Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="436" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance occupying the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History. On the request of President Wilson, the Board of Regents closed the museum to the public on July 16, 1918, making available to the government the ground and two exhibition floors (138,600 sq.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="U.S. National Museum, May 3, 1917, seen from the National Mall, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 45, Box 79, Folder: 10, Neg. SIA2009-2203."][/caption] As part of my work as the historian for the history of the Smithsonian, I’ve been working for the past year on
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="While the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, is still under construction, the 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive is being moved into the building, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="The Alexander Calder sculpture outside the western facade of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, looking towards the Mall with the United States Department of Agriculture Building in the background, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="The 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive shown being moved into the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), while the building is still under construction, 1961, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="The Southern Railroad car arrives at the new Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, The car arrives while the museum is still under construction, c. 1961, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 6, Folder: 6, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Dr. David W. Scott, left, curator and later director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, with unidentified person, 1969, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 26 Folder 3, Negative Number: 94-4412."][/caption]
Description: Help transcribe wine labels for the University of California, Davis, to contribute to the understanding of the post-Prohibition wine industry. [via Hyperallergic]Getty hired its first semantic architect, Rob Sanderson, who will work on their open culture initiatives. [via Iris]A hidden Degas portrait revealed by a particle accelerator! [via NY Times]The California Academy of
Description: Division of Graphic Arts exhibit in Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, with the statue of George Washington, sculpted by Horatio Greenough, in the background, MAH-37158B.
Showing results 481 - 492 of 803 for American Glass Now (Exhibition) (1973: Washington, D.C.)