James Lithgow Ewin Patents
name: label: Creator
content: Ewin, James Lithgow (inventor)
topic: label: Topic
content: Vulcanization
label: Topic
content: Street-lighting apparatus
label: Topic
content: Rhythm and blues music
label: Topic
content: African American music -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: African American musicians
label: Topic
content: Blues musicians
label: Topic
content: Horseshoeing
label: Topic
content: Inventions -- 1870-1880
label: Topic
content: Inventors -- 1870-1880
label: Topic
content: Popular music -- Writing and publishing
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by James Lithgow Ewin, March 13, 1894.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ewin, James Lithgow (inventor)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection includes three patents issued to James Ewin.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1873, 1874, 1879.
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Political History (now Division of Political and Military History), May 26, 1983.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0051
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Articles
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Newsletters
label: Type
content: Notes
label: Type
content: Patents
label: Type
content: Press releases
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Robert Harding, 1983
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Articles -- 1950-2000
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content: Correspondence -- 1970-2000
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content: Newsletters -- 20th century
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content: Notes
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content: Patents -- 1870-1880
label: Genre/Form
content: Press releases
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This collection includes an English patent paper #2126 for improved vulcanizable water-proof gum, 1873, to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills; a U.S. patent paper #151,109 for improvement in the art of manufacturing horseshoes, 1874; and an English patent paper #1194 for improvement in street-lighting apparatus.