Finding aid for Research Center Museum Vertical File, circa 1750 … · 2019-06-28 · Nagle Engine Co. Port Huron Peerless Reynolds Russell Stevens Westinghouse Steam Engine S.W

Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford

20900 Oakwood Boulevard ∙ Dearborn, MI 48124-5029 USA

[email protected] ∙ www.thehenryford.org

Finding aid for

RESEARCH CENTER MUSEUM VERTICAL FILE, circa 1750-ongoing

Accession RC.30

Inventory Published: 30 June 2019

NOTE: This is an UNPROCESSED COLLECTION and has not

yet been prepared for routine service (i.e. housed for safe handling,

labeled, and cataloged). Access may be restricted in order to

maintain physical and intellectual control, and is at the discretion

of archives personnel. Researchers interested in access to

unprocessed collections should contact Benson Ford Research

Center staff to discuss collection availability.

Research Center Museum Vertical File Accession RC.30

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OVERVIEW

REPOSITORY: Benson Ford Research Center

The Henry Ford

20900 Oakwood Blvd

Dearborn, MI 48124-5029

www.thehenryford.org

[email protected]

ACCESSION NUMBER: RC.30

CREATOR: The Henry Ford (organization)

TITLE: Research Center Museum Vertical File

INCLUSIVE DATES: circa 1750-ongoing

QUANTITY: 72.3 cubic ft. (76 boxes)

LANGUAGE: The materials are in English.

ABSTRACT: The Research Center Museum Vertical File is an assembled

collection containing newspaper clippings, pamphlets,

photographic prints, booklets, and other materials that

provide background information and historical context

relating to items in the collection of and the collecting

themes of The Henry Ford.


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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: The collection is open for research.

COPYRIGHT: Copyright has been transferred to The Henry Ford by the

donor. Copyright for some items in the collection may still

be held by their respective creator(s).

ACQUISITION: Acquired by The Henry Ford, circa 1929-2019.

PREFERRED CITATION: Item, folder, box, accession RC.30, Research Center

Museum Vertical File, Benson Ford Research Center, The

Henry Ford

PROCESSING INFORMATION: Inventory assembled from folder listings, and has not been

checked against material. Use this inventory as reference

only.

Partial draft inventory published June 30, 2019, by Janice

Unger.


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CONTAINER LIST

Box no. Description

Box 1

Accounting

Acme Wire and Iron Works

Actors and actresses, John Wayne

Adams, John, and Charles Francis Adams

Advertising

Hand bill

Roadside

Warshaw Collection

Advertisements

Aeronautica

Agriculture

General

Alfalfa

Animal power

Bees

Cattle

Cider

Clover

Cotton and cotton gins

Crops

Diseases and pests

Drain tiles

Ducks

Eggs

Economics

Electricity

Farms

Fertilizer

Flax

Ford Museum

Machinery purchases

Agriculture display

Gardens

Gardening

Garden tools

Flowers and gardening

Rose culture

Hog plow and sith

Hemp

Herald

History

Horses


Page 5 of 77

Husbandry

Land clearing

Machinery

General

Atlas Scraper & Engineering Co.

Aultman & Taylor Machinery Co.

Engines, Aultman & Co.

Companies

Asdriance, Platt & Co.

American Harvester Co.

Appleton Manufacturing Co.

Belcher & Taylor

Belmont Agricultural Works

Berner

Birdsall Company

Blizzard Manufacturing Co.

Bradley Manufacturing Co.

Brasher Falls Agricultural Works

Bullard

Box 2

Cayuga Chief Manufacturing Co.

Champion Machine Co.

Chillicothe Foundry & Machine Works

Clark Machine Co.

H.T. Conde Implement Co.

Coons, Adams & Co.

Hiram Curtis Foundry

Dain Manufacturing Co.

Dederick Agricultural and Machine Works

Deering Harvester Co.

Joseph Dick Manufacturing Co.

Donaldson Bros.

J.H. Eason & Bros.

Emerson, Talcott Co.

Eureka Mower Co.

Famous Manufacturing Co.

Frick Co.

Furst & Bradley Manufacturing Co.

Gaar Scott & Co. (3 folders)

B.V. Gardner

Geiser & E. B. Co.

Goodell Co.

Grand Detour Plow Co.

J. Graham & Co.

Granite State Mowing Machine Co.


Page 6 of 77

A.W. Gray's Sons

Guarantee Sales Corp.

Holbrook & Co.

Albert Galatin Hollister

Samuel Johnston

Kennedy & Greig Co.

D. June

Hollis King & Son

Larned & Seagrave

Long & Allstarter Co.

Massey-Harris Harvester Co., Inc.

Pflug und Furche

A Graphic Summary of World Agriculture

Great Moments in Machine Design

Lunds Digest

Generalized Types of Farming in the United States

"Guide to Agriculture, U.S.A."

Man's Progress in the Agricultural World, E.I. High School

"Engineering Details of Transmission Lines in the United States Operating At or

Above 66,000 Volts"

Massilon Excelsor Works

P.P. Mast

Macdonald Thresher Co.

Magazine Articles

Robert B. McClure

McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.

McNamara Machine Works

Emory W. Mills

D.S. Morgan & Co.

Thomas F. Morrison, E. G. Fay

Morton Manufacturing Co.

National Harrow Co.

A.J. Nellis

Newhall & Stebbins

Newark Machine Co.

Nichols & Shepard Co.

Nourse & Company

Box 3

Oliver Chilled Plow Works

D.M. Osborne & Co.

Owens, Lane & Dyer

Palmer & Co.

Parker & White

Peck & Tracy

Pennock Manufacturing Co.


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Sears

A.R. Sellew & Co.

Shutts & Ferrier

A.B. Smith & Co.

Springfield Engine & Thresher Co.

Agr. Owners & Successors

Charles Perrigo & Co.

Pennsylvania Agricultural Works

Brayley & Pitts Works

Roberts, Throp & Co.

Advance Rumley Co.

Russell & Co.

Warner-Lovejoy & Co.

Warrior Mower Co.

Wayne Agricultural Co.

Wheeler, Melick & Co.

Benjamin Whiting

Westinghouse

Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co.

Walter A. Wood Co.

Wykoff, Tuttle & Olin

Michigan

Mushrooms

New Jersey

Orchards

Rice

Box 3

Sheep shearing machine

Soy beans

Sugar making

Tea

Tobacco

Stump removal

Tractors

A.D. Baker

Henry Ford Museum, Bryan harvester

J.L. Case (2 folders)

General

Christie front drive (Front Drive Motor Co.)

Designs, 1816-1920

Ford Ferguson

Fordson

Massey-Harris Tractor & Implement Catalog

Russell & Co.

Valley Iron Works Manufacturing Co., corn grinder


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Implements, general

Corn reaper

King

Corn

Planters

Growing

Corn and feed mills

Shellers

Frills, planters

Cultivation

General

Harrows

Plows

Armour

Beach Manufacturing

Beckwith

Belcher & Taylor

Brickett

Berown Seiberling

Agricultural plows

Carmon French, star plow

J.I. Case

Columbian peace plow

John Deere

Box 4

Plow, general

Evolution of plows

Donaldson

Eddy James plow

English Steam

Jethro Wood

Rollers

Garrett

Gibbs Pat. cylinder plow

Hall & Speer

Hedges I.A.

Hill Side Plows

Historical plows

John Lane

Mowers

Morrison & Fay

Cultivation plows, museum 22032-34

Charles Newbold

Norwegian cultivation plow

Oliver


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Box 4, continued

Peekskill Plow Works

Harvest combine

Smith, Samuel

Starbuck plow

Webster, Daniel

Wiard Ward plow

Woodcock's self-sharpening plow

Steam plows

Seeders

Seed drill, Van Patten

Dairy

General

Butter

Cheese presses

Kendall, patent

General

Churns, Burnham & Hibbards

Milk and byproducts

Cow bells

Gwinn Collection

Churns, standard

Separators

Milkers

Harvesters and harvesting

Hay rake, patent

Baler

Binders

Grain arrester

D.S. Morgan & Co's Triumph #8 Binder

Grain cradle

Graincutters, Hussey

Grain cutters, patent

Grain separator

Booth

Spencer, Wide Awake

Hay

General

Carriers

Cutters

Forks

Tedders and rakes

Presses

Photographs

Harvesters

General


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History

Machinery

General

Assorted

Harvesters

Adkins

Atkins

Ensilage and fodder cutters

Johnston

Esterly

Marsh

Matteson patent

Wood

Binders

Hubbard

Champion

History

H.A. Wood

Cord holder, patent

Combine, Moore-Hascall

Mowers (also contains some reapers)

General

Adriance

Allen

Ambler, Enoch

Aultman

Bailey

Danford

Detroit Harvester Co.

