Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="253" caption="Storage area for the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, while still in the Natural History Building, October 1964, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 48 Folder 3, Negative Number: 94-4420."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="337" caption="An elaborately carved capital for one of the columns for the new United States National Museum building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, while still in the workshop, c. 1905-1910, by Unknown photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 3, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="301" caption="Doris Mable Cochran (1898-1968), herpetologist in the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians of the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History). Cochran was appointed an aid to Leonhard Stejneger in 1919, Assistant Curator in 1927, Associate Curator in 1942, and Curator in 1956. She retired in
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Deborah Bennett, museum technician, and Tim Coffer, data gatherer, sort trays of seashells for the mollusk inventory in the National Museum of Natural History's Division of Mollusks, October 1979, Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Photograph of the west court, looking toward the south pavilion and rotunda, and showing the projection of one of the stair towers of the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1913, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Exhibit case displays examples of the adaptation of temperate zone mammals to the climate by the use of hibernation or aestivation, The case includes a deer, a ground squirrel, a fox squirrel, and a jumping mouse, The exhibit is in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, 1959, by Unidentified
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="280" caption="The stairs leading to the south entrance of the National Museum of Natural History after a snow storm with a small path cleared through the snow, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 133, Folder: NHB Undated, Negative Number: 26870-B."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="441" caption="A papier mache model of a Stegosaurus dinosaur in the Fossil Reptiles Exhibit. The exhibit opened in June of 1963 in the National Museum of Natural History as part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1963, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Passenger pigeon group exhibit in Bird Hall in the National Museum of Natural History after the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1956, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44 Folder 5, Negative number:
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="In the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History in an exhibit case of "Poisonous Mammals" displays the short-tailed shrew, the duck-billed platypus, and the spiny anteater, the only poisonous mammals, 1959, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="In April of 1913, East African lions, from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909-1910) and mounted by George B. Turner, are placed on display in mammal hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
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