Description: We’re getting into the middle of the summer months and many of us have vacation or travel planned. Whether you’re hopping across the globe, or planning a “staycation” at home, take a trip virtually by browsing through some of the delightful postcards in the Smithsonian’s collections.
Description: [caption id="attachment_2167" align="aligncenter" width="185" caption="Biddle at work on Society Freed through Justice in the Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C. Photographer unknown. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942. Archives of American Art."][/caption] This Monday, as we observe Labor Day in the midst of a serious economic
Description: African art scholar Sylvia H. Williams, directed the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 1983-1996, and was one of the few women, and the only African American woman, serving at the time as director of a major American museum. #Groundbreaker
Description: To honor the incredibly wild and wet weather we have lately endured and enjoyed in Washington, DC, I took a quick search through the online Smithsonian collections for waterfalls. I imagine the water is running quite high—in nature, not I hope in the archives—this time of year. Several collections stood out, including the views made by 19th century photographs for expeditions
Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose
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="280" caption="The stairs leading to the south entrance of the National Museum of Natural History after a snow storm with a small path cleared through the snow, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 133, Folder: NHB Undated, Negative Number: 26870-B."][/caption]
Description: Looking through our collections, we find the universal language of motherly gestures. Mothers nursing, bathing, and embracing their babies. Mothers present during the most important of life events, from the first day of school to the wedding day. There are also views of mothers, often stereotypical or oversimplified, and often presented by advertisers—the mother who dreams of
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