Forth Bridge], Scotland, undated

Subseries 1.2.5: Memphis Cantilever [Memphis and Arkansas Bridge], 1891-1894, undated

Subseries 1.2.6: New Quebec Cantilever [Quebec Bridge (French: pont de Québec)], 1907-1916, undated

Subseries 1.2.7: Old Quebec Cantilever [Quebec Bridge (French: pont de Québec)], 1906-1907, undated

Subseries 1.2.8: Red Rock Cantilever [Red Rock Bridge], undated

Subseries 1.3: Bridges -- Concrete Arch and Beam, 1758-1921, undated

Subseries 1.3.1: 29th Street Baltimore Concrete Arch [29th Street Bridge], undated

Subseries 1.3.2: Bridges -- Masonry Arch, 1865-1912, undated

Subseries 1.3.3: Cappelan Concrete Arch [Cappelen Memorial Bridge], undated

Subseries 1.3.4: Concrete Arch, 1897-1921, undated

Subseries 1.3.5: Dujour Masonry Arch [Point-du-Jour Bridge?], undated

Subseries 1.3.6: Masonry Arch [Pont Neuf or New Bridge] over Seine [River], undated

Subseries 1.3.7: Martins Creek Viaduct [Kingsley Bridge] -- Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, 1916-1920

Subseries 1.3.8: Old and New London Bridge, 1758, undated

Subseries 1.3.9: Sur La Seine Concrete Arch, undated

Subseries 1.3.10: Sur L' Elorn Concrete Arch, undated

Subseries 1.3.11: Tournelle [Pont de la Tournelle] Concrete Arch, undated

Subseries 1.3.12: Tunkhannock [Tunkhannock Creek] Viaduct, undated

Subseries 1.4: Bridges -- Masonry Aqueducts, 1792-1933, undated

Subseries 1.4.1: Aqueducts -- Masonry, 1932, undated

Subseries 1.4.2: Aqueducts -- Pont du Gard [Bridge], 1917, undated 

Subseries 1.4.3: Aqueduct -- Segovia, undated

Subseries 1.4.4: Aqueducts -- United States of America (USA),  High Bridge;  Cabin John; Boston, [Massachusetts]

Subseries 1.4.5: Bridges -- Pile and Viaduct (Wood), 1875, undated

Subseries 1.4.6: Charlestown Bridge, Boston, [Massachusetts] -- Truss/Draw, 1899-1900, undated

Subseries 1.4.7: Metal Viaduct, 1862, undated

Subseries 1.4.8: Pecos Viaduct [Pecos River High Bridge], circa 1891-1892, undated

Subseries 1.4.9: Wood Arch and Truss, 1792-1933, undated

Subseries 1.5: Bridges -- Metal Arc, 1799-1932, undated

Subseries 1.5.2: Bridges, Girder, and Tubular, 1799, undated

Subseries 1.5.3: Buffalo Fort Erie Bridge -- Metal Arch -- [Peace Bridge, Buffalo New York and Fort Erie, Ontario], undated

Subseries 1.5.4: Crooked River High Bridge -- Metal Arch, 1911, undated

Subseries 1.5.5: Eads Bridge -- Metal Arch -- St. Louis, [Missouri], 1872, undated

Subseries 1.5.6: Foreign Metal Arch, 1799-1932, undated

Subseries 1.5.7: Hell Gate Bridge -- Metal Arch, 1913-1917, undated

Subseries 1.5.8: Little Hell Gate Bridge -- Truss, 1915, undated

Subseries 1.5.9: Nam Ti Metal [Faux Namti Bridge] -- Arch,  undated

Subseries 1.5.10: Niagara Arch, circa 1896-1897

Subseries 1.5.11: Queensboro Bridge [Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge] -- Cantilever, 1903-1915, undated

