National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Search this
Extent:
9 Cubic feet (19 boxes, 28 map-folders)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Photograph albums
Blueprints
Sketches
Reports
Contracts
Drawings
Date:
1887-1969
Scope and Contents note:
These records include sketches, drawings, blueprints, contracts, and reports relating to highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, subways, mine shafts, canals and waterways, dams, concrete buildings, concrete construction, derricks and derrick barges, cranes, caissons and caisson construction, air locks, pumps, jacks, engines, and turbines; also photographs, photograph albums, and newspaper clippings concerning projects for office building and power plant foundations, docks, dry docks, and piers, and work for the Ohio Edison Company, Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Boston Common Underground Garage.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into three series.
Series 1: Photographs, 1918-1969
Series 2: Drawings, 1887-1956
Series 3: Printed Materials, 1906-1960
Biographical/Historical note:
The Foundation Company was a New York subaqueous concrete construction firm founded in 1902. It was created to pool the knowledge of engineers who specialized in the construction of bridge piers and building foundations. The compnay was a leader in the development of the pneumatic caisson method for the construction of foundations. This method made possible the skyscrapers of New York City. Additonally, the company also worked on power houses/stations, shipyards, and docks.
Provenance:
Donated to the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) in 1966.
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.
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Jacks forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Scope and Contents:
This material consists primarily of printed advertisements, pamphlets, circulars, price lists, bills/receipts, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, and catalogues from manufacturers and distributors of jacks and other tools. Most of the companies made more than one type of jack including track jacks, automatic lowering jacks, oil well jacks, pipe forcing jacks, bridge jacks, railway jacks, ball bearing jacks, lever jacks, hydraulic jacks, and automobile jacks. Other tools made by these companies include hoists, presses, polishing and buffing machinery, and pumps. The material dates from 1861 - 1928, but the bulk is late nineteenth century.
Materials are organized by name of company. There is one folder of miscellaneous items.
Materials in the Archives Center:
Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
Forms Part Of:
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
Series 1: Business Ephemera
Series 2: Other Collection Divisions
Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers
Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Provenance:
Jacks is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
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.
From a company specializing in stone and marble working machines, circa early 20th Century stone cutting and polishing machinery (gang saws, diamond saws, rip saws, lathes, drills, planers, cranes, clamps, hoists, grinders, polishers, floor surfacers, mosaic making machines, traveling cranes, derricks, tongs, polishing machines, lifting jacks, rubbing beds and appliances, sand pumps, carborundum coping joining and moulding machinery).
Includes:
Trade catalog
Black and white images
Physical description:
14 pieces; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Rutland, Vermont, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Industrial equipment or mechanical machinery (including supplies and components) Search this
Construction and earth-moving machinery Search this
Ceramics; pottery; glass; crystal; china; bricks; and stones Search this
Mining machinery; equipment and supplies Search this
Trade lit, circa 1939, for a company that rented (plus sold and repaired) construction, earth moving and dredging equipment : concrete mixers and pumpers, electric and gasoline-powered hoists, derricks, cranes, saw rigs, scraper buckets, rope blocks, material elevators, bins and hoppers, scales, buckets and grapples, concrete surfacers, motors, Vulcan tools, wheel barrows, ropes, steam pumps, electric drills, scaffolding, trailers, cutting and welding apparatus, hose clamps and couplings, paint/lacquer spray equipment, lifting jacks, steel horses, torches and flares, branding irons, power excavators, concrete vibrators, rubber hoses, compressors, demolition tools and pavement breakers, drills, pneumatic tools, wood borers, sanders, grinders, hoists, etc and engines.
[Trade catalogs on pumps: rotary pumps, stuff pumps, mine pumps, piston pumps, sump/bilge pumps, plunger pumps, air pressure and vacuum pumps, fire pumps, centrifugal pumps, reciprocating pumps, pyramid pumps, sewage pumps, hand and power air pumps, pipe line pumps; pump units, parts and supplies; plumbing tools, pipe and pipe fittings, sinks, urinals, cesspools, bells, skeins, spittoons, well sup...
