American Heritage Center

Shaft was a 1970s era book and movie series and television show. It starred Richard Roundtree as Shaft, New York City’s first fictitious Black private-eye detective.

The inaugural flight carrying airmail occurred on May 15, 1918. President Woodrow Wilson witnessed the takeoff from the Washington D.C. polo grounds. The plane was destined for New York by way of Philadelphia.

Actor Peter Lorre performed in more than 80 films, both in the U.S. and internationally. He is best remembered for his villainous leading role in the movie M.

McClelland “Mac” Barclay devoted his considerable artistic talent to the U.S. Navy where he became one of the artists sent out to record World War II on canvas.

In the 1920s, Constantine Peter Arnold threw an annual winter picnic at the foot of the Snowy Range to celebrate his February birthday. His elaborate invitations promised guests either “snow or sunshine, only the fool weatherman knows which it will be”.

Multi-talented Paul Newman was one of film’s most dominant male stars from the mid-1950s through to his retirement from acting in 2007.

Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereals fortune, was a savvy businesswoman and a philanthropist. She built Mar-a-Lago, her Palm Beach, Florida estate in 1927.

Disney’s 1960 film Swiss Family Robinson was a box office hit. The cast included a whole menagerie of animals, including a tobacco loving zebra named Kitty.

Roscoe Turner was a pilot who helped publicize and romanticize aviation during the 1920s and 1930s. He regularly broke air speed records and won multiple air speed trophies.

Roscoe Turner was a pilot who helped publicize and romanticize aviation during the 1920s and 1930s. He regularly broke air speed records and won multiple air speed trophies.