Description: Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-41054.
Description: Exhibit case filled with West African knives, shields and axes from an exhibition of the Herbert Ward African Collection in the Museum of Natural History, MNH-26819H.
Description: Did you know that the Smithsonian Institution has been collecting “specimens” related to the history of photography since photography was still considered a new technology? Learn about the evolution of our photography collection!
Description: In November, Smithsonian Institution Archives moved over 3 million photographic negatives to a new state of the art facility at the Smithsonian Institution Support Center (SISC) in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.
Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!
Description: Office of Executive Assistant to the Secretary in the east wing of the Smithsonian Institution, or Castle, April 10, 1912, with John U. Perkins, Harry Woodward Dorsey (chief clerk), and James G. Traylor (appointment clerk), SIA RU000095, SIA_000095_B37_F02_008.