Winans Papers, 1828-1963
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Maryland Historical Society
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Descriptive Summary
Register of the Winans Papers, 1828-1963
MS 916
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
by
William G. LeFurgy
Biographical Note
1797
Ross Winans born in Sussex County, New Jersey
1820
Ross Winans marries Julia DeKay; first child born, Thomas DeKay Winans
1821
Ross Winans first patent -- fulling cloth
1823
Second child born, William Lewis Winans
1828
Ross Wians and family move to Baltimore; Ross Winans devises friction railroad car wheel and axel with outside bearings
1831
Ross Winans appointed assistant engineer of machinery on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
1832
Ross Winans devises eight wheel Columbus car
1835
Ross Winans partnership with George Gillingham to manufacture railroad machinery for the B and O
1843
Ross Winans expansion of works and production; sons Thomas and William L. Winans sent to Russia to assist George W. Whistler in construction of Russian Railroad
1850
Thomas and William L. Winans Contract for the remount of moving machinery of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Railroad, 1850 and partnership with Winans, Harrison and Winans
1851
Thomas Winans returns to U.S.
1856
Ross Winans controversy with Henry Tyson
1857
Closure of Ross Winans Locomotive Works
1858-1878
Ross, Thomas, and William L. Winans work on Cigar boats
1861-1862
Thomas Winans soup house
1861
Ross and Thomas Winans manufacture pikes and [UNK] balls for Confederacy; Ross Winans construction of steam gun; Ross Winans election to Maryland Legislature; Ross Winans' arrest and release by federal troops
1870
Ross Winans publication of One Religion, Many Creeds
1873
Ross Winans construction of Winans Row
1877
Ross Winans death
1878
Thomas Winans death
1897
William Lewis Winans death
Scope and
Content
The Winans Papers, 1821-1963, document the careers and interests of Ross Winans and his son Thomas Winans, railroad engineers and inventors. There is material relating to the manufacturing, patents, and financial affairs of both men, primarily during the years 1835 to 1875. The papers of each are grouped separately, and divided by type of document. The material itself is arranged chronologically. Ross Winans' correspondence is to a great extent concerned with railroad manufacturing and business dealings. There is limited material relating to his activities during the Civil War and shipbuilding. Correspondents include James Brewster, President of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad Co.; Charles Howard, President of the Baltimore and Susquahanna Railroad Co.; A. Joyner, President of the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Co.; Enoch Seurs, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.; Uriah Townsend of the New York Locomotive Works; L.S. Wattson, President of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad Co.; the President and Directors of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co.; P.E. Thomas, President of the BandO Railroad Co.; and Chauncey Books, President of the BandO Railroad Co. In a similar fashion, Ross Winans' accounts, bills, and receipts reflect his heavy involvement with railroad manufacturing. There is also a sizeable collection of material relating to shipbuilding, and a few pieces connected with munitions manufacture during the Civil War. Starting in about 1860, there is a large group of hay receipts and payroll accounts for farm hands. [UNK] Ross Winans must have been operating a farm at this time. The legal papers of Ross Winans include business agreements, indentures, purchase of patent rights, and deeds. There are also articles of co-partnership, apprentice indentures, articles of agreement and a single deposition concerning a riot, possibly directed at Ross Winans' works. This body of papers is wholly oriented towards the business of railroad manufacturing. Ross Winans patent material consists of letters patent and U.S. Patent Office imprints detailing his various improvements. The twenty-seven items deal mostly with steam engines, railraod locomotives, and railroad rolling stock. It is a strong area of the collection, for it appears complete and is very informative with regard to Ross Winans' mechanical ideas. Thomas Winans' correspondence is, like his father's, business oriented. However, little has to do with any one type; rather it reflects the financial interests of a wealthy man who dabbled in numerous projects. He was involved with his father's war munitions works, as letters from Baltimore Police Marshall George Kane indicate. His letter books show a preponderant interest in ship building (1858-1878), as he often collaborated with his brother William Lewis by mail. An apparently complete series of incoming correspondence from Alexander Brown and Sons (Winans' banker) for the years [UNK] provide much information about Thomas Winans' financial affairs for those two years. His other major correspondents included John H.B. Latrobe; Osmun Latrobe; Anson T. Colt; William