| Description |
xxv, 470 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- An age of heroes -- Inventions and discoveries -- American experience -- New forms and new realms -- Splendors of nature -- Princess from the land of Porcelain -- Out of Africa -- Collections by Design -- Filigrees, furbelows, and flowers on flywheels -- Index -- Picture credits |
| Summary |
More than four hundred photographs and reproductions, accompanied by an entertaining text, provide an intriguing glimpse of the richly diverse treasures of the Smithsonian, from art masterpieces to historical memorabilia to technological innovations |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Smithsonian Institution.
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| SUBJECT |
Smithsonian Institution. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79053968
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| Genre/Form |
Art.
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| LC no. |
83040203 |
| ISBN |
0810916800 (Abrams) |
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0895990121 |
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