Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mrs. Walter (Joan) Mondale playing the drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) with, (l-r), Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins (founder of the Museum) and Sen. Wendell Anderson, 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Opening of the New National Air and Space Museum. President Gerald Ford, Michael Collins, Director of the National Air and Space Museum and former astronaut, with Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, touring the "Apollo to the Moon Gallery" on opening day of the new building, July 1, 1976, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Image of an expedition member working on the skeleton fossil Sp. 22-27, Titanotherium, Scientific field research headed by Charles W. Gilmore, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the U.S. National Museum (USNM), now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was conducted in 1931 and 1932, by Unidentified
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="In April of 1913, East African lions, from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909-1910) and mounted by George B. Turner, are placed on display in mammal hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Dr. Judith A. Blake, biological technician at the Smithsonian's new Molecular Systematics Laboratory operated by the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, MD, stores tissue samples from plants and animals at temperatures of -148 degrees Fahrenheit, 1990, by Harold E.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="286" caption="James Burford, Anthony Pineau, and Raymond Watson, On September 19, 1981, an ex-clerk with Smithsonian Museum shops, armed with a .25 caliber automatic pistol attempted to steal more than $2,500 from the National Museum of Natural History’s shop but was stopped by this trio, November 1981, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The 1401, a 280-ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive, was moved just inside the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, The locomotive was built in 1926 by the Richmond, Virginia, works of the American Locomotive Company, The railroad car was too large to move into
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="350" caption="A passenger pigeon Martha (named after Martha Washington), the last survivor of an American species that numbered in the millions prior to the 1880's, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, Her body was donated to the Smithsonian Institution and brought to the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Anthropology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, The front exhibit case, which was part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit, shows a life group of indigenous people of the Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic
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: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Alfred Duane Pell Collection of Ceramics and Furniture on display in the National Gallery of Art (NGA), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), at the United States National Museum (USNM) building, now known as the Natural History Building (NHB), c. 1930, by
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