Description: Did you know that before the Smithsonian existed, there were two other institutions created for the promotion of science and diffusion of knowledge? Exploring the fate of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Nancy Sage, museum registrar, using a periscope to view a gallery in a scale model of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1973,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Richard Montali, pathology director of the National Zoological Park's Office of Pathology, dedicates the new pathology and autopsy building, August 26, 1977, by Kathy Hammersley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder October
Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a
Description: Impacting the National Air and Space Museum with her caring attitude and dedication to her work in the Building Management Department, Annie Sullivan is an individual to be remembered.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley greet Queen Elizabeth II outside the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB) or "Castle," July 8, 1976, during her visit to the United States to commemorate the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, 1976, by James Wallace, Black and white photographic
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="The Center Market, on B Street, now Constitution Avenue, north of the new United States National Museum Building, now the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1909, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 16, Negative Number: 21933."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="While the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, is still under construction, the 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive is being moved into the building, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Victor and Cosmos Mindeleff building models of the Penasco Blanco Pueblo Indian village for use in the Bureau of American Ethnology exhibitions, 19th century, c. 1885, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 31, Negative Number: 6084."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance work at makeshift desks packed into areas not meant for offices, such as one of the display spaces of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History Building, 1918, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="The 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive shown being moved into the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), while the building is still under construction, 1961, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="337" caption="An elaborately carved capital for one of the columns for the new United States National Museum building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, while still in the workshop, c. 1905-1910, by Unknown photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 3, Negative Number:
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