Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="318" caption="National Museum of Natural History, 'Interior of the South Pavilion and Rotunda to the Height of the Top of the Great Arches, Showing the Screen, Walls and Clearstory Window on the East Side, and Parts of the Adjoining Piers,' (from United States National Museum Bulletin 80), c. 1911, by Unknown photographer, Photographic
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="View of the Mineralogy/Geology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, soon after it was completed, 1911, by Unidentified photographer (Thomas W. Smillie?), Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 1A and Record Unit 95 Box 44
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Print of the original architectural drawing of the National Museum of Natural History Building, originally known as the United States National Museum Building, Drawn by architects Hornblower and Marshall in 1906 in black and red ink pen on cloth, 1906, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 000092, Box CGMC, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), North Entrance Lobby (Foyer), looking west, soon after the building was completed, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1,
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_308449,size=250,left]Though Roxie Laybourne may be a well-known topic here in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, there is a good reason she is so popular. From good advice to her pioneering career to modern day inspiration, her work offers new insight each time we turn to it. Laybourne’s interest in natural history began long before she began her
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum exhibit includes the Langley Aerodrome, a model of a whale suspended from the ceiling, natural history exhibits, archaeological objects, and industrial machines, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the
Description: Halloween is over, but you can prepare for next year’s festivities with these costume ideas from the Archives of American Art. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony is still in anarchy! [via DCist]See sixty of this year’s top wildlife photographs submitted to the Windland Smith Rice Awards either online or in person at the National Museum of
Description: Some refer to the Smithsonian as "America's Attic." It probably earned this nickname because throughout its history, the Smithsonian has acquired artifacts, relics, paintings, personal collections, and even hair samples related to the Commander in Chief (yes, the National Museum of American History has a collection of presidential hairs!).With Presidents' Day coming up on
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="A fiberglass reconstruction of the jaws of an extinct 40-foot long shark, bearing one row of real fossil teeth in the front and several rows of plastic replica teeth behind, for National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Fossils: The History of Life," 1985, by Chip Clark, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Henry B. Collins, ethnologist with the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, conducted field work in Florida in the winter of 1927-1928, In this photo, Collins holds up a recently caught fish, and Mrs. W. E. Colton is seated next to Collins, c. 1927-1928, by
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