Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="439" caption="Bird storage on the third floor of the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24055."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="Workers on the roof of the Arts and Industries Building are replacing the slate roof with tin, c. 1906, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 32, Folder 12, Negative Number: 20042."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Sculptor Mario Martini's "Juggler" at the entrance to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder November 1974, Negative Number: 92-1644."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="415" caption="Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park at the turn of the century, 1905, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 35 Folder 21, Negative Number: MAH-15911."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Storage cases in the Paleontology Laboratory in the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24046."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Helen Stephens is checking jewelry at National Museum of History and Technology Museum Shop, 1975, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Negative Number: 75-9071-8."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="attachment_13490" align="aligncenter" width="428" caption="Installation of the Jose de Rivera sculpture, "Infinity," in front of the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1967, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative number: OPA-1020.16"][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" caption="San Francisco, California, Post Office, Station A, 1895, Unknown photographer, Black and white photographic print, National Postal Museum, Accession number: A.2008-30."][/caption] SepiaTown is a new site geo-mapping historical photos of New York, Moscow, London, and other cities—you can upload your own too. And I just
Description: Whoa!!! Google Streetview and Google Books now come in 3D (if you have 3D glasses stashed in your desk, like I do!). Click the dude with the 3D glasses above to check out a view of the Smithsonian Castle in 3D. Grand Paris! La Tour Eiffel under construction, and a giant 26-Gigapixel panorama of the city [via Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities and Effie Kapsalis, SPI]. A “Ghandi