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For those who cannot use the Java "object map" which serves as the primary navigation tool for HistoryWired, we have provided a text-only index of all the featured objects. At the top of the page, a category menu will help you find the type of object you're interested in. Clicking the name of an object will bring up more information in a separate window.

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Arts/Entertainment
Business/Military
Clothing
Computers
Home
Photography
Print/Communications
Sciences
Sports
Transportation

Arts/Entertainment

Arts/Entertainment - Art

Abraham Lincoln's Life Mask

"Art Curb Market" Print

Artist's Studio Print

Baumann Color Print

Brooklyn Bridge Print

Cast of Lincoln's Hands

Currier & Ives Print

Framed Display of Presidential Hair

French Color Print

Jean Charlot's "Malinche" Print

Landscape Etching

Mormon "Sunstone" Sculpture

New Mexico Sculpture

Pencil Drawing, Mickey Mouse

Penmanship Examination

Puerto Rican Mask

Sailors' Scrimshaw

Silk Screen Calendar Print

Spencerian Penmanship

Yellowstone Print

Arts/Entertainment - Toys and Games

Bagatelle Patent Model

Boy's Tool Chest

Howdy Doody Puppet

John Hancock's Baby Rattle

Kermit the Frog Puppet

Performing Puppet

"Superman" Comic Book

Toy Singer Sewing Machine

Arts/Entertainment - Music and Theater

African American Banjo

Benny Goodman's Clarinet

Buddy Rich's Drum Set

Dancing Cow Girls, The

Dizzy Gillespie's Trumpet

Ella Fitzgerald on Vinyl

Harpsichord by Benoist Stehlin

Hollow-Back Violin

Juke Box, Wurlitzer "Bubbler"

Prince's Electric Guitar

Puerto Rican Güiro

Violano-Virtuoso

"White House Piano", The

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Business/Military

Business/Military - Agriculture

Allis-Chalmers Fuel-Cell Tractor

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

John Deere Plow

Lummus Cotton Gin

Rumely 20-40 Oil Pull Tractor

Business/Military - Military

Bugle from the Wreck of the Maine

Buffalo Soldier, Field Equipment

"Cher Ami," WWI Carrier Pigeon

Civil War Paymaster's Chest

General Sheridan's Saddle

George Washington's Sword

George Washington's Tent

Indian Peace Medal, The

Nose Cone, Pigeon-Guided Missile

Rawhide Shield (Early 1800s)

Rawhide Shield (Mid 1800s)

Roosevelt Medal

Star-Spangled Banner The

"Stubby," WWI Canine Hero

Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Medal

World War I Intelligence Test

Business/Military - Money

Brasher Doubloon, The

British Gold Sovereign

Cherokee Nation Bank Note

Confederate $100-Note

Continental Bank Note

1804 U.S. Dollar, The

$50 Union Pattern Gold Coin

1913 "V" Nickel

One-Shilling Bill

Pine Tree Shilling

Ritty Model 1 Cash Register

Saint-Gaudens $20 Coin, The

Silver Center Cent (1792 Pattern Cent)

Business/Military - Timekeeping

Church Tower Clock, Cambridge, Mass.

Gold Nugget Watch and Chain

Pulsar Quartz Wristwatch

Swinging Doll Mantel Clock

Tall Case Clock Dial

Tower Clock Movement

Business/Military - Other

Adlai Stevenson's Briefcase

Anthracite Coal

Carrier Four-Stage Centrifugal Compressor

Dobson Mill Factory Gates

Edison Electric Pen, The

Fleetwood Scroll Saw

Jewish Tailor's Tools

Letter of Praise for the Dental "Engine"

Man and Tusk, Ivoryton, Connecticut

Model Paper Machine

Paper-Bag Machine Patent Model

President Grant's Pen

"Relic of the Patent Office Fire"

Roy Wilkins's Typewriter

Slater Spinning Frame

Slovenian Immigrant's Business Card

Sprayers from a Chinese Laundry

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Clothing

Clothing

Boy's Sailor Suit

Captain Kangaroo's Jacket

Chinese-American Woman's Dress

Custer's Buckskin Jacket

Diana Ross Dress

Dinner Dress from Maison Worth

Flour-Sack Dress

Frances Cleveland, Wedding Dress

George Washington's Uniform

Hell's Angels Vest

Jacqueline Kennedy, Inaugural Gown

John Jay's Judicial Robe

Levi's Brown Duck Trousers

Lucretia Garfield, Inaugural Gown

Mamie Eisenhower, Inaugural Gown

Man's Waistcoat

Mary Harrison McKee's Inaugural Gown

Miss Bergdorf Evening Gown

Pair of Cowboy Hair Chaps

Pat Nixon, Inaugural Gown

Patsy Montana's Vest and Skirt

Playboy Bunny Outfit

Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz"

