Reason
Gallery C
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY |
Jefferson Responds to Banneker
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to
Benjamin Banneker
Letterpress copy, August 30, 1791
Manuscript Division
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Fulton's Submarine
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 (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, 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)
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, November 30, 1861
Manuscript Division (124A.4)
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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
Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)
Pantograph punch template
Manuscript Division
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Franklin on Electricity
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
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
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
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 (1826-1886)
Journal
Mahlon Loomis Papers
Manuscript Division (125.4)
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DNA: An "Amateur" Makes
a Real Contribution
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
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
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?
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
Emile Berliner (1851-1929)
Gramophone, disc, and "List of Plates,"
1895
Motion Picture, Broadcasting, & Recorded
Sound Division
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A Radio Pioneer
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
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
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
Robert Cornelius (1809-1893)
Self-Portrait
Approximate quarter-plate
daguerreotype, 1839
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-5001
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Early Street Scene
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
Robert Cornelius (1809-1893)
John McAllister, Jr.
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, May 6, 1840
Prints & Photographs
Division
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A Daguerrian Gallery
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
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
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
Anton and Martin Bruehl
Resting Model, ca. 1935
Carbro print
Prints & Photographs Division
Coville Collection (195.5a)
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Photographer and Mentor
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
John Stull's invention,
1855.
Prints & Photographs
Division (125.10a)
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Early Stereo Views
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
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
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"
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"
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
Peale Business Card, ca. 1840s
Manuscript Division (230)
Gift of Mrs. Marion S. Carson, 1996
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Capturing
Niagara Falls
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"
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 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
Donaldson Lithograph
American Entertainment Company
Cincinnati: Donaldson Litho., ca. 1898
Prints & Photographs Division
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Mary Pickford in
Through the Back Door
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Strobridge Lithographing
Co., ca.1896
Copyright deposit, 1896
Prints & Photographs
Division (130.6)
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Paper Print Deposit
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America. New York:
1789.
Geography & Map Division
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On the Road
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
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], 1798
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
(134.3a-g)
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Patent Locomotive Engine
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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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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Typescript letter
Manuscript Division (136E.4)
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S-42 Flying Clipper Seaplane
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
S-42 Flying Clipper Seaplane
Photograph, ca. 1930s
Manuscript Division (136E.7)
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