Reason
Gallery C
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY |
Jefferson Responds to Banneker
![Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to Benjamin Banneker](images/tr022-th.jpg)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to
Benjamin Banneker
Letterpress copy, August 30, 1791
Manuscript Division
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Fulton's Submarine
![On Submarine Navigation and Attack](images/tr024-th.jpg)
Robert Fulton (1765-1815)
"On Submarine Navigation and Attack"
Bound manuscript, August 1806
Manuscript Division
Gift, 1924 (124.2)
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A Historic Message
![Samuel Finley Breese Morse [paper strip]](images/tr025-th.jpg)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872)
Paper strip, May 24, 1844
Manuscript Division
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Samuel F. B. Morse and the Telegraph
![Map Showing the Telegraph Lines in Operation, Under Contract, and Contemplated to Complete the Circuit of the Globe](images/at0125_13s-th.jpg)
Map Showing the Telegraph Lines in Operation,
Under Contract, and Contemplated to Complete the Circuit of the
Globe, 1855
Engraved map with annotations
Geography & Map Division (125.13)
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World's First Telecommunications
Company
![Magnetic Telegraph Company Certificate Account Book (1845-1860)](images/at0125a_4s-th.jpg)
Magnetic Telegraph Company Certificate Account
Book (1845-1860)
Company ledger
Manuscript Division
Purchase, 2004 (125A.4)
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Battles of Manassas
![Telegram to Lowe from Gen F. J. Porter showing "American Telegraph Company" masthead](images/at0124a_4s-th.jpg)
Telegram to Lowe from Gen F. J. Porter showing "American
Telegraph Company" masthead, November 30, 1861
Manuscript Division (124A.4)
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![Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to M. de Condorcet (1743-1794)](images/tr031-th.jpg) |
Praise for
Banneker
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to
M. de Condorcet (1743-1794)
Holograph press copy,
August 30, 1791
Manuscript Division
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The Birth of Data Processing
![Pantograph punch template](images/tr041-th.jpg)
Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)
Pantograph punch template
Manuscript Division
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Franklin on Electricity
![Queries from Dr. Ingenhousz, with my Answers, B.F.](images/tr042-th.jpg)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Queries from Dr. Ingenhousz, with
my Answers, B.F."
Holograph report with annotations, n.d.
(ca. 1780)
Manuscript Division
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Bell's Ring Kite
![Ring Kite experiments, July 7, 1908](images/tr049-th.jpg)
Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Ring Kite experiments, July 7, 1908
Gelatin silver prints
Prints & Photographs Division
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The Navy's Forge Tilt-Hammer
![Tombstone, Arizona (New York: Sanborn Map and Publishing Company, 1886)](images/tr053-th.jpg)
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820)
Navy Yard, Forge Tilt-Hammer
Engineering drawing of plans,
elevations, sections, and details
Graphite, ink, and watercolor,
July 1, 1811
Prints & Photographs
Division
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The Croton Aqueduct
![Croton Aqueduct](images/tr067-th.jpg)
John B. Jervis (1795-1885)
(Old) Croton Aqueduct,
New York Engineering drawing, ca. 1837
Ink and watercolor on paper
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Linda Hall Library, 1995 (123.6a,b)
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Mahlon Loomis's Journal
![Mahlon Loomis Journal](images/tr083-th.jpg)
Mahlon Loomis (1826-1886)
Journal
Mahlon Loomis Papers
Manuscript Division (125.4)
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DNA: An "Amateur" Makes
a Real Contribution
![Letter to Martynas Ycas, July 2, 1954](images/125.6as-th.jpg)
George Gamow (1904-1968)
Letter to Martynas Ycas, July 2, 1954
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division
Gift of George Gamow, 1964 (125.6a,b)
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A New Language: Visible Speech
![Professor A. Melville Bell's invention of Visible Speech Chart](images/at0123a_1s-th.jpg)
Alexander Melville
Bell (1819-1905)
Professor A. Melville Bell's invention of
Visible Speech Chart
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (123A.1)
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A Lifelong Friendship
![Autumn](images/at0123a_6s-th.jpg)
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"Autumn," 1893
Typescript poem with dedication to Alexander Graham Bell
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (123A.6)
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Friend, Mentor and Advocate
![Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell, January 12, 1907?](images/at0123a_3s-th.jpg)
Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell,
January 12, 1907?
