Results for "Institute of the Americas"
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/3/2010
- Date: December 3, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Installation of the Comparative Anatomy Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, Workers can be seen using a pulley system to raise the skeleton of a whale to the ceiling, c. 1881, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/16/2011
- Date: February 16, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A giraffe mannequin, before the skin was put on, is being assembled in the taxidermy shop of the new United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7074, Box 35, Folder 06, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/19/2010
- Date: February 19, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="398" caption="The Center Market on B Street, now Constitution Avenue, north of the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, October 9, 1909, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 33 Folder 16, Negative Number: 21940 and
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/15/2011
- Date: March 15, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="In the hallways of the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, every available foot of space is occupied by valuable collections housed carefully in metal covered cabinets to guard them from injury, 1936, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/15/2010
- Date: April 15, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="The electricity laboratory in one of the pavilions of the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, around the turn of the 20th century, c. 1890, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 38, Folder 9, Negative Number: MAH-3668.
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/4/2011
- Date: July 4, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="The Rotunda of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, decorated with American flag buntings hanging from the balconies, circa 1915, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 103, Folder: NHB Undated, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/24/2010
- Date: August 24, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="Letter by President Andrew Jackson to the United States Congress informs them that as president he has no authority to take any steps for accepting James Smithson's bequest but instructs Congress to take such measures as they deem necessary to accept the funds, December 17, 1835, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/20/2010
- Date: December 20, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance work at makeshift desks packed into areas not meant for offices, such as one of the display spaces of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History Building, 1918, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
- Blog Post
See Here: 1/25/2011
- Date: January 25, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Shortly after he was hired as a Laboratory Apprentice in the Division of Mechanical Technology in the United States National Museum in 1922, Frank A. Taylor works on a large press from the collections, 1920s, by Underwood and Underwood, Washington, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box
- Blog Post
See Here: 1/27/2011
- Date: January 27, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Color postcard of the East African lions in the mammal hall of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, pre 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 45, Folder 26, Negative Number: SIA2010-0488."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/9/2010
- Date: February 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="337" caption="An elaborately carved capital for one of the columns for the new United States National Museum building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, while still in the workshop, c. 1905-1910, by Unknown photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 3, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/18/2011
- Date: March 18, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Henry Collins, on a field trip, probably to Florida, is aboard the United States Coast Guard cutter U.S.S. Boxer, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 9528, Box 1, Henry B. Collins, Jr., Oral History Interviews, Negative Number: SIA2009-2052."][/caption]