Description: Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin] Save the date for
Description: The Smithsonian has a history of eclipse-ready public programming! How the Smithsonian has worked with the public in 1972, and today, to help visitors view eclipses safely.
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: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the