Results for "Flight"
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Couriers of the Flight
- Date: October 22, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada, by unknown photographer, c. 1920, Smithsonian National Postal Museum."][/caption] Just last week, we uploaded some new photos of early US airmail from the National Postal Museum to the “People and the Post” set on the Flickr Commons. I was immediately drawn in by the portraits
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First Lady in Flight
- Date: August 11, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="269" caption="First Lady of the Land, First Lady of the Air, by John Roosevelt, c. 1936, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center"][/caption] One of the things I love about working at the Smithsonian is spending my days typing keywords into our search engines and seeing what kind of images will
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Civil War Reconnaissance Takes Flight
- Date: June 18, 2011
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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.
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Link Love: 12/17/2010
- Date: December 17, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers
Sneak Peek 8/13/2018
- Date: August 13, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, on the day of the test flight of Aerodrome No. 5 on the Potomac River, by Alexander Graham Bell, MAH-18836.
The World Is Yours: Flying the Ocean
- Date: June 23, 2020
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled Flying the Ocean.
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From Wright Memorial to Museum for the Space Age
- Date: November 2, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14760,size=200,left] On July 1, 2016, the current National Air and Space Museum (NASM) building, covered with a Tenessee pink marble façade and recessed glass bays, celebrated its 40th anniversary. For this, NASM reopened its central exhibition, the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, and hosted various events including greetings from Mars and from
Link Love: 02/19/2016
- Date: February 19, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Don't miss out on getting your copy of these beautiful NASA space travel posters. [via The Drive]GPS art by bicycle. [via bored panda]448 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via Open Culture]Learn how to archive institutional email from two of our own. [via Library of Congress]A new 3D scan of Apollo 11 reveals astronaut graffiti depicting flight plans, a
Link Love: 3/22/13
- Date: March 22, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature with interesting links in the information, archival, and museum worlds.
Link Love: 4/4/4014
- Date: April 4, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 3/21/2014
- Date: March 21, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.