Family papers, 1839-1940 (bulk 1904-1940).

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Family papers, 1839-1940 (bulk 1904-1940).

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Personal and business correspondence of Charles M. Olmsted, 1909- 1940, including letters from his children and correspondence of C.M.O. Physical Laboratory, Inc. and the W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project; diary, [1934?]; sketches and blueprints for aerodynamic and solar research, ca. 1921-1935; papers from the record book of the University of Buffalo Physical Science Club, 1923-1929; and bills, receipts, checkbooks, tax records, insurance policies, leases of property owned by Charles Olmsted, and city court papers. Also, correspondence of Mrs. Charles M. Olmsted (Elizabeth Hamlin Macneil), mostly from her children; and ca. 13 letters of the Hamlin and Macneil families, 1839-1881, including letters to D.R. Hamlin.

(5.0 linear ft.).

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Macniel family.

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United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.). Federal Writers' Project.

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Olmsted, Charles Morgan 1881

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Consulting physicist, born in LeRoy, N.Y. and raised in Buffalo, the son of John B. Olmsted. Received Bachelor's degree (1903) and Master's degree (1904) from Harvard, and a Ph. D. in astrophysics (1906) at the University of Bonn, Germany. In 1910 founded C.M.O. Physical Laboratory, Inc. where he did aerodynamic research, designing and testing airplane propellers and an early monoplane. His propellers were used on the first U.S. Navy planes to fly the Atlantic. Research associate at the Universi...

Hamlin, Daniel R. (Daniel Rainey), 1800-1881.

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Olmsted, Charles M., Mrs. (Elizabeth Hamlin Macniel), 1881-1958.

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