Edwin G. Rust Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
label: Creator
content: Elk Rapids Iron Company
label: Creator
content: Rust Boiler Company
label: Creator
content: Rust Engineering Company
label: Creator
content: Rust, Edwin
label: Creator
content: Rust, Henry Bedinger, 1872-1936
label: Creator
content: Rust-Helander Engineering Company
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
topic: label: Topic
content: Steam-engines
label: Topic
content: Manufacturing
label: Topic
content: Boilers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Originally collected for the Division of Agriculture and Extractive Industries' reference collections. Original provenance is unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
label: Creator
content: Elk Rapids Iron Company
label: Creator
content: Rust Boiler Company
label: Creator
content: Rust Engineering Company
label: Creator
content: Rust, Edwin
label: Creator
content: Rust, Henry Bedinger, 1872-1936
label: Creator
content: Rust-Helander Engineering Company
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content: Edwin G. Rust Papers
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edwin Gray Rust (1869-1925) was born in Leesburg, Viginia and attended Lehigh University, graduating in 1894 with a degree in mechanical engineering. During the Spanish American War he served as an assistant engineer with the rank of junior lieutenant and during World War Two, he served in the production department of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC). EFC was established by the United States Shipping Board, in 1917to acquire, maintain, and operate merchant ships to meet national defense, foreign and domestic commerce during World War I. As an engineer, Rust specialized in boilers, inventing the Rust water tube bolier (US 710,340) and later founded the Rust Boiler Company.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Cubic feet (14 boxes and 1 map-folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1890-1928
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred from the Division of Work and Industry to the Archives Center in 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1070
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Blueprints
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content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into four series.

Series 1: Biographical, 1912-1925	

Series 2: Correspondence, 1893-1928	

Series 3: Patents, 1890-1920	

Series 4: Photographs, 1902-1918

Series 5: Drawings, Blueprints and Sketches, 1886-1917
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection procsssed by Alison Oswald, 2018.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Blueprints -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers, comprised mostly of business correspondence (typescript, handwritten, and letter press books), from Edwin Rust's career as an engineer, specializing in boilers and steam engines. Also included are agreements, receipts, telegrams, blueprints, sketches, job cost records, rate of wages (Antrim Iron Company), daily labor reports (Elk Rapid Iron Company) and publications such as Iron Age.

Some letters relate to various engineering companies Rust was associated with, including the Rust Boiler Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company of Pueblo, Colorado; The Elk Rapids Iron Company, Michigan; the Rust-Helander Engineering Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Rust Engineering Company, Birmingham, Alabama. Rust's brother Henry is one of the correspondents. Some of the personal correspondence relates to Rust's membership in various clubs such as the Duquense Club and Antelpoe Park Club. Photographs of Edwin G. Rust and boilers and boiler equipment are also included in the papers.