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]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), paleontologist and fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927), Walcott is at a fossil quarry excavating the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada, c. 1910s - 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Robert W. Mason and Philip C. Ritterbush, Smithsonian administrators, with "Cosumbo," a mountain coatimundi, collected on their mountain-climbing expedition in Colombia, 1969, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
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
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.
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
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
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="A model showing a mining town with railroad tracks in the foreground, various coal mining buildings, and houses in the background in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 16,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Image of Merle Crisler Foshag and her husband William F. Foshag, Curator in the U.S. National Museum's Department of Geology, The two are standing amid flowers, while on Foshag's scientific expedition to Tepoztlán, Mexico, 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record
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