A scrapbook isn’t always a collection of photographs and memorabilia. For C.V. Riley, it was a place to keep articles.

We’ve been processing audiovisual media collections from the Science Media Group division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. 

Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

Grab your colored pencils. It’s National Color Day!

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

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

Take a listen to clips from an episode of The World Is Yours.

Correspondence between Science Service reporter Frank Thone and Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist Jay Norwood (“Ding”) Darling highlight the evolving wildlife conservation efforts of the 1920s-1940s.

Behind the seemingly objective certitude of a date lies an argument about what counts.

Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, demonstrates horse riding technique of a Dakota warrior.