Results for "Fifty Years of Human Space Flight (Online exhibition)"
Martha, A Cold and Lonely Last Migration
- Date: June 26, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: An overview of the history of Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her species, who was donated to the National Museum of Natural History 100 years ago.
Walt Disney's Progressland
- Date: July 21, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.
- Webpage
American Negro Artists (National Gallery of Art, 1929-1930)
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: On May 16, 1929, an exhibition of American Negro Artists opened on the ground floor of the Smithsonian’s US National Museum building. The exhibition featured fifty-one works by twenty-seven black sculptors and painters who won a juried competition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation.1Though the work selected remained distant from the most radical new work being created by
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 98-023, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Daedalus Human Powered Aircraft Project, Project Records, circa 1984-1988
- Date: 1984 1984-1988 circa 1984-1988
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Daedalus Human Powered Aircraft Project
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Torch 07/1976
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1976 Box 1 Folder 7_V2
Spirit of St. Louis Was Star Attraction for Smithsonian
- Date: April 30, 2015
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: April 30 marks the anniversary of when Charles Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to the Smithsonian Institution to donate.
Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley
- Date: December 15, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.
Here At The Smithsonian: The History of Aviation
- Date: September 28, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Let’s take a look at some of the collections at the National Air and Space Museum.
- Blog Post
Science Sits for Art
- Date: April 29, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Heads and Fragments of Heads of Humeri, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, 1865, by William Bell, Albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen
- Blog Post
Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
- Date: January 28, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
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- Webpage
Solomon Brown: First African American Employee at the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.