Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Administrative offices of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon Building, Panama City, This tropical laboratory, called the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), and later renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1946, photo taken December 1965, by
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="411" caption="Visitors viewing "Transparent Woman" at the opening of the Hall of Health. This display was part of the Exhibits Modernization Program and was located in the Arts and Industries Building. Assistant Secretary A. Remington Kellogg is the second from the right. Using electronics, sound, and light, the figure of a woman
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="The History of Medicine Exhibit on Osteopathy in the Arts and Industries Building, probably in the early twentieth century, Case contains books, diagrams, models, tools and implements, images and certificates, The case also holds a bust, several photographs and a commemorative spoon displaying the likeness of Dr. Andrew
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="From 1897-1903, galleries were built on the second floor of the United States National Museum (USNM), now the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), to provide more exhibit space, Pictured are men beside bricks to be used in the construction of the galleries, c. 1897-1903, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="One of the rooms in the First Ladies Exhibit reinstalled in the West North Range of the Arts and Industries Building on May 24, 1955, in period decorated rooms, showing figures with the gowns worn by Dolley Madison, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Martha Washington, and Abigail Adams, 1955, by Unidentified photographer,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="382" caption="Samuel P. Langley, 1834-1906, third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906), observing birds in flight from the roof of the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1901-02, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
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="416" caption="The Art Room in the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building, created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley. The furnishings were specially designed by Hornblower and Marshall. Encircling the room was a plaster copy of the Parthenon frieze and carbon photographs by Adolphe Braun of Old Master portraits and
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,