at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Italian plane from WWII
German plane from WWII
Allied plane from WWII
Messerschmitt from WWII
Japanese plane from WWII
part of an American plane from WWII (see photo of sign)
the Wright Brothers' plane
a Tomahawk missile and some rockets
a mural over the entrance to a new exhibit that wasn't open yet... Icarus.
at the Smithsonian American History Museum... a bus window broken in Boston, 1974 during a protest against integration of schools, and 20th century protest buttons.
more protest buttons and a teapot decorated in protest of the Stamp Act, circa 1766 - 1770.
"Carrie Bradshaw"'s laptop from the tv show "Sex in the City"
C3PO
Martha Washington's gown
Abigail Adams' pearls
Abigail Adams' ivory and gold fan
notice that these are crocheted, not knitted like the sign says
a 19th century Ketubah (a Jewish wedding contract)... There was an exhibit about experiences of minorities in America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This was part of the Jewish section.
Yeah, that's my friend Maria on the right and myself on the left... caught our reflections there. This is a portrait of Sophia Goldsmith.
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise
Rabbi Wise, later in life.
a sample of a peddlers' goods...
a peddler's wife
part of the African American experience exhibit. This is a diorama of the Slave Market in Charleston. I don't know why it's called the "Charleston" Market here. I understood that it was called the Slave Market. It was where slaves could go to sell their goods and produce in town.
A ride from Disney...
The chairs and Archie's hat from "All in the Family"
The real Ruby Slippers from "The Wizard of Oz"
Minnie Pearl's hat
Pieces of the White House that have been removed over time due to renovations and repairs.
Bronze life mask of Lincoln.
LOL! Johnson dart board.
an easy chair that belonged to George Washington
Clara Barton's ambulance
The Gunboat Philadelphia.
The chairs from Appomattox, which Lee and Grant sat in during the surrender negotiations, as well as the small table that stood between them.
Propaganda poster from the WWII era. It made me laugh because it looks a bit like Darth Vader, yes?
Patriotic posters from the WWII era.
This just made me laugh. If only such things were used now to get people to join carpools.
Berlin Wall exhibit
pieces of the Berlin Wall
The Stonewall Riots' 40th anniversary exhibit...
A statue outside the National Archives.
Possibly the IRS... I'm not sure...
The EPA
The DOJ
DOJ
National Archives
Street at the bottom of Capitol Hill, facing West.
Memorial to the apanese Americans who were put in internment camps during WWII.
Capitol Building from a street corner as we were on our way to Union Station.
Union Station
What was the USPS Building and is now a Postal Service Museum
Farragut Square
frieze on the DOJ building... Sorry for the bad quality. I took this from across the street in the rain.
Mount Vernon - the home of the Washingtons.
A boxwood given to Washington by Harry Lee. As you can see from the lightpost in the picture, it's enormous.
the Potomac from Washington's back porch.
Some of Washington's "vehicles"... including two riding chairs and a sled.
the wash yard
some sheep
the fruit orchard
trees
the pigs
the Red Devon cattle
Washingtons' Tomb
the sarcophagus of George Washington
the Potomac from the Warf area of Mount Vernon where a dock is built for boats
the farm site at Mount Vernon
manure
the treading barn
separating out the chaff
they let me try my hand at it... don't have any pictures of that though...
slave cabin
the slave cabin garden
the domi chickens at the slave cabin
sheep near the workrooms and greenhouse
"Upper" formal gardens (I think)
My friend Maria!
more gardens
National Cathedral...
Robert E. Lee's window
Stonewall Jackson's window
view from the observation floor at the top of the Cathedral
The White House...
The White House vegetable garden
The White House bees...
My friends, Laura and Maria with me in the middle...
Washington Monument
WWII Memorial
Park to the north of the reflecting pool
Lincoln Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial
Korean War Memorial
The Capitol, the Smithsonian Castle tower, and people walking about on the Mall.
The Smithsonian Castle
people playing softball on the Mall.
The National Botanical Gardens... I wish it had been open when we happened upon it...
The Peace Monument
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
ancient sea turtle
the earliest horse ancestor
dinosaurs...
pteradactyl
saber-toothed cat
can't remember what this guy is... it was definitely a contemporary of the saber-toothed cat though because they were in the same exhibit
Giant Sloths
Wooly Mammoth
a pronghorn, and dire wolves in the background
mummified bison and horse
an Irish Elk
an American Mastodon
a facsimile of a Blue Whale
above is part of a Blue Whale, below is something else... not sure what...
I just thought this was awesome. It looked so real...
above one's head in the Natural History Museum one can see all manner of interesting creatures... among them, the Polar Bear. You can walk underneath him, as he is on top of a piece of glass and look up as if you're a fish under ice.
a Timber Wolf
a Mouflon... a small, wild sheep. The ancestor of all domestic sheep.
a black jaguar... check out those spots! They weren't as visible in person. Sorry for the glare. It was impossible to avoid.
the main floor under the rotunda.
different land and sea going mammals... above are different types of seacow...
from the Western Civilizations exhibit... a funeral mask for a mummy, circa 1st century, Ptolemaic.
Roman mosaic
Mesopotamian (I think) goddess fetishes
the sign reads "Cycladic figure in marble. 3000 - 2000 BCE."
see...
spindle whorls and a warp weight found during the digs at Troy...
see sign in next photo...
Open Pit Kiln...
Soil samples from different states. Here, Florida and West Virginia. \o/
Sample of layers from the dinosaur extinction... see subsequent photos.
Rock from New Zealand... I've since heard that this type of rock is sacred to the Maori. I thought it looked like Kryptonite.
see subsequent picture...
I thought this looked like part of the set of "My Bloody Valentine". It's really part of their exhibit about gems that are mined.
The Natural History Museum.
The "Written in Bone" exhibit about Forensic Anthropology. Awesome, awesome exhibit! My favorite of any that I saw.
This photo details information about the next skeleton, still several photos away...
see the lower jaw where infection ate away at the bone...
here you can see the arrow point that was found in such a way as to suggest that it was imbedded in the soft tissue of the thigh at time of death...
pipe smokers... check out their teeth... The skull on the far left belonged to a 11 or 12 year old boy, and yet there is still evidence that he smoked a pipe.
Close-up of the most obvious of the pipe-smokers. The man on the left was only 26 when he died. The woman on the right was in her 60s.
This goes with the spine where the discs are fused together...
a boy in his mid-teens... most likely an indentured servant... found buried under a trash pit in the cellar of a house.
here is the broken wrist...
tooth-notching...
a baby who died a few months after birth
another infant, buried very soon after birth, possibly stillborn.
a doctor's kit
broken leg that wasn't set right and later became infected, destroying part of the bone... This was Anne Calvert (previously mentioned in the text of the explanation about the baby who died of swaddling). She lived with this injury and it wasn't the cause of death.
A section of her right lower leg was removed at some point by the archaeologists.
The lead coffins previously mentioned in the text of other photos...
I would love an explanation about what happened to this scientist's ribs. He donated his skeleton and that of his large dog to the Smithsonian to be desplayed after his death.
