Results for "Science -- History"
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/24/2011
- Date: October 24, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/14/2011
- Date: November 14, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/21/2011
- Date: November 21, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/25/2011
- Date: November 25, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/7/2010
- Date: December 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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,
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/5/2010
- Date: November 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="From left, the Disney Studio's Michael Eisner, American History Director Roger Kennedy (sporting a special T-shirt celebrating Mickey Mouse's 60th birthday), Walt Disney's nephew Roy and Mickey Mouse joined in a celebration at National Museum of American History, 1988, Dane A. Penland, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/23/2010
- Date: March 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="436" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance occupying the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History. On the request of President Wilson, the Board of Regents closed the museum to the public on July 16, 1918, making available to the government the ground and two exhibition floors (138,600 sq.
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/11/2011
- Date: May 11, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The 1401, a 280-ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive, was moved just inside the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, The locomotive was built in 1926 by the Richmond, Virginia, works of the American Locomotive Company, The railroad car was too large to move into
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/8/2010
- Date: November 8, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="Smithsonian's pilot aluminum-can recycling program started early in February 1990. Forty-four containers like the one pictured were placed at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Air and Space Museum, and the Museum Support Center, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/29/2011
- Date: April 29, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/17/2010
- Date: May 17, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="446" caption="Taxidermists Charles R. Aschemeier (right) and Watson M. Perrygo (left) are at work in a laboratory in the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History) preserving a sailfish caught by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1935, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/14/2010
- Date: December 14, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="On a collecting trip to the White Sands, New Mexico, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000), paleobiologist at the National Museum of Natural History, stands beside his car, used in the field, nicknamed the "Scarlet Harlot," 1973, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,