Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="From the Land of the Bible Exhibition, 1954, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 312 Box 35 Folder 8, Negative Number:94-9283. "][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="Richard Rathbun at His Desk, c. 1880, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 19 Folder 6, Negative Number:27361."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Court of Neptune Fountain, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1994."][/caption]
Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!
Description: You can now step inside a Klimt painting in these large-scale immersive environments brought to you by projection technology. [via Artsy]Don't be surprised if you encounter an inquisitive robot on your next visit to the Smithsonian. [via Digital Trends]U.S. National Archives is now publishing a public dashboard which logs any notices received of unauthorized records
Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some