Description: [caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Levi Hill often photographed color lithographic prints, mostly European images, when attempting to perfect his Hillotype color process. This print of a girl and small animal shows his achievement in capturing natural colors on a daguerreotype plate, circa 1851-56."][/caption] Excepting the 8% of males and
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Secretary S. Dillon Ripley with Mexican Ambassador Jose Juan de Olloqui with the celebrated Chac-Mool from Chichen-Itzaon which is a classic example of Maya-Toltec sculpture, November 18, 1976, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="attachment_3281" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Encouraging Curiosity for Man and Animal, Photograph courtesy of Zac Henderson."][/caption] About a year ago, we asked you to reflect on the ways photography has changed your life. We heard from Ellen Hyatt, an English teacher in South Carolina, who uses photographs to inspire her student’s creative writing
Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.
Description: We’re taking a glimpse into the work and life of Margaret Sordahl and other women at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stations around the world.
Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.
Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of
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