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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SMUSE1_140705_003.JPG: Pennsylvania State Archives and The State Museum of Pennsylvania Established in 1903, the Pennsylvania State Archives was originally a division of the Pennsylvania State Library which was housed in the Old Executive Office Building (now the Matthew J. Ryan Legislative Office Building) located just south of the Main Capitol Building. There they remained until 1931 when the Library moved to the newly completed Forum Building. Through recognizing that the Archives was not a library per se but the depository of valuable one-of-a-kind records, the Archives was merged in 1945 with the State Museum, also located in the Old Executive Office Building. By the early 1950's, the Capitol Complex was pressed for space resulting in the total clearance of neighborhoods between North and Forster Streets for additional state facilities. This expansion precipitated the widening of Forster Street, from a two-way street, to a major six-lane thoroughfare and accompanying construction of the M. Harvey Taylor Bridge in 1951. Designed by the former Harrisburg architectural firm of Lawrie and Green, the present 12-story State Archives Tower and adjacent State Museum of Pennsylvania Building (originally the William Penn Memorial Museum) were built in 1963. Home to more than 195 million pages of documents and manuscripts, 20,000 reels of microfilm, and over one million special collection items such as photographs, maps and motion picture films, the Archives is truly a treasure trove of the nation's and Commonwealth's history. Likewise, the State Museum, offering four floors of exhibits, exquisitely presents the state and nation's heritage through archaeological artifacts, priceless paintings, decorative arts, dioramas, technological innovations and military objects.
2. SMUSE1_140705_012.JPG: The State Museum of Pennsylvania Since its creation in 1905, The State Museum of Pennsylvania has collected, preserved, researched, and interpreted the cultural and natural history of the state. Over the years, the museum has greatly expanded its collections and modernized its public offerings to serve the needs of succeeding generations of Pennsylvanians. First located next to the Capitol, the museum moved here in 1964. It became part of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1945.
3. SMUSE1_140705_024.JPG: Pennsylvania State Archives Created in 1903 as the Division of Public Records in the State Library, the State Archives safeguards and provides public access to records of state and local government and historical manuscripts. Dating from 1681, original records and papers housed here document the history of state agencies, individuals, places, events, and organizations. In 1945, the Archives became a part of the newly formed Historical and Museum Commission.
4. SMUSE1_140705_031.JPG: The Youthful Franklin, c 1911 R. Tait McKenzie
5. SMUSE1_140705_045.JPG: K. Leroy Irvis
6. SMUSE1_140705_079.JPG: Canal Scene, c 1900 George Storm
7. SMUSE1_140705_084.JPG: Railroad Transportation -- Rockville Bridge, c 1883 Newbold H. Trotter
8. SMUSE1_140705_091.JPG: The Susquehanna River above Harrisburg, 1873 Andrew Fisher Bunner
9. SMUSE1_140705_099.JPG: Juniata River near Lewistown, c 1873 George Hetzel
10. SMUSE1_140705_103.JPG: The Canal Packet, 1883 Newbold H. Trotter
11. SMUSE1_140705_111.JPG: Landscape with Conestoga Wagon and Stagecoach, c 1906 George Storm
12. SMUSE1_140705_119.JPG: Untitled, 2002-2003 William D. Davis
13. SMUSE1_140705_132.JPG: Susquehanna River Showing Starrucca Viaduct, 1866 A. Stover
14. SMUSE1_140705_137.JPG: Nurses' Station, 2004 Bruce Erikson
15. SMUSE1_140705_144.JPG: Portrait of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1865 Samuel Bell Waugh
16. SMUSE1_140705_160.JPG: Parkesburg Murals
17. SMUSE1_140705_167.JPG: Parkesburg Murals In the early and middle years of the nineteenth century there was a taste for decorating walls with elaborate, often exotic landscape scenes. French wallpaper manufacturers made papers depicting Roman ruins, natives on Pacific islands, and Niagara Falls. The same effect could be achieved by painting directly on plaster walls. Itinerant artists who needed work are known to have painted murals in return for room and board. These five painted wall panels were removed from a house in Parkesburg (Chester County), Pennsylvania. Two complete rooms were decorated with these and other scenes (thirteen additional panels, unrestored, are in storage). As a yet unidentified artist painted the murals sometime between 1840 and 1870. The scenes at the far left, center, and far right represent fanciful, perhaps imaginary European landscapes. They are dramatic with their ruins, castle and alpine mountains. The left-of-center scene depicts what is probably the Pennsylvania State Capitol, overlooking the Susquehanna River (this building burned in 1897) and was replaced by the current capitol). Right-of-center is exotic middle Eastern port, possibly meant to represent Istanbul. Although it is possible that the artist sketched these scenes from life and later painted them on the walls of the Parkesburg house, it is more likely that he copied them from prints.
