Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Volunteer satellite trackers in Pretoria, South Africa, for Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide, 1965, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="308" caption="National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) foreman Richard Day with a mannequin modeled after him, now in the 'Hall of American Maritime Enterprise.' NMHT is now known as the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Opening of the New National Air and Space Museum. President Gerald Ford, Michael Collins, Director of the National Air and Space Museum and former astronaut, with Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, touring the "Apollo to the Moon Gallery" on opening day of the new building, July 1, 1976, by
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Victor and Cosmos Mindeleff building models of the Penasco Blanco Pueblo Indian village for use in the Bureau of American Ethnology exhibitions, 19th century, c. 1885, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 31, Negative Number: 6084."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="ATLAS Computer Exhibit displayed in the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), The Atlas Computer, developed at the University of Manchester, England, was at the time the fastest computer, using germanium transistors, 1970s, by Unidentified photographer,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Three portraits on exhibit by Portuguese artist Henrique Medina in the lobby of the National Gallery of Art, now the National Museum of American Art, in the Natural History Building, April 13 - May 7, 1938, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311 Box 36 Folder
Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.
Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Opening night visitors view a parade of recent fashions in the "Suiting Everyone" exhibit at the National Museum of History and Technology, now the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 1974, by Alfred Harrell, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
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