Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives and Special Collections Council"
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/16/2010
- Date: July 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="At the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, a visitor admires "Omaha's White City," The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition, 1898, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- 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: 9/9/2010
- Date: September 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, a view of the Natural History Fossil Exhibit with the model of a whale and skeletons of several dinosaurs, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the United States Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/25/2011
- Date: July 25, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Bill Withuhn (l.), deputy chairman of National Museum of American History's Science and Technology Department, in Annapolis, Maryland in July to greet captain and crew of a British Army sailing yacht carrying a 60 lb. iron plaque from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire for NMAH's transportation collections, 1986,
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/21/2011
- Date: February 21, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="351" caption="Dr. Donald J. Ortner, a physical anthropologist in the National Museum of Natural History, is examining a skull, He studied 500 unusual pathological skeletons in the Smithsonian's collection, 1986, Dane A. Penland, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-016, Box 1, Folder: Research Reports
Drop us a line!
- Date: July 6, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: We’re getting into the middle of the summer months and many of us have vacation or travel planned. Whether you’re hopping across the globe, or planning a “staycation” at home, take a trip virtually by browsing through some of the delightful postcards in the Smithsonian’s collections.
Happy Birthday!
- Date: June 27, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Happy Birthday to Happy Birthday! On Sometime around this date in 1893 sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill, who were both elementary school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky, first published “Happy Birthday to You”—one of the most iconic and popular songs in the English Language. Apparently, this makes June 27th “Happy Birthday Day,” so let sounds of that popular ditty roll
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/16/2009
- Date: December 16, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1944) carrying the house-fly vane radiometer afoot up the Mount Wilson, California trail. Abbot made this instrument in Pasadena, California, but carried it by hand up the trail
For all you merry pranksters
- Date: April 1, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Happy April Fool's Day! Enjoy some tricks and pranks from the collections.
In like a lion, out like a lamb...
- Date: March 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: The age-old adage “in like a lion and out like a lamb” refers to the wildly varying weather in the month of March. Certainly, this March has been no different, with snow and nasty storms pelting the northeast, and all of us dreaming of cherry blossom season after a long winter. While we all wait it out, check out some lions and lambs, both subdued and fierce, from across the
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/1/2011
- Date: February 1, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="A group of scientists leaves Barro Colorado Island in a small boat, during 1923, Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/29/2010
- Date: April 29, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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