Subseries 1.5.12: Washington Steel Arch Bridge, 1888-1889, undated

Subseries 1.6: Bridges -- Metal Truss, 1763-1934, undated

Subseries 1.6.1: American Metal Truss, 1866-1916, undated

Subseries 1.6.2: Bridge Accidents and Failures, 1888-1910, undated

Subseries 1.6.3: Bridge Construction -- General, 1888-1910, undated

Subseries 1.6.4: Bridge Shop Work, 1900, undated

Subseries 1.6.5: Bridge Testing, undated

Subseries 1.6.6: Caissons, 1763-1934, undated

Subseries 1.6.7: Foreign Metal Trusses, 1859-1893, undated

Subseries 1.6.8: General -- Miscellaneous Type, 1809-1932, undated

Subseries 1.6.9: Municipal Bridge Construction, undated

Subseries 1.6.10: Sciotoville [Sciotoville Bridge] -- Continuous Truss, undated

Subseries 1.7: Bridges -- Movable, 1899-1930, undated

Subseries 1.7.1: Bascule, 1899-1930, undated

Subseries 1.7.2: Miscellaneous Types and General, undated

Subseries 1.7.3: Swing, undated

Subseries 1.7.4: Transporter, undated

Subseries 1.7.5: Vertical Lift, undated

Subseries 1.8: Bridges -- Suspension, 1801-1932, undated


Subseries 1.8.1: Brooklyn Bridge, 1878-1883, undated

Subseries 1.8.2: George Washington Suspension Bridge, 1930-1932, undated

Subseries 1.8.3: Manhattan Bridge, 1820-1907, undated

Subseries 1.8.4: Oakland [San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge] and Golden Gate [Bridge], undated

Subseries 1.8.5: Philadelphia - Camden Suspension Bridge [Benjamin Franklin Bridge originally named the Delaware River Bridge], 1818-1925, undated

Subseries 1.8.6: Suspension -- Foreign, 1820-1924, undated

Subseries 1.8.7: Suspension -- Primitive Types, 1925, undated 

Subseries 1.8.8: Suspension -- United States -- Miscellaneous, 1801-1927, undated

Subseries 1.8.9: Williamsburg Bridge, 1912, undated

Subseries 1.9: Canals, 1825-1931, undated

Subseries 1.9.1: Nicaragua Canal, 1890-1931, undated

Subseries 1.9.2: Panama Canal, 1855-1915, undated

Subseries 1.9.3: Other Canals, 1825-1911, undated

Subseries 1.10: Hydraulic Engineering, 1581-1927, undated

Subseries 1.10.1: Boston Water Works (BWW) Bridges, undated

Subseries 1.10.2: Boston Water Works (BWW) Conduits, Culverts, Pipes, undated

Subseries 1.10.3: Boston Water Works Miscellaneous Construction, 1894, undated

Subseries 1.10.4: Miscellaneous Hydraulic Engineering, 1893, undated

Subseries 1.10.5: Hydraulics Penstocks and Pipe, 1910-1927, undated

Subseries 1.10.6: Lighthouses, undated

Subseries 1.10.7: Lowell Water Works Cons, undated

Subseries 1.10.8: Mississippi, River Revetment, 1882-1891, undated

Subseries 1.10.9: Newton Water Works, undated

Subseries 1.10.10: Pumping and Pumping Engines, 1581-1889, undated

Subseries 1.10.11: Sewers, undated

Subseries 1.10.12: Water Supply, 1842, undated

Subseries 1.11: Machine Tools, 1896-1902, undated

Subseries 1.12: Materials Handling, undated


Subseries 1.12.1: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Coal Unloading Machinery from Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad, 1826-1930, undated

Subseries 1.12.2: Construction Machinery, undated

Subseries 1.12.3: Digging and Excavation, undated

Subseries 1.12.4: Dockside Freight Handling Equipment, undated

Subseries 1.12.5: Dredging, 1920, undated

Subseries 1.12.6: Miscellaneous Materials Handling, 1900-1913, undated

Subseries 1.12.7: Piling, 1911-1920, undated

Subseries 1.12.8: Air Compressors, Blowers, and Blowing Engines, 1881-1916, undated

Subseries 1.12.9: Gas Producers, undated

Subseries 1.12.10: Internal Combustion, 1826-1930, undated

Subseries 1.12.11: Marine Engines, undated

Subseries 1.12.12: Power Plants, 1900, undated

Subseries 1.12.13: Refrigeration, undated

Subseries 1.13: Power, 1663-1896, undated

Subseries 1.13.1: Stationary Steam Engines, 1867-1896, undated

Subseries 1.13.2: Steam Engines -- Early History, 1663-1781, undated

Subseries 1.13.3: Steam Engines -- Parts and Details, undated

Subseries 1.13.4: Steam Engines with Generators, undated

Subseries 1.13.5: University of Wisconsin Laboratories, undated

Subseries 1.13.6: Windmills, undated

Subseries 1.13.7: Loose Materials, undated

Subseries 1.14: Railroad Mileage Maps, 1830-1940, undated

Subseries 1.14.1: All Testing Including Tests of Professor J. T. Thompson, undated