Telegram
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Alexander Graham Bell Family, 1947 (123A.3)
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Reason
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INVENTION & SOUND |
Recording Sound
![Gramophone, disc, and List of Plates, 1895](images/tr017-th.jpg)
Emile Berliner (1851-1929)
Gramophone, disc, and "List of Plates,"
1895
Motion Picture, Broadcasting, & Recorded
Sound Division
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A Radio Pioneer
![Schematic diagrams and scientific notes on hotel stationary](images/tr080-th.jpg)
Lee De Forest
Schematic diagrams and
scientific notes on hotel stationary,
ca. 1915
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division (127.1)
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The Bettini Reproducer
![poster](images/vc195.2-th.jpg)
Gianni Bettini (1860-1938)
Poster, ca. 1890
Gift of Robert A. Truax, 2000
Motion Picture, Broadcasting &
Recorded Sound Division
Purchase, 1985 (195.2a, 195.2b)
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Bubble Books
![First Bubble Book](images/at0102b.3as-th.jpg)
Ralph Mayhaw and Burges Johnson
The Bubble Book: The Harper Collins Book
that Sings
New York: Columbia Graphophone Co. and Harper Brothers, 1917
Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded
Sound Division
Copyright deposits (102B.3a,b, 103B.3)
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Reason
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INVENTION & PHOTOGRAPHY |
The First Photographic Portrait
![Self-Portrait](images/ti023-th.jpg)
Robert Cornelius (1809-1893)
Self-Portrait
Approximate quarter-plate
daguerreotype, 1839
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-5001
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Early Street Scene
![trr086.html](images/at0122.5s-th.jpg)
Robert Cornelius (1809-1893)
Eighth and Market Streets, Philadelphia
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, May 1840
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift/purchase from
Marian S. Carson, 1997 (122.5)
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Robert Cornelius, Daguerreotypist
![John McAllister, Jr.](images/at0125.2s-th.jpg)
Robert Cornelius (1809-1893)
John McAllister, Jr.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, May 6, 1840
Prints & Photographs
Division
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A Daguerrian Gallery
![M. B. Brady's New Photographic Gallery, Corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, New York](images/at0121.4s-th.jpg)
Albert Berghaus, engraver
"M. B. Brady's New Photographic Gallery, Corner of Broadway
and Tenth Street, New York"
Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,
January 5, 1861
Wood engraving
Prints & Photographs
Division
Copyright deposit, 1861 (121.4)
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Samuel F. B. Morse
![Samuel F. B. Morse](images/at0125as-th.jpg)
Unattributed
Samuel F. B. Morse
Sixth-plate copy daguerreotype, ca. 1845
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift/purchase from Marian S. Carson, 1997
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Diagonals
![Diagonals](images/at0195.5bs-th.jpg)
Arthur D. Chapman
Diagonals
(Christopher St. from the 8th St. Station of the Sixth Avenue El,
New York), 1913
Platinum print (195.5b)
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Resting Model
![Resting Model](images/at0195.5as-th.jpg)
Anton and Martin Bruehl
Resting Model, ca. 1935
Carbro print
Prints & Photographs Division
Coville Collection (195.5a)
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Photographer and Mentor
![Samuel Finley Breese Morse, head and shoulders portrait, facing front](images/at0125a.1s-th.jpg)
Mathew Brady Studio
[Samuel Finley Breese Morse, head and shoulders
portrait, facing front]
Gold toned, half-plate daguerreotype, ca. 1844-1860
Prints & Photographs Division
U.S. War College transfer, 1920 (125A.1)
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Stereoscopic Innovation
![Broadside advertising](images/at0125.10as-th.jpg)
Broadside advertising
John Stull's invention,
1855.
