Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Aerial image of the National Museum of Natural History’s Rotunda shows the 10-ton Fénykövi Elephant in the center while visitors stroll around the museum floor, July 31, 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, Folder September 1981,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="318" caption="National Museum of Natural History, 'Interior of the South Pavilion and Rotunda to the Height of the Top of the Great Arches, Showing the Screen, Walls and Clearstory Window on the East Side, and Parts of the Adjoining Piers,' (from United States National Museum Bulletin 80), c. 1911, by Unknown photographer, Photographic
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Workmen posing at the quarry in Bethel, Vermont, The Bethel quarry was one of three quarries where stone was obtained for the exterior walls of the new United States National Museum Building, now the Natural History Building, 1907, by Frank F. Graham, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 3A,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford discusses a scene from the film "The Earth in Our Hands" with Walter Adey, director of Natural History's Marine Systems Laboratory (MSL). The film was shot in MSL's Everglades Ecosystem at the Old Soldiers' Home, 1989, Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="The skeleton of a Hyracotherium, a tiny horse that heralded one of the major evolutionary trends of the age of mammals - the move to grazing - from the National Museum of Natural History's new exhibit "Mammals in the Limelight," opening May 30, 1985, In the background is Robert Emry, Curator of fossil mammals in the
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Three exhibit workers, Harry C. Harden kneeling, Charles R. Aschemeier standing left and Watson M. Perrygo standing on ladder, preparing the White-tailed Deer in Cypress Swamp group during the Exhibits Modernization Program in the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), during the 1950s, by Unidentified photographer,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="View of the Mineralogy/Geology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, soon after it was completed, 1911, by Unidentified photographer (Thomas W. Smillie?), Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 1A and Record Unit 95 Box 44
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="253" caption="Edgar A. Mearns, an ornithologist, research associate, and honorary associate in zoology, with the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was one of three naturalists from the National Museum chosen go on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition with Theodore Roosevelt to
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), North Entrance Lobby (Foyer), looking west, soon after the building was completed, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1,
Description: [caption width="189" caption="Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microscope, Smithsonian Insitution Archives"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_238" width="162" caption="New Use for Light Reflector, National Museum of American History"][/caption]I was intrigued by a recent post on the National Museum of American History’s (NMAH) blog about the
Description: For forty years, Miss Helena Weiss kept the Smithsonian running smoothly as a clerk, stenographer, director of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and Registrar. When she retired, her position was divided into seven separate jobs.
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