Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Arts and Industries Building
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- 1876: A Centennial Exhibition (Exhibition) (1976: Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in the "Torch," August 1975
- Summary
- The steam locomotive the "Jupiter," engine No. 84, as it appeared around 1880. The locomotive was acquired by the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, in 1975 for the "1876: A Centennial Exhibition" in the Arts and Industries Building. The locomotive is one of about 25 of its type to exist, of approximately 25,000 that were manufactured.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: August 1975
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1974 photograph of 1880 image of the steam locomotive
- Standard number
- 74-8184
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 9 1/2w x 3h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Exhibitions
- Trains
- Engines
- Jupiter (Train)
- Santa Cruz Railroad Co
- Artifacts
- Acquisitions
- Steam locomotives
- Railroads--Trains
- Transportation
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8484
