Business correspondence of Carlos French and Benjamin F. French, 1864-1868

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Title: Business correspondence of Carlos French and Benjamin F. French, 1864-1868
Creator: French, Carlos, 1835-1903
French, Benjamin F.
Contributor: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
Date Created: 1864/1868
Description: Carlos French was engaged in manufacturing and is credited with inventing the spiral steel car spring and the corrugated volute spring.
Subjects: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Business & finance
Mechanical spring industry
Business people
Railroad rails
Railroad companies
Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings: Railroad cars -- Springs and suspension
Subjects: Persons: French, Carlos, 1835-1903
French, Benjamin F.
Crane, Henry C.
Durant, Thomas Clark, 1820-1885
Subject: Time: 1860-1870
Subject: Place: United States -- Connecticut -- Seymour
United States -- New York -- New York
Archival Collection: Levi O. Leonard papers
Collection Guide: http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/176
Series Title: French, Carlos, 1868
Series Number: 2
16
Digitization Specifications: Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 scanner at 600 ppi, 8-bit grayscale. Archival tiff available.
Date Digital: 2011-07-27
Rights Management: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Contact Information: Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
File name: index.cpd
Item Type (DCMI): Text
Item Type (AAT): Correspondence
Receipts (Financial records)
Item Type (IMT): jpeg