18. SMUSE1_140705_170.JPG: Summer kitchen
19. SMUSE1_140705_259.JPG: Man & Machine Technology in Pennsylvania: The early settlers of Pennsylvania were, for the most part, transplanted Europeans who brought with them a technology based on muscle, water and wind power. Wood and iron were their chief building and structural materials. Agricultural and industrial production depended on tools and techniques that had remained virtually unchanged since medieval times. Since the first settlements in the 1680's, Pennsylvanians in their technical and industrial pursuits have reflected the general changes that have marked world progress -- the simple has become complex; the hand tool has become a machine; muscle and water power have been replaced by the steam engine and the dynamo; and the expansive pleasures of the rural landscape have given way to the confined complexities of an urban world. William Penn's dream has grown from a Colony of planned county towns to a Commonwealth of enormous technological and industrial sophistication. The tools, machines, vehicles and products preserved and shown here document this growth.
20. SMUSE1_140705_262.JPG: Power to Move: Transmission & Lubrication: Early Pennsylvanians depended upon their muscle and those of their animals to farm the land and transport goods. Home manufactures predominated; each man was almost self-sufficient on his farm. The Conestoga Wagon was moved by muscle powered by lubricated by a mixture of pine tar and lard kept in a wooden bucket slung below the axle.
21. SMUSE1_140705_280.JPG: The toll house board gives rates of toll on the National Road between Baltimore, Maryland and Wheeling, West Virginia. Rates were determined by the width of a vehicle's tires -- the wider the tread the less the vehicle paid since narrow tires were harder on roadbeds.
22. SMUSE1_140705_292.JPG: Conestoga wagon bodies did not float across rivers. They were not watertight, had no buoyancy and were loaded very heavily. This wagon could carry three tons of goods. This medium-sized Conestoga Wagon was made in Pennsylvania about 1840 by an unknown maker.
23. SMUSE1_140705_341.JPG: Jet black, with no striping, this Berlin of about 1860 was the property of Simon Cameron when he was Sec. of War during Lincoln's first administration. It is typical of the subdued elegance employed by the very wealthy in their choice of conveyance and appearance during the latter 19th century. Such a vehicle needed no trimmings to tell one and all that its owner was a man of importance.
24. SMUSE1_140705_355.JPG: Cleaning Up the Three Mile Island Accident: On March 27, 1979, the worst accident in the history of the US nuclear power industry occurred at Three Mile Island (TMI) near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A valve stuck in the open position let cooling water leak from the system and caused the reactor core to overheat and partially meltdown. The damaged reactor left the nuclear industry with the unprecedented challenge of cleaning up a major accident. The decontamination of TMI lasted ten years and required specially designed tools and equipment that could be operated remotely without exposing cleanup workers to dangerous radiation levels. The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant sprawls along an island in the Susquehanna River twelve miles downstream from Harrisburg. It contains two reactors that are housed in the two cylindrical buildings. A pair of cooling towers, the tall funnel-shaped structures, serviced each reactors. The reactor on the right, TMI-2 (circled in red), was the one damaged in the accident and has been permanently shut down.
25. SMUSE1_140705_360.JPG: The Rover: Robots proved very useful for cleaning up TMI. This is a test model of a Remote Reconnaissance Vehicle (RRV) that was employed to survey and decontaminate the flooded basement of the reactor building. Nicknamed "Rover," the RRV could be outfitted with cameras, lights, radiation detectors, vacuums, scoops, scrapers, a drill, and a high pressure spray nozzle. Battery-powered, it was remotely controlled by an operator through the flat cable mounted on its reel. From the safety of the control room, the operator watched and guided Rover via a video feed from its onboard cameras. A total of nine Rovers worked four years surveying and decontaminating the basement.
26. SMUSE1_140705_362.JPG: The Rover
27. SMUSE1_140705_369.JPG: TMI: The Rover at Work: The Bechtel Corporation assisted in the cleanup and recovery of Three Mile Island. They produced this film in the 1980s to demonstrate the various robotic devices that were developed to decontaminate the damaged reactor.
