Records, [ca. 1920]-1935.

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Records, [ca. 1920]-1935.

Materials from the office of Professor Charles Edward Lucke (1876-1951), Chairman of the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, relating to the National Museum of Engineering and Industry, New York City. The collection is composed of correspondence, much of it addressed to H.F.J. Porter, the secretary, and various types of reports.

10.5 linear ft. (in 22 boxes).

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National Museum of Engineering and Industry (New York, N.Y.)

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A subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution. From the description of Records, [ca. 1920]-1935. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122362198 ...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Lucke, Charles Edward, 1876-1951

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Porter, H. F. J.

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