"John Bull" Locomotive Engine
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1885
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 54, Folder: 8
Etching of the "John Bull" locomotive engine, which was built in 1831 in England and used through 1861. This artifact was acquired by John Elfreth Watkins, honorary curator of the section of steam transportation in the Division of Arts and Industries of the United States National Museum, in 1885.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
For more information see the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1885, p. 31-32. There are also other representations of this object in this folder, notably negative number 33196.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 54, Folder: 8
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1885
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14293 or MAH-14293
Color: Black and White; Size: 9 1/2w x 5 1/2h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print