Winans Papers, 1828-1963
Maryland Historical Society
 

  

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Winans Papers, 1828-1963
Maryland Historical Society

Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
Maryland Historical Society Library
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Baltimore MD 21201-4674
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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.

 


Container List

 

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.