Results for "Bicycles"
Transportation Hall, A&I Building
- Date: c. 1890s?
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Visitors to the Transportation Hall, A&I
- Date: 1955
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Blog Post
Going for a bike ride? Don’t forget the camera!
- Date: July 15, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Untitled, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1905, Smithsonian Institution Archives"][/caption] In keeping with our summer travel theme, I began to investigate some of the ways in which photographers were first able to travel with their cameras. To give a brief background, the invention of photography in 1839 coincided with
George C. Maynard Outside USNM
- Date: c. 1900-1918
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Blog Post
Buster Keaton’s Donation to the Smithsonian
- Date: May 4, 2010
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: One of the things we do here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) is keep track of original records about donors and the objects they have given to the Smithsonian—and so we have donor and accession records dating back to our earliest years. Because of this, it’s common to receive a reference request beginning something like, “My great-great grandmother donated a
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes
- Date: 1952 07/18/1950
- Creator: 81st Congress, Sess. 2, 1950
- Creator: 81st Congress, Sess. 2, 1950
Transportation Exhibits, Arts and Industries Building
- Date: 1920 Circa 1920s
- Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory
Steam Tricycle in Front of North Entrance to SIB
- Date: 1888
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Early Automobiles
- Date: April, 1930
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Document
74-4912-01
- Blog Post
Down at the Drive-In
- Date: August 4, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 07-014, Lemelson Center, Exhibition Records, 1997-2005
- Date: 1997 1997-2005
- Creator: Lemelson Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