H. Graham; James Whistler; Baring Bros.; George Brown; Walter Wilkinson; Reverdy Johnson; Blatchford, Seward and Griswold; and Ross R. Winans. The accounts, bills, and receipts of Thomas Winans are not as extensive as are his father's. They are in some respects similar to Ross Winans' in that some deal with the same projects. Thomas Winans can be seen as supplying munitions to the Confederacy and as being engaged in ship construction, both most likely in conjunction with Ross Winans. Other materials of Thomas Winans in the series deal in a scattered way with such things as his wife's clothing; real estate; and freight charges. A strength of the Thomas Winans materials is the extensive number of legal papers dealing with real estate. Thomas Winans must have felt land to have been a good investment, for he made numerous purchases, mostly in the City of Baltimore from 1848 to 1875. This series of documents consists of those real estate legal papers connected with former owners of property bought by Thomas Winans and those papers dealing with his own purchase of property. Much of the property purchased by Thomas Winans went into the grounds of his two large estates, Alexandroffsky and Crimea; but a sizeable remainder probably wastrented out to individuals and businesses. Thomas Winans' papers exhibit some concern for the poor of the city. This is indicated by documents related to a soup kitchen established across the street from Alexandroffsky. Estimates ranging from 600 to 4,000 people were supposedly fed there daily during its operation from 1861 to 1862. The material concerning this project is scarce in this collection, but what does exist is highly informative. The Winans Papers indicate some possible business partnership between Thomas and Ross Winans. There is a small body of correspondence (about 30 items) referring to Mess. Winans Co. or just Winans Co. Some of this material relates to the ship construction carried out by Ross and Thomas Winans. It is likely they collaborated in other areas as well. One of these was a whiskey distillery and distributorship, from which there is a great deal of material. Most all of it consists of whiskey inspection receipts and sales receipts for the years 1860-1861. The other joint effort was the involvement of Winans Co. in the manufacture and distribution of war munitions to the southern sympathetic, Baltimore police force, and to the Confederacy itself. Winans Co. was also involved in a protracted dispute with the U.S. Government. Basically what the documents display is the refusal of a Col. H.B. Brewerton of the Engineering Corps to take back four dredging scows lent Winans until they were repaired by the latter. There is extensive material in the Winans Co. correspondence series concerning the disagreement. Although the papers of Ross and Thomas Winans make up the majority of the collection, there is some material relating to William Lewis Winans (son of Ross Winans and brother of Thomas Winans). This includes a long series of letters from W.L. Winans to his brother Thomas (1858-1862). These letters, contained in a copy book in Box 22, coneern the development of the Cigar boat steamships both were so interested in. Business and personal topics are also covered. The collection also includes scattered and incomplete material of Ross R. Winans, the Hutton Family, and the deBearn family. There is also a small group of items relating to genealogical research on the Winans family, consisting of correspondence, essays, and family trees. There is further material relating to Winans genealogy in the Society's Library.
Introduction
Railroad engineers and inventors, Ross Winans (1797-1877) and his son Thomas Winans (1820-1878), are the principal figures around which the Winans Papers are built. The collection includes the correspondence, legal papers, accounts, bills, and receipts of both men. There is also a variety of other materials such as patents, drawings, designs, photographs, and experimental data relating to steamship building. The collection is strong in documenting the business and manufacturing of Ross Winans from 1835 to 1862. The real estate purchases and financial affairs of Thomas Winans are also well represented.
The Winans Papers number about 1525 pieces of material, including 83 bound manuscript volumes. The span dates are 1821 to 1962, with the bulk of the material falling between 1830 to 1875.
Most of the items in the collection were donated by Mrs. Reginald W. Hutton and Miss Celeste W. Hutton in April of 1948. Thomas Winans gave the Society three volumes of detailed records concerning experiments with the steam yacht Walter S. Winans in 1928. At a later, although unspecified date, Mr. J.G.D. Paul added about 33 other items to the Winans papers, including a biography of Ross Winans by Carlyle Barton, a number of Ross Winans pamphlets (1872-75), a Hutton-Winans scrapbook (1903-1934), and a body of genealogical research material relating to the Winans-Hutton Family. Prior to this most recent reorganization, each of these donations was kept separately. Currently, the material is grouped together as a single collection.
