Charles Cohill Harris Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Beakes, William Edgar
label: Creator
content: Harris, Charles Cohill, 1898- (radio engineer)
label: Names
content: Tropical Radio Telegraph Company.
label: Names
content: United Fruit Company
label: Names
content: Fessenden, R.A.
topic: label: Topic
content: Electric equipment
label: Topic
content: Communications
label: Topic
content: Radio engineers
label: Topic
content: Radio
label: Topic
content: Electrical engineers
label: Topic
content: Technical literature -- Electric equipment
label: Topic
content: Electrical science and technology
label: Topic
content: Telegraph, Wireless
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Beakes, William Edgar
label: Creator
content: Harris, Charles Cohill, 1898- (radio engineer)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Charles Cohill Harris Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents the Tropical Radio Telegraph Company through correspondence, articles, photographs, reports, and manuals.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Charles Cohill Harris (b. 1898) in St. Louis, Missouri was a radio engineer and executive who served in various capacities in the Tropical Radio Telegraph Company, a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company, 1916-1963.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1961
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Electricity.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0049
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Blueprints
label: Type
content: Technical drawings
label: Type
content: Reports
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by NMAH Staff, undated
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Blueprints -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Technical drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Correspondence, notes, articles, and photographs assembled by Harris on the history of the United Fruit Company and Tropical Radio Telegraph Company (TRT), 1904-1961. Also includes manuscript histories of companies; material on the application of teletypewriters to radio circuits; blueprints, schematics, reports, and manuals concerning the technical work on TRT; and a scrapbook of William Edgar Beakes, president of TRT, 1939-1943.