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
Description: Ceramics exhibit in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, featuring "Haviland Memorial Vases," MNH-37695.
Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with
Description: [caption id="attachment_6524" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Linsey Scott, Intern, and Michael Barnes, Photographer, from the Center of Scientific Imaging and Photography stand in front of the freshly remounted world-record Black Marlin that was caught in 1953 using 130 pound test line by Alfred C. Glascock, Jr."][/caption] I had the recent opportunity to sit down
Description: Mummy and sarcophagus found in Luxor, Egypt for exhibit of Biblical Antiquities at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895, MNH-3552.
Description: First aid demonstration at Bureau of Mines exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Califonia, 1915, MAH-8187.
Description: I couldn’t resist this collection of beautiful butterfly and creepy crawly engravings from BibliOdyssey this week. The Smithsonian has created a new Facebook page in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, which we’ll regularly be contributing to. Hop on over and like the page! Apparently, it was not only illegal, but criminal for women to vote! Photos uncovered by
Description: One of the ways the Anacostia Community Museum has served its community is through celebrations and educational programming about Kwanzaa.
Description: Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-805.
Description: "Information Age: People, Information and Technology" exhibition at National Museum of American History, October 1990, by Rick Vargas, SIA Acc. 11-009, 90-14532-03A.