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Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'

John Luneen Souvenir Scrapbook

Pioneer Zephyr

Orient Motor Buckboard

Foucault's Pendulum

Water Vapor Turbine

Palace of Fine Arts

Curtiss JU-4D 'Jenny'

Blickensderfer Typewriter No. 5

Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 'Mississippi' is a relatively small locomotive, even for its day. The locomotive's smokestack is twelve feet high, seven feet wide, and fourteen feet long. Behind the locomotive's engine is a flatcar that is seven feet wide and eight feet long. This flat car carried the locomotive's firewood and water. Both the locomotive and flatcar are painted black with white trim. Th...
John Luneen Souvenir Scrapbook
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)two postcards from Woonsocket Rhode Island, advertising a shoemaker. The maps are by Rand McNally illustrating the entire fairgrounds, and by David Bradley (farm equipment producer) of Chicago. There is a commercial flier promoting good health with 'Aerated Waters' from the William Corry and Company of Belfast, Ireland and a wallet-sized calendar for the year of 1893 by The ...
Pioneer Zephyr
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A streamlined stainless steel high-speed motor three-car train, powered by a 600 horsepower diesel engine. The train is 197 feet long. It weighs ninety-eight tons.
Orient Motor Buckboard
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A flat board automobile with an air-cooled engine in the rear, a tiller for steering, curved wooden cycle fenders, and four wooden wheels with wire spokes.
Foucault's Pendulum
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the apparent movement of plane of swing is ten degrees per hour.
Water Vapor Turbine
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This water vapor turbine has two sets of horizontal spiral glass tubes connected by three straight vertical tubes and two glass globes. The small turbine is located in the top globe.
Palace of Fine Arts
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An oil painting on canvas by Childe Hassam of the Palace of Fine Arts building at the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. The painting measures thirty-five inches by forty-one inches.
Curtiss JU-4D 'Jenny'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Curtiss JU-4D 'Jenny' is a single-engine biplane. The 'Jenny's' fuselage is painted black and silver, its propeller is black, and its wings are yellow. The plane's height is approximately ten feet, the 'Jenny's' fuselage is twenty-six feet long, and the wingspan is forty-six feet.
Blickensderfer Typewriter No. 5
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A portable manual typewriter (in original carrying case), 'Blickensderfer No. 5 Stamford Conn. U.S.A.' Ideal keyboard, with type-wheel, black keys with white letters. No. 58627.

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Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'

John Luneen Souvenir Scrapbook

Pioneer Zephyr

Orient Motor Buckboard

Foucault's Pendulum

Water Vapor Turbine

Palace of Fine Arts

Curtiss JU-4D 'Jenny'

Blickensderfer Typewriter No. 5

Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'

John Luneen Souvenir Scrapbook

Pioneer Zephyr

Orient Motor Buckboard

Foucault's Pendulum

Water Vapor Turbine

Palace of Fine Arts

Curtiss JU-4D 'Jenny'

Blickensderfer Typewriter No. 5