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    1. Revisiting the Arts and Industries Building

      • Date: April 17, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Closed to the public since 2004, the Arts and Industries Building remains closed for the foreseeable future. Here is a look back at what used to be there.

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    3. Visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance.

      Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in the 21st Century

      • Date: November 18, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: The Arts and Industries Buildings reopens this weekend with FUTURES, the first building-wide exploration of the future on the National Mall. Though we've written plenty about the building's past on our blog, today, we're diving into its more recent history in the 21st century.

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      Archives Puzzles: The Woman’s Building

      • Date: March 8, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    7. Drawing of the U. S. National Museum, South Front and Surroundings

      The Birth of a Building: Constructing the United States National Museum

      • Date: June 20, 2013
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The birth of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, as told through construction photographs.

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      100 Years of the Natural History Building

      • Date: June 17, 2010
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="U.S. National Museum, May 3, 1917, seen from the National Mall, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 45, Box 79, Folder: 10, Neg. SIA2009-2203."][/caption] As part of my work as the historian for the history of the Smithsonian, I’ve been working for the past year on

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      Collecting Stories. Saving Treasures. Building a New Museum.

      • Date: February 16, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. When I interviewed Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative’s online project click! photography changes

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    13. Portrait of Henry Joseph Horan, seated.

      Spotlight: Henry Joseph Horan, Superintendent of Buildings

      • Date: July 29, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: A closer look at staff member Henry Horan (1838-1896), who held several positions at the Smithsonian, including janitor, watchman, and superintendent of buildings, during his long career at the Institution.

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      Can Buildings Stack Up to the Images Made of Them?

      • Date: November 18, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_3043" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photograph of the Ames Monument, Wyoming, courtesy Phil Patton."][/caption] Looking at an illustrated real estate listing or brochure, have you ever been mesmerized by a wide angle and luxurious photograph of what you suspect is, in fact, a tiny studio apartment? Have you ever had the experience where all

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    17. U.S. Capitol building as seen from the tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, with Baltimore and Potomac railroad station and tracks in view.

      Sneak Peek 10/14/2019

      • Date: October 14, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: U.S. Capitol building as seen from the tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, with Baltimore and Potomac railroad station and tracks in view, circa 1880, SIA RU000095, SA-197.

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    19. Cyanotype, aerial view of buildings and grounds at the World's Columbia Exposition, Chicago, 1893.

      Sneak Peek 1/13/2020

      • Date: January 13, 2020
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Cyanotype, aerial view of buildings and grounds at the World's Columbia Exposition, with Japanese Ho-o-Den Palace on Wooded Island, north end of the Horticulture Building, Woman's Building, Midway Plaisance, and Ferris Wheel in view, Chicago, 1893, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 12168.

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      Smokin’ Smithsonian

      • Date: January 24, 2012
      • Description: The story of the 1865 fire that destroyed part of the Smithsonian Institution Building and its contents.

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    23. View of the Smithsonian Castle in the distance behind a wall of trees, from downtown Washington

      The Smithsonian Castle Construction Begins

      • Date: March 19, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Building, or the “Castle,” is the most iconic of all the Smithsonian’s 769 facilities, which include its nineteen museums, nine research centers, National Zoo, and all of its other establishments. The Castle was the first building constructed specifically for the Smithsonian after it was founded in 1846. On March 19, 1847, a contract was signed with

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