Description: Herpetologist Doris Mabel Cochran and caleopterist Doris Holmes Blake now have Wikipedia pages thanks to our volunteers. Join us Saturday, March 19th, to help write more women into history! Learn how Wikipedia volunteers are helping to write notable women into history.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="View of Canyon, 1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Black and white photoprint on cardboard mount, National Anthropological Archives, SPC Sw Gen NM 113605 01861700, Local Number: NAA INV 01861700."][/caption] I paid another visit to the Timothy O’Sullivan exhibition now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a
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: Beautiful new publication, Picturing Children, challenging stereotypes about African American children. [via NY Times]Now THIS is a 360...of Apollo 11! [via Smithsonian Magazine]Why not go big? Check out the first 3-D print of a supernova! [via Chandra X-ray Observatory and Smithsonian 3D]Archivist resource alert! The Getty's updated Introduction to Metadata. [via the
Description: On June 16, 2006, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum changed its name for the third time, signaling a renewed focus on local Black history and beyond.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="395" caption="Dr. William H. Holmes, first curator of the National Gallery of Art (NGA), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), (standing, right) with William H. Jackson (standing, left), Story B. Ladd (seated, left) and George B. Chittenden (seated, right), c. 1930, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="View of the Reception Suite of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1973, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285 Box 8 Folder 14, Negative Number: 73-13389."][/caption]