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="United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir, February 28, 1951, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard, "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth, On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times, late 1960s - c. 1975, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="299" caption="Hanging from the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the U.S. flag loomed large and proud over the podium at the July 20 celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first lunar landing, President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle joined the three Apollo 22 astronauts- Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins
Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they
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.
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