Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Andrassy, Countess Stella
- United States. National Park Service
- Festival of American Folklife
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, October 1977
- Summary
- At the 11th annual (1977) Festival of American Folklife, Swedish-born Countess Stella Andrassy uses her own solar oven to demonstrate solar cooking as part of the Outdoor Presentation of "America's Appetite (For Energy)". Prominent in the solar energy field, concern for the energy need of the world's poor motivated her lifelong work. She held patents on solar water heaters, stills, stoves, and food driers.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: October 1977
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1977
- Standard number
- 94-2868
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Event
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Folk festivals
- Museum visitors
- Solar Cooking
- Solar energy
- Teaching demonstrations
- Women
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8740
