John Bull Loaned to Dallas Arts District
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Object Details
- Author
- Long, Eric
- Subject
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, January 1985
- Summary
- National Museum of American History's (NMAH) John Bull, the oldest operable self-propelling vehicle in the world, boarding a Boeing 747 bound for Texas, where it will join various other objects from the NMAH collections in "American Anthem," and exhibition opening in the spring for a six-month run, November 1984.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder January 1985
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1984
- Standard number
- 84-15833-23
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Moving of artifacts
- John Bull (Steam locomotive)
- Railroads--Trains
- Engines
- Event
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8910
- Metadata Usage (text)
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