Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Ralph Waldo Emerson, between 1860 and 1870, by J. W. Black & Co., Photographic print on carte-de-visite mount, Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer family papers, 1851-1999 bulk 1881-1950, Archives of American Art, Digital ID: 5677. "][/caption] From the beginning, photography upset conventional ideas about the relationship
Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="271" caption="Untitled, by unidentified photographer, date unknown, Anacostia Community Museum."][/caption]Wedding season is upon us, and so it is no wonder that this beauty, with her frothy veil and layers of lace has been very popular on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons.
Description: This post is an update to Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig's post “Archiving the Smithsonian’s Presence on the Internet” from September 2, 2010. The Smithsonian Institution has had a presence on the Internet for more than sixteen years. It’s come a long way since then. Documenting the Smithsonian’s various websites falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institution Archives...but how
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Former President Gerald Ford at the unveiling of his presidential portrait in a ceremony in the National Portrait Gallery's (NPG) Hall of Presidents, June 1988, The portrait was painted by Everett Raymond Kinstler, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A baby calf resting on the lawn of the South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle," as part of the Department of Living Animals around 1887, Live animals were kept in the South Yard for exhibit and study by the taxidermists before the National Zoological Park was founded in 1889, 1887, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Alligators in their enclosure in the original Animal House, also known as the Carnivora House, which opened in 1892 and was the first permanent building at the National Zoological Park, 1900, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 46, Folder 1, Negative
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Three black-billed magpies in the National Zoological Park's Flight Cage, 1978, by Vichai Malikul, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1978, Negative number: 94-8329."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="A group of scientists leaves Barro Colorado Island in a small boat, during 1923, Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="One of a pair of tiger cubs, with a playful appearance, lies on a quilt in its den at the National Zoological Park, The cubs were born on June 14, 1993, to Kerinci, a rare Sumatran tiger who came to the Zoo in July 1989 as part of an exchange with the Jakarta (Ragunan Zoological Garden) Zoo in Indonesia, by Jessie Cohen,
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