Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="375" caption="Exhibit in Smithsonian Air and Space Building, South Yard, 1974, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 41 Folder 21, Negative Number:74-6613."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Exhibit of a hippopotamus in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 2, Negative Number: MNH-217."][/caption]
Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.
Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.
Description: Archives are often used by genealogists to create their family histories. Often it's a tedious process that can involve many repositories throughout the country or even the world, but the final product can be fascinating. Take, for instance, Melbourne ("Mel") Romaine Carriker's Vista Nieve: The Remarkable True Adventures of an Early Twentieth Century Naturalist and His Family
Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the
Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.In honor of the anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Arts and Industries Building, then known as the