Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- United States National Museum Dept. of Arts and Industries
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- For more information see the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1885, p. 31-32. There are also other representations of this object in this folder, notably negative number 33196.
- Summary
- Etching of the "John Bull" locomotive engine, which was built in 1831 in England and used through 1861. This artifact was acquired by John Elfreth Watkins, honorary curator of the section of steam transportation in the Division of Arts and Industries of the United States National Museum, in 1885.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 54, Folder: 8
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1885
- Standard number
- 14293 or MAH-14293
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 9 1/2w x 5 1/2h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- National Collections
- John Bull (Steam locomotive)
- United States National Museum
- Artifacts
- Transportation
- Railroads--Trains
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9739
