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name: label: Collection Creator
content: Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
label: Collection Creator
content: Stevens, John, 1749-1838
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content: John Stevens Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1822-1852
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers by Stevens on various subjects, including: the superiority of railroads over canals and steamboats; elevated railways; high pressure steam engines; comparison of Stevens' engines with those used in England.  Finally, a eulogy of Stevens by Senator Stockton of New Jersey in 1852.