Indianapolis Speedway Race; Board games; Games; Automobile Racing; Automobile Racing -- Indiana -- Indianapolis
Can you hear the roar of the engines? Can you feel the wind the cars whip around the curve just in front of your eyes? Cars have been racing in the Indianapolis 500 since 1911. With games like this 1930s Speedway Motor Race board game, players...
This 1970s popularized version Frankenstein’s monster is inspired by the 1918 novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. The monster, brought to life by Victor Frankenstein, appears in numerous movies, comic books, and even a few...
Jammu and Kashmir (India); Houseboats; Boats and boating; Boats and boating -- Models
This boat model is from Kashmir, in the far north of India. A houseboat like this might have belonged to Maharajah (Indian royalty). The main boat is fitted with furnishings to make the occupants comfortable. The small boat that follows houses the...
Russia (Federation); Russia; Russia--Folklore; Russia--Social life and customs; Puppets; Toys
This story is about a widower with a lovely daughter who marries a woman who had a daughter from a previous marriage. The stepmother hated her new stepdaughter and made her husband take her away to the forest and leave her there to die. The man...
Cameras; Photography; Polaroid Land Camera; 1950s; Land, Edwin Herbert, 1909-
Before digital cameras, Edwin Land invented a way see the picture right after snapping the picture. His daughter inspired him by asking why she couldn’t see the picture right away. He created a way to develop film inside the camera in the late...
Tortoises; Kenya; Kenya--Social life and customs; Soapstone; Soapstone art objects; Sculpture
The stone from which this sculpture is made, called kisii stone (or Kenyan soapstone), is found only in the Tabaka Hills in Western Kenya. It occurs in a variety of colors, ranging from black to white and even pink. Stones are quarried then...
The first kites were probably flown in China more that 3,000 years ago. Traditionally in China on the 9th day of the 9th month, people launch their finest kites. Children even have the day off from school! At the end of the day, the kites are let...
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901; Political collectibles; Campaign paraphernalia; Buttons; Presidents -- United States; Indiana; Indiana -- History; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1888; Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton represented the Republican Party in the 1888 Presidential election. The campaign gave away banners, buttons, ribbons and bandanas like this one to inspire voters to vote for them. In swing states Indiana and New...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Indianapolis, Ind.); Indianapolis Speedway Race; Sports journalism--United States
For many years, the Indianapolis 500 radio network broadcast booth and the timing and scoring crews were housed in a Japanese-style Pagoda. Newspaper reporters needed a special badge to enter the Pagoda. From the Pagoda, reporters watched the race...
Holidays -- Mexico; Mexico -- Social life and customs; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Day -- Mexico; Saints; Mexico -- Religious life and customs; Christian art and symbolism
When the Conquistadors, 16th-century Spanish explorers who came to the New World, arrived in the Americas, they brought with them many of the traditions of Spain, especially those having to do with religion. It was customary in Colonial homes to...
China; Folk art--China; Paper work; Paper sculpture; Decoration and ornament- China; Paper work--China; China--Social life and customs; Chinese New Year
The art of making decorative papercuts has a long history in China. It developed soon after the invention of paper during the Western Han Dynasty (202 B.C. - A.D. 8). Chinese papercuts are completely hand-cut using only scissors and engraving...
