Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and
Description: First hand account of Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry, about what Washington DC was like during the holidays in the time of the Civil War.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Retouched Photograph of Fire in Smithsonian Institution Building, 1865, by Alexander Gardner, photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 30 Folder 9, Negative Number:37082."][/caption]
Description: This post is written in honor of Preservation Week, April 24–30, 2011. In celebration of this week, preservation specialists around the world will bring attention to the preservation work going on in their institutions, and inspire action to preserve collections in libraries, archives, museums, and communities. [caption id="attachment_12654" align="aligncenter" width="432"
Description: Series of photographs of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute buildings and facilities at Barro Colorado, Naos, and Galeta islands, Panama, 1960s, SIA RU000095.
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: On January 16, 1907, a man carrying packages asked a carpenter for directions to a former colleague's office in the U.S. National Museum. Minutes later, that man pulled a rifle out of one of the packages and murdered an illustrator working for the Smithsonian.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="South facade of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the Castle, after completion, is dominated by a massive, square battlemented central tower with an attached octagonal stair tower rising well above it, Constructed in red sandstone quarried in Seneca, Maryland, the building was unique not only in style but in
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