The Last Wheel Works Film Project Records
name: label: Collection Manufacturer
content: Hoopes Brother & Darlington, Inc.
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content: Hoopes Bro. & Darlington, Inc., Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968-1969, 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1578, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of documentation for the "The Last Wheel Works: The Industrial Archaeology of a Wood Wheel Manufactory," a 16mm film produced in 1975 and sponsored by the Smithsonian and the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation about the manufacturing process employed by Hoopes Brothers & Darlington, a wooden wheel producer located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. 

The materials consist of notes, project proposals, correspondence, film scripts, drawings of floor and site plans, sequence and work flow charts for the processes of making a wooden wheel, and  photographs. The 16mm film is located at the Hagley Museum and Library.