Photo Gallery: The National Museum of American History turns 50

Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 08:00 YT&Twebzine

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, which turned 50 on Jan. 23, has about 3 million objects and archival materials in its collection. You can see 10 of them in this photo gallery. Read more about the museum here. [Photos courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.]

The ruby slippers worn by Dorothy (Judy Garland) in the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz.
George Washington's Revolutionary War uniform.
The kitchen of cookbook author and TV chef Julia Child.
The portable lap desk designed by Thomas Jefferson and used to write the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
The yellow satin gown and sable-trimmed coat worn to the inaugural balls by Lady Bird Johnson in 1965.
Southern Railway’s steam locomotive No. 1401, one of the locomotives that led President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral train from Warm Springs, Ga., where he died, to Washington in April 1945.
The counter of the F.W. Woolworth Co. store in Greensboro, N.C., where African-American college students staged a sit-in Feb. 1, 1960, to protest segregated eating places.
A restored Bell UH-1H “Huey” helicopter that flew over Vietnam in the 1960s.
President Abraham Lincoln's hat.
Microphone used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his fireside chats in the 1930s.