Seminole-Miccosukee Jacket

Short-Sleeved Sports Shirt

Silk Wedding Dress

Suit for Him, A Suit for Her, A

Western-Style Leather Jacket

Willie Nelson's Jacket

Clothing - Accessories

Abigail Adams's Necklace

Abraham Lincoln's Top Hat

Campaign-Buttons Flag

Cane with Alligator Motif

Celia Cruz's Shoes

Convention Cheese-Head Hat

18th-Century Pockets on a String

ERA Charm Bracelet

Iroquois Woman's Bag

John Quincy Adams's Ivory Cane

Lone Ranger's Mask

Mourning Brooch

Native American Moccasins

Painted Handkerchief

Pennant From the March on Washington

Protective Blue Bead

Puerto Rican Lace Collar

Puerto Rican Pava

Russian Chain-Mail Vest

Shirley Chisholm's Campaign Buttons

Silk Purse From a Sow's Ear, A

Used Chewing-Gum Container

Wedgwood Slave Medallion

World War II Memorabilia

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Computers

Apple Macintosh, The

Baldwin Calculating Engine

Electric Super Code Machine

ENIAC Computer, The

Geometric Model

Hollerith Tabulating System

Internet Camera

MITS Altair 8800 Computer, The

Ramsden's Dividing Engine

"Trash-80" Personal Computer, The

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Home

Home - Ceramics and Glass

Beverage Cooler

Cameo Glass Vase

Early Nineteenth-Century Cooler

Earthenware Figure Group

Eighteenth-Century Glassware

Native American Seed Pot

Native American Water Jar

New England Redware

Nineteenth-Century Teapot

President McKinley's Cup and Saucer

Susan B. Anthony's Cup and Saucer

Two-Handed Bowl and Cover

U.S. Census Pitcher

Home - Furnishings

Belter Sidechair, The

Declaration of Independence Desk

Declaration of Sentiments Table

Embroidered Doily

George Washington's Camp Chest

Mariner's Chest

Parlor Gas Meter

Roofed Japanese Lantern

Table and Chairs of Lee and Grant

Upholstered Armchair

Home - Textiles

Blue and White American Coverlet

Copp Family Quilt

Embroidered Picture

Hester Posey Sampler

Howe's Sewing Machine Patent Model

Nineteenth-Century Quilt

Pocahontas Quilt

Puerto Rican Sampler

Rose of Sharon Quilt

Schoolgirl Needlework

Singer Sewing Machine

Solar System Quilt

Home - Other

African American Fanner Basket

Arabic Coffee Set

Bridal-Gift Doll

Clothespin Patent Models

Cooking Utensils

Decorative Straw-Inlay Cross

Hispanic Retablo

Mary Todd Lincoln's Silver Service

Model of a Victorian Home

Native American Household Shrine

Puerto Rican Sculpture

Silver Reliquary Cross

Tenant Farm House

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Photography

Ambrotype of "Smutty Bear"

American Women Photographers

Augustus Washington Daguerreotype

Birdseye Floodlight Bulb

Building the Empire State

California Shop, The

Copy of Daguerreotype by J.W. Draper

Cover of "Harper's Bazaar"

Daguerreotype of Boy and Girl

Daguerreotype of Daguerre, A

Eadweard Muybridge's Working Proofs

Evelyn Nesbit Platinum Print

Glass Negative of Warehouse Work

Grocery Store, Yuma, Arizona

Groucho Marx's Home Movies

Levi Hill "Hillotypes"

Mathew Brady's Custer

Max Roach, Drummer

Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment

Photographic Timing Device

Photomicrograph

Photonegative of Teddy Roosevelt

Portrait by William H. Towles

Portrait of Walt Whitman

Portrait of Zitkala-Sa

Pre-Inaugural Portraits of JFK

Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.'s Camera

Ruth Ellington Boatwright

Saxophonist Dexter Gordon

Sun to Sun Singers, The

Technicolor Camera No. 1

Tintype

Tom Howard's Ankle Camera

Trombone Player

Tupperware Party

Western Union's "Operating Room"