Prints & Photographs
Division (125.10a)
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Early Stereo Views
![Page from Photographic Views at Home and Abroad](images/at0125.9p1s-th.jpg)
Frederick Langenheim
Page from
"Photographic Views at
Home and Abroad"
Salted paper prints, 1856
Prints & Photographs
Division
Transfer from the Smithsonian Library (125.9)
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The Process
![Two girls](images/at0122_6_3d01991r-th.jpg)
Quinby, photographer
[Two girls]
Sixth-, ninth-, and sixteenth-plate daguerreotypes, between 1850-1860
Prints & Photographs Division (122.6)
Gift/purchases
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A Daguerrian
Self-Portrait
![Self- portrait](images/at0127_3_3c12299r-th.jpg)
Attributed to S.N. Carvalho (1815-1897)
[Self- portrait]
Half-plate daguerreotype, ca. 1850
Prints & Photographs Division
Purchased from Mrs. Jena McNutt, 1974
LC-USZ62-112299 (127.3)
[digital ID# cph.3c12299]
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"Daguerrian
Rooms"
![View of a horse and covered cart in front of white frame building with signs for County House, J. Griggs and L.J. Phillips, Daguerrian Rooms, Thompson, Connecticut](images/at0124a_1_3g04076v-th.jpg)
Photographer unidentified, possibly L.J. Phillips
[View of a horse and covered cart in front
of white frame building with signs for County House, J. Griggs
and L.J. Phillips, Daguerrian Rooms, Thompson, Connecticut]
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, between
1850 and 1860
Prints & Photographs Division
Purchase/exchange with
Dr. Gary Vroegindewey, 1981
LC-USZC4-4076 (124A.1)
[Digital ID# cph.3d02053]
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"Illustrious Americans"
![Tom Thumb](images/at0118_7_3c09908r-th.jpg)
Mathew Brady (ca. 1823-1896) Studio
Tom Thumb (1838-1883)
Gold-toned, half-plate daguerreotype,
between 1844 and 1860
Prints & Photographs Division (118.7)
[digital ID3 cph3c09908]
U.S. War College transfer, 1920
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Independence Square
![Mr. Peale's Daguerrian Rooms](images/at0230as-th.jpg)
Mr. Peale's Daguerrian Rooms
Peale Business Card, ca. 1840s
Manuscript Division (230)
Gift of Mrs. Marion S. Carson, 1996
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Capturing
Niagara Falls
![Self- portrait](images/at0124A.2s-th.jpg)
Platt Babbitt (d. 1879)
Niagara Falls, ca. 1854
Whole-plate ambrotype
Prints & Photographs
Division (124A.2)
Digital ID# cph 3g04611
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!["At Ease" - Military recruiting photo](images/at0243.4s-th.jpg) |
"At Ease"
Frank Errigo (b. 1920)
"At Ease." Camp Pendleton,
California
Original on 4x5 format Kodachrome film, 1943
Ilfochrome print made October 2002
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of The Errigo Archive, LLC (243.4)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05606 ]
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Reason
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INVENTION & MOTION
PICTURES |
A Sneeze Caught On Film
![Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze](images/tr018-th.jpg)
Edison Film Manufacturing Company
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Albumen silver prints mounted
on cardstock, 1889
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-44602
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Advertising Pictures
![American Entertainment Company](images/tr036-th.jpg)
Donaldson Lithograph
American Entertainment Company
Cincinnati: Donaldson Litho., ca. 1898
Prints & Photographs Division
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Mary Pickford in
Through the Back Door
![Mary Pickford in Through the Back Door](images/tr065-th.jpg)
H.C. Miner Litho. Co., New York
Mary Pickford in Through the Back Door
Color lithograph, 1921
Prints & Photographs Division (130.3) |
No Talking, Please!
Movie etiquette cards
Print from lantern slides
Copyrighted 1912
Prints & Photographs
Division (130.4a-f)
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An Early Film
![Souvenir strip of the Edison Kinetoscope](images/at0128as-th.jpg)
W.K.L. Dickson (1860-1935)
Souvenir strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Paper prints on printed
card stock, March 6, 1894
Motion Picture, Broadcasting &
Recorded Sound Division
Copyright deposit, 1894 (128A)
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An Early History of Motion
Picture
![History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and the Kineto-Photograph](images/at0128.3s-th.jpg)
W.K.L. Dickson (1860-1935)
and Antonia Dickson
History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope,
and the Kineto-Photograph.
