Racial segregation was still legal in the United States on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students sat down at this Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Politely ...

One of 116 specimens of official pharmaceutical preparations donated by Parke, Davis and Company in 1920 for the pharmacy exhibits. These specimens illustrated a variety of solid and liquid “dosage ...

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH "Entertainment Nation”/”Nación del espectáculo” Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture ...

This upright piano was made by John Isaac Hawkins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1801. Hawkins patented an ingenious small upright piano with a folding keyboard, of which the Smithsonian’s is an ...

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This Original Kodak camera, introduced by George Eastman, placed the power of photography in the hands of anyone who could press a button. Unlike earlier cameras that used a glass-plate negative for ...

Daniel McFarlan Moore photographed by the light of a Moore Lamp. from the Moore Electrical Company ". . . for the economy of operation will much more than compensate for the somewhat unnatural color ...

Original, silk screened, 60 x 40 inch, Day-Glo poster for “The Endless Summer” movie designed by John van Hamersveld. Van Hamersveld was the Art Director for Surfer Magazine and a friend of R. Paul ...

Reebok adopted the Human Rights Production Standards outlined in this pamphlet in 1992. The pamphlet provides factory managers with expectations for working conditions and outlines what rights workers ...

Sebastian C. Adams’s Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History is a colorfully illustrated scroll approximately 27.5 inches high and 22 feet long. Its linen-backed panels are ...

The First Ladies explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations ...

Learn where to eat, shop, and play during your visit to the museum. The main eatery for the National Museum of American History is Eat at America’s Table, serving a changing menu of American regional ...