Deering

Eureka

Howard

Hubbard

Ketchum

Manny

Morgan

Osborne

Box 5

Rawson

Remington

Royce Reaper

Seiberling

Lawn mower

Mower-reapers

Seymour, Morgan, Allen


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Box 5, continued

Brown-Seiberling

Champion

Presses

Reapers

Evolution

Globe

Hussey

McCormick

Morgan

Osborne

Palmer & William

Smith

Triumph

Silo fillers

Threshers

General

Allen

Bradley

Carpenter

Case

Dewey

Harder

Nichols & Shepard

Pitts

Pope

Ralston patent

St. Johnsville

Stevens

Webster

Horsepower

Appleton Manufacturing Co.

Gray

Hall

Morton Manufacturing Co.

Valley Iron Works Manufacturing Co., corn grinder

Wells

Warren

Wheeler Melick

Photographs

Markets, farms and dairy

Oxen

Potato digger, Perry

Presses, cotton, Bullock


Page 12 of 77

Box 6

Steam engines

General

Birdsall

Buffalo Pitts

Case & Willard, advance traction engine

Macomber

Hamilton

Miscellaneous

Nagle Engine Co.

Port Huron

Peerless

Reynolds

Russell

Stevens

Westinghouse Steam Engine

S.W. Wood Co.

Wood, Tabor, & Morse

Wheat

Harvesting

“Tramping Barn”

“Ford at Techumseh” and “Dynamic Kernel”

Wheat , Henry Ford in Tecumseh, photographs

Rabbit farming

Scythes and sickles

Peanut production

Air commerce, Bureau of Air Commerce

Alaska, "The Story Behind the Purchase of Alaska," 1938

Anesthesia

Antiques

Apprentices

Alden, John

Almanacs

The American Dream

American Radio Relay League

Architecture

Houses

Homes (old)

Araldite

Arlington Cemetery

Art gallery, armor

Arnold, Benedict

Associations

Astronomy

Athletics

Atomic energy


Page 13 of 77

Audubon, John J.

Autographs

Automata

Automotive history

Aviation

Box 7

Bach, Lawrence J.

Bacon, Sir Francis

Bacon, Henry Douglas

Banks

Barber's supplies

Barn Museum

Barnum, P.T.

Barthel, Oliver Edward

Barton, Clara, 1866

Baskets

Battersea enamelware

Battle of Hochstet

Baxter, George

Bell, Alexander Graham

Bellows

Bells

Bernstein

Bibles

Bicycles

Bill

Bird house

Blacksmithing

Blackstone, William

Bonsai, living plant sculpture

Book binding, making, and repairing

Books

Boone, Daniel

Bordley, John Beale

Boulton, Matthew

Boston

Bowling

Braille

Brass making

Bread

Bridges

Bridges, covered

Brooms

Brower Manufacturing Co., correspondence, 1973

Brown, John


Page 14 of 77

Brunson

Bryant, William Cullen

Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody)

Buggies (baby)

Bull, Sitting

Bullfinch, Charles

Bunyan, John

Bundling

Burbank, Luther

Burr, Aaron

Box 8

Burton Historical Collection

Buffalo coat

Bush, Irving T.

Burroughs, John

Cabinet work

Cadillac, founder of Detroit

Cages and traps

Canada (2 folders)

Candle-molding machinery

Canochee Chronicles

Cape May County, New Jersey

Carnegie, Andrew, corporation

Cass, Lewis

Carpenter tools

Carrol, Lewis

Carver memorial

Carver, George W.

Calligraphy

California

Cement

Champion of the Seas

Charleston, South Carolina

Chemistry

Chicago

China

Christmas

Churchill, Winston, Memorial Library

Box 9

Cincinnati

Cincinnati societies

Circuses

Civil engineers and surveyors

Civil War (see also box 72 for oversize materials)


Page 15 of 77

General (8 folders)

Round Table

Clemens, Samuel L.

Coffee

Comb-making

Commerce

Arithmometer

Check Punch-Hoggson & Pettis

Commerce and manufacture

Cook Carriage Co. Contracts

Finance

Sales and distribution

Trading post

Colonial American culture

Communication

Photographs

Printing press, Stephen Days

Tabulating machines

Printing press, Blaew

Printing, paper

Telephone, Panorama of Progress

Addressing machine, Elliott Co.

Postal

Postage stamps

Unidentified (call slips for material that is out)

Box 10

Letters

Airmail

Penmanship, scroll

Paper

Pencils and pens

Pencil sharpeners

Mimeograph, Edison

Internet

Interstellar

Egyptian writing material

Photographs

Printing, typesetter, Dow

Typecaster

Neunberger

Thorne

Printing

Type foundries

Type faces

Type cleaning


Page 16 of 77

Typographic Library & Museum

Typesetter, Simplex

Printing, woodcuts

Printing devices

Radio

Aeronautical Radio Operators Manual

American Radio and Research Corp.

Amateurs

Correspondence

Assorted information

Earphones, speakers, and assorted information

Ford radio beacon (range)

Gernsbach, Hugo

Government

Antennae, Indiana

“Decision by Conflict,” 27 November 1967

Historical sketch

“House of Mystery”

3 November 1945

27 October 1945

DeForest

Detrola, RCA, sketches

Edison (The Electrical World)

Ford

General Electric

Haynes Griffin

Historical exhibits

History

Magnavox

Marconi

Henry Ford Museum, assorted information

Loomis, Dr. Mahlon

Maxwell House show boat

Box 11

Ohmite Co.

Police

“Portia Faces Life, 1944"

Pickerill, Elmo N.

Radio tubes, RCA manuals

Thomson, Elihu

RCA

Stations

Trans-Atlantic Times

Transmitting equipment

Transformers, IF, AF, HV


Page 17 of 77

Box 11, continued

Transmission and reception

“Wendy Warren, 1947”

Publicity contacts for radio and television (Barnes)

Radio tube data

“When a Girl Marries,” 1947

Zworkin, V.K.

Telegraph

Associations

Atlantic cable

Companies

China

District

Western Union

Instruments

Gauss & Weber

History (2 folders; also includes some telephone items)

Manual for private lines

Minerals, detectors

Morse

Patents

Stations

Telegram

Tables

Writing telegraph

Telephone

New Haven District Telephone Company

Automatic system

Companies, Bell

Detroit subscribers, 1878

Equipment

General

Ford Museum

Holtzer-Cabot

Inventors

Bell, Alexander G.

DeForest

Lorimer

Richmond, Dr. G.P.

Righi, A.

Vail, T.N.

Early developments

Patent litigation

Pioneers

Publications, “Bell Quarterly”

Telephone, Springfield, Missouri, 1879


Page 18 of 77

Switchboards

Stock certificate

Television

General (out slip)


Box 12

Televox

Typewriters

General

Allen, R.T.P.

Burridge, patents

Corona

Crandall

Hammond

Historical

Hitter's

Miscellaneous

Music

National Typewriter Exchange

Oliver

Remington

Simplex

Radio receivers, assorted information

Typewriters

Smith Premier

Underwood

Vari-Typer

World Typewriter Co.

Wireless

Computers

Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts

Connecticut

Continental Congress, American Revolution, York, Pennsylvania

Constitution of the United States

Coolidge, Calvin

Cooper, Peter

Coopers

Corwin, James

Costumes

Cox, Coleman

Cranbrook Institute of Science

Curtis, Cyrus H.K.

Custer, George Armstrong

Daguerreian Journal

DaVinci, Leonardo


Page 19 of 77

Dams

Davix, Phineas

Daimler, Gottlieb

Davis, Bob

Davis, Jefferson

Dearborn

Photographs, public buildings

Abstract of Title, 1876

Abstract & Title, Molony's

Churches (2 folders)

Directories

Educational, culture calendar

General history

Rouge River project

Historical information and commission (3 folders)

Box 13

Homes, photograph (out slip)

Maps

Mills

Pioneers

Roads and streets

Postal

Recreation

Ten Eyck

Toll gates

Decatur, Stephen

Declaration of Independence

Decorative arts

Assorted arts and crafts

Assorted (general)

Assorted mantles

Fashion accessories

Fashion

Assorted

Band boxes (2 folders)

China

Ceramics

Downs, Joseph

Enamel

Fashions

Demorest's Monthly Magazine

Photographs

Photographs and negative photostats

Fans

First Ladies gowns


Page 20 of 77

Foreign

“Godey's Lady's Book”

Hair

Hats

Jewelry

Knit goods

Mennonite and Amish

Military

19th Century

Patterns

Scottish

Shawls

17th Century

Shoes

18th Century

Box 14

Furniture

Assorted information (3 folders)

Assorted photographs (3 folders)

American, 18th Century

Adam

Alden, John

Bedroom

Bedsteads

Belter

Biedermeier

Biographies

Brewster chair

Chests

Miscellaneous

Chairs

Cabinetmakers

Chippendale

Construction

Colonial reproductions

Cupboards

Daybeds

Desks

Dining

Duncan Phyfe

Elizabethan

English

Feet

Fireplace fixtures

Fireplace mantels


Page 21 of 77

Forster, Jacob

French-Canadian

French

Georgian

11th class project

Henry Ford Museum

Hepplewhite furniture

Box 15

High boys

Hitchcock

History

Jacobean

King, Edwin R.

Knife-box

Louis XVI

Lo-boys

Manufacturing

Metropolitan Museum

Miscellaneous

Miniatures

Miniature, Thorne

Mirrors

Modern

Phyfe, Duncan

Painted

Period

Colonial

Provincial

Prices

Queen Anne

Renaissance

Savory, William

Seymour, John & Son

Sideboards

Shaker

Slight Co.

Secretary

Sheraton

Steel

Sofas

Tables

Townsend

Victorian

Washington, George

White House


Page 22 of 77

Williamsburg

Windsor

Woods

Glass

American

American bottles

English

Box 16

Blowing

Coloring

Cup-plates

Drinking

Duncan

Imitations and reproductions

Irish

Labino, Dominick

Manufacturing, Libbey

Manufacturers

Millefiori

New England

South Jersey

Pressed

Pressed vase

Paperweights

Roman

Stiegel (2 folders)

Sandwich (3 folders)

Swedish

Three mold

Venetian


Metals

Wrought iron (2 folders)

Iron and brass

Copper

Gold

Drinking horns

Enamel

Lead

Silver, Paul Revere

Pewter

Pewter, cleaning

Silver

American

Apostle spoons


Page 23 of 77

Collections

Coney, John

Box 17

English

Miniature

Salts

Sheffield

Tole ware

Photographs, American pewter

Pewter

Wrought iron

Silver


Hallmarks

Tableware

Porcelain

Dresden

English

Ceramics, 16-2

Chinese porcelain

Ceramics, 2A

Ceramics, 2

History

Langelier, Louise

Lenox

Spode, Copeland

Handbill

White House

Pottery (see also boxes 72 and 73)

Assorted information (2 folders; see also box 72)

American

Bennington

Chronology

Lustre ware

China clay

Earthenware

English

French

Industry

Italian

Marks


Page 24 of 77

Box 18

Mustache cups

Persian ware

Pennsylvania German

Decorative

Photographs

Salt glaze ware

Slip decorated

Rock crystal

Staffordshire

Stone ware

Tableware

Tea caddies

Wedgewood

Textiles


Arkwright, Richard

Bedspreads

Calico

Cotton gin, Eli Whitney

Cotton

Cotton manufacture

Crocheting

Drapes

Cross-stitch and embroidery

Equipment

Embroidery

Felt

Hat manufacturing

Flax-hemp

Handkerchiefs, historical

Knitting

Knit stockings

Lace-making

Needlecraft for Today, Nov/Dec 1979

Olde Time Needle Work, patterns and designs, July 1977

Popular Handicraft, May 1977

Tatting

Miscellaneous information

Packet information

Request information

Thomas Lester lace

Two Centuries of Needle Lace

Victorian lace

What Some Collectors Do With Those Inexpensive Textiles

Women's Day lace sampler


Page 25 of 77

Looms

Machinery

Mills

Box 19

Publications

Rugs, hooked

Rugs

Samplers

Shawls

Silkworms

Silk (2 folders)

Slater, Samuel

Spinning

Weaving and cross stitching

Tapestry

Wool manufacture

Wallpaper

Wood-carving, photographs

Woodenware

Scrimshaw

Chopping dishes

English

Shoes

General

Decoys

Dedham Historical Society

Deeds (see also Box 73)

Deer

De Forest, Lee

Dentistry

Dental equipment

Detroit

250th birthday (2 folders; see also box 73)

300th birthday (see also box 73)

Business pioneers


Cemeteries

City Planning Commission

Box 20

City of Destiny, newspaper clippings

Directories

Economic Club of Detroit

Factories

Fire department


Page 26 of 77

Forts

Genealogy

Government

History

Historical souvenir books, pictures, etc.

Photographs, pioneers (2 folders)

Historical souvenir, books, pictures, etc.

Homes

Industry

Detroit Lubricator Co.

Maps

Monuments

Personalities

Pioneers, George Lothrop

Old timers

Streets (2 folders)

Symphony orchestra

Box 21

Tollgates

Real estate

River

Parades

Parks

Vehicular traffic

Undertaker, Blake & Sons

United States Arsenal

Waterworks

Dexter, Michigan, centennial, July 1941

Diderot, Denis

Diamonds

Dickens, Charles

Dixon, Lieutenant Colonel Hal

Documents

Dollhouses

Douglas, W.L., shoemaker

Dow, Alex

Dow Chemical Co.

Drepperd, Carl W.

Drug stores

Dufy, Roberts

Dummer, Joseph, photographs

Dunlap, John B.

Duryea, Charles J. Frank

Dutch settlement in U.S.

Eastman, George


Page 27 of 77

Edison, Thomas

93rd birthday celebration, 1940 (see also box 73)

Machine works, Goerk St.

Edison Co., New York

Photographs, communication

“50 years of Edison Services"

Die Tat (German newspaper)

“Edison Experiments You Can Do"

“100 Anniversary of Birth 1947"

Box 22

Biographical information (2 folders)

Thomas Alva Edison Foundation (2 folders)

Electric railroad

Ford, Henry

Fort Myers home

General Electric

Greenfield Village

Hudson Gas & Electric

Incandescent light

Inventories

Insull, Samuel


Edison Portland Cement

Jehl, Francis (folders 1-2 of 3)

Box 23

Jehl, Francis (folder 3 of 3)

Kunz, George F.

Letters

Life

Light's Golden Jubilee

Music

Light's Diamond Jubilee

Machine works, Schenectady, New York

Menlo Park (2 folders)

Monuments

National Electric Light Association

New York Electric Illuminating Co.

Motion picture patent

Patents

Pearl Street

Phonograph


Page 28 of 77

Box 24

Assorted (3 folders)

Rowland, Henry A.

Pioneers

Smoking

Solicitations

Stock ticker

Scholarship

Edisonia, recording artists

Storage battery

Sunbury Station, Pennsylvania

Successor

Talking doll

T.A.E. House (Cranbrook)

Telegrapher

Talking machine

War

Photographs, Edison vacuum pump

United Light & Power, New York

Upton, Francis R.

Tuning fork, resonant

Assorted

Education

Arithmetic

Agricultural High School (German)

Art school, Society of Arts & Crafts

CED

Cooperation

Cranbrook

Detroit High School, 1892, and Edison Institute High School, 1941

Harvard, Warren History Center

Assorted

Education history

Receipt books (3 folders)

Schools

General

Henry Ford School

Photos

Wayside Inn Boy's School

School board reports

Box 25

School systems

Trade schools, photographs

Teaching

University of Michigan Sesquicentennial


Page 29 of 77

Box 25, continued

Einstein, Albert, photographs

Electricity

Elias Howe, Jr.