New York: Raff and Gamon, 1895
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Copyright deposit (128.3)
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Ruth Roland
![The Timber Queen: Episode 11](images/at0130.5s-th.jpg)
Ruth Roland and Frank Lackteen, actors
Fred Jackson, director.
The Timber Queen:
Episode 11,
"Runaway Engine" (Pathéserial: 1922).
Produced by Ruth Roland Serials, Inc.
Lobby card, offset lithograph, 1922
Prints & Photographs
Division (130.5)
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Stenberg Brothers' Poster
![Poster for the release of the Mary Pickford film](images/at0157.5s-th.jpg)
Georgy Stenberg (1900-1933)
Vladimir Stenberg (1899-1992)
Poster for the release of the Mary Pickford
film Little Lord Fauntleroy
[Russian title: The Pretender] ca. 1927
Lithograph and offset lithography
Prints & Photographs
Division
Purchase, GENPAC, 1999 (157.5)
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The Persistence of Vision
![Camel in Motion](images/129b1-th.jpg)
Edweard Muybridge
"Camel in Motion"
Human and Animal Location: an Electro-Photographic
Investigation. . . . 1887
Albumen silver print
Prints & Photographs
Division
Copyright deposit (129B.1)
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Koster & Bial
![Koster & Bial's Music Hall](images/at0130.6s-th.jpg)
Koster & Bial's Music Hall
New York: Strobridge Lithographing
Co., ca.1896
Copyright deposit, 1896
Prints & Photographs
Division (130.6)
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Paper Print Deposit
![Wanted: A Dog](images/at0130a.4s-th.jpg)
American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
Wanted: A Dog
Typescript scenario, 1905
Motion Picture Broadcasting & Recorded
Sound Division
Copyright deposit, 1905 (130A.4)
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Hoyt's Milk
White Flag
![Hoyt's A Milk White Flag](images/at0130_7_0729s-th.jpg)
Strobridge Litho. Co.
Hoyt's A Milk White Flag
Color lithograph, ca. 1894
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ6-426 (130.7)
[digital ID# var 0729]
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Art Wood Collection of Cartoon
and Caricature
![Betty Rubble Driving and Wilma Flintstone Riding in a Car](images/at0130_10bs-th.jpg)
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Betty Rubble Driving and Wilma Flintstone
Riding in a Car, [between 1960 and 1966]
Tempera drawing on acetate film
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of J. Arthur Wood, Jr. 2004 (130.10b)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09907
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Snoopy
![Snoopy Wearing a Yellow Stocking Cap](images/at0130_10as-th.jpg)
Bill Melendez
Snoopy Wearing a Yellow Stocking Cap,
between 1965 and 1985
Tempera drawing on acetate film
Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon
Prints & Photographs
Division (130.10a)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09908
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Reason
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TECHNOLOGY & TRANSPORTATION |
Taking to the Road
![Pierce Arrow](images/tr026-th.jpg)
Edward Penfield (1866-1925)
"Pierce Arrow"
Pen, ink and watercolor on paper, ca. 1907
LC-USZC4-4711, or LC-USZC4-1205
Prints & Photographs Division
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Avanti
![Preliminary studies for Studebaker "Avanti" automobile](images/tr027-th.jpg)
Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
Preliminary studies for Studebaker
"Avanti" automobile
Fluid marker on paper, March 22, 1961
Prints and Photographs Division
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Exxon Logo
![Design Drawing for a logo for the Exxon Corporation](images/at0133.8s-th.jpg)
Raymond Loewy (1929-1986)
Design Drawing for a logo
for the Exxon Corporation
Drawing on tracing paper
with marker, 1966
Prints & Photographs
Division
Purchase, 1990 (133.8)
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A Colonial Road Atlas
![Annapolis to New Kent Court House](images/tr045-th.jpg)
"Annapolis to New Kent Court House"
A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America. New York:
1789.
Geography & Map Division
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On the Road
![The Motorist's Luncheon Book](images/vc132-th.jpg)
May E. Southworth
The Motorist's Luncheon Book.
New York: Harper Brothers, 1923.
