Description: Arrival of the Polaris A-3 missile, the first U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missile, outside the Arts and Industries Building, OPA-1172R2-9.
Description: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. Ahead of next year’s festivities, NPG unveiled an exhibition commemorating its May 1968 opening. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) provided several pieces for this gallery, including a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication speech on May 3rd. Check out the full
Description: As Director for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Maria del Carmen Cossu, seeks to provide all Americans a better understanding of the U.S. Latino experience, and to encourage Latinx museum professionals into the museum field. #Groundbreaker
Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."
Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.