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Division of Engineering Records, 1886-1956
INVENTOR NAME:
Division of Engineering Records
REPOSITORY:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
P.O. Box 37012
Capital Gallery Building, Suite 3000, MRC 507
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
202-633-5870
http://siarchives.si.edu/
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
1.4 linear ft.
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SUMMARY:
These records document the activities of the Division of Engineering and its predecessors. Included is early correspondence between curators and administrators of the United States National Museum and the Smithsonian; an incomplete general correspondence file, R-Z, circa 1904-1919; annual and quarterly reports of the Division; histories of the Division of Technology, 1906; administrative files including budgets, plans of operations, object inventories, and list of objects packed for evacuation during World War II; postcards and photographs of museums and exhibits from Mitman's study of European engineering, industrial, and science museums in 1932; files, including minutes of an organizing committee and correspondence between Mitman and Holbrook Fitz John Porter and Frederick A. Waldron, concerning an effort to establish a national museum of engineering and industry under the direction of the Smithsonian; and files including correspondence and biographical information, documenting the Division of Mineral and Mechanical Technology's effort to establish a biographical file of American inventors, engineers, and industrialists. |
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FINDING AID:
http://siarchives.si.edu/findingaids/FARU0297.htm |
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