Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Interior of Office of Printing and Photographic Service's cold storage vault, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder September 1983, Negative Number 2004-10338."][/caption] To be sure, the Smithsonian has a lot of photographs. Millions of them in hundreds of
Description: The Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service was created in 1964 and is the highest honor given to Smithsonian staff for exceptional service over a long period of time. On December 4, 2014, Secretary G. Wayne Clough presented this award to Pam Henson for a lifetime of exceptional service to the Smithsonian Institution. She began her career here in 1973 and has been in
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A baby calf resting on the lawn of the South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle," as part of the Department of Living Animals around 1887, Live animals were kept in the South Yard for exhibit and study by the taxidermists before the National Zoological Park was founded in 1889, 1887, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="The Art Room in the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building, created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley. The furnishings were specially designed by Hornblower and Marshall. Encircling the room was a plaster copy of the Parthenon frieze and carbon photographs by Adolphe Braun of Old Master portraits and
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Lecture Room in the northeast Range in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, early 1900s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 24, Negative Number: 16242 (MHT)."][/caption]
Description: For the past month, I have been immersed in the complexity that is the world of digital archiving as an intern for the Smithsonian Institution Archives. As a digital preservation intern, I have discovered aspects about archiving that I would have never considered previously, such as the processes required to document accessions, recording information for accessibility and
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="A painting from the exhibition "Centennial Exhibition of Painting by Edmund C. Tarbell" hangs in the Foyer Gallery of the Natural History Building, 1962, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives,Negative Number: MNH-920-A. Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 19, "][/caption]
Description: Margaret Simmons Vining was a museum specialist and later curator of armed forces history at the National Museum of American History from 1983 until her death in 2018.In addition to curating major exhibitions and building the division’s collections, she founded and supervised the Smithsonian Archive of Women’s Military History. Together with her longtime collaborator and life