28. SMUSE1_140705_372.JPG: Three Long-Handled Tools: On a platform above the damaged reactor, cleanup workers remove the damaged fuel core using specially designed, long-handled tools that enabled them to maintain a safe distance from the radioactive materials. These tools are test models that were used for training purposes. The two pliers-like tools were operated hydraulically to grip, lift and transfer debris into canisters. The other tool was employed to tamp debris into canisters and to measure the amount of space remaining in them.
29. SMUSE1_140705_376.JPG: The Designer: Dr. William L. "Red" Whittaker, Director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, designed the Rover employed in the TMI cleanup. A robotics wizard, Dr. Whittaker has developed robots to work in sewers, map collapsed mined, and collect meteorites. He currently leads a team competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE that will be awarded to the first privately-funded team that lands a robot on the moon. The Robot then must travel it [sic] 500 kilometers and transmit video images and data back to the Earth. Google Lunar X Prize From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) sometimes referred to as Moon 2.0, is an inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge calls for privately-funded spaceflight teams to compete to successfully launch a robotic spacecraft that can land and travel across the surface of the Moon while sending back to Earth specified images and other data. As of June 2014, 18 GLXP teams remain in the competition, and five of those are thought to be making good progress. However, none of the GLXP teams have announced firm launch dates to attempt the prize. The prize expires at the end of 2016 and launch service providers typically require launch vehicle reservation 24 months prior to the date of the launch. Also in June, one GLXP team is scouting co-competitors to travel with it on a common launch vehicle and lunar transit satellite. Astrobotic announced it would be willing to share a single "ride" to the Moon with up to four competitors. The shared transporter, including a shared Lunar landing, would result in a common start time for a race to achieve the 500 m lunar-surface distance-traveled objective. However, Astrobotic had not yet lined up its own launch arrangements with 18 months left in the competition.
30. SMUSE1_140705_386.JPG: Nuclear Energy in Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania has pioneered the development of various sources of energy, including nuclear power. The first commercial nuclear power plant in America opened at Shippingport, Beaver County, in 1957. Currently, there are five nuclear power plants online in the Commonwealth, and they generate 35% of our electricity. Two plants, including Shippingport, have been decommissioned.
31. SMUSE1_140705_405.JPG: The Discovery of Oil Petroleum: Early uses of petroleum ranged from fuel for lighting devices to lubrication for fast-moving machinery. In the form of gasoline, petroleum has revolutionized our world.
32. SMUSE1_140705_421.JPG: Television, developed during the late 1920s and early 30s, has far surpassed radio as a means of communication and entertainment. This RCA table model was made about 1948.
33. SMUSE1_140705_424.JPG: Charles M. Kearns, son of a carriage maker, designed his first automobile in 1903 and built this car, known as the Lulu, in 1913 in Beavertown, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The Lulu has a four cylinder, water-cooled engine with a three-speed transmission. It sold for $398 and 40 miles per gallon of gas. Various specimens salvaged from the Kearns factory in Beavertown and the drafting table on which the car was designed are displayed here.
34. SMUSE1_140705_433.JPG: Radio, the wireless transmission of signals by high frequency waves, was at first limited to coded signals like the telegraph. By 1920 KDKA, the first commercial station in America was on the air and thousands of "hams" began building their own radio sets.
35. SMUSE1_140705_446.JPG: The telegraph was developed by Samuel F. B. Morse in the late 1830s. The telegraph key sent messages in Morse Code to a recorder which received the message and recorded it by punching holes in a tape. The telegraph used electric current to achieve instantaneous communication.
36. SMUSE1_140705_450.JPG: The telephone, unlike the telegraph which sent coded messages, provided direct person to person communication. By the early 20th century telephones were in use in the city and the country.
37. SMUSE1_140705_460.JPG: Wheels for the Wealthy: Millionaire Philadelphia financier, Edward T. Stotesbury, counted this deluxe 1912 Dalaunay-Bellville Torn Car among his fleet of automobiles. A chauffer drove from the open front seat while Mr. Stotesbury and fellow passengers relaxed in the plush rear compartment. The car's chassis was produced in France and its body was made by Brewster & Co. of New York City.