William Talbot Paper Negative

World's Largest Suspension Bridge

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Print/Communications

Print/Communications - Advertising

Advertisement for Sugar

Advertising Diamonds

Advertising Pamphlet, Eskay's Food

Advertising Tobacco

Afro-Sheen Blowout Creme Relaxer

Electric Adjustable Belt, The

Fabulous Formica in the Fifties

First Breck Girl, The

Magic Catalogue

Maidenform Bra Print Ad

Marlboro Man, The

Modeling Pyjamas and Jewelry

Nat the Bush Doctor

Sales Catalog, Kitchen Fixtures

Suffragette Badge

Two Angels, a Camera, and a Corset

Uncle Sam Advertising Card

Water Heater Ad

Yiddish Shop Sign, New York City

Print/Communications - Print

Brochure, The Drawing Teacher

Building Survey

Carmelite Postcard

Charles K. Harris Sheet Music

Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"

Civil War Valentine Card

Diary of a Civil Rights Activist

Dr. Mary Walker's Pocket Bible

English-Language Poster

Family Account Book

George M. Cohan Sheet Music

Hoe Four-Cylinder Rotary Press

Irving Berlin Sheet Music

Letter from Washington Irving

Letter to Martin & Morris Music

Mergenthaler's Linotype

MLK and the Montgomery Story

Music Manuscript, Duke Ellington

Nineteenth-Century Church Hymnal

Pivotal Typecaster

Post-WWI Liberty Loan Poster

Racine Bells Yearbook

Rotary Perfecting Press

Rubel Offset Lithographic Press

Saturday Evening Post

Sheet from the Gutenberg Bible

Syrian-American Poster

Textbook for Arabic Speakers

Typefounding Materials

Western Union's Kiddiegram

Woodstock Music & Art Fair Poster

World War I Enlistment Poster

World War I Liberty Loan Poster

World War I Motivational Poster

World War I Pamphlet

World War II Poster

WWII Pamphlet on the War Effort

WWII War Production Poster

Print/Communications - Other

Bell's "Box" Telephone

Berliner Gramophone

Campaign Lantern

FDR's Desk Microphone

M*A*S*H Signpost

Morse Telegraph, The

Morse Telegraph Key

Phonograph-Record Cutting Lathe

Segregation Signs

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Sciences

Sciences - Medicine

Bifurcated Vaccination Needle

"Boy in the Bubble," The

Cannula and Trocar

Clyster Syringe

Coca-Cola Syrup Dispenser

Dr. John Hooper's Female Pills

Eighteenth-Century Pharmacy

Koch Tuberculin

Neonatal Hospital Bracelet

One Minute Cough Cure

Papier-Mâché Man

Phrenology Head

Pocket Spittoon

Sewell's Erector Set Heart Pump

Shaker Digestive Cordial, The

St. Joseph Genuine Pure Aspirin

Thalidomide Bottle

Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills

Wyeth Rotary Tablet Press

Sciences - Scientific Apparatus

Bailey's Patent Steam Jack

Binocular Ophthalmoscope

Civil War-Era Nautical Compass

Land Measure Chain

Lewis and Clark Compass

Michelson Mirror Apparatus

Oldest Extant Surveyor's Transit

Reflecting Telescope

Roentgen's X-Ray Tube

Sextant by John Allan

Sextant by Stackpole & Brothers

Spencer Microscope

Surveyor's Compass (1700s)

Surveyor's Compass (1800s)

Surveyor's Level

Surveyor's Vernier Compass

Thomas Edison's Light Bulb

Transit and Equal Altitude Telescope

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Sports

Baseball Autographed by Babe Ruth

Brian Boitano's Ice Skates

Chris Evert's Tennis Racket

Early In-line Skate

Harlem Globetrotters Jersey

His and Hers Rodeo Costumes

Kansas City Monarch's Memorabilia

Muhammad Ali's Gloves and Robe

Race-Car Crash Helmet

Roberto Clemente's Baseball Uniform

Satchell Paige Baseball Card

Soap Box Derby Car

Toots's Duckpin Bowling Ball

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Transportation

Transportation - Water

Boiler of the Indiana

Ceramics from Cleopatra's Barge

Commodore Perry's Mississippi

Flying Cloud Clipper Ship

Gill-netter Model

Gunboat Philadelphia, The

Model of the SS Manhattan

Plans for the SS United States

Tobacco Ship Brilliant

Transportation - Land

Boiler of the Stourbridge Lion

Bridge Cable Sample

Caterpillar Diesel Engine No. 1

Collection of Automobile Emblems

Columbia High-wheel Bicycle

"Dave's Dream" Lowrider

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle

John Bull Steam Locomotive

Nineteenth-Century Farm Wagon

Packard Cable Special

Richard Petty's Stock Car

Steam Locomotive 1401

Tucker Automobile

Western Sidesaddle

"Winchester" Gen. Sheridan's Horse

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