Results for "Transportation"
Sneak Peek 1/20/2020
- Date: January 20, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-805.
Sneak Peek 8/5/2019
- Date: August 5, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-41054.
Sneak Peek 1/16/2017
- Date: January 16, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Museum Specialist Jim Knowles reviews ship plans on a microfilm reader in the Division of Transportation, 71-30-1-12.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
Sneak Peek: 11/30/2011
- Date: November 30, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: "The Torpedo Man" transports nitroglycerine on a horse-drawn cart. MAH-49945.
Tractorcade
- Date: February 21, 2012
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The story of the February 1979 Washington, DC tractor rally organized by the American Agriculture Movement to change agriculture policy.
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I Never Meta-data I Didn’t Like…
- Date: June 10, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: So you know those thousand words a picture is worth? It’s true! Though my idea of what those thousand words should be might differ from yours and that’s why we’re going to talk about descriptive metadata, controlled vocabularies, and levels of access. Boy howdy, sounds like a wild ride, eh? When I was younger and infinitely more creative with how I spent my time I used to
Sneak Peek 1/6/2014
- Date: January 6, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) Locomotive
Sneak Peek 4/6/2015
- Date: April 6, 2015
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Curtis Publishing Company delivery truck on the National Mall, MAH-P64376.
Sneak Peek 5/26/2014
- Date: May 26, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Unidentified Men in Automobile at "Commands Honored" Monument at the Gettysburg Battle Site
Sneak Peek 7/28/2014
- Date: July 28, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Unidentified man looks at the engine under the hood of an automobile on the side of a dirt road, circa 1910s.
Sneak Peek 12/14/2015
- Date: December 14, 2015
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Construction of train tracks near Broadway in New York, MAH-48181D.