Subseries 1.14.2: Concrete Structures, Techniques, and Production, 1906-1915, undated

Subseries 1.14.3: Engineering Professional Surveying, 1200-1731, undated

Subseries 1.14.4: People and Portraits, 1850, undated

Subseries 1.14.5: Railroad Engineering, 1830, undated

Subseries 1.14.6: Railway Mileage, undated

Subseries 1.14.7: Railroad Relocation -- St. Louis [Missouri], undated

Subseries 1.14.8: Subways, undated

Subseries 1.14.9: Transportation Arteries, 1939-1940, undated

Subseries 1.14.10: Boilers -- Complete Units, undated

Subseries 1.15: Steam Boilers, 1430-1662, undated

Subseries 1.15.1: Boilers -- Complete Units, undated

Subseries 1.15.2: Boilers -- Furnaces, Grates, and Stokes, undated

Subseries 1.15.3: Boilers -- Miscellaneous Auxiliaries, undated

Subseries 1.15.4: Boilers -- Miscellaneous Parts -- Groups, undated

Subseries 1.15.5: Boilers -- Parts and Details, undated

Subseries 1.15.6: Boilers -- Photographs of Installation, undated

Subseries 1.15.7: Boilers -- Superheaters, undated

Subseries 1.15.8: Condensers, undated

Subseries 1.15.9: Steam Turbines, 1430-1662, undated

Subseries 1.15.10: Dams and Power Houses, undated

Subseries 1.15.11: Hydraulic Power -- Machinery, undated

Subseries 1.15.12: Turbines, undated

Subseries 1.16: Steam Turbines, undated

Subseries 1.17: Tunneling Machine Tools, undated

Series 2: Extractive Industries, 1886-1945, undated

Subseries 2.1:  Coal, 1886-1945, undated

Subseries 2.1.1: Coal -- Coke, 1905, undated

Subseries 2.1.2: Coal -- Diagrams and Maps, 1889, undated

Subseries 2.1.3: Coal -- General, undated

Subseries 2.1.4: Coal -- General 1-76, 1908-1930, undated

Subseries 2.1.5: Infrastructure and Laborers, undated

Subseries 2.1.6: Coal -- International, 1903-1945, undated

Subseries 2.1.7: Coal -- Loading Machinery, 1886-1929, undated

Subseries 2.1.8: Jack Leg Drilling, undated

Subseries 2.1.9: Lansford Breaker Fire Coal Facilities, undated

Subseries 2.1.10: Loading Machinery, undated

Subseries 2.1.11: Longhole Drilling Method, undated

Subseries 2.1.12: Machinery, undated

Subseries 2.1.13: Mines, undated

Subseries 2.1.14: Mining Communities, undated

Subseries 2.1.15: Subsidence, undated

Subseries 2.1.16: Forepoling Warden Mine, undated

Subseries 2.1.17: Montour Number 10 Mine, undated

Subseries 2.1.18: Conveyors, undated

Subseries 2.1.19: Coal Land Valuation, undated

Subseries 2.2: Iron, undated

Subseries 2.2.1: General, undated

Subseries 2.2.2: Pig Iron, undated

Subseries 2.3: Gemstones, undated

Subseries 2.4: Mining, undated

Subseries 2.4.1: Diagrams, undated

Subseries 2.4.2: Hydraulic, undated

Subseries 2.4.3: General, 1904-1924, undated

Subseries 2.4.4: Ores and Mines, undated

Subseries 2.4.5: Processing Equipment and Infrastructure, 1892-1930, undated

Subseries 2.4.6: Shafts, Drilling, and Loading, undated

Subseries 2.4.7: United States Bureau of Mines, undated

Subseries 2.4.8: L. E. Young -- Box C, undated

Subseries 2.4.9: L. E. Young -- Box D, undated

Subseries 2.4.10: L. E. Young -- Box E, undated

Subseries 2.4.11: L. E. Young -- Box F, undated

Subseries 2.4.12: L. E. Young -- Box G, undated

Subseries 2.4.13: L. E. Young -- Box I, undated

Subseries 2.5: Oil, undated

Subseries 2.6: Rubber, undated

Subseries 2.6.1: Coke Rubber Rails, undated

Subseries 2.6.2: General -- Set One, 1-70, undated

Subseries 2.6.3: General -- Set Two, 1-131, undated

Subseries 2.6.4: General, undated

Subseries 2.7: Steel, undated

Subseries 2.7.1: Newcastle Steel Work, undated

Subseries 2.7.2: General, undated

Subseries 2.8: Timber, undated

Subseries 2.8.1: General, undated

Subseries 2.8.2: Lifts, undated

Series 3: Chemical Processing, 1903-1972, undated

Subseries 3.1: Chemical Processes, undated

Subseries 3.2: Laboratory and Studies, undated

Subseries 3.3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 37A: 1-48, 1903, undated