38. SMUSE1_140705_469.JPG: 1948 Deluxe Sedan made by Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan. Manske Packard of Reading, Pennsylvania sold it to its only owner, Neal Okleigh Harris (1906-1982) of Lancaster. It has 96,372 miles on the odometer. Streamlined bodies were first marketed in 1934.
39. SMUSE1_140705_475.JPG: 1920 Sport Model Motorcycle made by the Harley-Davidson Motor Company of Wilwaukee, Wisconsin. The corporation is now headquartered in York, Pennsylvania. The horizontally-opposed, side-valve engine on this cycle was a short-lived experiment.
40. SMUSE1_140705_496.JPG: The Mason-Dixon line is the southern boundary of Pennsylvania. It was surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. This imported English crown stone was placed at mile number 75 in 1767 and is decorated with the arms of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
41. SMUSE1_140705_507.JPG: 1916 Ford Motor T Touring Car The Tin Lizzie As a teenage farmhand, Samuel Treon, of Red Cross, Northumberland County, drove this Ford Model T on errands and to church. Tron was one of many Americans whose first horseless carriage was the famous Model T, affectionately known as the "Tin Lizzie." Between 1908 and 1927 Henry Ford produced over fifteen million of his practical and affordable Motel Ts. Ford's mass-production of the Model T forced many of Pennsylvania's early auto manufacturers who operated small shops out of business.
42. SMUSE1_140705_545.JPG: Dunkleosteus terrelli
43. SMUSE1_140705_579.JPG: Camarasaurus lentus
44. SMUSE1_140705_603.JPG: Marshalls Creek Mastodon
45. SMUSE1_140705_713.JPG: Pennsylvania: Domain of Coal, c 1950 Thornton Oakley
46. SMUSE1_140705_717.JPG: Electric is the Word for Pennsylvania, c 1950 Thornton Oakley
47. SMUSE1_140705_728.JPG: First Geological Survey in Pennsylvania, 1850 William T. van Starkenborgh
48. SMUSE2_140705_001.JPG: Blanchard Gummo End of Day, circa 1940
49. SMUSE2_140705_006.JPG: Betty Hubbard Woman in Evening Robes, c 1940
50. SMUSE2_140705_010.JPG: Shirley Moskowitz Split Level, 1958
51. SMUSE2_140705_020.JPG: Roswell Weidner Dorcas in a Red Dress, 1942
52. SMUSE2_140705_025.JPG: James Gwynne Landscape with Chair, 1982-1998
53. SMUSE2_140705_029.JPG: Harold Zabady Storefront, c 1986
54. SMUSE2_140705_034.JPG: Barbara Mimnaugh Incident in the Park, 2007
55. SMUSE2_140705_039.JPG: Dai Morgan Detour, 2002
56. SMUSE2_140705_048.JPG: Charlotte Schatz Bethlehem Steel #3, 1999
57. SMUSE2_140705_057.JPG: Birth of Our Nation's Flag, c 1892 Charles H. Weisgerber Painted in 1892 by Charles H. Weisgerber (1856-1932), Birth of Our Nation's flag, depicts the story of Betsy Ross's alleged 1776 creation of our Nation's first flag in Philadelphia. This painting was the artist's entry in a Philadelphia competition, won a $1,000 prize, and was exhibited in The Pennsylvania Pavilion at the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893. In Birth of Our Nation's Flag, the Philadelphia seamstress presents the flag to George Washington, Colonel George Ross, and the Honorable Robert Morris. Washington, on the left, gestures toward Betsy Ross; Morris sits on the right, and Colonel Ross stands in the rear. Betsy is seated across from Washington with the Stars and Stripes draped over her lap. His sewing tools next to her, with scraps of material lying at her feet, she appears to have just completed the historic task as rays of sunlight pour from a window. So great was public interest in this image that beginning in 1895 Weisgerber had 2,000,000 chromolithographs printed. These prints of Birth of Our Nation's Flag were on view across the country in public buildings, homes, in school and history books, and were largely responsible for elevating Betsy Ross as an American heroine. In 1898, Weisgerber and others formed the American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association and began accepting members for a ten-cent subscription fee. Money raised from the sale of prints and membership fees was used to purchase the American Flag House, now known as the Betsy Ross House, 239 Arch Street, Philadelphia. The artist lived in the house and began the restoration. His son, Vexil Domus, was born there in 1902 and would continue his father's efforts to see that the house was forever preserved. Birth of Our Nation's Flag was exhibited in Sacramento, California, 1896; Jamestown Exposition, 1907; Chicago World's Fair, 1934; alongside the Liberty Bell at war bond rallies; the State Library and Museum in Harrisburg, 1938-1962, and in Philadelphia at the Republican National Convention Political Fest 2000. In 1952, a three-cent US Postal Stamp, depicting this image, was issued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Betsy Ross's birth. The story of Betsy Ross (1752-1836) and the flag is based on oral history passed down from Ross's daughters and presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1870 by her grandson, William J. Canby. Historical documents in the form of receipts prove that Betsy Ross made flags for Pennsylvania State Navy. However, no documents have been found proving or disproving she made the Nation's original flag or that the event occurred as immortalized in Birth of Our Nation's Flag. Some historians attribute the flag to Francis Hopkinson, a New Jersey Delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Whatever the actual events of 1776, this painting, Birth of Our Nation's Flag, and this artist, Charles Weisgerber and his descendants, have insured Betsy Ross's enduring and sentimental place in American history.