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BOX I 1 - 4 Ross Winans, Correspondence Received, 1833-1867, 72 items arranged chronologically Railroad machinery orders, business inquiries Ross Winans activities early years of the Civil War 5 Ross Winans, Correspondence Sent, 1832-1864, 24 items arranged chronologically Business inquiries, financial dealings, sale of locomotive engines to B and O Railroad Company 6 - 9 Ross Winans, Legal Papers: Business, 1835-1869; 37 items arranged chronologically Partnership agreement, indentures, articles of agreement, suits against B and O Railroad Company 10 Ross Winans, Legal Papers: Real Estate, 1854-1867; 5 items arranged chronologically Deeds, rental of property 11 - 21 Ross Winans: Accounts, Bills and Receipts, 1839-1871; 271 items arranged chronologically Manufacturing accounts, insurance costs, employee wage payments, shippings and freight charges, hay sale receipts, City Passenger Railway Company receipts, statement of income, locomotive engine charges, merchant receipts, Cigar ship 22 Ross Winans Insurance Policies, 1841-1856; 8 items arranged chronologically Policies covering manufacturing works and equipment 23 Ross Winans, Licenses, 1846-1864; 7 items arranged chronologically Patent use permission, wholesale liquor sales, manufacturer licence 24 Ross Winans, Drawings and Designs, ca. 1828-1860; 5 items no arrangement Assorted mechanical designs, primarily for railroad machinery 25 - 29 Ross Winans, Patents, 1821-1859; 27 items arranged chronologically Letters patent, U.S. Patent Office imprints detailing patents for railroad improvements 30 Ross Winans, Tax Assessments, 1844-1853; 4 items arranged chronologically State taxes, real and property taxes 31 Ross Winans, Miscellaneous, Imprints, 1855-1875; 15 items arranged chronologically Railroad schedules, shop rules, patent descriptions, Ross Winan sale of shop equipment, petition to Mayor and City Council BOX II 32 - 37 Thomas Winans, Correspondence Received, 1846-1875; 98 items arranged chronologically Business and financial dealings, Civil War munitions, Cigar boat, Alexander Brown and Sons -- financial accounts of Thomas Winans, Russian railways 38 - 41 Thomas Winans, Correspondence Sent, 1859-1866; 144 items arranged chronologically Business and financial inquiries, Cigar boat, Russian railways 42 - 46 Thomas Winans, Legal Papers: Real Estate, 1848-1875; 40 items arranged chronologically Deeds, indentures relating to puchase of property by Thomas Winans 47 - 50 Thomas Winans, Legal Papers: Real Estate, Papers of Former Owners, 1838-1848; 32 items arranged chronologically Deeds, indentures relating to former owners of property bought by Thomas Winans BOX III 51 - 53 Thomas Winans, Accounts, Bills and Receipts, 1851-1875; 49 items arranged chronologically Freight charges, shipbuilding activities, receipts for munitions, real estate charges and expenses, wife's clothing 54 Thomas Winans: Drawings and Designs, no date; 4 items no arrangement Real estate illustrations and layouts 55 Thomas Winans, Patents, 1856-1858; 3 items arranged chronologically U.S. Patent Office imprints detailing patents of Thomas Winans Buggy Wagon, slide-valve for steam engines, carriage spring guard 56 Thomas Winans and Thomas D. Whistler, Patents, 1876; 1 item U.S. Patent Office imprint -- fishing reel 57 Thomas Winans, Organ Construction, no date; 10 items no arrangement Designs and ideas concerning organ construction 58 Thomas Winans, Employee Duties, no date; 3 items no arrangement Assignment of duties and tasks to estate employees 59 Thomas Winans, Journal Abstracts, 1845-1854; 5 items arranged chronologically Extracts and abstracts of journal not in collection 60 Thomas Winans, Furniture and Household Good Inventories, no date; 10 items no arrangement Detailed inventories of estate property 61 Mess. Winans Co., Correspondence Received, 1861-1879; 25 items arranged