Transportation

• "All Aboard" Giant Plane at Columbus, OH

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  1929

  maker

  Keystone View Company

  ID Number

  2016.0066.124

  accession number

  2016.0066

  catalog number

  2016.0066.0124

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

  Location

  Currently not on view

  maker

  Keystone View Company

  ID Number

  2016.0066.314

  catalog number

  2016.0066.0314

  accession number

  2016.0066

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Looking along the Bridge from Brooklyn to New York

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  1899

  maker

  Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios

  ID Number

  2016.0066.318

  catalog number

  2016.0066.0318

  accession number

  2016.0066

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Hillary

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  c. 2017-01

  Associated Date

  January 20, 2017

  Associated Name

  Trump, Donald J.

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham

  maker

  Cuppa

  ID Number

  2018.0159.13

  accession number

  2018.0159

  catalog number

  2018.0159.13

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• toy, mechanical

  Location

  Currently not on view

  ID Number

  DL.295669.0723

  accession number

  295669

  catalog number

  295669.0723

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Joseph Francis Congressional Gold Medal, United States, 1890

  date made

  1890

  original issue

  1888

  inventor of metallic life-car

  Francis, Joseph

  refused to sign declaration for medal

  Cleveland, Grover

  Introduced legislation to award Joseph Francis the medal.

  Evarts, William M.

  presenter

  Harrison, Benjamin

  designer

  Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

  obverse engraver

  Saint-Gaudens, Louis

  reverse engraver

  Saint-Gaudens, Louis

  editor

  United States Congress, 51st

  manufacturer

  United States Mint

  obverse designer

  Jackson, Zeleima

  reverse designer

  Jackson, Zeleima

  ID Number

  NU.23240.0002

  accession number

  23240

  catalog number

  5694

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• brochure

  Location

  Currently not on view

  Associated Date

  August 28, 2008

  referenced

  Democratic National Committee

  ID Number

  2008.0192.109

  accession number

  2008.0192

  catalog number

  2008.0192.109

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Asbury Park, NJ

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  2008

  maker

  Trundle, Jonathan

  ID Number

  2010.0029.01

  accession number

  2010.0029

  catalog number

  2010.0029.01

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Model of Baltimore & Ohio Electric Locomotive No. 1

  Description

  This is a model of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Electric Locomotive No. 1, which represents the first mainline use of electrically powered engines in the United States. This model is part of the collection displayed in the museum’s Railroad Hall exhibit of 1964-2002 to illustrate the technological development of the locomotive.

  In the 1880s, trains traveling on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Philadelphia were ferried across Baltimore’s inner harbor. This time consuming transfer put the Baltimore and Ohio at a competitive disadvantage with the rival Pennsylvania Railroad, who years earlier had built a line that tunneled beneath Baltimore. In 1895, the Baltimore and Ohio opened the Baltimore Belt Railroad, which tunneled below the city and connected with the tracks north to Philadelphia. Smoke from the steam locomotives that powered trains through the Pennsylvania Railroad’s tunnel became trapped inside, limiting the engine crew’s vision and posing health risks for those onboard. To solve the smoke ventilation problem, the Baltimore and Ohio used electric locomotives on the Baltimore Belt Railroad. Much later, in the early 1930s, the Pennsylvania Railroad electrified its tunnels beneath Baltimore.

  The No. 1 was one of three identical locomotives built for use on the Baltimore and Ohio’s electrified tunnel line. The Schenectady Locomotive Works produced the running gear, and the General Electric Company built the electrical equipment. These locomotives were capable of hauling a 500-ton passenger train at 35 miles per hour. To save time, the engines pulled passenger trains with the steam locomotive still attached; after exiting the tunnel line, the electric engine was simply cut off and the steam engine pulled the train onward. The success of the No. 1 and its two sisters demonstrated the practicality of electric locomotives for mainline service.

  As train weights increased, the first three engines became too light for regular service and were retired in 1916. In 1927, the No. 2 was exhibited at the Baltimore and Ohio’s centennial exhibit. All three were ultimately scrapped.

  Location

  Currently on loan

  date made

  ca 1962

  used date

  1895-1920s

  maker

  Atkins & Merrill Inc.

  ID Number

  TR.321828

  catalog number

  321828

  accession number

  245716

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Model of the 1857 Steam Locomotive, Carbon

  Description

  This is a 1/2-inch scale model of the Carbon, a locomotive built in 1857 by M. W. Baldwin for the North Pennsylvania Railroad. It consists of a 0-8-0 locomotive and an 8-wheel tender. Both are highly decorated with the name Carbon painted on each side of the tender with lining on all sides. There is a panel painting on the sides of the engine cab.

