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: At SPI, we were sad to learn that Jessie Cohen died earlier this week. Jessie was one of the photographic mainstays at the Smithsonian; she started working at the Smithsonian National Zoo in 1979, photographing animals, their living quarters, and behind-the-scenes events for exhibition, education, and marketing purposes. In addition, Jessie also managed the Zoo’s exhibition
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Passenger pigeon group exhibit in Bird Hall in the National Museum of Natural History after the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1956, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44 Folder 5, Negative number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="The blue whale can be seen on display in the "Life in the Sea" exhibit as part of the the Exhibits Modernization Program in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, 1963, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Visitors viewing the new alligator exhibit in the recently opened Reptile House at the National Zoological Park. The new exhibit has more natural surroundings than previous ones, 1931, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 46, Folder 1, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Exhibit case displays Arctic Mammals in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Some of the animals exhibited include the Arctic hare, the Musk ox, and the Arctic ground squirrel, 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 2,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, a view of the Natural History Fossil Exhibit with the model of a whale and skeletons of several dinosaurs, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the United States Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="After the Exhibits Modernization Program, an exhibit case in the Bird Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, features birds sitting on a tree branch in their natural surroundings, 1956, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="411" caption="To the right is the Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit at the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian, February 11, 1927, with James W. Gidley (1866-1931), Assistant Curator of Mammalian Fossils, seated beside exhibit panels, Febuary 11, 1927, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Exhibit case displays examples of the adaptation of temperate zone mammals to the climate by the use of hibernation or aestivation, The case includes a deer, a ground squirrel, a fox squirrel, and a jumping mouse, The exhibit is in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, 1959, by Unidentified
Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="After three years at the National Portrait Gallery, (l-r) William Trossen, Terry Conable, Lina Best and David Price are moving the Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington for shipment to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where they will be displayed under an alternating exhibition plan worked out in 1980
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