58. SMUSE2_140705_069.JPG: George Malick So Your Children Call Tell Their Children, 1976
59. SMUSE2_140705_076.JPG: Clifford Lamoree Romantic View of Nuclear Power, 1994
60. SMUSE2_140705_105.JPG: Philip Lindsey The Tablet
61. SMUSE2_140705_117.JPG: A Fondness for Birds Pennsylvania's Alexander Wilson Two hundred years ago, a Scottish immigrant settled in Pennsylvania and launched a passion for American birds that resonates today.
62. SMUSE2_140705_121.JPG: Alexander Wilson arrived in Philadelphia at a time when the city was the unofficial capital of American literary, scientific, and artistic endeavors. He befriended a number of Pennsylvania's noted citizen-scientists, including naturalist William Bartram, who would become his mentor, as well as artist and museum pioneer Charles Willson Peale. Peale included a depiction of Alexander Wilson, standing with arms crossed, middle left, in Exhumation of the Mastodon (1806-1807). Peale and his family are seen with the bone sketch, right. Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813 The son of a whiskey distiller, Alexander Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1766 and apprenticed as a weaver. As a young man, he became known for literary verse and his strong political opinions. In 1791, Wilson was arrested and convicted for libel after writing a poem protesting labor conditions in a local silk mill. Attracted by the promise of independence and a fresh start in the newly formed United States, Wilson immigrated with his nephew to Philadelphia in 1794. He found work as a school teacher, but developed a fascination with the New World's flora and fauna. Wilson soon began using his artistic talents to record the natural world of his newly adopted country. In the early 1800s he took up pencil, sketchbook, and knapsack and traveled throughout Pennsylvania and much of the eastern United States to identity and draw America's birds. His detailed bird portraits were subsequently compiled in American Ornithology, a multi-volume set of hand-colored engravings with descriptive text, and sold to subscribers across the country. Hailed as the first artist-writer to scientifically capture and document North American birds from life, Wilson's work preceded John James Audubon's more well-known illustrations by a decade. Wilson died in Philadelphia in 1813 before completing American Ornithology, but the posthumous publication of its final two volumes secured his legacy as the "father of American ornithology."
63. SMUSE2_140705_127.JPG: Pennsylvania landscape, c 1886 Edmund Darch Lewis
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Wikipedia Description: State Museum of Pennsylvania
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The State Museum of Pennsylvania is a non-profit museum in downtown Harrisburg, run by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to preserve and interpret the region's history and culture. It is a part of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex.

The museum includes a multi-media planetarium, as well as four floors of exhibits and displays covering Pennsylvania history from prehistoric times through current events. Visitation averages 315,000 people annually. Among the features are a large collection of artifacts and displays related to the American Civil War, as well as an extensive collection of industrial and technological innovations. Artwork, paintings, dioramas, and other audio-visuals aid in the interpretation. There are over three million objects in the museum's collections.

On March 28, 1905, Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker signed legislation creating The State Museum of Pennsylvania. On March 1, 1907, the museum staff and collection moved into the Executive Office Building. It became part of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1945, and moved to its present building in 1964. It is located adjacent to the State Capitol Building. The building is round and the museum exhibits are located on the ground, first, second, and third floors, with offices of the museum staff and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission on the fourth and fifth floors.
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