Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="President Richard Nixon, with his wife Patricia and daughter Julie to his right and daughter Trisha and her husband Edward Finch Cox to his left, addresses the crowd at his Inaugural Ball in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1973, Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A passenger pigeon Martha (named after Martha Washington), the last survivor of an American species that numbered in the millions prior to the 1880's, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, Her body was donated to the Smithsonian Institution and brought to the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The original Smokey Bear frolicking in a pool at the National Zoological Park. Smokey Bear was brought from New Mexico in June of 1950 after being burned as a cub from a forest fire that swept through a portion of the Lincoln National Forest, c. 1950s, by Francine Schroeder, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley chatting with Pope John Paul II after John Paul received the James Smithson Medal from Chief Justice and Smithsonian Chancellor Warren Burger (c.), October 7, 1979, Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 3 Folder November
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Emperor Hirohito of Japan at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) with Dr. Frederick M. Bayer, Dr. Joseph Rosewater, and Professor Hidemi Sato (University of Pennsylvania) on October 2, 1975, The Emperor, who is a marine biologist, is seen here studying specimens, 1975, by Vincent P. Connolly, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="267" caption="S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) formal portrait as a child wearing a sailor suit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ripley served as the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984, 1918, by Louis Fabian Bachrach, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7008, Accession 93-105, Box 28;
Description: In conservation it can be easy to overlook the content of an item and just get on with the treatment. Here is a case where overlooking the content was simply not possible.
Description: Art-inspired pumpkins. [via Hyperallergic]Gif's turned art. [via Wired]Our neighbor, the National Gallery of Art, just reopened their beautiful east wing and it has a stunning blue friend. [via Washington Post]Loved the Renwick Gallery's Wonder exhibit? You can now experience it in VR! [via DCist]The powerful symbolism in Nat Turner's bible. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Nashville
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.
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