chronologically Civil War munitions requests, dredging scows controversy with Brewerton of Corps of Engineers, Cigar boat inquiries 62 - 63 Mess. Winans Co., Correspondence Sent, 1860-1864; 36 items arranged chronologically Dredging scow controversy, drafts of letters to Scientific American magazine concerning Cigar boat 64 Winans Co.: Accounts, Bills and Receipts, 1858-1876; 13 items 65 - 70 Winans Co.: Accounts, Bills and Receipts Related to Whiskey Sales 1860-1862; 236 items arranged chronologically Whiskey inspection receipts, whiskey sales receipts 71 Ross and Thomas Winan, Patents, 1861-1874; 20 items arranged chronologically Steamship improvements for engines, hulls, etc., improvements in paving, abstracts of Ross and Thomas Winans patents 72 Thomas and William L. Winans: Accounts, Bills and Receipts, 1870-1872; 6 items arranged chronologically Steamship building 73 Thomas and William L. Winans, Patents, 1866-1868; 10 items arranged chronologically Steam engine improvements, steamship building improvements 74 Thomas Winans, William L. Winans, and Joseph Harrison Articles of Co-Partnership, October 21, 1849; 2 items Partnership to construct Russian railroad 75 William L. Winan, Extract of Account with Winans, Harrison and Winans, 1850-1862; 1 item Financial tabulations and totals from Russian Railroad Construction 76 William L. Winans, Patents, February 21, 1865; 1 item Gun carriage improvements BOX IV 77 John H.B. Latrobe to Geo. Brown, April 29, 1839; 1 item Patent suit concerning Ross Winans' eight-wheel car 78 Charles D. Gould to G.A. Lepper, Mary 4, 1850; 1 item Steam engines and prices of [UNK] 79 (Unidentified) to C.M. Riller, October 8, 1853; 2 items Patent suit concerning Ross Winans eight-wheel car; imprint drawing of G.S. Griggs patent 80 Wm. Tschudi to J.E. Dall, August-September, 1855; 3 items arranged chronologically Property settlements and claims 81 Sam Blatchford to Geo. W. Whistler, January 25, 1856; 1 item Patents of Whistler concerning Mr. Keller 82 J. H. Alexander to George W. Whistler, February 18, 1856; 1 item Steam fog signals 83 H.R. Worthington and J.A. Worthington to G.W. Whistler, May 16, 1856; 1 item Orders for steam pumps; drawing of same 84 R.S. Dowd to G. Twitchell, October 10, 1856; 1 item Delivery of locomotive engine and tender 85 Edward Israil to Capt. A. Vaughn, January 19, 1859; 1 item Case of Smith vs. Winans and resolution of case 86 Osmun Latrobe to Col. George P. Kane, March 25, 1861; 1 item Regarding funeral of Mrs. Winans 87 Osmun Latrobe to George W. Brown, June 2, 1861; 1 item Winans Soup House 88 Washington Arsenal to Hayward and Bartlett, March 25, 1865; 1 item Machine parts order 89 P.W. Thomas to George Beckenbaugh, May 2, 18--; 1 item Exchange of old coins for new by mint 90 Tom Winans to Mr. Semmes, November 25, 1924; 1 item Cigar boat construction in the past 91 (Unidentified) to Peters (W.), no date; 1 item Railway machinery order 92 Photocopies of Winans Cigar boat material from Scientific American magazine, October 1858, February 1859; 18 items Articles and comments on Winans Cigar boat 93 The Steam-ship Sicila, Illustrated London News, August 24, 1861; 6 items arranged by pagination Article pertaining to Winans Cigar boat 94 Abstracts of Wilkinson letters, 1862-1868; 7 items arranged chronologically Abstracts of letters by W[alter?] Wilkinson not in this collection 95 Extract of Joseph Harrison's Account with Winans, Harrison and Winans, 1850-1862; 1 item Tabulations and totals of finances concerning Russian Railroad construction 96 Papers relating to the Franklin Turnpike, 1863-1875; 5 items arranged chronologically Accounts, resolutions, and correspondence concerning the Turnpike 97 Random Figures, Notes and Imprints Associated with the Winans Family and Business, 1847-1878; 30 items arranged chronologically Fragmentary, miscellaneous material 98 Material related to the Estate of Joseph Hutton