Description: Marine Hospital Service Laboratory exhibit - equipped with apparatus for investigating subjects pertaining to sanitary science - at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 12907.
Description: It's National Zoo and Aquarium Month! Let's explore the early days of the National Aquarium and its commitment to the promotion of marine science and aquaculture.
Description: National Park Service Ranger takes a name rubbing from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, November 1991, by Richard Strauss, SIA Acc. 11-009, 91-20495.
Description: Conservators from Smithsonian Institution Libraries in the rare books conservation lab at North Capitol Street Services Center, SIA RU000371, 79-14235-04A.
Description: Staff from Office of Computing Services and the Accounting Office with new computing equipment for use in the implementation of the Smithsonian Institution Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS), SIA RU000371, 78-6288-31.
Description: Stereograph of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining a fragment of a meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin in 1871.
Description: [caption id="attachment_13094" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, 1983, by Jeff Tinsley, Color slide, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number 83-4105."][/caption] Today, we’re starting a new weekly feature that highlights images from the Archives’ historic Smithsonian Photographic Services collection.
Description: [caption id="attachment_11206" align="aligncenter" width="219" caption="Bells Rock Lighthouse, Chesapeake Bay, c. 1880s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative number: MAH-48182H."][/caption] We recently digitized a series of lighthouse images that led me on a surprising research path.