Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives. Institutional History Division"
Sneak Peek 12/16/2013
- Date: December 16, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Sculptor Theodore Mills and unidentified man in studio working on models for Smithsonian exhibits.
Sneak Peek 4/18/2016
- Date: April 18, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: 1894 Balzer automobile, the first automobile donated to the Smithsonian in 1899, MAH-45576A.
Sneak Peek: 3/7/2012
- Date: March 7, 2012
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smithsonian and Agricultural Department horse drawn trolley car along the National Mall with Washington Monument in background.
Sneak Peek 10/10/2016
- Date: October 10, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Stereograph portrait of unidentified Smithsonian staff member modeling a hooded fur coat from Anthropology collections, MNH-1122A.
Sneak Peek 1/12/2015
- Date: January 12, 2015
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: A rhinoceros specimen from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909-1910), is prepared for display, Image Number: MNH-26959.
Sneak Peek 8/18/2014
- Date: August 18, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Unidentified staff member with 858 carat Gachala Emerald, donated to the Smithsonian by jeweler Harry Winston, October 9, 1969.
Sneak Peek 2/24/2014
- Date: February 24, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Unidentified female works with a Periodometer, a machine invented by fifth Smithsonian Secretary Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot that analyzes solar records.
Sneak Peek 11/5/2018
- Date: November 5, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC) staff member with chameleon specimens at Navy Yard laboratory, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-137.
Sneak Peek 2/25/2019
- Date: February 25, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Fish specimens in jars at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC), June 6, 1979, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 79-7303-16A.
Remembering Autochrome
- Date: November 20, 2012
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The Autochrome color photography process is highlighted and explained.
Sneak Peek 8/13/2018
- Date: August 13, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, on the day of the test flight of Aerodrome No. 5 on the Potomac River, by Alexander Graham Bell, MAH-18836.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local