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: The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress were able to pool funds to purchase a rare photo of a young Harriet Tubman. [via Washington Post]The Audobon profiles Smithsonian scientist, Roxie Laybourne, who started the field of forensic ornithology which identified birds involved in plane strikes and led to improved
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, ca. 1855, by Unknown photographer, Daguerreotype with applied color (1/2 plate), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.234."][/caption] Often we are
Description: Vernacular photography is the latest type of photography to be discovered by museums. Postcards, collected by Walker Evans (but still, postcards), have just been exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a tintype exhibition just closed at the International Center of Photography in New York, another exhibit of snapshots was seen at the National Gallery of Art.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Three square-lipped rhinoceroses are displayed in a diorama in mammal hall of the National Museum of Natural History, These specimens come from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition of 1909-1910, post 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Anthropology Exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History of a life group from the Arctic Region entitled "Polar Eskimo, the Northernmost People of the World," 1957, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 8, Negative Number: MNH-035."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="441" caption="A papier mache model of a Stegosaurus dinosaur in the Fossil Reptiles Exhibit. The exhibit opened in June of 1963 in the National Museum of Natural History as part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1963, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Passenger pigeon group exhibit in Bird Hall in the National Museum of Natural History after the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1956, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44 Folder 5, Negative number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A papier mache model of a Stegosaurus dinosaur in the Fossil Reptiles Exhibit, The exhibit opened in June of 1963 in the National Museum of Natural History as part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1963, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="A view of part of the animals from Africa display in the newly modernized Mammal Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, These specimens came from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition (1909-1910), c. 1953, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A,
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