Cyanotype, Marine Hospital Service Laboratory exhibit - equipped with apparatus for investigating subjects pertaining to sanitary science - at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.

Here is a look into how the mixed media project of preserving The World Is Yours got its start.

While squirrels get their own special day, the Smithsonian did have an expert about these familiar creatures.

Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894.

Cyanotype, aerial view of buildings and grounds at the World's Columbia Exposition, with Japanese Ho-o-Den Palace on Wooded Island, north end of the Horticulture Building, Woman's Building, Midway Plaisance, and Ferris Wheel in view, Chicago, 1893. 

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See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

Exhibit case filled with West African knives, shields and axes from an exhibition of the Herbert Ward African Collection in the United States National Museum at the Natural History Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, which opened March 1, 1922.

Orangutans at National Zoological Park, 1981-1982, by Jessie Cohen.

Golden lion tamarin group at National Zoological Park, November 1983, by Jessie Cohen.