TY  - GEN
AU  - King,N.
AU  - Wade,Nicholas King
AU  - Wade,William
TI  - Nicholas King family papers,
KW  - Cooper, Mark A.
KW  - King, Robert,
KW  - Wade, Elizabeth Stone,
KW  - King family.
KW  - Wade family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Ordnance and ordnance stores
KW  - War Department
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Arsenals
KW  - Europe
KW  - Iron
KW  - Iron industry
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Pittsburgh
KW  - Ordnance
KW  - Russia
KW  - Public buildings
KW  - Surveying
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Berlin (Germany)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - England
KW  - Philadelphia (Pa.)
KW  - Saint Petersburg (Russia)
KW  - Engineers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Surveyors
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Papers of Nicholas King consist largely of journals (1793-1799) and transcribed excerpts from journals (1792-1811) describing travels in England; his voyage to America and first impressions there, particularly in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; and his work as a surveyor and overseer of the construction of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.  Also includes transcripts of letters from King and his father, Robert King, also an engineer and surveyor; drawings; sketches; and photographs.  Papers of William Wade include a letter to his son, Nicholas King Wade; correspondence (1861) with Mark A. Cooper regarding a test for the strength of iron; visas; and a memorandum relating to his participation in an inspection tour, sponsored by the U.S. War Dept., of European cannon factories in 1840.  Papers of Nicholas King Wade consist of letters (1856) to his sister, Elizabeth Stone Wade, describing his journey from Berlin, Germany, to Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he had a contract with the Russian government to manufacture ordnance.  Also includes genealogies of the King and Wade families compiled in the 1980s
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008111
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008111.3
ER  -