Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Wright Brothers standing outside carriage after receiving Langley Medal for Aerodromics, February 10, 1910, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 56 Folder 11, Negative number: 82-3350."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance work at makeshift desks packed into areas not meant for offices, such as one of the display spaces of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History Building, 1918, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Scientists on Bikini Atoll during the 1946-47 Operation Crossroads to conduct a biological survey of Bikini prior to testing the atomic bomb there, 1947, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7222 Box 24, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="The southwest corner of the Peacock Room, also called "Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room", by James McNeill Whistler installed in the Freer Gallery of Art, Unknown, perhaps 1930s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 34, Folder 13, Negative
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Nancy Sage, museum registrar, using a periscope to view a gallery in a scale model of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1973,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Volunteer satellite trackers in Pretoria, South Africa, for Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide, 1965, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Color postcard of the East African lions in the mammal hall of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, pre 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 45, Folder 26, Negative Number: SIA2010-0488."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="In the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History in an exhibit case of "Poisonous Mammals" displays the short-tailed shrew, the duck-billed platypus, and the spiny anteater, the only poisonous mammals, 1959, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="377" caption="Presentation of Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromes to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at the annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, December 8, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 16 Folder 21; Record Unit 371 Box 2,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="The Mall, around 1890, showing the planting and design of the plan by Andrew Jackson Downing, The Mall is covered with trees, with a winding dirt path through them, and a deer standing near it, c. 1890, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30, Folder 1,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Aerodrome designed by the third Smithsonian Secretary, Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), on one of its brief, unsuccessful, test flights along the Potomac River, 1903, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 9A, Negative Number: 2002-10628."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="253" caption="Storage area for the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, while still in the Natural History Building, October 1964, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 48 Folder 3, Negative Number: 94-4420."][/caption]