Results for "Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920"
Archives Puzzles: yUrn-ing for Spring Weather
- Date: March 22, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Mom, can we keep him? Ummm, no.
- Date: January 15, 2013
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Robert F. Kennedy gave his children a sea lion named "Sandy" who was eventually donated to the National Zoological Park.
Dog Days at the Zoo, Part I
- Date: September 11, 2012
- Description: Though often overlooked, dogs played a featured role in the early history of the National Zoological Park.
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Smithsonian Scientists at Work
- Date: April 20, 2017
- Description: [view:sia_slideshow==75408]Scientific research has been integral to the Smithsonian, from its founding to today. The Smithsonian's founder, Englishman James Smithson, saw in the U.S. (according to his biographer, Heather Ewing) "a place of the future" that could support "science and progress for humanity." He believed that scientists were "citizens of the world" and that the
Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds
- Date: April 7, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.