Description: Bureau of American Ethnology exhibit featuring "Basketry of the American Indians" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-16402.
Description: United States Fish Commission (USFC) staff member monitors McDonald hatching jars for the hatching of buoyant fish eggs at USFC research station, circa 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5611.
Description: Section of Vertebrate Paleontology staff of the United States National Museum, with research associate Oliver Perry Hay, and assistant curators Charles Whitney Gilmore and James Williams Gidley, MNH-38548A.
Description: Stereograph of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining a fragment of a meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin in 1871.
Description: Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-41054.
Description: Cyanotype, aerial view of buildings and grounds at the World's Columbia Exposition, with Japanese Ho-o-Den Palace on Wooded Island, north end of the Horticulture Building, Woman's Building, Midway Plaisance, and Ferris Wheel in view, Chicago, 1893, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 12168.
Description: Demolition of roads on the National Mall during conversion of roadways (Washington and Adams drives) to gravel walkways for pedestrians, October 28, 1975, by Jim Wallace, SIA Acc. 11-009, 75-13713-22.
Description: Unloading of boiler and engine of the 19th century paddle wheel excursion steamer “Lucius Newberry,” at the Silver Hill Facility, April 18, 1984. The boat was recovered from Geneva Lake in Wisconsin in 1982, SIA Acc. 11-009, 84-5118-06A.
Description: Exhibit case featuring skeletons of “Man and Horse” in Comparative Anatomy Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, mounted by J.W. Scollick, osteological preparator, 1890s, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-8880.
Description: Senior administrators stand next to their bicycles outside the Arts and Industries Building during an energy conservation campaign, 74-4912-01.
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