Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:
Description: Artists are often among the researchers who comb through archives in search of inspiration and content. A few years back in 2008, an encyclopedic exhibition, Archive Fever, presented at the International Center of Photography in New York, presented works by leading contemporary artists who have made active use of archival images, documents, and methodology to explore the ways
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired and accessioned digital records from Smithsonian Exhibits. Smithsonian Exhibits, Exhibition Records, circa 2000-2016, SIA 18-150 is an exciting collection that documents the design of exhibitions for Smithsonian museums and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). SITES offers exhibitions to other
Description: Curator of Oceanic Ethnology Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, is an expert on Tongan dance and was honored by the YWCA as a leading female scientist whose work increased the understanding of native cultures. #Groundbreaker
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="'Everyman is a valuable member of society who by his observations, researches and experiments procures knowledge for men.' Written by James Smithson, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, c. 1820, by James Smithson, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7000, Box 5, Folder 13, Negative
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: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), paleontologist and fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927), Walcott is at a fossil quarry excavating the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada, c. 1910s - 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="377" caption="Presentation of Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromes to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at the annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, December 8, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 16 Folder 21; Record Unit 371 Box 2,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Smithsonian Institution staff photographers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, (l-r): Jeff Tinsley, Richard K. Hofmeister, Jeff Ploskonka and Dane Penland, 1986, James Wallace, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 5, Negative Number: 86-12516-3."][/caption]
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