Subseries 3.4: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 47: 1-68, 1903, undated

Subseries 3.5: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 52: 1-20, 1913-1920, undated

Subseries 3.6: Radiation Studies, undated

Subseries 3.7: Visual Aids in Chemical Education, The Museum, undated

Series 4: Manufacturing Companies, undated

Subseries 4.1: American Bosch Company -- Fuel Injection Equipment, undated

Subseries 4.2: American Locomotive Company, undated

Subseries 4.3: American Locomotive Company, 650 BHP, Diesel, undated

Subseries 4.4: American Locomotive Company, 1020 BHP, Diesel, undated

Subseries 4.5: Atlas-Imperial Diesel Engine Company, undated

Subseries 4.6: Baldwin Locomotive Works, undated

Subseries 4.7: Buda Engine Company, undated

Subseries 4.8: Buda Engine Company -- Marine, undated

Subseries 4.9: Cooper-Bessenger Corporation, Type EG???, undated

Subseries 4.10: Cooper-Bessenger Corporation, ??, undated

Subseries 4.11: Fairbanks Morse Marine -- Diesel -- General Set, 1-9, undated

Subseries 4.12: Fairbanks Morse -- Marine Diesel, 6A41/ 4M, undated

Subseries 4.13: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel, FM 27, 37 E, undated

Subseries 4.14: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel, 35F 10M, undated

Subseries 4.15: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel, ???, undated