and Claims Against it by David Wiley, 1874-1886; 38 items no arrangement Land dispute claims, correspondence and deeds. Not clear as to what relation these papers have to Winans 99 Hutton and Winans Newport Deeds, Abstracts, 1861-1927; 4 items arranged chronologically Abstracts refer to some material in collection, some not in collection 100 The Development...of Chilled Iron Car Wheels, by D.H. Sherwood, August, 1929; 5 items arranged by pagination Study of early work on subject, including John Elgar and Ross Winans 101 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings associated with the Winans Family, 1861-1935; 51 items no arrangement Includes obituaries, wills, stories on Winans, Hutton and de Bearn families; Winans steam gun and cigar boat, Russian railroads and Winans estates 102 Assorted Hutton Family Materials, 1880-1935; 10 items no arrangement Will, insurance policy and deeds of Celeste M. Hutton, deeds and indentures between Ross R. Winans and sisters 103 Description of One-Piece Piston and Connecting Rod: by Reginald Winans Hutton, no date; 4 items arranged by pagination Technical article by R.W. Hutton 104 Longhand Account of Various Railroad Improvements, Especially of John Elgar, Dec. 23, 1857 6 items no arrangement Development and improvement of railroad machinery, in a shakey hand 105 Assorted Drawings, Designs and Pictures Associated with The Winans Family, no date; 20 items no arrangement Pictures of Alexandroffsky exterior and interior; design of compass experiments, fishing scenes, woodcut of Winans Depot 106 - 107 Research and Genealogical Materials Relating to the Winans Family, 1897-1863; 35 items no arrangement Letters to and from J.S.D. Paul, Semmes, Bowes, and Semmes (law firm) concerning Winans genealogy; Wynants family tree 108 The Winans Family, April, 1962; 11 items arranged by pagination Essay on the Winans family by Mrs. Smith 109 Winans Family, December 12, 1932; 1 item no arrangement Essay on Winans - Wynants Family by Mr. Tom Winans 110 The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., August 1947; 1 item Bulletin No. 70 containing biographical sketches of Ross Winans 111 Ross Winans, Railroad Engineer, by Carlyle Barton, Jr., ca. 1940; 1 item Biography of Ross Winans BOX V 1 Ross Winans, Time Ledger Book, 1838-1841 NOTE: Box 5 to Box 24 contain bound volumes only. Each volume is considered to be one item. The arrangement is nearly exclusively chronological. 2 Ross Winans, Ledger 1838-1840 BOX VI 3 Ross Winans, Ledger 1838-1847 4 Ross Winans, Journal 1838-1841 BOX VII 5 Ross Winans Order Book, 1838-1846 6 Ross Winans Orders Given and Orders Filled Book 1846-1854 7 Ross Winans Journal BOX VIII 8 Ross Winans Wage Book, 1847-1877 9 Ross Winans Time Ledger, 1847-1848 BOX IX 10 Contract for the Remount of the Moving Machinery of the St. Petersburg to Moscow Railway, 1850 11 Thomas Winans Journal, 1849-1855 12 Railway Personnel, Tonnage Accounts and Train Routes, March 1853 - May 1853 13 27 Pamphlets of Ross Winans' Publication, 1872-1873 BOX X 14 Ross Winans Orders from July 1855 - October 1863 15 a Ross Winans Cash Book 1855-1856 BOX XI 15 b Winans Co. Ship Yard Rent Book, 1860-1867 16 Winans Co. Day Book 1860-1868 BOX XII 17 Winans Co. Journal, 1860-1873 18 Winans Co. Ledger, 1860-1875 BOX XIII 19 Winans Co. Cash Book, 1860-1877 20 Winans Co. Journal, 1860-1877 BOX XIV 21 Ross Winans, Account of Money Received and Expended For Witnesses in Eight-Wheet Car Case, June 14-July 3 (1852?) 