Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives"
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/24/2010
- Date: March 24, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="The Smithsonian Institution Building seen from downtown Washington, D.C., from across The Mall, around 1855. In the foreground are construction materials along 15th Street, NW for the new wing added in 1855 to the Treasury Building. The Treasury building is the oldest departmental building in Washington, D.C.having been
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/3/2010
- Date: March 3, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Rocket Row along the West Side of the Arts and Industries Building before the National Air and Space Museum was built. The four missiles on exhibit are: From left to right, the Jupiter C, which launched Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite; the Vanguard; the Polaris, the first U.S. submarine-launched ICBM; and the Atlas,
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/25/2010
- Date: October 25, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="334" caption="Paul Rhymer, Exhibits Specialist in Taxidermy at Exhibits Central, shows off the radio-controlled badger he created for Brian Miller, a post-doctoral fellow working at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, VA, The "robo-badger" had been found as road-kill and mailed to Rhymer frozen,
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/23/2010
- Date: December 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Explorers of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition, Born in Greenland of a Danish missionary father and an Inuit mother, Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, 1879-1933, was a Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist, who between 1921 and 1924, led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across arctic North America from
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/8/2010
- Date: December 8, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="371" caption="An exhibit case filled with West African wood carvings from an exhibition of the Herbert Ward African Collection in the United States National Museum (USNM), now the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), which opened March 1, 1922, Herbert Ward was an explorer, soldier, author, and artist, who collected objects of
- Blog Post
See Here: 6/28/2010
- Date: June 28, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/19/2010
- Date: August 19, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard, "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth, On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times, late 1960s - c. 1975, by
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/9/2010
- Date: December 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/10/2011
- Date: March 10, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Henry B. Collins, ethnologist with the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, conducted field work in Florida in the winter of 1927-1928, In this photo, Collins holds up a recently caught fish, and Mrs. W. E. Colton is seated next to Collins, c. 1927-1928, by
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/31/2010
- Date: December 31, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="299" caption="Hanging from the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the U.S. flag loomed large and proud over the podium at the July 20 celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first lunar landing, President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle joined the three Apollo 22 astronauts- Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/18/2010
- Date: October 18, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="After three years at the National Portrait Gallery, (l-r) William Trossen, Terry Conable, Lina Best and David Price are moving the Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington for shipment to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where they will be displayed under an alternating exhibition plan worked out in 1980
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/10/2010
- Date: December 10, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="The Board of Regents meeting, January 15, 1954. In attendance at the meeting was Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Representative Clarence Cannon, Representative Leroy Johnson, Representative John M. Vorys, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Mr. Robert V. Fleming, Dr. Jerome C. Hunsaker, Justice Owen J. Roberts,