Results for "Fishes"
Mom, can we keep him? Ummm, no.
- Date: January 15, 2013
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Robert F. Kennedy gave his children a sea lion named "Sandy" who was eventually donated to the National Zoological Park.
Sneak Peek 2/8/2016
- Date: February 8, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Unidentified man on deck of sidewheel paddle steamer "Camille," United States Fish Commission, MAH-4445.
Sneak Peek 3/31/2014
- Date: March 31, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Stereo view of fishing shacks on beach surrounded by lobster pots with boat in foreground, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Sneak Peek 7/11/2016
- Date: July 11, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: United States Fish Commission offices at building designed by Adolf Cluss at 1443 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC, 1880s, by Thomas W. Smillie, MAH-3364.
Sneak Peek 1/8/2018
- Date: January 8, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Wessington House, Edenton, North Carolina (N.C.), photographed by United States Fish Commission during survey of N.C. fisheries, circa 1878, Acc. No. 11-006, MAH-4911.
Sneak Peek 5/19/2014
- Date: May 19, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Stereoscopic photograph of unidentified men at work in the laboratory of the United States Fish Commission research station in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Sneak Peek 10/26/2015
- Date: October 26, 2015
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Unidentified men prepare to load wheelbarrows full of cod into wooden boxes labelled "Georges Cod" near the docks of Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States Fish Commission, MAH-3006.
Link Love: 7/17/2015
- Date: July 17, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Sneak Peek 4/9/2018
- Date: April 9, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Group portrait of Fuegians at Otter Bay, Straits of Magellan, taken during circumnavigation of South America by United States Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," 1888, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-4941.
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935
- Date: July 24, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.
- Blog Post
Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!
- Date: May 9, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.
Open Access: Put a Bird On It
- Date: February 24, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!