Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.Even though it’s not quite spring, the start of daylight savings time has our minds in cherry blossom
Description: [caption id="attachment_1085" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="President Barack Obama and health care executives leave the State Dining Room of the White House following a press statement May 11, 2009. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson."][/caption] A few days ago, watching TV and seeing Barack Obama face yet another gaggle of photographers and
Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="An early model of the grounds and buildings at the National Zoological Park site at Rock Creek Park, Date unknown, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 11, Negative Number: 10193."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Secretary Leonard Carmichael at the National Zoological Park with a baby gorilla, Leonard (left), and chimpanzee (right), 1961, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 5 Folder 9, Negative Number: 76-17992."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Renovation work is underway in the Regents Room in the South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB) in 1968, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder 13, Negative Number: OPA 1457-14A."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="356" caption="Unidentified rural letter carrier in his cold weather gear, c. 1910, Photographer unknown, National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection, Image ID A.2009-55"][/caption] To see this photo and other chilly reminders of the season, visit the Commons.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="The original steel plow made by John Deere, Grand Detour, Illinois, in 1838, Date unknown, Photographer unknown, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 41 Folder 1, Negative Number: 91-3683."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Model of proposed interior of the National Air and Space Museum, This is the first plan of NASM that was not implemented, c. 1970, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 398, Box 55, Folder 7, Negative Number: 94-12591."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="View of the Reception Suite of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1973, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285 Box 8 Folder 14, Negative Number: 73-13389."][/caption]