The Jamestown Fire Department Memorial Museum presents firefighting history via a collection of historic equipment. Collection highlights include a horse-drawn 1894 LaFrance Steam Fire Engine and an 1859 Jeffers Hand Pumper.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Nevada State Railroad Museum is located in Boulder City, Nevada, the city that built the Hoover Dam. The museum chronicles the history of rail travel in Nevada, dating back to the 1930s.
The museum offers train rides, field trip programs, exhibits on railroad history, and the "engineer for an hour" program. The website offers basic visitor information.
The Big Horn County Historical Society and Museum seeks to preserve and protect the history of Big Horn County, MT. To this end, the society operates a museum. The museum includes 23 historic structures on 22-acres of land, previously used as a vegetable farm. The farmhouse and barn are original to the location, while the remaining 21 structures have been transported to the site from within Big Horn County. Three buildings house exhibits, which include horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, early automobiles, and farm machinery.
The society offers exhibits, self-guided tours, and guided tours.
The Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum presents the history of New Jersey's Lake Hopatcong. Topics include the Lenape, Morris Canal, Bertrand Island Amusement Park, and the lake's prime resort years between the 1880s and 1930s.
The museum offers exhibits and lectures.
The Octagon Museum, the oldest U.S. museum of art and design, permits the American Architectural Foundation to share an understanding of and interest in architecture with the general public. The Federal period museum structure was built between 1799 and 1801. However, today, the interior and exterior reflect the period between 1817 and 1828. Collections include more than 100,000 original architectural drawings, 760 decorative arts artifacts, and over 12,000 archaeological items and architectural fragments found during restoration.
The museum offers exhibits and tours. Tours are unavailable during architectural restoration.
The Museum displays artifacts relating to the history of fire fighting on the Comstock and in Nevada.
The museum offers exhibits.
From the Bowery Boys website:
"The streets of New York have been lit in various ways through the decades, from the wisps of whale-oil flame to the modern comfort of gas lighting. With the discovery of electricity, it seemed possible to illuminate the world with a more dependable, potentially inexhaustible energy source.
First came arc light and 'sun towers' with their brilliant beams of white-hot light casting shadows down among the holiday shoppers of Ladies Mile in 1880. But the genius of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison, envisioned an entire city grid wired for electricity. From Edison's Pearl Street station, the inventor turned a handful of blocks north of Wall Street into America's first area entirely lit with the newly invented incandescent bulbs.
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This website is devoted to the life, work, and memory of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the U.S. Of primary interest to historians and teachers are the "Historical Resources and Education" and "Public Programs" sections of the website, which shed light on important events in early 1960s political history, including the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the Peace Corps, the space program, and the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Users unfamiliar with the history of the Kennedy White House might begin with the "Timeline," which puts events important to the Kennedy administration in a larger political and cultural context, or "Biographies and Profiles," which presents a Kennedy family tree and profiles of early 1960s notables such as Fidel Castro, Robert McNamara, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. "White House Diary" further familiarizes users with Kennedy's day-to-day activities as President.
The website also includes hundreds of historical sources including speeches, photographs, telegrams, correspondence, eulogies for Bobby Kennedy, JFK, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (all accessible through an Advanced Search feature), and transcripts of more than 170 oral interviews with notables such as John Kenneth Galbraith (Harvard University economic professor and Ambassador to India), Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, singer Harry Belafonte, and President Gerald Ford. In some cases, the original audio files of speeches are also included. Several lesson plans designed for elementary, middle, and high school students use materials from this archive to address topics such as Kennedy's inaugural address, the Cuban missile crisis, and the civil rights movement.
The National Corvette Museum preserves the history of the Corvette, a variety of sports car. The museum houses more than 50 Corvette models and one-of-a-kind concept cars spanning the history of Corvette. Also on hand are thousands of related photos, movies and videos, advertisements, scale models and rare memorabilia.
The museum offers exhibits and films. Across the street from the museum, the assembly plant offers tours.
"Founded in 1824 in Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is one of the oldest historical societies in the United States and holds many national treasures. The Society's building, designed by Addison Hutton and listed on the City of Philadelphia's Register of Historical Places, houses some 600,000 printed items and over 19 million manuscript and graphic items." The Society's library is one of the preeminent libraries in the nation, housing extensive manuscript collections from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Finally, the Historical Society has paired with Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania through a Strategic Alliance Agreement, and the Society has become "a chief center for the documentation and study of the ethnic communities and immigrant experiences."
The site offers an online catalog, 10 online manuscript collections, an online event calendar, exhibit information along with nine online exhibits, purchasing information for the society's publications, and educational resources, including lesson plans, readings, primary sources, online exhibits, and information on educational workshops.