  In 1842 Baldwin designed the flexible-beam truck, a separate frame for the front pair of driving wheels that could shift laterally from side to side but remained parallel with the rear rigidly fitted axles. Intended for slow speed, heavy freight locomotives, the idea was to produce a powerful engine with all wheels connected by rods to the cylinders, but with a flexible chassis so that the machine could negotiate sharp curves and rough track. The design worked well, and the locomotive could negotiate sharp, 150-foot-radius curves. Baldwin built about 300 engines on this plan between 1842 and 1866. The Carbon was retired in 1873.

  Location

  Currently on loan

  maker

  H. Clarkson & Son

  ID Number

  TR.335579

  catalog number

  335579

  accession number

  1977.0251

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• 1926 Stutz sedan

  Description

  The 1926 Stutz sedan introduced two trends in American automobile design: longer, lower cars, and safety features built into the body. The redesigned "Safety Stutz" was noticeably lower than "high hat" sedans of the 1910s and early 1920s. Its safety features included a low center of gravity, which helped prevent skidding, swaying, and tipping over; a wire-glass windshield, an early effort toward shatter-resistant glass; narrow front corner posts for better visibility; and reinforced runningboard side bumpers. The body sat low on the chassis because a worm-gear differential made it possible to place the drive shaft below the rear axle. Some new-car showrooms featured a 1926 Stutz mounted at a 45-degree angle to show how far the safety car could lean without tipping over. Stutz sales literature extolled the car's "road-adhesiveness" and compared it to "a strong magnetic attraction exerted by the earth upon the car's wheels."

  The worm-gear differential used in the Stutz automobile was not widely adopted by car manufacturers, but the lengthening and lowering of sedans continued for decades and had a great impact on styling, manufacturing, and sales. Safety glass became common in the late 1920s and 1930s, but wire glass was replaced by two-layer glass with consolidating material between the layers.

  Eugene Fatjo purchased this car in 1926; he lived in Santa Clara, California, and worked at the Bank of America. Fatjo's granddaughters, Katherine F. Harrington and Candace M. Harrington, donated the Stutz to the Smithsonian in 1994.

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  1926

  maker

  Stutz Motor Car Company

  ID Number

  1994.0278.01

  accession number

  1994.0278

  catalog number

  1994.0278.01

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• An Alpine Elevator to the Clouds, Mt. Pilatus

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  1897

  retailer

  Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios

  publisher

  Jarvis, J. F.

  ID Number

  2008.3019.0020

  nonaccession number

  2008.3019

  catalog number

  2008.3019.0020

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Princess Street, Edinburgh

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  1896

  retailer

  Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios

  publisher

  Strohmeyer & Wyman

  ID Number

  2008.3019.0080

  nonaccession number

  2008.3019

  catalog number

  2008.3019.0080

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• toy, bus

  Location

  Currently not on view

  ID Number

  DL.295669.0201

  accession number

  295669

  catalog number

  295669.0201

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• toy, ambulance

  Location

  Currently not on view

  ID Number

  1971.295669.175

  catalog number

  295669.175

  accession number

  295669

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• toy, bus

  Location

  Currently not on view

  ID Number

  1971.295669.710

  accession number

  295669

  catalog number

  295669.710

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Mutoscope reel: "Inside Car, Showing Bag Catcher, U.S.P.O"

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date filmed

  October, 1903

  director

  Weed, A. E.

  maker

  American Mutoscope Company

  ID Number

  2008.0095.037

  accession number

  2008.0095

  catalog number

  2008.0095.037

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• card

  Location

  Currently not on view

  date made

  1875/1876

  copyright date

  1875

  1876

  producer

  Burch, J. H.

  publisher

  Clay, Cosack & Co.

  maker

  Clay, Cosack & Co.

  ID Number

  2009.0245.187

  accession number

  2009.0245

  catalog number

  2009.0245.187

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Pepper Spray Canister

  Location

  Currently not on view

  maker

  Pepper Spray Cincinnati

  ID Number

  2011.3058.45

  catalog number

  2011.3058.45

  nonaccession number

  2011.3058

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

• Two young girls standing on car bumper

  Location

  Currently not on view

  ID Number

  2006.0108.451

  catalog number

  2006.0108.451

  accession number

  2006.0108

  Data Source

  National Museum of American History

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