Samuel Matthews Vauclain Jr. papers, 1896-1929.

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Samuel Matthews Vauclain Jr. papers, 1896-1929.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752311424

This collection includes Samuel Matthews Vauclain Jr.'s 1896 engineering notes while a student at Central High School; 1904 diary while in Japan; 1904 diary on Japan and Australia; 1904 carbon copies of letters from Sam to his father about Japan; negatives and glass plate negatives of Hawaiian locomotives and Japan; photograph of Samuel Matthews Vauclain Sr.; photographs of Toboggan, New Mexico.; and a Jaffa Temple twenty year debenture bond dated 1929.

2 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8127741

Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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Vauclain, Samuel M. (Samuel Matthews), 1856-1940

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Samuel Matthews Vauclain Jr. (1880-1913) was the son of Samuel Matthews Vauclain, inventor of the compound locomotive. After studying at Central High School in Philadelphia, then mechanical engineering at Cornell University, he began working for his father at The Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1902. Sam was only employed a few months when the company decided to send him to Japan. While staying in Hawaii, war broke out between Russia and Japan. He continued his business trip to Japan...