Results for "History"
Sneak Peek 1/16/2017
- Date: January 16, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Museum Specialist Jim Knowles reviews ship plans on a microfilm reader in the Division of Transportation, 71-30-1-12.
Sneak Peek 1/22/2018
- Date: January 22, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Cast and skeleton of blue whale (sulphur-bottom whale) at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, MNH-16459.
Sneak Peek 1/4/2016
- Date: January 4, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Two whale skulls, one measuring 14 feet, the other measuring 3 feet, circa 1900s, MNH-11243.
Sneak Peek 1/5/2015
- Date: January 5, 2015
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Continental Line train at station, circa 1910s, by Unidentified photographer, Glass negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. No. 11-006, Image Number: MAH-43362.
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 10/16/2017
- Date: October 16, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Seine nets drying on river shore, by United States Fish Commission, MAH-4440.
Sneak Peek 10/17/2016
- Date: October 17, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: First aid demonstration at Bureau of Mines exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Califonia, 1915, MAH-8187.
Sneak Peek 10/20/2014
- Date: October 20, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Patent models and baskets occupy shelves in storage space at Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, Image Number: 2000-11186-06.
Sneak Peek 10/23/2017
- Date: October 23, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Exterior of the Air and Space Building located in the South Yard of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, 76-3339.
Sneak Peek 10/30/2017
- Date: October 30, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Alexander Wetmore examines study skins of birds collected on his expeditions for his next volume of "The Birds of Panama," OPA-1378-18A.
Sneak Peek 11/10/2014
- Date: November 10, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Attendees of "Salute II" at the Veterans Day weekend dedication of The Three Soldiers Statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Washington, DC National Mall, Image Number: 84-18201-23A.
Sneak Peek 11/13/2017
- Date: November 13, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Student in the "Program in Museum Study" offered by the Office of Academic Studies works with Associate Archivist William "Bill" Deiss in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, 73-314-07.