Description: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, Marine Scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History researches the ecology and evolution of coral reefs using molecular genetics, field studies, and mathematical modeling. #Groundbreaker
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: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker
Description: An overview of the history of Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her species, who was donated to the National Museum of Natural History 100 years ago.
Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.
Description: Donald J. Ortner, Division of Physical Anthropology museum technician, demonstrates use of equipment to study mineral concentration in bone on William H. Crocker, associate curator in the Division of Cultural Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, MNH-1498D.
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: When Mickey Mouse was used in war propaganda. [via National Museum of American History]NASA is on the search for new planets. [via BBC]The Initiative for Open Citations is attempting to make an open repository of citations. [via Boing Boing]Benjamin Franklin's papers are now online at Library of Congress. [via LOC blog]Service training for DC police officers — a visit to the
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: Andreas Joseph Andrews, chief preparator in the Department of Anthropology Conservation Laboratory at the Museum of Natural History, sculpts model of face, October 19, 1967, SIA Acc. 11-008, OPA-1104-12.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Construction of the Pension Building, Designed by Montgomery Meigs, c. 1883, by Unknown photographer, Albumen print, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Image ID: AFS 182."][/caption] One of the first collections that I encountered during my travels through the photography collections of the
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