Results for "Science and state"
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/2/2010
- Date: December 2, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Completing the heavy construction of the United States National Museum building, now the National Museum of Natural History, on May 11, 1909, at 11 am, workmen set the last stone on the south porch, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 33 Folder 4, Negative
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/16/2011
- Date: February 16, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A giraffe mannequin, before the skin was put on, is being assembled in the taxidermy shop of the new United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7074, Box 35, Folder 06, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/19/2010
- Date: February 19, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="398" caption="The Center Market on B Street, now Constitution Avenue, north of the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, October 9, 1909, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 33 Folder 16, Negative Number: 21940 and
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/2/2010
- Date: February 2, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Visitors entering the south side of Natural History Building, United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History), during Easter week, April 1931, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 562 Box 1 Folder, Photographs of NHB including the laying of
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/15/2011
- Date: March 15, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="In the hallways of the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, every available foot of space is occupied by valuable collections housed carefully in metal covered cabinets to guard them from injury, 1936, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/26/2011
- Date: March 26, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Interior view shows the fireplace, wooden chair and a fur rug of a 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony House installed in 1957 in the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, as a part of the Hall of Colonial Culture, 1957, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/26/2010
- Date: April 26, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/5/2011
- Date: April 5, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum (now the Arts and Industries Building) work and storage area with the Zuni, New Mexico,pueblo model under construction, 1880s, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 43 Folder 39, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/18/2010
- Date: May 18, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Workmen posing at the quarry in Bethel, Vermont, The Bethel quarry was one of three quarries where stone was obtained for the exterior walls of the new United States National Museum Building, now the Natural History Building, 1907, by Frank F. Graham, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 3A,
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/3/2010
- Date: May 3, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="359" caption="Photographic Collage depicting the standard exhibit cases with specimens and artifacts used by the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1880s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 55, Folder 7, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/1/2010
- Date: July 1, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="The Alexander Calder sculpture outside the western facade of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, looking towards the Mall with the United States Department of Agriculture Building in the background, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/22/2011
- Date: July 22, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The package containing the Hope Diamond is presented to Smithsonian Secretary Dr. Leonard Carmichael, The donor, Harry Winston, shipped the diamond through the regular United States Postal Service via first-class mail; the postage cost him $2.44, plus $142.85 for $1 million dollars worth of insurance, November 10, 1958,