Archives Center Glass Plate Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Physical Sciences
label: Names
content: Burka, S. W.
label: Names
content: Rowland, Henry Augustus
place: label: Place
content: Moon
topic: label: Topic
content: Cog railways
label: Topic
content: Ruling engines
label: Topic
content: Observatories
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Immediate source of acquisition unknown. Found in collections, November 12, 1986.
creator: label: Creator
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Archives Center Glass Plate Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Glass plates of unidentified and unknown provenance.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.1 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1910-1920.
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Provenance of first eight items unknown. Additional acquisitions of miscellaneous glass plates may be added to this collection in the future.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0246
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Transparencies
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Divided into two series.

Series 1: Silver Gelatin Plates (8 x 10)

Series 2: Silver Gelatin Plates (4 x 5)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, 1986
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Transparencies
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Glass -- 1910-1920
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection designated for miscellaneous glass plates, unidentified and/or of unknown provenance. The plates included here are indexed, but additional items may be added to the collection. There are eight plates, both negatives and positives; subjects include a man with cog railway tracks(?), two images of an observatory and two of the moon, and four identical images (two negatives and two positives) of Henry A. Rowland with his ruling engine.