List of Prospective War Museum Exhibits
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The Smithsonian Institution Archives welcomes personal and educational use of its collections unless otherwise noted. For commercial uses, please contact photos@si.edu. List of Prospective War Museum Exhibits
Prepared by Prof. Holmes.
[[Clerical Stamp]] Office of Administrative Asst. [[handwritten in stamp]] 4530 [[initials over numbers]] [[/end handwritten in stamp]] U.S. National Museum [[/end Clerical Stamp]]
Aeroplanes of all types: Pictures of British, American, German and others.
Air Guns of varied types; Used by the French for destroying trench torpedoes.
Aircraft guns.
Air Ships: Picture of British coastal air ship after a trip looking for German submarines.
Ambulance Service: Pictures of mobile hospital, ambulances, sterilizing and disinfecting wagons.
Anti Aircraft Guns: Pictures representing types used on our own coast, on the Belgian front, French and British. British aircraft gun in action in a French village.
Archeology: Correspondence relative to collecting archeological and skeletal remains in France and Germany.
Personal Armor: Newspaper clippings showing armor for our soldiers. Fencing costume for Troop C at Ft. Myer, Va. Tanks used by the Italians to protect them from the Austrian machine-gun fire. Designing of armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by experts.
Balloons, Zeppelin, Observation Balloons: American parachute on the Lorraine sector with an American crew directing and regulating artillery fire. Observation dirigibles looking for submarines. French aero corps maneuvering a captive balloon. Tuning up one of the engines of the dirigibles at Pensacola. Balloons dropping the President's address in Teuton lines.
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Barbed Wire and Appliances: Showing our "Soldiers of the Sea" how to construct barbed wire entanglements.
Bombs of Many Types*
Cartoons
Camouflage
Camp Outfits and Tents
Catapults - Throwing Devices
Cavalry Outfits
Cemeteries - Tombs
Chemicals and Their Appliances
Correspondence
Defensive Works - Models, photographs, plans.
Dentistry-Appliances
Dirigibles Balloons
Diving Appliances
Dreadnaughts
Equipment - Cavalry, Infantry, etc.
Examinations - Appliances: Mental and Physical.
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Field Glasses
Fire Engines
Flag[[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]]s, Banners of all Nations
Food Supply - Cooking, Serving and Preserving Appliances
Games of all Types
Gases - Chemical weapons, appliances, Defensive Devices
Hand Grenades
Historical Objects and Trophies; all classes of objects connected with persons and events of special historical interest.
Hospital Service
Langley Aeroplane
Laundry Work
Library
Lifting and Excavating Machines
Liquid Fire
Listening Device
Machine Guns
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Magnifying Glasses
Manufacture of War Supplies
Medals - Awards, Prizes and Badges
Megophone
Mementos - Articles of vast range having associations of special interest
Messenger Service
Mines
Miscellany
Models - Reproductions on a reduced scale of all objects too large to be shown.
Money - Of all varieties and peoples
Motors of all types
Motor Cars
Monuments
Mortars
Musical Instruments
Munitions
Naval Vessels - Models
Ordnance, Cannon, Howitzers, Mortars, Field Guns
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Parachutes
Peoples - Nations - Races
Periscopes
Photo Appliances
Pictorial - Photographs, Paintings, Drawings and Engravings
Pistols, Revolvers, etc.
Portraits
Postal Service
Projectiles - Bullets, Cartridges, bombs, hand grenades, shells, etc.
Quadrants
Red Cross
Rockets
Search Lights
Battleships, etc.
Signal Service
Small Arms
Submarines
Surgery
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Swords
Tanks of all Types
Technologic Instruction
Technological Stunts
Telephones
Telescopes
Tents
Time Keepers
Torpedoes
Torpedo Boats
Transportation
Training
Trenches
Trolleys
Uniforms of all kinds
The Allied War Exposition