The Nugget: California Gold Rush & Sutter's Mill Gold At ...
In a quiet corner of the Smithsonian American History Museum, in a small case in the shipping transportation section, next to a few coins from the 1800s, is a small fleck of gold under a magnifying glass. One would have expected any gold samples to be part of the extensive gold collection held by the Smithsonian in the Natural History Museum ...
Slater's Spinning Frame | National Museum of ...
The Smithsonian's first label for Slater's Spinning Frame was written by textiles curator Frederick L. Lewton in 1912 for an exhibition in the United States National Museum in Washington, D.C.: "This 48-spindle spinning machine, the oldest piece of cotton machinery in America, was built by Slater, and first operated by him on December 20 ...
Surgeon's Burial Pit Discovered - Manassas National ...
Forensic anthropologists from the Smithsonian helped the NPS remove the bones from the site and moved them to a laboratory at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History for further study. By analyzing the chemistry of the bones, researchers determined where the …
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection | Smithsonian Folkways ...
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection is a career-spanning anthology of one of America's most quintessential, celebrated, and influential musicians. Featuring classic recordings, 20 previously unreleased tracks, historic live performances, …
Smithsonian Museum | Allegheny Millwork | Washington, DC
Multi-Family Other Smithsonian Museum Washington, DC 2 of 4 Part of a world renowned museum consisting of museums, galleries, and a zoo that bring history, art, science, and culture alive. An admission free experience for …
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Smithsonian Museum | Allegheny Millwork | Washington, DC. Smithsonian Museum. Washington, DC. 2 of 4. Part of a world renowned museum consisting of museums, galleries, and a zoo that bring history, art, science, and culture alive. An admission free experience for all who visit. Institutional. Back to Portfolio.
Collections :: Electricity | Smithsonian Learning Lab
This collection helps to answer these questions and may spark more curiosity about electricity. This collection was created by Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center faculty member. #SEECStories. Read More ». Optician's Sign. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Electric Heater. National Museum of American History.
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National Museum of American History Division of Physical Sciences (202) 357-2482. On the museum's collection of instruments see W.E.K. Middleton, Catalog of Meteorological Instruments in the Museum of History and Technology (Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969). JAMES CURLEY PAPERS, 1835-41, 1857-89 (3 vols.)
Old Mill, Vermont | Smithsonian Institution
Old Mill, Vermont | Smithsonian Institution. Skip to main content. The Natural History Museum and African Art Museum are closed until January 5, 2022. The Postal Museum and the Asian Art Museum are closed until January 3, 2022. The Anacostia Museum is …
Steel Mill | Smithsonian American Art Museum
Steel Mill. Close. Joseph Stella, Steel Mill, ca. 1919-1920, gouache on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Given in memory of Edith Gregor Halpert by the Halpert Foundation, 1975.39.6. Zoom.
1869 Luckenbach Mill | Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites
The 1869 Luckenbach Mill, located within the Colonial Industrial Quarter was built in a few months on the foundations of the earlier 1751 Grist Mill, which was destroyed by fire in 1869. The mill ground grain into coarse and fine flour. This building functioned as a grist mill until the late 1940s when it became an automobile parts store ...
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Active Museums and Archives. Archives of American Art ... The song's nineteen 4-line stanzas describe the daily work of the mill in different jobs: spinning, weaving, and dressing the finished cloth. ... Help transcribe this material as part of the Smithsonian's #BecauseOfHerStory campaign to share and celebrate the diverse stories of ...
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recorded in the Institution's annual report, Smithsonian Year. COVER: "Teagle" elevator in English cotton mill, ca. 1830 (see Figure 1). Library of Cwigress Cataloging in Publication Data Vogel, Robert M. Vertical transportation in Old Back Bay, a museum case study. (Smithsonian studies in history and technology ; no. 50) Bibliography: p. 1.
A captain, a child, and an elephant walk into a mill ...
