Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="303" caption="Photographer holding large folding camera, by unidentified photographer, c. 1935, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] Recently photography has said goodbye to two industry icons. Polaroid stopped production of its instant film, and Kodak announced that it is
Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="View of the newly completed Baird Auditorium, looking towards the stage, in the new National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 33 Folder 27; Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 1,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Painters sitting boards on top of wooden scaffolding, painting the ceiling of a wing of the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, building soon after it was finished being built, 1912, Richard Rathbun, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 104,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Completing the heavy construction of the United States National Museum building, now the National Museum of Natural History, on May 11, 1909, at 11 am, workmen set the last stone on the south porch, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 33 Folder 4, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Visitors entering the south side of Natural History Building, United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History), during Easter week, April 1931, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 562 Box 1 Folder, Photographs of NHB including the laying of
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Larry Hagman, from the television show "Dallas," presented Carl Scheele, Curator of National Museum of American History's Division of Community Life with his hat from the television show in the Cannon House Office Building caucus room, February 28, 1984, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), North Entrance Lobby (Foyer), looking west, soon after the building was completed, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1,
Description: Snow—not just found in the Archives this season! After a seemingly mild winter, the East Coast is bracing for some serious snowfall. While the Smithsonian shovels out, let’s take a look back at photos of historic Washington D.C. storms from our collection.
Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some
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