Smithsonian Contributions to History and Technology: Recent submissions

  • King of Desks: Wooton's Patent Secretary 
    Walters, Betty Lawson (1969)
    Three Wooton desks that are in the national collections at the Smithsonian Institution were the inspiration for this paper, which traces the history of the Wooton Desk Company and its products. Wooton desks were purchased ...
  • Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the Museum of History and Technology 
    Knowles Middleton, W. E. (1969)
    This catalog contains a short summary of the history of each type of instrument, accompanied by descriptions of the more interesting or important specimens in the collection, introduced at appropriate places, but set apart ...
  • Eighteenth-Century Ceramics From Fort Michilimackinac: A Study in Historical Archeology 
    Miller,J. Jefferson, II; Stone, Lyle M. (1970)
    The primary objective of this publication is a detailed description of the Fort Michilimackinac ceramics collection (1959-1965), including comments on the manufacture, importation, use, and dating of each ceramic type ...
  • Privateers in Charleston 1793-1796 
    Jackson, Melvin H. (1969)
    The privateer was a privately owned vessel bearing a commission from a sovereign state that empowered her to seize declared enemies of that state on the high seas. Such seizures, or prizes, after due process in the courts ...

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