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It includes correspondence and forms regarding workers compensation claims.","This series includes miscellaneous information on Ward boilers, a partial list of vessels built by Ward Engineering (1920-1929), equipment catalogs, patents for inventions of Charles E. Ward from the 1920s, and reprints of articles about Ward boats.","This series includes legal documents, title papers, reports, maps, blue prints, etc., regarding family and business affairs, such as real estate, insurance, and disposition of the Ward estate in the 1940s.","This series includes checks, deeds, leases, agreements, title reports, etc.","This series includes photographs, mostly of Ward engines and boats, and some of the Ward family (ca. 1890s-1920s); two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings regarding Ward Engineering and the Ward family (ca. 1897-1930s); two diaries kept by Charles E. 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This collection consists of business correspondence, U.S. Government business papers, company financial papers, compensation files, deeds, contracts, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, charts, catalogs, information on ships, blueprints, maps, patents, biographical information, and more.","For additional information, consult:\nBobbitt, John M., \"In Pursuit of a Wild Goose,\" Nautical Research Journal, 42 (1997): 197-212 (Regarding research using the Ward ship drawings.) \nMcCabe, Brooks F., and George P. Parkinson, \"The 'Duncan Bruce': A Last Attempt to Revive\nthe Sternwheel Towboat.\" IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 4 (1978):\n43-54. \nParkinson, George P., and Brooks F. McCabe, \"Charles Ward and the James Rumsey:\nRegional Innovation in Steam Technology on the Western Rivers,\" West Virginia History, 39 (1978): 143-180. (This article is extensively footnoted with sources.)","Series include:  \nSeries 1. 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It includes correspondence and forms regarding workers compensation claims.","This series includes miscellaneous information on Ward boilers, a partial list of vessels built by Ward Engineering (1920-1929), equipment catalogs, patents for inventions of Charles E. Ward from the 1920s, and reprints of articles about Ward boats.","This series includes legal documents, title papers, reports, maps, blue prints, etc., regarding family and business affairs, such as real estate, insurance, and disposition of the Ward estate in the 1940s.","This series includes checks, deeds, leases, agreements, title reports, etc.","This series includes photographs, mostly of Ward engines and boats, and some of the Ward family (ca. 1890s-1920s); two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings regarding Ward Engineering and the Ward family (ca. 1897-1930s); two diaries kept by Charles E. 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