Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="President Richard Nixon, with his wife Patricia and daughter Julie to his right and daughter Trisha and her husband Edward Finch Cox to his left, addresses the crowd at his Inaugural Ball in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1973, Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The original Smokey Bear frolicking in a pool at the National Zoological Park. Smokey Bear was brought from New Mexico in June of 1950 after being burned as a cub from a forest fire that swept through a portion of the Lincoln National Forest, c. 1950s, by Francine Schroeder, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="316" caption="The coffin containing the remains of James Smithson is being carried out of the Genoa, Italy cemetery where his body had been buried. Notified that the cemetery was to be destroyed, Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel went to Italy to oversee the exhumation of Smithson's remains and their transfer
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="323" caption="From left to right: Herbert G. Deignan, Secretary Alexander Wetmore (seated), Jane Love, Samuel A. Arny, and Herbert Friedmann are looking at a tray of birds from the collection. Wetmore and Friedmann are holding birds from the tray in their hands, 1951, by Charles Eliot Perkins, Color photo, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Annual Easter Egg Roll on Easter Monday at the National Zoological Park, At the top of the hill is the original 1891 Animal House (Lion House) designed by William R. Emerson. By the turn of the century the National Zoological Park had become a popular spot to spend Easter Monday, c. 1900s, by Unknown photographer,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Looking south from the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street, the silhouette of the Smithsonian Institution Building is seen in the distance, Above the first building to the right of 11th Street, the sign reads "Latimer & Cleary Auction and Commission Merchants", the next building has a sign "Star Buildings," and
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Emperor Hirohito of Japan at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) with Dr. Frederick M. Bayer, Dr. Joseph Rosewater, and Professor Hidemi Sato (University of Pennsylvania) on October 2, 1975, The Emperor, who is a marine biologist, is seen here studying specimens, 1975, by Vincent P. Connolly, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Bill Withuhn (l.), deputy chairman of National Museum of American History's Science and Technology Department, in Annapolis, Maryland in July to greet captain and crew of a British Army sailing yacht carrying a 60 lb. iron plaque from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire for NMAH's transportation collections, 1986,
Description: Sure, you’ve heard of famed composer John Philip Sousa. But did you know that Sousa composed a march just for the Smithsonian?On November 6, 1854, the “March King” John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. With roots in Southeast Washington near the Marine Barracks, where his father played trombone in the United States Marine Band, it should have been of no surprise to