Results for "National Museum of American History (U.S.). National Numismatic Collection"

 
Showing results 385 - 396 of 2206 for National Museum of American History (U.S.). National Numismatic Collection
  1. Portrait of a man wearing a suit with a beard.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: July 13, 2021
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

  2.  
  3. Blog Post

    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’

    • Date: April 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.

  4.  
  5. Letter from Mabel Truss Metcalf to Marguerite Henrich Kellogg, October 14, 1923, page 1.

    A Glimpse of 1920s China from the Remington Kellogg Papers

    • Date: February 19, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.

  6.  
  7. Making Plaster Mold of Body of Sulphur-Bottom Whale, 1903, lantern slide.

    A Whale of a Tale

    • Date: November 13, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.

  8.  
  9. Conservator Carolyn Rose (left) was head of the National Museum of Natural History's Anthropology Conservation Laboratory, was thesis advisor for over 30 students, and received the 1992 Rutherford John Gettens Merit Award for outstanding contributions to the American Institute for Conservation.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Carolyn Rose

    • Date: December 16, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Conservator Carolyn Rose (left) was head of the National Museum of Natural History's Anthropology Conservation Laboratory, was thesis advisor for over 30 students, and received the 1992 Rutherford John Gettens Merit Award for outstanding contributions to the American Institute for Conservation.

  10.  
  11. Taxidermist Sybil Costanzo

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sybil Costanzo

    • Date: July 13, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Taxidermist Sybil Costanzo worked at the National Museum of Natural History for 8 years and was the only female federal employee to do taxidermy work. #Groundbreaker

  12.  
  13. A photo slide of a man sitting at a desk.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: January 12, 2021
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

  14.  
  15. Blog Post

    See Here: 3/15/2011

    • Date: March 15, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="In the hallways of the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, every available foot of space is occupied by valuable collections housed carefully in metal covered cabinets to guard them from injury, 1936, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

  16.  
  17. Graphic of kitten popping through ceiling into outer space saying,

    Link Love: 5/26/2017

    • Date: May 26, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times] Harvard archivists found what they believe

  18.  
  19. Alexander works in a storage area for ceramics.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sheila Machlis Alexander

    • Date: May 5, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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.

  20.  
  21. Transfer of Giant Squid to New Case in Marine Hall

    Sneak Peek 2/23/2015

    • Date: February 23, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Transfer of giant squid to new case in Marine Hall at the National Museum of Natural History, with Clyde F. E. Roper, 94-3194-06.

  22.  
  23. Rescuing Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child, Altaussee, 1945. Thomas Carr Howe Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

    Link Love: 2/7/2014

    • Date: February 7, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

  24.  
Showing results 385 - 396 of 2206 for National Museum of American History (U.S.). National Numismatic Collection

Pages