22 Charles D. Gould Atty. in Association with Ross Winans on Eight-Wheel Car Patent, 1852 23 Thomas Winans, Notebook Concerning Cash Transactions, 1869-1873 24 Thomas Winans Wage Book, 1868-1877 25 Winans Brothers in Account with Thomas Winans, 1862-1866 26 Baltimore Locomotive Works: Employers Semi-Monthly Time Book (Hayward and Bartlett), 1865-1866 BOX XV 27 Winans Company Ship Yard Rent Book, 1873-1877 28 Rents, Thomas Winans 1872-1880 29 Thomas Winans Ledger, Jan - May, 1874 30 Thomas Winans Trial Balances, 1862-1880 BOX XVI 31 Thomas Winans Alexandroffsky Ledger, 1859-1861 32 Thomas Winans Alexandroffsky Ledger, 1860-1862 33 Ross R. Winans - Thomas Winans Notebook, 1874-1877 34 Thomas Winans Order Book, 1874-1878 BOX XVII 35 Ross Winans Receipt Book (Blank), no date 36 In Memorium, Ross Winans ca. 1860-1878 37 Reginald Hutton, Fishing Records, 1913-1915 38 Ross Winans Receipt Book (Blank), no date BOX XVIII 39 Thomas Winans St. Petersburg Commercial Joint Stock Bank, no date, Blank 40 Julia W. Whistler -- Will and Division of Property, February 18, 1878 41 H. Vaughn, Master -- Steam Ship Winans, From Baltimore Towards Norfolk, Virginia Log Book, December 3, 1859 42 Scrap Book Concerning Winans-Hutton Family, 1878-1935 BOX XIX 43 Celeste M. Winans (?) Check Book (Alexander Brown and Sons), 1879-1883 44 Ross Winans Check Book (Alexander Brown and Sons), 1875-1878 45 Thomas Winans Check Book (Brown Bros. and Co.), 1863-1867 46 W.S. W[inans?] Check Book (Brown Bros. and Co.), 1860-1863 BOX XX 47 Ross R. Winans Check Book (Brown Bros. and Co.), 1875-1878 48 Check Book (Brown Bros. and Co.), 1860-1866 49 Thomas Winans Check Book (Brown Bros. and Co.), 1858-1860 50 Thomas Winans Check Book (Alexander Brown and Sons), 1867-1868 BOX XXI 51 Ross Winans Wage Book, 1846-1851 52 Thomas Winans Order Book, 1878-1881 BOX XXII 53 to 58 Thomas Winans Daily Account Books (Diaries), 1851-1856 (6 vols.) 59 William Lewis Winans Letter Book, copies to Thomas Winans, 1858-1862 60 Ross Winans Notebook detailing experiment with two locomotive engines (camel and 10-wheel), 1853-1856 61 Thomas and William Lewis Winans, Diary of experiments associated with ship building, 1871 62 Ross Winans, Jr. Copy Book, one page used BOX XXIII 63 Thomas Winans, Financial Record Book, 1846-1848 64 Ross Winans Coal Received, 1856-1861; Rents Received of [UNK] in Patapsco Farm, June 20, 1862 (1 entry) 65 Ross Winans (?) Ledger for Household items, no date 66 Thomas Winans, Address Book; Account concerning work done on House grounds (Crimea), 1856-1857 67 Ross Winans, Address Book 68 Ross Winans, Patents, 1821-1868 (abstracts) 69 Ross Winans, [UNK] Book, 1867-1870 70 Thomas Winans Soup, Soup Kitchen Records, June 1861 71 Thomas Winans, Pocket Ledger, 1854-1858 72 Ross Winans, Pocket Notebook, 1846-1855 73 G.B. (Bartlett?) Order Book, 1860-1872 BOX XXIV 74 Thomas Winans Ledger and Household Accounts Book, Jan.-Dec. 1858 75 Statement of Stock and Investments Owned by Thomas Winans, 1856-1861 76 Brown Bros. and Co. in Account with Thomas Winans, Esq. 1858-1861 77 Gleanings from Various Authors on Sanitary Matters, Selected, Prepared and Published by Ross Winans, 1875 78 Winans Co. Pattern Shop Book, 1860-1860 79 Thomas and William L. Winans Steering Experiments with Yacht Walter S. Winans, 1877-1878 80 Thomas and William L. Winans, Sea Experiments with Yacht W.S. Winans, 1877-1879 81 Thomas and William L. Winans, Experiments at Measured Mile with Yacht Walter S. Winans, 1877-1879 OVERSIZED MATERIAL IN BOX XXIV Folder 1 Launch of the Steam Yacht Ross Winans at Millwall, March 3, 1866; 1 item Folder 2 The Cigar Ship, article, March 2, 1866; 1 item Folder 3 Assorted Drawings, Designs and Pictures Associated with the Winans Family, no date; 3 items 1) Alexandroffsky house and garden plan 2) unidentified estate (photograph) 3) Shoosharry, home of Daniel Wheeler in St. Petersburg, Russia (lithograph) SEPARATE OVERSIZE VOLUMES 82 Ross Winans, Time Book, 1857-1864 83 Views of Alexandroffsky and Crimea, Picture Album, no date Transferrod to Prints and Photographs Division Oversize Articles of Copartnership between Joseph Harrison, Thomas Winans and William L. Winans October 21, 1849 Lithograph - Transportation Engine, adapted for the burning of Anthracite or Bituminous Coal. Lithograph - Ross Winans Improved Coal Burning Engine.