Records concerning Arthur Raphael Middleton, businessman and inventor, whose company, The White and Middleton Gas Engine Company, developed and built the engine used by Simon Lake to power the Argonaut, an early submarine, in 1897. Collection includes a biographical sketch, letters, photographs, newspaper articles, brochures, technical manuals, memorandums, and patents concerning Middleton, Lake and the Argonaut.
Collection also includes Marylanders in Cartoon, 1906, with images of the following persons: Governor Edwin Warfield, W.W. Spence, William Pinkney Whyte, Bernard Carter, Judge Henry D. Harlan, Oscar G. Murray, John M. Hood, Reuben Foster, W. Hall Harris, E. Stanley Gary, Carville D. Benson, Thomas J. Shyrock, A.E. Booth, Frank Brown, H.B. Gilpin, Jere H. Wheelwright, B. Howard Haman, Frederick H. Gottlieb, Ernest J. Knabe, Jr., William F. Stone, David E. Evans, William H. Green, Frank A. Furst, William Colton, Charles E. Dohme, Frank V. Rhodes, Judge Charles W. Heuisler, William F. Porter, W.H. Evans, Charles E. Ford, J.C. Whitney, Ferdinand C. Latrobe, Joseph DiGiorgio, James E. Ingram, Padgett, Jerome H. Joyce, Harry G. Skinner, Edgar M. Noel, John Waters, Francis K. Carey, German H. Hunt, John R. Sherwood, W. Bernard Duke, Wallace Stebbins, George W. Gail, Jr. , John C. Hemmeter, Dr. James Bosley, Henry Keidel, Francis E. Waters, Richard B. Chillas, Richard B. Fentress, H. Carroll Brown, W.J.H. Watters, William A. House, Frederick Hertel, C. Hazeltine Basshor, Nathaniel Haven, George R. Willis, Charles R. Schirm, Daniel H. Hayne, G. Clem Goodrich, Charles A. Webb, G. Fred Kranz, James Piper, Murray Vandiver, Arthur Middleton, Edward Crook, Alexander Robertson, James M. Easter, Isaac E. Emerson, Hamilton G. Fant, August Fenneman, George Gunther, Jr. , T. Edward Hambleton, Jacob W. Hook, William B. Hurst, William Knabe, Henry Clay Larrabee, John L. Alcock, Peter Leary, Jr., John J. Mahon, Seymour Mandelbaum, J. William Middendorf, J. Henry Miller, Charles K. Oliver, H. A. Orrick, Laurence Perin, George Poole, James R. Pratt, B. N. Baker, J. Hurst Purnell, George F. Randolph, William P. Robinson, Simon H. Stein, R. B. Tippett, O. A. Turner, Clarence W. Watson, James S. Whiteley, Miles White, Jr., Morris Whitridge, Charles R. Barnett, J. Sawyer Wilson, Thomas Ireland Elliott, Van Lear Black, Thomas T. Boswell, Daniel D. Carother, William J. Donnelly, Henry S. Dulaney, Isador Raynor, John C. Hemmeter, Theodore K. Miller, Henry Brehm, Nicholas P. Bond, Edgar M. Noel, and I. Freeman Rasin.
