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Description: From April 7-18, 2014, JA Pryse was in residence with the Smithsonian Institution Archives fulfilling the Smithsonian Affiliations Visiting Professional Program fellowship awarded in January of this year. Over the information packed two weeks a number of innovative digital processes were gathered which are valuable to the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division’s present
Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary
Description: Curator Clayton Edward Ray of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology in the National Museum of Natural History examines a walrus skull, January 17, 1967.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="295" caption="The Children's Room in the South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, was created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley (1887-1906) as a natural history display area especially for children, c. 1901, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder
Description: Snow and its flakes: appreciated by some and despised by others, dreaded and welcomed at the same time, here today and gone tomorrow; such would not be the case for one particular snowflake, thanks Wilson Bentley.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="339" caption="Secretary Leonard Carmichael and guests are at the dedication of the Museum of History and Technology, now known as National Museum of American History, January 24, 1964, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 9, Folder 7, Negative Number: