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Color plates of steam engines

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-12
Content Description

This collection includes two oversize color plates depicting steam engines, designed by Richard Norris & Son Locomotive Builders, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the plates shows a freight locomotive, and the other shows an express passenger locomotive, both dated 1856.

Dates: 1856

Cyrus Hall McCormick II collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 16
Abstract

Seven albums (volumes) dating from 1902 through 1933 provide pictorial documentation of the interests by McCormick in various types of bridge construction and in bridges located all over the world.

Dates: Created: 1902-1933

Dascom Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 30
Abstract

This collection contains a small portion of contents from Greene's time as Professor of Mathematics and Practical Astronomy at RPI.

Dates: Created: 1852-1900

David E. Reader photograph album

 Item
Identifier: 2012-1
Content Description

This photo album, kept by David E. Reader (RPI Class of 1927) depicts Reader and his college classmates, campus scenes and buildings, and RPI events, such as tug of war and the Push Ball Rush.

Dates: 1926-1927

David Gisser papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2004-37
Content Description

Plaques and certificates presented to RPI professor David Gisser, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and professional associations.

Dates: 1955-1987

David Maxson Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 48
Abstract

Textbooks and publications by David M.Greene (Director of R.P.I. 1878-1891) regarding steam engines, canals, and railroad engineering, 1872-1889; diaries, 1883-1885 and 1889; miscellaneous letters, 1885-1889; RPI progress report, 1891; and tributes to Greene, circa 1905.

Dates: Created: 1872-1905

DeFreest Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 6
Abstract

Personal papers and financial and legal records of the DeFreest family of North Greenbush, New York.

Dates: Created: 1770-1899

Delta Kappa Epsilon of Troy University minute book

 Item
Identifier: 2008-31
Content Description

Manuscript minute book of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter of Troy University. The book contains no covers.

Dates: 1859-1861

Design for self docking - steel floating dry dock

 Item
Identifier: 2015-1
Content Description

This item, from the U.S. Naval Station in New Orleans, Louisiana, was designed under specification of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Dept. It was constructed under the direction of Rear Admiral Mordecai T. Endicott (RPI Class of 1868, U.S.N. Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks) and tested under the supervision of Civil Engineer A.C. Cunningham, U.S.N. (RPI Class of 1885).

Dates: 1885

Donald Mochon collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GC 1
Abstract

Prints, posters and one drawing by Donald Mochon.

Dates: Created: circa 1960s-1977

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Greene, Benjamin Franklin, 1817-1895 2
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Martin, Charles Cyril, 1831-1903 2
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Bauer, K. Jack (Karl Jack), 1926- 1
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Beck, Lewis C. (Lewis Caleb), 1798-1853 1
Beman, Nathan S. S. (Nathan Sidney Smith), 1785-1871 1
Billmeyer, Fred W., Jr. 1
Bostrom, Carl A. 1
Bowen, H. C. 1
Bower, Andrew T. 1
Bower, Arthur W., 1846-1915 1
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Breithaupt, William H. 1
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Brown, Thomas B. 1
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Chen, Clement, II 1
Chicago Ship Building Company 1
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Coggeshall, Robert C.P. 1
Collingwood, Francis, 1834-1911 1
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Combs, Lewis B. (Lewis Barton), Admiral, 1885-1996 1
Cook, George Hammell, 1818-1889 1
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Crockett, C. W. (Charles Winthrop), 1862-1936 1
Crowell, John T., 1922-2012 1
Cunningham, Andrew Chase 1
Curtiss, Charles D. 1
Davis, Joseph P. (1837-1917) 1
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