Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.

Laurie M. Penland, Diving Officer for the Smithsonian Scientific Diving Program, has traveled the globe providing diving support and training since 2005. She is also a professional photographer, capturing underwater photographs and videos for the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

Secretary-elect Lonnie G. Bunch III after his appointment as associate chair of the Department of Social and Cultural History at National Museum of American History, October 4, 1991, by Laurie Minor.

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The Smithsonian Institution Archives begins to further implement the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

In honor of National Paper Clip Day, we asked for help from our fellow institutions to show off their paper clip and fastener collections.  So.....♪just hold on loosely, But maybe let go, If you cling too tightly, You're gonna cause a hole (tear or rust mark on the document). ♪

Exterior view of South Shed, looking northeast with Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, in view, April 18, 1974. Built in 1898, the South Shed was used for the preparation of exhibition specimens, and later as the "Bug House." It was demolished in the fall of 1975 in preparation for the Victorian Garden which opened in 1976. 

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Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.