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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.
sova.nmah.ac.1090

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.
NMAH.AC.1090
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Record ID

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The great Nile bridge open for passage of freight boats, Cairo, Egypt

Menai suspension bridge, North Wales

Foreign - Bridges, Germany

Expert munition makers at work in a British munition factory

L.M.S. Station, Birmingham, England

Foreign - Coal Mining

Kaiser Bridge, Hamburg, Germany

Railroad view on the Metlac, Mexico

Crowds on landing stage, Liverpool, England

Unidentified railway bridge

Doors directing ventilation in a coal pit

Conway Castle bridge, near view

Old-fashioned sugar mill driven by the wind, Barbadoes, British West Indies

Foreign - Gold Mining

Rope bridge, Ireland

Viaduc de Grandfrey, near Fribourg

Foreign - Bridges, Great Britain

Old-fashioned sugar mill driven by the wind, Barbadoes, British West Indies

The Menai Bridge, North Wales

The Eiffel Tower from the Palace of the Trocadero, France

Looking north over the great double roadway Bridge of Dom Luiz I, across the Douro River, Oporto, Portugal

The Suez Canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Sea

Knaresboro, from the castle hill

Inspecting a pontoon bridge in the French Section nearing completion

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