Description: Across the Smithsonian, in hundreds of photographic collections, you’ll find images that document historic objects and events, species on land and under the oceans, cultural achievement, and data that streams in from outer space on a daily basis.
Description: Independent scholar and research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, researches the popularization science through the media, and has helped raise the profile of close to 1000 female scientists found in the collections at the Archives! #Groundbreaker
Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The package containing the Hope Diamond is presented to Smithsonian Secretary Dr. Leonard Carmichael, The donor, Harry Winston, shipped the diamond through the regular United States Postal Service via first-class mail; the postage cost him $2.44, plus $142.85 for $1 million dollars worth of insurance, November 10, 1958,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="The Mall, around 1890, showing the planting and design of the plan by Andrew Jackson Downing, The Mall is covered with trees, with a winding dirt path through them, and a deer standing near it, c. 1890, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30, Folder 1,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The original Smokey Bear frolicking in a pool at the National Zoological Park. Smokey Bear was brought from New Mexico in June of 1950 after being burned as a cub from a forest fire that swept through a portion of the Lincoln National Forest, c. 1950s, by Francine Schroeder, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="Women employees in the Telephone and Telegraph Office which was located in the North Tower of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, from the time the building was opened in 1881, Through the window is the Syrian Sarcophagus brought to the United States in 1837 and intended for Andrew
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="365" caption="At the end of the three-story high concourse in the Smithsonian Institutions underground complex is an illusionist mural by Richard Haas, The mural depicts through ancient stone arches the Arts and Industries Building and the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, both located above ground, adjacent to the
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: A new understanding of the canine lineage brought to you by DNA and infographics. [via NBC News]A new open source platform was funded through IMLS for making historic newspapers accessible online. [via J. Willard Marriott Library]In the wake of Brexit, a new Migration Museum opened in London. [via artnet]You can travel the world with Smithsonian's National Anthroplogical
Description: Get to know some Smithsonian staff, from their favorite holiday dishes to their dream celebrity dinner guests, through a former series in The Torch.
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