Subseries 4.16: Fairbanks Morse Marine Diesel General Set, undated

Subseries 4.17: General Motors Company, 3-71, undated

Subseries 4.18: General Motors Company, 184A, undated

Subseries 4.19: General Motors Company, ???268???, undated

Subseries 4.20: General Motors Company, Models 4-268 undated

Subseries 4.21: General Motors Company, undated

Subseries 4.22: General Motors Company, undated

Subseries 4.23: General Motors Company, undated

Subseries 4.24: General Motors Company, undated

Subseries 4.25: General Motors Company, undated

Subseries 4.26: General Motors Company Miscelleaneous, undated

Subseries 4.27: Hamilton -- Diesel, HOR -- Model 8 3/4 x 12, undated

Subseries 4.28: Hamilton -- Marine Diesel -- Model 32 - HOR 25, undated

Subseries 4.29: Hamilton -- Diesel, HOR--Model 9 DA,  undated

Subseries 4.30: Hamilton Diesel, undated

Subseries 4.31: Ingersoll Rand Incorporated, undated

Subseries 4.32: International Harvester Fuel Singler Plunger, undated

Subseries 4.33: Long and Alstatler Company, undated

Subseries 4.34: Miscelleaneous Manufacturing Companies, undated

Subseries 4.35: Nordberg Marine Diesel, undated

Series 5: Machinery, undated

Subseries 5.1: Blast Furnances, undated

Subseries 5.2: Construction, undated

Subseries 5.3: Construction -- Brick, undated

Subseries 5.4: Construction -- Cement, undated

Subseries 5.5: Diagram Miscelleaneous, undated

Subseries 5.6: Diesel Engines, undated

Subseries 5.7: Diesel Engines -- General, undated

Subseries 5.8: Diesel Engines -- Superior Types KNB, undated

Subseries 5.9: Diesel Installation -- USS Maumee, undated

Subseries 5.10: Drills -- Jumbos, undated

Subseries 5.11: Engine Model D, undated

Subseries 5.12: Factories and Warehouses, undated

Subseries 5.13: Factory Machines, undated

Subseries 5.14: Flywheel Governors, undated

Subseries 5.15: Furnances -- General, undated

Subseries 5.16: Gas, undated

Subseries 5.17: General Engines, undated

Subseries 5.18: Governors, undated

Subseries 5.19: History of Pumps, undated

Subseries 5.20: Hoisers, undated

Subseries 5.21: Industrial Furnances, undated

Subseries 5.22: Industrial Scenes, undated

Subseries 5.23: Machines Diagrams and Sketches, undated

Subseries 5.24: Machinery -- Miscelleaneous, undated

Subseries 5.25: Refrigeration, undated

Subseries 5.26: Safety, undated

Subseries 5.27: Steam Engines -- General Information, undated

Subseries 5.28: Vacuum, undated

Series 6: Railroads and Locomotion, undated

Subseries 6.1: Charts and Graphs, undated

Subseries 6.2: Company Photographs, undated

Subseries 6.3: Drawings, undated

Subseries 6.4: Toppling Over, undated

Subseries 6.5: Interior of Train Cars, undated

Subseries 6.6: Locomotion, undated

Subseries 6.7: Locomotion -- Miscelleaneous, undated

Subseries 6.8: Repair Report Forms, undated

Subseries 6.9: Shop Scenes, undated

Subseries 6.10: Track Debris, undated

Subseries 6.11: Train Car Component Details, undated

Subseries 6.12: Train Yards, undated

Subseries 6.13: Underside of Locomotives, undated

Subseries 6.14: Yard Scenes, undated

Series 7: Agriculture, undated

Subseries 7.1: Bananas, undated 

Subseries 7.2: Butter, undated 

Subseries 7.3: Coffee, undated 

Subseries 7.4: Corn, undated 

Subseries 7.5: Cotton, undated 

Subseries 7.6: Machinery, undated

Subseries 7.7: Onions, undated

Subseries 7.8: Potatoes, undated

Subseries 7.9: Poultry, undated

Subseries 7.10: Sugar, undated

Subseries 7.11: Tea, undated

Subseries 7.12: Tobacco, undated

Subseries 7.13: Turpentine, undated

Series 8: Travel Photography, undated

Subseries 8.1: California, undated

Subseries 8.2: Canada, undated

Subseries 8.3: Colorado, undated

Subseries 8.4: General Landscapes, undated

Subseries 8.5: General Locations, undated

Subseries 8.6: Landscapes and Locations General, 186-2-36, undated

Subseries 8.7: Landscapes and Locations General, 187-18-48, undated

Subseries 8.8: New York, undated

Subseries 8.9: United States National Parks, undated

Subseries 8.10: Washington, DC, undated

Series 9:  Miscellaneous Materials, undated

Subseries 9.1: Duplicates of Navy Slides, undated

Subseries 9.2: Miscelleaneous

Subseries 9.3: Reliefs, Cravings, and Architecture, undated

Subseries 9.4: Wood Products, undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection was processed by Kamina Gager, intern, 2024; and Tyler Gibson, intern 2024; supervised by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist, March 2024. 

Finding aid encoded by Kamina Gager, intern, 2024; Tyler Gibson, intern, 2024; Tess Harmon, intern, 2024; and Meredith Clowse, intern, 2024. 

Lantern slides digitized by Noah Stewart, digital imaging technician, 2024-2025.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Blueprints
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Lantern slides -- 19th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Lantern slides -- 1900-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketches
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A collection of 19th and early 20th century silver gelatin dry plate lantern slides acquired by the staff of the Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. These materials were collected for research purposes and relate to various subjects.


Condition of the material varies widely with some fragile or broken slides. Poor quality images also exist probably due to either the processing of the slides or unstable storage environments.  All slides have been digitized and moved to off-site storage to minimize handling and at the same time increase accessibility.


The collection is arranged in nine series: series 1, engineering; series 2, extractive industries; series 3, chemical processing; series 4, manufacturing companies; series 5, machinery; series 6, railroads; series 7, agriculture; series 8, travel photography; and 9, miscellaneous materials.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

For related material on Canals, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Canals, NMAH.AC.0060

Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143

Roland A. McCrady Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0710

Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs, NMAH.AC.0945

Niagara Falls Power Company Records, NMAH.AC.0949

Modjeski and Masters Company Records, NMAH.AC.0976

George Morison Collection, NMAH.AC.0978

Uriah A. Boyden Papers, NMAH.AC.0982

James Forgie Papers, NMAH.AC.0986

William R. Hutton Papers, NMAH.AC.0987

Snake River Irrigation Project Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1031

Silas H. Woodard Papers, NMAH.AC.1038

Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad Records, NMAH.AC.1074

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090

New York State Barge Canal Photographs, NMAH.AC.1536

Lackawaxen Canal Survey Profiles, NMAH.AC.1546

Nicaragua Canal Collection, NMAH.AC.1550

For related material on Cantilever Bridges, see the following collections:


Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060

Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143

Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965

George Morison Collection, NMAH.AC.0978

John A. Roebling Collection, NMAH.AC.0981

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090

Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577

For related material on Concrete Arch and Beam Bridges, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060

For related material on Corliss Steam Engine Company, see the following collections:

Frick Company Collection, NMAH.AC.0293

Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Records, NMAH.AC.0961

Robert Wetherill Company Records, NMAH.AC.0992

Evolution of the Corliss Steam Engine Scrapbook, NMAH.AC1016

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAh.AC.1089

For related material on Hydraulic Engineering, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Engineering, NMAH.AC0060

Charles Richardson Pratt Papers, NMAH.AC.0958

Rudolph Hering Collection, NMAH.AC.0989

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090

Boston Water Works Collection, NMAH.AC.1117

For related material on Machine Tools, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tools, NMAH.AC.0060

Pratt & Whitney Company Scrapbook, NMAH.AC.0093

Max Holland Numerical Control Collection, NMAH.AC.0537

Southwark Foundry and Machine Company Records, NMAH.AC.1107

For related material on Materials Handling, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Materials Handling, NMAH.AC.0060

James J. Childs Numerical Control Collection, NMAH.AC.0420

World War Two Bomb Damage Photographs, NMAH.AC.1535

Norton Grinding Machine Company Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.1551

Paul Steam-Heating System Company Records, NMAH.AC.1554

For related material on Metal Arch Bridges, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.A.C0060

Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090

For related material on Movable Bridges, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060

Henry Grattan Tyrrell and Mary Maude Knox Tyrrell Papers, NMAH.AC.0948

Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965

Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577

For related material on Panama Canal, see the following collections:

John Frances Little Panama Canal Scrapbook, NMAH.AC.0708

A.R. Van Tassell Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1015

W. A. Fishbaugh Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1021

W. P. Stine Panama Canal Papers, NMAH.AC.1039

Katherine Kingsford Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1040

Richard Fisher Collection of Panama Canal Materials, NMAH.AC.1045

Robert Dearborn Panama Canal Glass Negatives, NMAH.AC.1111

Charles Edwards Wood Panama Canal Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1114

Panama Canal Commission Photonegatives, 1903-circa 1939, NMAH.AC.1116

Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Panama Canal Collection, NMAH.AC.1569

For related material on railroads, see the following collections:

Archives Center Lantern Slide Collection, NMAH.AC.0686

Railroad Bridge Construction Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1024

Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge Construction Photograph Album, NMAH.AC.1031

Penn Station, New York, Photographs, NMAH.AC.1048

Northern Pacific Railway Photographs, NMAH.AC.1067

New York Central Railway Valuation Negatives, NMAH.AC.1072

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Photographs (PCC and St. Louis), NMAH.AC.1079

Niagara Railroad Negatives, NMAH.AC.1081

Charles B. Chaney Jr. Railroad Photographic Collection, NMAH.AC.1167

Clayton M. Hall Collection of Railroad Photographs, NMAH.AC.1168

Harry A. McBride Railroad Photographs, NMAH.AC.1171 

Thomas Norrell Railroad Photographs Collection, NMAH.AC.1174

Pullman Palace Car Company Photographs, NMAH.AC.1175

Haskell and Barker Car Company Photographic Negatives, NMAH.AC.1183

For related material on Steam Boilers, see the following collections:

Frick Company Collection, NMAH.AC.293

Erasmus D. Leavitt Collection, NMAH.AC.0966

Edwin Rust Papers, NMAH.AC.1070

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company Records, NMAH.AC.1541

For related material on steam engines, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Engines, NMAH.AC.0060

Frick Company Collection, NMAH.AC.0293

Borsig Steam Engine Records, NMAH.AC.0956

Cooper-Bessemer Corporation Records, NMAH.AC0961

Greville I. Bathe Papers, NMAH.AC.0970

McIntosh, Seymour, and Company Records, NMAH.AC0985

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC1089

For related material on Steam Turbines, see the following collections:

Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, NMAH.AC.0001

Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Records, NMAH.AC.0977

Skinner Engine Company Records, NMAH.AC.1087

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089

For related material on Suspension Bridges, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bridges, NMAH.AC.0060

Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0143

Nathan W. Morgan Papers, NMAH.AC.0965

Modjeski and Masters Company Records, NMAH.AC.0976

Niagara Falls Bridge Commission Records, NMAH.AC.1060

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, NMAH.AC.1089

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, NMAH.AC.1090

Robinson & Steinman Collection, NMAH.AC.1562

Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Bridges Reference Collection, NMAH.AC.1577