Play Scavenger Hunt and Win a Prize!

This edition of the American Art Online Scavenger Hunt features our recently relaunched photography web site Helios.

Listed below are five questions drawn from information in our online photography exhibitions. If you answer them correctly, you could win a prize!

Send us your answers, along with your name and address, in an email to 1001days@nmaa.si.edu.

Good luck and let the hunt begin!

1. In what year did the Smithsonian American Art Museum officially start collecting photographs?

2. Name two of Clarence White's notable photography students who attended the Clarence White School of Photography in New York City.

3. What are the measurements of the smallest standard daguerreotype size?

4. In what state does the National Champion Sycamore, photographed by Barbara Bosworth, grow?

5. List three different waterfalls depicted in American Photography: The First Century.

We will accept scavenger hunt answers through October 1, 2000. All correct entries received by that date will be entered in our prize drawing. The winner will be notified by email.

Pictured: Dunmore and Critcherson, active 1865–75, Arctic Regions: Hunting by Steam in Melville Bay, The Party after a Day's Sport Killing Six Polar Bears within the Twenty-Four Hours, 1869, published 1873, albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard, 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Isaacs.