Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="A woman and Carlos' sister, who is leaning against a table, are at the open air summer camp above the house on the Isla Iguana, The image was taken by sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore while on an ornithological expedition to Panama, Date unknown, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Sheila Hershey rings up a "sale" on world's first cash register, which was placed in the Smithsonian Institution on July 1, 1959, The device was invented in 1879 by James Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio, cafe owner, who sold the rights to the machine for $1,000, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="The skeleton of a Hyracotherium, a tiny horse that heralded one of the major evolutionary trends of the age of mammals - the move to grazing - from the National Museum of Natural History's new exhibit "Mammals in the Limelight," opening May 30, 1985, In the background is Robert Emry, Curator of fossil mammals in the
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Actor Gene Kelly (l.) while being filmed at National Museum of American Historys After the Revolution exhibit on December 4, 1985 for a 90-minute production called American Treasure - A Smithsonian Journey, that was to air in March, 1986, 1985, by Jeff Tinsley, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Francisco "Chi Chi" Vitola, chief of labor force on for the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), feeds a deer on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, The CZBA was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1924 and in 1946 was renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, c.1940, by Unidentified photographer,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Three exhibit workers, Harry C. Harden kneeling, Charles R. Aschemeier standing left and Watson M. Perrygo standing on ladder, preparing the White-tailed Deer in Cypress Swamp group during the Exhibits Modernization Program in the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), during the 1950s, by Unidentified photographer,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Larry Hagman, from the television show "Dallas," presented Carl Scheele, Curator of National Museum of American History's Division of Community Life with his hat from the television show in the Cannon House Office Building caucus room, February 28, 1984, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="447" caption="Loyal B. Aldrich, who worked for SAO from 1908-1956 and was its director from 1944 to 1955, and others are outside the living quarters of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory solar station established from 1920 to 1955 at Mt. Montezuma, Chile, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, mithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="A fiberglass reconstruction of the jaws of an extinct 40-foot long shark, bearing one row of real fossil teeth in the front and several rows of plastic replica teeth behind, for National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Fossils: The History of Life," 1985, by Chip Clark, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Bureau flags were designed for all the Smithsonian bureaus for the celebration of the bicentennial of James Smithson's birth. The thirteen individual banners were all similar except for the design of the canton in the upper left corner, All have a blue field with gold fringe on the upper, lower, and right sides, 1971,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Under a banner for Operation Moonwatch, people are lined up at the entrance to a Satellite Demonstration set up in Biloxi, Mississippi, The Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was created in 1956 as part of the Satellite Tracking Program and established to track and photograph the artificial
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="South facade of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the Castle, after completion, is dominated by a massive, square battlemented central tower with an attached octagonal stair tower rising well above it, Constructed in red sandstone quarried in Seneca, Maryland, the building was unique not only in style but in
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