Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="411" caption="Visitors viewing "Transparent Woman" at the opening of the Hall of Health. This display was part of the Exhibits Modernization Program and was located in the Arts and Industries Building. Assistant Secretary A. Remington Kellogg is the second from the right. Using electronics, sound, and light, the figure of a woman
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="The electricity laboratory in one of the pavilions of the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, around the turn of the 20th century, c. 1890, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 38, Folder 9, Negative Number: MAH-3668.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="The History of Medicine Exhibit on Osteopathy in the Arts and Industries Building, probably in the early twentieth century, Case contains books, diagrams, models, tools and implements, images and certificates, The case also holds a bust, several photographs and a commemorative spoon displaying the likeness of Dr. Andrew
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="An exhibit of rocks and minerals in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, The exhibit includes Balls of Brecciated Marble from Japan in the middle case and other samples of rocks and minerals in the other cases next to it, 1900s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Exhibit of wood technology presented by Rayonier Incorporated in the United States National Museum (USNM), now the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), c 1930s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder 38, Negative Number: 36649."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="382" caption="Samuel P. Langley, 1834-1906, third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906), observing birds in flight from the roof of the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1901-02, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="The History of Medicine Exhibit on the use of vegetable substances in pharmacy, in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, It appears on the floor plan of the 1925 Guidebook and remains there through 1965, c. 1930s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The Apollo 11 Command Module just fitting through the doors of the Arts and Industries Building as it is being moved out to go to the soon to open National Air and Space Museum, August 26, 1975, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A crowd of visitors looking at the lunar sample on exhibit in the Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building soon after it came to the National Air and Space Museum, 1970, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 398, Box 56, Folder 18, Negative Number:
Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.
Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.
Description: Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants
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