Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: A closer look at staff member Henry Horan (1838-1896), who held several positions at the Smithsonian, including janitor, watchman, and superintendent of buildings, during his long career at the Institution.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Marey Wheel Photographs of Unidentified Model, with Eadweard Muybridge Notations, by Thomas Eakins, 1884, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden."][/caption] Please be aware that some of the photographs included in links within this post may contain graphic and emotionally disturbing material. Which are more powerful,
Description: Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Visitors examine Antoine-Louis Barye's "Theseus Slaying the Centaur Biamor" in one of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's ambulatories, 1990, by Rick Vargas, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder August 1990, Negative Number: 90-8838-22."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mountain Chief, Chief of Montana Blackfeet, in Native Dress With Bow, Arrows, and Lance, Listening to Song Being Played On Phonograph and Interpreting It in Sign Language to Frances Densmore, Ethnologist, March 1916, by Harris & Ewing, Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] I received an interesting
Description: Look at enough photographs and it’s inevitable that, at some point, you’ll find yourself pondering mortality and photography’s relationship to death. Because the medium so effectively captures fragments of lives, events, and data that have come and gone, you’re always looking at and trying to make sense of something that’s over, finished, part of the past. Writers—particularly
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.
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