Emmet, Thomas Addis (M.D.)

Employment agency

Encyclopedias

England

Engraving

Entomology

Ericsson, John, energy production

Ethnology

"Evening Whig,” 5 April 1865, index

Exhibitions

Explosives

Eyeglasses

Factory system of United States

Fairs and exhibitions

Expositions photographs

Expositions (2 folders)

Michigan

Philadelphia Centennial, 1876

Fans, mechanical

Faraday, Michael

Federal Hall

Fences and fencing

Fiberglass

Fine Arts

Architecture

General

Bricks and brick buildings

Photograph album

Arlington

Barns

Block houses

Assorted painting

Fences

American prints, Currier & Ives

Architecture

Castles

Doorways

Hotels and taverns

Sod huts


Page 30 of 77

Box 26

Buildings, Broad House, Saugus, Massachusetts

Fireplaces, colonial

Assorted

Ancient

Painting

Painting glass

Pen and ink sketches

Silhouette

Techniques

Architecture

Cathedrals and churches (2 folders)

Chimneys and fireplaces

General

Churches

General

Colonial

Doorways

General

Georgian

Construction

Homes, old

Irish

Kahn, Albert

Log cabins

Latrobe, Benjamin

Maryland

New York

Philadelphia

Southern

Wisconsin

American Indian (Native American)

American artists

General

Peale Family

American murals, Westwood

American folk art

American painting

American, New York State Council on Arts

American painting

American sculpture


Rogers statue

Numismatics

Coins, American

History


Page 31 of 77

Mints

Paper money, American

Sale prices

Coins, assorted

Wild cat money

Coins, English

Coins, Pine Tree Shill'g

American

Assorted photographs

Box 27

Firearms

Powder horns

Powders and loads

Proof marks

Henry Ford Museum

History

Legislation

Manufacture

Colt

Crossbow

Daly, Charles Noe

Flints

Gunsmiths, tools

Revolvers and pistols

Rifles

Sharps

United States Armories


Cannon

Fire and fire making (2 folders)

Fireplaces

Fire making

Fire works

Matches

Fire prevention, associations

Fire engines

Fire prevention

Engines

Henry Ford Museum

Steam, Ypsilanti

Fire boats, photographs

Fire halls

Firemen, photographs

History

Museums


Page 32 of 77

New York Fire Department

Box 28

Firestone

Fisher, Aaron Coddington

Fisher family

Fishing

Flags

Flat Rock, Michigan

Fog signals

Food

General

Pop Tarts

Florida

Ford, agriculture, Westinghouse steam engine

Ford, H.

Anniversaries, 85th

Adams, George Mathew

Ford, Henry, aeronautics

Ford, company, Henry Ford II and family

Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Michigan, 1969 (object id 92.21.3376)

Ford Model So, photograph, 1908

Forging

Foster, Stephen C.

Foster, Morrison

Photographs

General (2 folders)

Grave


Newspaper clippings

Biography, pictorial

Bibliography

Bardstown, Kentucky

Coinage

Death

Family

Genealogy

Henry Ford Museum Library

Hall of Fame

Homes

100th anniversary of his birth, newspaper clippings

Jane McDowell

Libraries

Life


Page 33 of 77

Box 29

Manuscripts

Mary Burgess Foster, scrapbook

Memorials

Stephen Collins Foster Memorial, University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh memorials

Musical style

Newspaper clippings, beginning 1826

Pianos

Pittsburgh history

Place in music

Publishing

Quaife, Dr. Milo M.

Robinson, Susan E.

Songs

Franklin, Benjamin

Freedoms Foundation

French family

Fritchie, Barbara

Frost, Robert Lee

Fort McHenry

Foucher, Rev. Anthony

Furnace, charcoal, Hugh Meons, Hugh and Meons

General biographies and assorted information

Games

Gargoyles

Garibaldi

Garland, Hamlin

General stores

Golf

Gooch, H.I.

Box 30

Graphoid bearings (graphite)

Grand Army of the Republic

Grant, Ulysses S.

Georgia (state)

German scientists and inventors

Germantown

Gifts

Gladstone, William Ewert

Glass

Fruit jars

Manufacturing

Great Britain, Princess Diana

Greene, Nathaniel


Page 34 of 77

Box 30, continued

Greenfield, Ohio

Greenfield Township, Michigan

Grosse Pointe, Michigan

H (assorted information)

Haas, Julius H.

Hall, Charles M.

Hall of Fame

Great Americans

New York University

Hamlin, Hannibal

Hamilton, Alexander

Hancock, John

Hanks, Colonel Stedman Shumway, and family

Harden home

Hardware catalogs

Assorted

Axle spring crank

Ball feet

Balustrades

Bed caps

Bed post ferrules

Beer jugs

Bells

Bell carriages, cranks

Bell levers

Bell pulls

Bell strap ornaments

Boot heels

Borders, fancy

Braces

Brackets

Buttons

Candlesticks

Cannon

Capitals and bases

Caskets

Cast iron ware

Castors

Cocks

Church

Chair ornaments

Chair binding and beading

Chimney hooks

Cloak pins

Commode ornaments


Page 35 of 77

Contents

Cornice ornaments

Cruets

Curtain bows

Curtain pins

Curtain rings

Curtain rod ends

Door chain

Door handles

Door knobs

Box 31

Coffee pots

Door knockers

Door plates

Drapery ornaments

Drawer handles

Drawer pulls

Egg frame

Escutcheons

Fasteners

Feet

Fender hangers

Fire irons

Fishing reels

Glass supports

Gun racks

Gun rings

Handles

Hinges

Hooks

Ice pails

Latches

Liquor stand

Locks and keys

Lock rings

Lock staples

Locks

Metal boxes

Mugs

Nails

Name plates

Night bolts

Nobs (sic.)

Nutcrackers

Ornaments


Page 36 of 77

Oven door handles

Padlocks

Pitchers

Pulleys

Quadrants and catches

Rack pullies

Rings

Salts

Salt shakers

Sash fasteners

Sash rollers

Ship hooks

Shutter latches

Shutter screws

Sideboard rails

Sockets and balls

Staircase eyes and sash lifters

Sugar bowls

Table fasteners

Tableware

Tea caddies

Teapots

Thumb latches

Tinder gun and boxes

Trunk clips

Umbrella wires

Venetian movements

Wax candlesticks

Harvard University

Hedges, Charles

Helm, Ben Hardin (General)

Heraldry

Herschell-Spillman Co.

Hicks, United States

Higgins, John Woodman

Box 32

Historical societies

American Historical Association (AHA)

American Association of State and Local History (AASLH)

Historical societies, general (2 folders)

Michigan

Hitchcock, Richard E., industrial designer

Hitching post

Holidays

Christmas


Page 37 of 77

Easter

Hoover, Herbert

Horology

General

Church, D.H.

Clock and watchmaking

Clock collections

Clocks, 1362-1837

Clocks, assorted types

Clocks, bichronous electric

Gear cutter

Gog and Magog

Henry Ford Museum

Hour glasses

Ives, Joseph

Companies

Clocks, Willard

Chronometers

Colonial clockmakers

Measurement

Sundials

Time recording

Watches

Watch manufacture

Watch parts

Waltham Watch Co.

Horses

Horticulture


Trees

Hotels and taverns (2 folders)

Housing, Sears

Box 33

Household (see also box 74)

Accessories

Apple parers

Bath tubs

Bread baking

Butter molds

Canning

Coffee mills

Dining

Heating and lighting

Historical

Laundry


Page 38 of 77

Mason jars

Ovens, history

Refrigerators, Superfex

Sewing machines, Florence

Sewing

Sewing machines

Photographs

General (2 folders)

Dodge

Grover & Baker

History

Howe, Elias

Rice

Singer

Union

Wheeler & Wilson

Wilson

White

Wilcox & Gibbs

Stoves

Jewett & Root


Base burner

Buck's

Dixie

Franklin

History, Helen Keep

Heating and stoves

Hardwick Speedi-Baker

Henry Ford Museum

List of

Perry

Plymouth

Slater’s

Soap

Tongs

Box 34

Utensils

Vacuum cleaners

Birtman Electric Company

Downs

History

Assorted

Western Electric

Hoover


Page 39 of 77

Box 34, continued

Regina

Wringers

Wash tubs

Wash board

Irons boards

Irons (2 folders)

Clothes dryer and corn popper

Howe, Julia Ward

Hubbard, Elbert

Hudson, Henry

Hunt, Walter

Howard, Frank Boyer

Huron County

Ice cream

Illinois

Indenture

Indian art

Indians (Native Americans)

Photographs and assorted documents (2 folders)

Adena (Ohio)

Chippewa

Incas

Natchez

Silver

Seminole

Sioux

Weapons

Indiana

Industry

American, early

American Can Co.

Ammunition

Factories

Furnaces (2 folders)

German diesel

Hats

History

Interchangeable parts

Iowa

Iron industry

Ore carriers

Charcoal furnace, Hugh & Means

Cut nail machines

Arc welding

Blast furnaces


Page 40 of 77

Box 35

Foundries

History

Irondale furnaces

Manufacturers

Salisbury

Steel history

Steel manufacture

Steel men

Slitting mill

Pig iron

Processing

Saugus, Massachusetts

Saugus, Joseph Jenks

Tools

Industry

Meat packing

Ovens

Parke-Davis

Razors

Refrigeration, Frick

Refrigeration history

Safety

Salt

Shopping bags

Southern

Steel, Bethlehem

Insurance

Inventors

J, assorted

Jackson, Andrew

James, Jesse

J.B. Fuller, correspondence

Japan

Jefferson, Thomas

Jocelyn, Nathaniel

John Wise

Jones, John Paul

Johnson, Dr. Samuel

Johnson, Andrew

Box 36

Kennedy assassination, assorted clippings (see also box 75)

Kentucky

Key, Francis Scott

Kerosene


Page 41 of 77

Kincaid, Robert L.

Kola Importing Co.

Labor unions

Lafayette, Marquis de

Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925

Law, Andrew

Lawn mower

Laws

Laws and law enforcement, JIS

League of Nations

Leather

Lee, Robert E.

Leland, Henry M.

Liberty cap

Libraries


Elutherian Mills

Merrill-Palmer

William L. Clements Library

Catalog rules

Huntington

Inland Rivers Library

Library of Congress

Manuscripts

National Archives

Manuscripts

Forgeries

Restoring

Music Research Directory

Organization

Special libraries

Special Library Association

Vatican

Lighting history

Lich, Mrs. E.H.R., wartime lament

Box 37

Lighting

Assorted

Argand

Bibliography

Bulb remover patent, Ainsworth

Camphene

Candles

Case

Candlesticks


Page 42 of 77

Manufacturing

Candle-making

Electric chandeliers

Electric lamps

Forms of

Fixtures

Gas

Lamps

American

Henry Ford Museum


Old

Patent

Photographs

Side lamps

Street

Tallow

Lanterns

Oils

Lightning rods

Lighting

Candle snuffers

Lamps

Betsy

Dictionary

General

Miners

Prisms

Street, New York

Reflectors

Shade and reflector patent, Mygatt

Walsbach Mantle Comp

Lincoln, Abraham

Angle, Paul M., 1854-1861 (2 folders)

Anecdotes (3 folders)

Assorted information (folders 1-3 of 4)

Box 38

Assorted information (folder 4 of 4)

Associations


Assorted photographs (including some of Thomas Starr)

Assassination

Booklets and books (7 folders)


Page 43 of 77

Box 39

Trade catalog

Biographical information (3 folders)

Booth, John Wilkes

Cabinet

Collections (3 folders)

Correspondence

Death

Douglas, Stephen A.

Education

Box 40

Emancipation Proclamation

Family

General

Mary Todd Lincoln

Ford's Theater

Funeral (2 folders)

Genealogy

Gettysburg (4 folders; see also Box 76)

Herald

Herndon, William H.

Hertz, Emanuel (3 folders)

Box 41

International relations

Inventor

Kalamazoo

Illinois (2 folders)

Inaugurations

Indiana (2 folders)

Kentucky

Lawyer (2 folders)

Literature

Manuscripts (folders 1-2 of 4)

Box 42

Manuscripts (folders 3-4 of 4)

Marriage

Medical history

Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Memorials

Military

Miscellaneous (2 folders; see also box 76)

New Salem

Ohio


Page 44 of 77

Pennsylvania

Personal characteristics

Photograph information

Portrait information

Pictorials (2 folders; includes news clippings)

Plays and dramatizations (folder 1 of 3)

Box 43

Plays and dramatizations (folders 2-3 of 3)

Poetry

Policy

Policy

Politics (2 folders)

Railroads

Religion (see also box 76)

Rutledge

Sandburg

Sculpture

Sermons and speeches

Sesquicentennial

Box 44

Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment

Speeches (2 folders)

Springfield

Starr, Thomas Irwin

Testimonials and speeches (5 folders; see also box 76)

Box 45

Temperance

White House

Wisconsin

Lithography

Liquor, ale, and wine

Logging

London

Long, Dr. Crawford W.

Longfellow, Henry W. (3 folders)

Los Angeles

Louisiana

Lumbering

Photographs (3 folders)

Advertisements

Camps

Equipment

Frederic, Michigan


Page 45 of 77

Michigan

Roads

Sawmills

Water wheels

Mac Donald, Arthur, “War Criminal Anthropology”

Machinery

Mail, United States

Maine

Mann, Horace

Maps

General

Henry Ford Museum

Manhattan

Marat, Jean Paul

Marriage

Marshall, John

Marie Antoinette

Maryland

“Mary and Her Little Lamb” (2 folders)

Mason, George

Box 46

Massachusetts

General

Plymouth (2 folders)

Mather collection

Mayflower

Mazes

McCoy, E.

McCulloch, Samuel

McGuffey, William Holmes

Greenfield Village students, photographs

Memorial Meet, Oxford, Ohio, photographs


School, Ashland, Kentucky


100th anniversary

Autographs

Bibliographies

Family

Biographical information

Correspondence (2 folders)

Readers information


Page 46 of 77

Box 47

Birthplace

Ford, Henry

Ford Museum

Grave

Greenfield Village

Guide material

Hepburn, Andrew D.

Lectures

Memorial address, Cameron W.

Memorials

Ohio

Kentucky

Washington County, Pennsylvania

Tree

Virginia

West Virginia

Miami University

Minnich, Dr.

O’Dell, Lester

Relics

Howard, Laura,

Holmes, William

Harriet McGuffey spinning, photographs


Portrait

Radio program

Readers

General information (3 folders)

Medelsome Mattie (5 copies)

Reminiscences

Contracts

Box 48

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

Karst, John, engraver

Reprints

Illustrations

History

Reminiscences (3 folders)

William Holmes McGuffey Societies (3 folders)


Page 47 of 77

Table

Teacher

Tributes

Readers, Twin Lakes, 1961

Wylie, Dr. Andrew

McKinley, William

Machinery

Evolution of

A.K. Nartov

Measurements (see also box 76)

Box 49

Mechanics

Medals

Medicine and surgery (2 folders)

Meeker, Ezra

Meeting house

Merchant marine

Metals

Michigan

General (2 folders)

Photographs

Lenawee County

Cities, Wyandotte

Black history

Bay County

Centennials

Smith, Charles E

Preliminary Directory of Civil War Commemorative Displays in Michigan Museums

Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County

Cities

Jackson

Lansing

Isle Royal

Mackinaw

Saginaw

Springwells

Tecumseh

Ypsilanti

History

Courts

Indians (Native Americans)

History, Francis Parkman

Huron County

Lapeer County

Leland County


Page 48 of 77

Box 50

Mackinac Bridge

Ogemaw County

Pioneers

Oakland County

Motor vehicle registration history, 1896-1976

Sault Ste. Marie Locks

State archives

State police

State Council on the Arts

Washtenaw County

Micrometer

Microscope

Military

Mills

Cider

Flour

General (2 folders)

Sawmills

Flat Rock, photographs

Photographs, miscellaneous

Corn

Grist

Stones

Sugar

Water

Wind

Minerals

Mining



Coal

Copper

Gold

Iron

Mississippi

Monroe, James

Monteith, John

Montana

Moore, Hiram

Morey, Samuel

Morgan, Charles W.

