Description: Linda Ezell, author and former Assistant Director for Collections (1987-1996), National Air & Space Museum, wrote several books with her husband, Edward Ezell, on the history of space programs.
Description: The discovery of a folder titled, "Unicorn," in collection at first brings excitement then disappointment as the unicorn in question was a unicorn fish, not the mythical unicorn.
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
Description: Curator Keith E. Melder's efforts to create the first permanent exhibit on African American history at the National Museum of American History was successful, but its journey faced difficulties and hatred from the public.
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that
Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this first blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.
Description: Research on shark attacks began at the National Museum of Natural History in 1958 when the Shark Research Panel was formed to track attacks and develop shark repellents.
Description: Zora Martin Felton was founding Director of the Education Department at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum for over thirty years. She served as Acting Director of the museum in 1989. #Groundbreaker
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="A side view of the Atlas Lions in a glass case displayed in the mammal hall of United States Nationa Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, These specimens came from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1909-1910, pre 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="View of the newly completed Baird Auditorium, looking towards the stage, in the new National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 33 Folder 27; Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 1,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Painters sitting boards on top of wooden scaffolding, painting the ceiling of a wing of the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, building soon after it was finished being built, 1912, Richard Rathbun, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 104,
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