Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="The Postage Stamp Collection on display in pull out trays in the Arts and Industries Building, probably early in the twentieth century. Visitors are looking at various cases, Portrait paintings are visible overhead, 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="In a 1989 videotaping session, Secretary Adams welcomes visitors to the Smithsonian, The segment ran in the Smithsonian Institution Building Information Center theater, Lee Woodman, producer in the Office of Telecommunications, directs the camera crew, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
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="410" caption="Loyal B. Aldrich of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1908-1955) and Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (Fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1928-1944) playing tennis behind the Smithsonian Institution Building, next to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, in the South Yard, 1920, by Unidentified
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: 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: [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:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The Division of Radiation and Organisms Laboratory, located in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building, a division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory dedicated to studying the effects of solar radiation on organisms. Shown here is a vacuum type thermocouples of very high sensitivity, used in
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Photograph of the west court, looking toward the south pavilion and rotunda, and showing the projection of one of the stair towers of the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1913, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="The Division of Radiation and Organisms, located in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), Shown here is apparatus for studying phototropism (bending toward light) of seedlings, in connection with experiments to determine effects of wave lengths of light on growth, Date unknown, by Unidentified
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Three portraits on exhibit by Portuguese artist Henrique Medina in the lobby of the National Gallery of Art, now the National Museum of American Art, in the Natural History Building, April 13 - May 7, 1938, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311 Box 36 Folder