Morris, Robert

Morris, William

Morse, Samuel


Page 49 of 77

Motion pictures

“Gone With The Wind”

“The Good Earth”

General (2 folders)

History

Sound

Moulton bicycle

Mountaineers

Mottos

Murray, Matthew

Museums

Automotive

Financial support

“The Museum: A Living Book of History”

Lighting

Methods

Miscellaneous information

Box 51

American Museum of Public Recreation

California museums

Carnegie Institute and Library

Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

Colonial Williamsburg, articles and clippings

Commercial Museum

Copper Union Museum

Cooperstown

Corning Museum of Glass

Detroit Historical Museum, 200th

Detroit Institute of Arts (5 folders)

German museums

Deutsches Museum

Deutz Museum

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

Elutherean Mills, Hagley

England

Essex Institute

The Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown, New York

Field Museum, Chicago, photographs

Fort Necessity

Fort St. Joseph

Fort Ticonderoga-On-Lake Champlain

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Franklin Institute

The Harmony Society, Pennsylvania

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village


Page 50 of 77

Herald, May 1936, January 1940, and May 1944 (student newspaper at the Edison

Institute)

Hispanic Society of America, museum and library

Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Illinois State Historical Society

Jamestown

Box 52

Lyngby Museum, Denmark

Landis Valley

Long Island Automotive Museum

Maharashtra, Lord Reay Industrial

Mariners' Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michigan

Milestone Village, Darian, Connecticut

Monticello

Milwaukee Public Museum

Allen County Fort Wayne Historical Society, Johnny Appleseed

Museum of Modern Art

New York State Museum and Science Service

New York state

Northwoods

Old Deerfield, Massachusetts

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (2 folders)

National Park Service

New England (2 folders)

New Mexico Museum

Ontario

Peale Museum

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pioneer Village, United States

The Ross County Historical Society Museum

Russia, The Hermitage

Saugus Iron Works

Science Museum, London

Scottish Rite Museum

The Shelburne Museum

Smithsonian Institution

The Strasenburgh Planetarium

Swedish

Switzerland

Technical Museum, industry, Austria

Testverek

United States, miscellaneous

Wadsworth Atheneum


Page 51 of 77

Yorktown

Washington, D.C., State Department (furnishings in diplomatic reception rooms)

Western Development Museum

Wichita Art Museum

Musical instruments


Bands and orchestras

Foreign

Calliope, photographs

Celesta

Cimbalom

Clavichord

Composers

Concerts

Harmonium

Harps

Harpsichord

Hurdy gurdy

Lute

Manufacture of instruments

Melodeon

Music boxes, history

Organs

Box 53

Photographs

Violano virtuoso

Piano

Advertisements

Chickering

Duo art

History

Makers, general

Mason & Hamlin

Making

Assorted

Piano-organ, Beatty

Steinway

Organ makers

Seraphine

Violins

General

Makers

Players

Wind

Music


Page 52 of 77

Motown

Muzak

Phonograph (see also Box 76)

Phonograph records (2 folders)

Percussion bells

Publishers

Sheets (2 folders)

Musicians

General

Cole, Edison & Family

Fiddlers

Jenny Lind

Muzzle loading

Napoleon Bonaparte

Natural history

New England

New Hampshire

New Jersey

Box 54

New Salem

New York

Syracuse

State

New York City

Newspapers

Newton, Sir Isaac

North Carolina, Charlotte

Ohio

Olds, R.E.

Oregon Trail

Ornithology

Osborn, Chase Salmon

Otto, Dr. Nikolaus August

Pack animals

Panama

Panorama

Paper

Machines

Making

Manufacture

Manufacturers

General (2 folders)

Materials (2 folders)

Permanence

Patents


Page 53 of 77

Payne, John Howard

Peck, Barton Lee

Peddlers

Penmanship

Penn, William

Pennsylvania German

Box 55

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Christ Church

Perkins, Charles G.

Perpetual motion

Perry, Commodore Oliver H.

Philatelic

Photographic

Advertisements

Aerial

Cameras

General

Evolution

Daguerre and daguerrotypes (2 folders)

Manufacture

Miniatures

Miscellaneous (2 folders)

Sterioptician

Tin type studio

Photographers

Bracy, F.C.

Brady

Clark

Lumiere

Saxton, Joseph

Talbot

Pilgrims

Pigeons

Phrenology

Planetariums

Plantations

Plastic

Platinum wire

Pneumatic tubes

Pocantico Hills

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poetry

Political parties


Page 54 of 77

Polo

Pony Express

Postcards in the United States

Post cards

Postal service

Pratt, Harry Edward

Printer’s type

Prison, Jackson

Prohibition

Purple Heart, Order of

Pythians

Rae, Frank B.

Raleigh News

Rare books, Publishers' Weekly, 8 December 1928

Religion

General

Bibles

Richard, Father Grabiel

Ricketson, Daniel

Box 56

Churches

Missionary, Morning Star

Monasteries

Shakers

Reminiscences

Farm life

New England

Resorts

Retail stores

Revolutionary War (2 folders)

Revolution, French

Riley, James Whitcomb

Ripley, William Young

Roads

China

Clark Equipment Company

Cotton Roads in South (Fred Black Collection)

Dallas to Fort Worth (Fred Black Collection)

Eastern US (Fred Black Collection)

England

Florida (Fred Black Collection)

Tamianii Trail (Fred Black Collection)

Gold Roads

Hawaii (2 folders; Fred Black Collection)

History (Fred Black Collection)


Page 55 of 77

Japan

Maya

Mexico (2 folders)

Michigan

Midland Trail, West Virginia (Fred Black Collection)

Old Lancaster Pike

Ohio

Oregon Trail (Fred Black Collection)

Panama (Fred Black Collection)

Pan American Highway (Fred Black Collection)

Peru

Philippines

Roman (2 folders; Fred Black Collection)

San Antonio (Fred Black Collection)

South America

Southwest United States (Fred Black Collection)

Spain

U.S. 85 (Fred Black Collection)

West (Fred Black Collection)

Box 57

Roads of the World (Fred Black Collection)

Bibliography (Fred Black Collection)

Bridges (Fred Black Collection)

Construction (Fred Black Collection)

Hazards

Highways

Lighting

Signs, historical

Toll roads

Traction tests

Turnpikes

Types (Fred Black Collection)

U. S. hearings

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanical Institute

Rockefeller, John

Rogers, Bruce

Rogers, Major Robert

Rogers, Will

Roosevelt, Theodore (2 folders)

Roland, Walpole

Ross, Betsy

Rubber

Safes

St. Lawrence Seaway

Schools


Page 56 of 77

Schoolbooks, list

Scott, Winfield

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Clopton Bridge, Stratford-On-Avon, photograph

Schurz, Paul

Scales

Scott, Sir Walter

Scrimshanders and scrimshaw

Scully, John D.

Sewall, Samuel

Shakespeare, William

Shay's Rebellion

Snowshoes

Slavery (2 folders)

Stark, General John

Stanley steam car, photograph, 1910

Supreme Court

Shoe making

Shop work

Signboards, early American

Signs

Skating

Smokehouses

Snow, H. A.

Social science

Society of the Cincinnati

Soda fountain

Southern history

South Dakota

Spain

Sports

Sprague, Frank J.

Stamps

Stefansson Arctic Expedition

Steinmetz, Charles


Camp

Patents

Death

Electrical engineer

Box 58

Correspondence (3 folders)

Personal history

Photographs

Stereoscope

Stoves


Page 57 of 77

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Taft, William Howard

Tailoring

Taverns

Taylor, Zachary

Taxes

Taxidermy

Telescope

Tennessee

Tesla, Nicola

Texas

Theatres

General

Affidavit (Borden)

Opera programs

Plays

General

Thompson, Denman (3 folders; includes clippings)

Programs

Sarah Bernhardt farewell tour

Assorted

Stage settings

Design and the theatre

Personalities


Bernhardt, Sarah

Jefferson, Joseph

Scotti, Tomaso

Pictures of theatres

Thurston, Howard

Tin and tin peddlers

Thomson, Elihu

Tobacco

Box 59

Tools

Hand tools


Brace, patent

Clamps

Files

General

Grinders, scissors

Hammers

Lathes

Assorted


Page 58 of 77

Evolution

Gun stock


Saws

Buck saw

History

Welch & Griffiths

Shovel

Wood planer

Machine tools

Air compressors

Assorted companies and businesses

Ball & Ballard

Blaisdell

Brown, A&F

Brown & Sharpe

Do-All

Ford Museum

Huetteman & Cramer

Marston

Morse, J.

