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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards

American History Museum

Assembling steel bridge girders, steel corporation
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Object Details

Scope and Contents note

Approximately 350 stereo cards of engineering subjects, such as bridges, tunnels, lighthouses, canals, quarries, etc., including both U.S. and foreign subjects.
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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8a58d541f-3c2a-4964-b71d-0140ed4e2af4

Creator

Vogel, Robert M.

Former owner

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry

Topic

Bridges
Buildings
Canals
Dams
Factories
Heavy machinery
Lighthouses
Mines
Mining
Quarries and quarrying
Railroad stations
Tunnels
Waterworks

Provenance

Donated to the National Museum of American History's Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering by curator Robert M. Vogel in 1986. Also included in this gift were stereographs of non-engineering subjects, which were transferred to other Museum divisions.

Creator

Vogel, Robert M.

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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards

Extent

2.5 Cubic feet (6 boxes )

Date

1844-1916, undated

Ownership and Custodial History

The engineering stereographs were transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry in 2007.

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier

NMAH.AC.1090

Type

Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Stereoscopic photographs

Citation

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Stereograph Cards, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged into one series Series 1: Stereograph Cards, 1848-1926

Processing Information

Collection processed by Geoff Kelly, intern; supervised by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2023. Collection digitized by Noah Stewart, digital imaging technician, 2025.

Rights

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Genre/Form

Stereoscopic photographs

Restrictions

Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
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Record ID

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The Great Kinzua Bridge, near Alton, Pennsylvania. Highest bridge in the world.

Coke ovens near Altoona, Pennsylvania -- filling with soft coal from overhead open-log and sealing doors.

Falls of St. Anthony

Fabyan House White Mountains, Carroll, New Hampshire

Mouth of Erie Canal, Buffalo, New York

Unidentified bridge

Coal breaker

Portage Bridge and Falls, on the line of the Erie Railway

Great dike on the Mississippi. Near New Orleans, Louisiana

Corliss engine

North Side Water Works, Chicago, Illinois

Unloading an ore-steamer at Cleveland, Ohio. Lowering a 5-ton electric clam into the hold.

Trestle and Truss Bridge, Clipper Ravine, near view, California

Frankenstein Trestle, Crawford Notch

Lake Superior and Mississippi R.R.

Lighthouses

Hydraulic Engineering (Falls)

Portage Bridge Interior View

Bridge over Frankenstein Trestle, New Hampshire

The railroad, 'tis like life

Tunnel aqueduct, West Pennsylvania

Wood products factory

Steel works, famous source of gigantic fortunes. Homestead, Pennsylvania

Silver Islet Mines --- Lake Superior.

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