Amy Jean Anderson was an intern in the Home and Community Life department at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. In a filing cabinet labelled "Consular Materials" in the Textile Department at the National Museum of American History, is the end of a bolt of plain unbleached cotton cloth, about 40 inches wide by 18 inches ...
Gomez Mill House - Smithsonian Magazine
The Gomez Mill House & Dard Hunter Mill is an internationally significant museum and site listed on the National Register of Historic Places and chartered by the NYS Board of Regents ...
History: Long Island Landscapes from the Smithsonian ...
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan. Old Hook Mill, Easthampton. Edward Lamson Henry, born Charleston, SC 1841-died Ellenville, NY 1919.
Smithsonian Institution Museums in Washington, DC ...
Collectively called the Smithsonian Institution, this world-renowned museum and research complex consists of 17 museums, galleries and a zoo. Explore and learn about everything from the origins of man and the future of flight to the history of art across multiple continents with more than 150 million objects, works of art and specimens to discover.
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Explore the Smithsonian American Art Museum Online. January 22, 2021. Categories: Arts & Culture, Entertainment Walker Mill is just 23 minutes from one of the most famous museums in the world.In fact, this venerable …
Mining Museums - News From The Diggings
Smithsonian American History Museum. 14th St and Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 633-1000. americanhistory.si.edu. Featuring the first nugget discovering at Sutter's Mill, sparking the California Gold Rush.More. Park City Museum. 528 Main St Park City, UT 84060 (435) 649-7457.
Fred E. Miller photograph collection | Collection | SOVA
Collected by William Wildschut for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in 1928. From 1921-1928, Wildschut was a field man for the MAI and collected material from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Canada, and North Dakota on behalf of the Museum. Wildschut most likely collected these photographs directly from Fred Miller in Montana.
Resources :: Bevil Wind Mill Patent Model | Smithsonian ...
DESCRIPTION. Henry H. Beville, the inventor of the "Iron Duke" windmill, was a traveling salesman for a farm implement company in Indiana. He designed the windmill while on the road in …
Old Hook Mill, Easthampton | Smithsonian Institution
In Old Hook Mill, Easthampton, a spirit of ease pervades the scene as men unhurriedly carry sacks of flour from the mill to the horse-drawn wagon. The Hook Windmill was the last wind-powered grain mill, or gristmill, built in East Hampton, New York. ... Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 15A Smithsonian American ...
Gold | National Museum of American History
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Fred Heilbron Collection. The news in 1848 of James Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in California changed the wealth and reach of the nation. Farmers dropped their plows, sailors abandoned ship, and Chinese and others sailed across the oceans to seek their fortunes in mines and streams.
Beautiful Exhibit Spotted At Smithsonian : NPR
Smithsonian American Art Museum. You don't need birders binoculars for Lorna Bieber 's Portrait — an extreme close-up of an unknown 's eye and beak. "It looks massive because the image ...
Milwaukee Lumber Mill, St. Maries, Idaho | Smithsonian ...
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Gus Grissom Memorial at Spring Mill State Park - Spring ...
The Grissom Memorial honors Hoosier astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, one of the seven Mercury astronauts and America's second man in space. The Memorial tells the story of Gus Grissom's life and his contributions to the space program. Exhibits include Grissom's space suit, the Gemini 3 Molly Brown space capsule, other NASA artifacts ...
Solomon Peter, Mill, Oley, Pa., (painting) | Collections ...
Painter: Waldron, James M. K. Search this Medium: Watercolor Type: Paintings Date: 1830 Topic: Landscape--Pennsylvania--Oley Search this Architecture exterior--Industry--Mill Search this Control number:
Mill on a Torrent | Smithsonian American Art Museum
Hermann Herzog, Mill on a Torrent, 1871, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George W. Thompkins, 1976.30
RIHS JOINS SMITHSONIAN YOUTH SUMMIT – Dodge Mill Museum
The Museum is one of fifteen Smithsonian Affiliate organizations who hosted regional youth summits with local activists, scholars, and youth. The summit provided historic context for the actions of 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a Black student in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus and later ...
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