Putnam

Shephard, S.

Union Screw & Bolt

Weeks, John

Whitcomb

Williams, Rich & Co.

Wood, Light & Co.

Worcester

Bedstead machine, Wills

Bending rolls, Bement & Dougherty

Blowers

Bobbin and tube making

Bolt cutting

Connecticut, first in America

Rhode Island

Boring

Bement & Dougherty

History

Munsell

Niles

Swingles, A.

Wilkinson

Clamps, Bement & Dougherty

Classification and description

Companies, genealogy


Page 59 of 77

Cranes

General

History

Cranks

Definition

Development of machine tools in New England

Drills

Assorted

Bement & Dougherty

Gang, W.E.

History

Loomis

Reed-Prentice

Twist

Weaver, N.B.

Engineering reminiscences

Felly, J. Adams

Fence machine patent, Page-Lamb

Box 60

Gages, block, Ford Museum

Gears

Gear cutting

General

Gay & Silver

Klopstock, Hans

Grinders

Assorted

Brown & Sharpe (2 folders; includes patent information)

Diamond

Ford Museum

Greenfield Tap & Die

Hart

Hisey Wolf

Pratt & Whitney

Walker

Grinder and casting cleaning

Grinding

General

History

Grindstones

Hack saw, Armstrong-Blum

Hammers

Assorted

Bement & Dougherty

Drop hammer


Page 60 of 77

Nasmyth

History

Lathes


Companies

Assorted

Abbey & Fils

Bement & Dougherty

Bradford

Brown & Sharpe

Chamberlain

Defiance

Ferris & Miles

Flather

Ford Museum

Gleason

Maudslay, Henry

New Haven Manufacturing Co.

Phoenix Iron Works

Potter & Johnson

Pratt & Whitney

Putnam

Ryder, Thomas and Son

Scranton & Parshley

White

Whitworth, Joseph

Construction and operation

Double geared face plate

History

Museums

Spoke turning

Turret

Manufacturers

1855

Hercules

United Engineering and Foundry Company

Mechanical movements

Micrometer caliper

General

History

Micrometers, Ford Museum

Milling

Brainard

Brown & Sharpe

Cincinnati

Definition and operation


Page 61 of 77

History (2 folders)

Kendall & Gent

Machinery

Box 61

Morticing

Davis, Fay & Co.

Fay

Lane & Bodley

Moreland

Posts

Museums

Personalities, Reed, J.E.

Pioneer, Ray Lower

Piston pin, measuring

Planers

Allen, E.G.

Ball & Ballard

Barlow

Daniels, Thomas E.

Farrer

Gay & Silver

General

Gray & Woods

Hutchinson

McGuiness

New Haven

Norcross

Putnam

Sweet, John

Woodbury

Woodworth

Power transmission

Press toggle, Colton

Presses

General

Bement & Dougherty

Elmer Engineering Works

Hydrostatic wheel

Metalwood Manufacturing

Phoenix

Richard Dudgeon

Robertson, John

Sickels, G.

Wheel

Presses and hammers


Page 62 of 77

Box 61, continued

Punches

Bement & Dougherty

South Bend

Sawmill machinery

Allis-Chalmers

American

Armstrong

Buffalo

Chase Turbine Manufacturing

Crosby

Dewey

Enterprise

Frick

General

Hammond

Hill-Curtis

Hoosier

Howell R.R.

Keck-Gonnerman

Knight Manufacturing

Page, Geo & Co.

Russell

Sinker-Davis

Skelton

Standard Saw Mill Machinery Co.

Up and down

Vance, J.A.

Wells

Saws

Circular

General

Goss

Holmes

Ingersoll

Scroll, Fay

Stam, Fairbanks, Wilmot & Co.

Yates-American

Screw cutting, Lull, George W.

Screw machine, Manning, Maxwell & Moore

Screw threading, Bement & Dougherty

Set screw, Bement & Dougherty

Shapers

General

Bement & Dougherty

Cincinnati


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Shears and punches

Shop furniture, New Britain

Shops

General

Silver & Gay

Slotters

Bement & Dougherty

Betts

General

Robert Sharp

Standard Diamond

Tapping, Bement & Dougherty

Tool chests, Vandeman

Transport

Traverse, power

Universal joint

Vises, Matthews

Woodworking

Assorted

Pettingell

Wadkin

Toys

Assorted

Cast iron

Doll furniture

Ford Museum

Manufacture

Marbles

Rattles

School

Tracts

Trades and occupations

Transportation

Automobiles

Driving

History

Box 62

Tests

Motorcycle

Harley-Davidson

1924

1926

Indian, 1926

Power measuring

Radiators


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General

1920

Heat dissipation capacity

Rear wheel dynamometer

Springs and shocks

Stevens rotary SCV gas engine

Tires

General

1919

1924

Fisk, 1920

Goodyear, 1920

Bridgeport aviation motor

Tractive resistance

General

Roads

Trucks

Wind resistance

Bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles



Band

Boneshaker

Capital

Companion, 2 passenger

Draisena

Driving gear

English

Evolution

Gasoline

German

Henry Ford Museum

History, J.I. Smith (3 folders)

Hobby horse

Maltby, Wilbert S.

Manufacturers

Eagle

General

Mead Cycle Co.

Miami Cycle Co.

Pickering

Pope Manufacturing Co.

Singer & Co.

Wilkinson Co.

Motorized

Ordinary


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Oriten

Races (2 folders)

Railroad

Rowcycle

Shows

Steam bicycle

Tournaments

Tricycles (2 folders)

Unicyle

Motorcycles

Ariel (British)


Harley-Davidson

Hildebrand

Honda

Indian

Kane Pennington

Victoria

Box 63

Motor scooter, Lambrette

Motorized sleds, Eliason

Carriages and wagons

Advertising

Assorted

Calliope

Clippings

Collections

Detroit

Equipment (2 folders; includes buggy top patent)

Foreign coach lines

Equipment, lamps

Foreign

Egypt

English

Miscellaneous

Foreign coach lines

Henry Ford Museum

History (6 folders)

Lamps

Jin-Riki shaw

King Tutankhamen

License

Manufacture

Manufacturing

Abbot-Downing


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Belvallette Freres

Cunningham

A.S. Flandrau

Glasgow models

Hooker, Henry

Lafayette

Michigan Buggy Co.

Box 64

Mitchell

S.K. Page Co. (2 folders)

Standard Vehicle

Stanhope

Studebaker

Tyson Jones

Presidential

General

Washington

Roads

Self-propelled

Stagecoach

Shows

Styles

Band wagons

Birch pole jumper

Break

Brougham

Buggy

Buckboard

Cab

Cabriolet

Carts

Carryall

Chariot

Concord coach

Coupe

Depot wagon

Drag

Chaise

Circus wagons

Conestoga wagon

Gig

Hansom cab

Hearse

Horse drawn

Jenny Lind


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Jump seat

Landau

Landaulet

Litters

Napoleon Bonaparte

Omnibus

One horse shay

Park coach

Phaeton


Red River ox cart

Rockaway

Sail wagons

Sleighs (2 folders)

Box 65

Stagecoaches and buckboards

Sulky

Surrey

Tandem

Tilbury

Top buggy

Trap

Travois

Victoria

Vis-a-vis

Volanta

Taxes

Traffic

Trimmer's Tools

Museums

Automobiles

Henry Ford Museum

Travel books

Railroads

Assorted

Business administration

Advertising

Articles

Automatic couplings

Bell, J. Snowden

Bibliography

Boilers

Brakes

Cable cars

Coach history


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Cars

Interiors

Jackson & Sharp

John Bull Coach

Lincoln

Pullman

Photographs

Royal

Cowcatcher

Currier & Ives

Dearborn

Depots

Depot signs

Elevated

Employees

Engineers

Engine house

Flat cars

Horse cars

Georgia, Loring Reynolds

Golden Spike

Hand cars

History

Legal

Lines (see also box 72)

Assorted (includes use of slave labor)

Box 66

Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg

Chesapeake & Ohio

Chicago & Canada

Delaware & Hudson

Detroit, Toledo, & Ironton (2 folders)

Erie & Kalamazoo

Foreign

Grand Trunk

Illinois Central

Iron of Ohio

Liverpool & Manchester

List of rail lines

London, Midland & Scottish

Marietta, Columbus & Cincinnati

Michigan Central

New Haven and Northampton

New York Central

New York, New Haven & Hartford


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Pennsylvania

Quincy

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac

Santa Fe

Stockton & Darlington

Union Pacific

Vandalia

Locomotives (see also box 76)


First in America

Amoskeag

Albion & Samson

Baldwin

Boston & Maine

Boynton Bicycle

The J.W. Bowker

Catamarca

Cheltham Flyer

Compound

Cooper

Crapo

Daniel Webster

De Witt Clinton

Detroit Locomotive Works

Diesel

Diesel-electric

Electric

Elevated

Evans, Oliver

Evolution

Excelsior

Exhibits and shows

Florida

Foreign

General

Henry Ford Museum

History

Horatio Allen

James I

Box 67

John Bull

John Campbell

Kit Carson

Lackawanna Limited

Lion


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Box 67, continued

Lord Nelson

Lumbering

Manchester

Mason

Manufactures of interchangeable mechanism

McKay & Aldus

Mikado

Mining

Models

Murdock

The Novelty

New Haven

999 Library

Oregon

Pepper Sass

Photographs

Pioneer

Pittston

Puffing Billy

Rhode Island

Rocket

Rodgers

Ross Winans Camel

Sam Hill (Satilla)

Schenectady

Specifications

Steam

Stephenson, George and Robert

Stevens

Stourbridge Lion

Tom Thumb

Trevithick

Union Pacific

Wood-burning

Machine shop

Maps

Matthew, David

Illinois Railroad Museum

Passes and tickets

Publications (2 folders)

Regulations

Rails

Railway express

Signals

Stock


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Street (2 folders)

Street trolley head

Telegraphy

Tickets and passes (2 folders)

Tariff

Time tables

Travel

Tunnels

Turntable

Water

Bibliography

Baird

Barge, royal

Blackburn, Howard

Boats

Assorted

Passenger

Primitive

Canals

Canoes

Canal

Sault Sainte Marie

Toll house

Detroit

Docks

Engines

General

Ericsson

Gilmore

Kermath

Box 68

Ferries

Fitch, John

Freighters

Fulton, Robert

Great Lakes

Hatch, Captain Joseph P.

History

Hydrogliders

Lake boats

Land and water

Lawrence, Captain James

Life-saving stations

Lighthouses

Mail boats


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Box 68, continued

Menge, Captain Conrad

Naval appropriation bills

Navigation instruments

Navy

British

United States

General

Repair ship

Outboards, Evinrude

Passengers, United States

Personalities, James Rumsey


Pilot rules

Privateers

Propellers

Riverboats

Edison

General

Rudders

Sailboats

Constellation

General

Racing

Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina

Shipboard newspapers

Shipbuilding

American

Evolution

General

Herreshoff

Ship models

Ships

Bill of lading

Name plates

Show boat

Steamboats

Clermont

Fulton

General

Horatio Hall

Paddleboats

Savannah

Steamship lines

Submarine

Tow boats


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Triremes

Viking ships

Waterways (historic)

War ships

Revolving gun tower

United States

Whaling ships

Yachts

General

Henry Ford

Trucking

Trucks, history

Box 69

Tussaud's (Madame) Wax Works

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)

Tyler, John

Tyler, Royall

Typewriters

The Ulster County Gazette

Undertaking

Unions

United Nations

United States

Assorted

Armed Forces, insignia

Army

Bonds

Census

Ironclad, Monitor

Navy

Presidents

State Department

Department of Transportation

Utah

Van Buren, Martin

Vermont

Vietnam

Victor deep therapy roentgen apparatus

Virginia

General (2 folders)

Williamsburg

Wallace, Mary Austin, diary

War of 1812

Warren (village)

Washington, Booker T.


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Washington, D.C.

Capital Building

White House

Guide

Washington, George (see also Box 72)

Assorted

Autographs

Bicentennial

General information

Bicentennial (4 folders)

Carriage, inaugural

Church

Correspondence

Cherry tree legend

Death

DeWint House

Diary

Elm tree

Farewell address

Forebears

Grist mill

Headquarters

Masonic

Medal

Motion picture

Mount Vernon

Box 70

Photographs

Portraits

Relics

Sister

Society

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

Statue

Valley Forge

Washington, Martha

Washington Monument

Washington (state)

Watchman

Water pipes (2 folders)

Wooden boilers

Weapons

Powder horns

Swords

Weather instruments


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Windmills

Webster, Daniel

Portraits

Speeches and signed letter

Webster, Daniel and Noah

Webster, Noah

Biography

Books (4 folders)

Portraits

Genealogy (2 folders)

Personal history

“Literary Acres”

Play

Rebecca (wife)

Radio program

Spelling books, Ford Museum

Weddings

Weeks, William Jones

Weights and measures

Wells

Welles, Gideon

West, Benjamin

Wheeler, Jane

Wheels

Whitney, Eli

Willard, Frances E.

Wetzel, Louis

Westinghouse, George

Village Wheelwright

White steam car, photograph, 1902

Whitewash

Whitman, Walt

Whittier, John Greenleaf (2 folders)

Windmills

Bonfort's wine and liquor circular

Wire

General

Piano

Wisconsin

Wolfenden, James

Women's suffrage

Wren, Sir Christopher

World War (gift file of Mrs. Christine A. O'Brien)

X-Ray

Zouaves


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Box 71

Photographs

Ames, John Judson

Anderson, C.A.

Arnold, Benedict

Becker, George

Bleyenburg, Rev. A.F.

Blacksmiths, building

Burroughs, John (2 folders; includes exhibit not at Henry Ford Museum)

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Covered bridges

Carver, George Washington

Carlton, Will

Catlin

Cameras

Carriage, child

Cigar store Indian

Cody, William F.

Cabin, John Brown

Countries, France, Hawaii, Germany

“David Copperfield” (W. C. Fields and cast members)

Crolius, Clarkson, Sr.

DaVinci, Leonardo

Drug stores, oldest

Dental equipment

Dunlop, J.B, letters and photograph

Education


Diploma

Girl's School Hospital, Ford Hospital

Ford Hospital

Recreation

School Room

Science, telescopes

Edward, Prince of Wales

Fenton, Christopher Webber

General Jeff Davis, Mt. Vernon, GAR

Gerry, Elbridge

General store

Goodyear, Charles

Greenfield, John

Hatfield, “Devil Anse”

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Karst, John (wood engraver)

Landscape

Miscellaneous


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Morton, John

Post office

Men, unknown, portraits

Nutting, Wallace

Miscellaneous portraits, known and unknown, businessmen and politicians

Portraits, unknown donors, cabinet cards

Portraits, miscellaneous, unknown (2 folders)

Portraits, unknown women and children

Whitney, Eli, Moses Ford House

Construction materials, reproduction advertisements, wallpaper articles, and roofing

samples

Covered wagons and westward expansion, reproductions of drawings

Box 72 (oversize)

Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Northern Trust Company, 1889-1939,

scenes of old Chicago

Civil War, Kentucky

Decorative arts, pottery, assorted information

Transportation, railroads, lines, Electric Railway Co.

Washington, George, coach

Box 73 (oversize)

Decorative arts, pottery, Dickens’ collection

Deed, William Penn, 1681

Detroit

250th birthday (2 folders)

300th birthday

Edison, Thomas, 93rd birthday celebration, 1940

Box 74 (oversize)

Household, hardware

Box 75 (oversize)

Kennedy assassination, assorted

Box 76

Lincoln, Abraham

Gettysburg Address

Miscellaneous

Religion

Testimonials and speeches

Measurements

Music, phonograph

Transportation, locomotives, Cornwall