Steam Tricycle in Front of North Entrance to SIB

Object Details

Author: Unknown
Subject: Copeland, Lucius D; Watkins, J. Elfreth; Johnston, Frances Benjamin 1864-1952; Casanowicz, Immanuel Moses; Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)

Category: Historic Images of the Smithsonian
: A similar photograph (negative# 5125) of the steam tricycle is also located along with this photograph.
Summary: This photo shows the Copeland steam-propelled tricycle in front of the Carriage Porch at the north entrance Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle) on the Mall. The driver of the tricycle is its inventor, Lucius D. Copeland; the passenger is Frances Benjamin Johnston, who later became a noted Washington photographer. Standing to the left are patent attorney B. C. Poole and an associate, and the builder and promoter of the tricycle, Sandford Northrop. To the right are W. H. Travis and J. Elfreth Watkins, curator of the transportation section in the Smithsonian's U.S. National Museum, 1885-1903. At back right is Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, Assistant Curator, Division of Historic Archaeology at the U.S. National Museum, with a white beard, wearing a dark toque, and facing right.
Contained within: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30A, Folder: 16
Contact information: Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

1888

Physical description: Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Place: United States of America, District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest, Smithsonian Institution Building

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic: Bicycles; Carriage Porch; Clothing and dress; North front; Steam engines; Transportation; Tricycles; Women; Inventions; Inventors