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    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

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    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,

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    See Here: 3/7/2011

    • Date: March 7, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Anthropology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, The front exhibit case, which was part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit, shows a life group of indigenous people of the Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic

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    See Here: 4/22/2011

    • Date: April 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to

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    See Here: 4/5/2010

    • Date: April 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Annual Easter Egg Roll on Easter Monday at the National Zoological Park, At the top of the hill is the original 1891 Animal House (Lion House) designed by William R. Emerson. By the turn of the century the National Zoological Park had become a popular spot to spend Easter Monday, c. 1900s, by Unknown photographer,

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    See Here: 6/9/2010

    • Date: June 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Emperor Hirohito of Japan at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) with Dr. Frederick M. Bayer, Dr. Joseph Rosewater, and Professor Hidemi Sato (University of Pennsylvania) on October 2, 1975, The Emperor, who is a marine biologist, is seen here studying specimens, 1975, by Vincent P. Connolly, Photographic print,

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    Art On Message

    • Date: February 25, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="Georgia O'Keeffe, 1920, by Alfred Stieglitz, Photographic print, Archives of American Art, Local Number: AAA 440 (fr. 508)."][/caption] I confess, way back when as a student of American Modernism, I was never much interested in Georgia O’Keeffe. I was supposed to be. She was the lone, out-there, woman painter of America;

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    Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo

    • Date: May 17, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now

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    This Side of Paradise

    • Date: July 31, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Group of Young Women in Costume During Arrival Reception For Tourists Near Plane at Airport, by Gerald James Holton, 1968, National Museum of Natural History, National Anthropological Archives."][/caption] I came across these photos of tourists on Easter Island on our site and their presence has kind of baffled me.

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  19. North To Alaska

    • Date: June 14, 2012
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Recreating the journey of the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 by cruise ship.

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    See Here: 3/3/2010

    • Date: March 3, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Rocket Row along the West Side of the Arts and Industries Building before the National Air and Space Museum was built. The four missiles on exhibit are: From left to right, the Jupiter C, which launched Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite; the Vanguard; the Polaris, the first U.S. submarine-launched ICBM; and the Atlas,

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    Google Halts an Archiving Project

    • Date: June 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.

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