Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Workers laying the foundation for the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, looking southeast on June 2, 1905, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 5, Negative Number: 17526."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="James 'Jim' Mello, Assistant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, sitting at a demonstration loom in the National Museum of American History's Textiles Hall, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Visitors, including children, are viewing entomology exhibits in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, June 1954, by United States Department of Agriculture, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 10, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Groundbreaking of the new United States National Museum Building, now the National Museum of Natural History, took place on June 15, 1904, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 60, Folder: 5, Negative Number: SIA2009-2200."][/caption]
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Building, or the “Castle,” is the most iconic of all the Smithsonian’s 769 facilities, which include its nineteen museums, nine research centers, National Zoo, and all of its other establishments. The Castle was the first building constructed specifically for the Smithsonian after it was founded in 1846. On March 19, 1847, a contract was signed with
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Group of Young Women in Costume During Arrival Reception For Tourists Near Plane at Airport, by Gerald James Holton, 1968, National Museum of Natural History, National Anthropological Archives."][/caption] I came across these photos of tourists on Easter Island on our site and their presence has kind of baffled me.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="439" caption="Bird storage on the third floor of the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24055."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Sculptor Mario Martini's "Juggler" at the entrance to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder November 1974, Negative Number: 92-1644."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Storage cases in the Paleontology Laboratory in the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24046."][/caption]
Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Donald Lopez, Deputy Director of the National Air and Space Museum, presenting Michael Jackson with a book about the National Air and Space Museum during Jackson's after-hours tour of the Museum, 1984, by Dale Hrabak, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder July 1984, Negative
Showing results 349 - 360 of 2101 for Museums archives