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift of Katherine Golden Bitting, 1939-1944 (132)
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The
Erie Canal
![Erie Canal Lock, plan, elevation, and section drawing](images/at0133_11_3g01954v-th.jpg)
Orlando Metcalfe Poe
Erie Canal Lock, plan, elevation,
and section drawing
Graphite, ink, and watercolor on
paper, 1855-1856
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-1954 (133.11)
[digital ID# cph3g01954]
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Washington
Canal Lottery
![Tickets from the Washington City Canal Lottery](images/at0134_3s-th.jpg)
[Tickets from the Washington
City Canal Lottery], 1798
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
(134.3a-g)
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Patent Locomotive Engine
![C. Stephenson's Patent Locomotive Engine](images/at0134_4s-th.jpg)
Benjamin Tanner,
(1775-1848) after William Strickland (1788-1854)
"C. Stephenson's Patent Locomotive Engine"
from Strickland, Reports on Canals, Railways, Roads,
and other Subjects, made for the Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion
of Internal Improvements
Philadelphia: 1826
Engraving with watercolor
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (134.4)
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![Railway Mail Service Postal Memory Map](images/at0133.12as-th.jpg) |
Postal
Memory Maps
Frank H. Galbraith
"Nebraska, NE quadrant," Galbraith's Railway
Mail Service Maps.
Chicago: McEwen Map Co., 1897
Hand-colored manuscript map
Geography & Map Division (133.12a)
[ G&M Digital ID# g4191 rr002520 ]
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Journey by Steamboat
![Silver Springs, Florida, From the Morgan House, Steamboat Approaching Dock](images/at0133_14as-th.jpg)
George Barker (1844-1894)
Silver Springs, Florida, From the Morgan
House, Steamboat Approaching Dock
Albumen silver print, 1886
Prints & Photographs
Division
Copyright deposit, 1886 (133.14a)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09548
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Galbraith's Railway Mail Service Map
![Galbraith's Railway Mail Service Maps, Kansas](images/at0014a_7s-th.jpg)
Frank H. Galbraith
Galbraith's Railway Mail Service Maps,
Kansas
Lithograph mapChicago, 1897
Geography & Map Division (14A.7)
Digital ID# g4151p rr002200
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The Atchison Topeka and Santa
Fe
![A Geographically Correct County Map of the States Traversed by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and Its Connections.](images/at0133_15s-th.jpg)
A Geographically
Correct County Map of the States Traversed by the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and Its Connections.
St. Louis: Woodward, Tiernan, and Hale, 1880
Printed map
Geography & Map Division (133.15)
Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4051p.rr003210
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Everywhere West
![California Excursions of the Burlington Route](images/at0133_16s-th.jpg)
California Excursions of the
Burlington Route.
Chicago: Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad Company, 1886
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (133.16)
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Reason
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INVENTION & FLIGHT |
First Flight
![First Flight, December 17, 1903](images/tr019-th.jpg)
John T. Daniels (d. 1948)
First Flight, December 17, 1903
Modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Prints & Photographs Division
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Wright Brothers National Memorial
![Winning Design for the Wright Brothers National Memorial](images/tr043-th.jpg)
Alfred Easton Poor (1899-1988)
[Winning Design for the Wright
Brothers National Memorial]
Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Graphite and charcoal on paper, 1930
Prints & Photographs Division
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Amelia Earhart's Palm Print
![Amelia Earhart's palm print](images/at0136e.8s-th.jpg)
Nellie Simmons Meier (1862-1944)
[Amelia Earhart's palm print], 1933
Manuscript Division
Gift, 1938 (136E.8)
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Igor Sikorsky's Helicopters
![Journal entry, 1930](images/tr081-th.jpg)
Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972)
Journal entry, 1930
Manuscript Division (136E.2)
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Lindbergh on the Future of
Airliners
![Charles A. Lindbergh to Igor I. Sikorsky, October 2, 1936](images/136e.4p1s-th.jpg)
Charles A. Lindbergh to
Igor I. Sikorsky, October 2, 1936
Typescript letter
Manuscript Division (136E.4)
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S-42 Flying Clipper Seaplane
![S-42 Flying Clipper Seaplane](images/136e.5s-th.jpg)
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
S-42 Flying Clipper Seaplane
Photograph, ca. 1930s
Manuscript Division (136E.7)
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