Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After
Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.
Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,
Description: Donald J. Ortner, Division of Physical Anthropology museum technician, demonstrates use of equipment to study mineral concentration in bone on William H. Crocker, associate curator in the Division of Cultural Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, MNH-1498D.
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete
Description: [caption id="attachment_13490" align="aligncenter" width="428" caption="Installation of the Jose de Rivera sculpture, "Infinity," in front of the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1967, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative number: OPA-1020.16"][/caption]
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