Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley greet Queen Elizabeth II outside the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB) or "Castle," July 8, 1976, during her visit to the United States to commemorate the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, 1976, by James Wallace, Black and white photographic
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot (Secretary, 1928-1944) and two unidentified persons viewing site for Table Mountain Observatory in California, The Table Mountain Observatory was closed in 1961, c. 1925, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005 Box 187 Folder 7, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Mrs. Edna Winston, wife of Harry Winston, presenting the Hope Diamond to Secretary Leonard Carmichael and Curator George Switzer on November 10, 1958, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder 11, Negative Number: SIA2008-2293."][/caption]
Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,
Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.
Description: Meroe Park became the Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Smithsonian in 2020. She oversees day-to-day activities and major strategic initiatives across the Smithsonian. Previously, Park was the executive vice president of the Partnership for Public Service and executive director and chief operating officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. #Groundbreaker
Description: Marion Stirling Pugh began her career with the Smithsonian in 1931 as a secretary for her future husband, Matthew Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. For the next 40 years, the couple studied Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. Pugh served as the president of the Society of Women Geographers from 1960 to 1963 and from 1969 to
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Group photograph of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory employees, including Florence Meier Chase, fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1928-1944) Charles Greeley Abbot (second from the left), M. Agnes Neill, Earl S. Johnston, Robert Weintraub, Anne Lucka, William Hoover, Edward D. McAlister, and unidentified
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1944) carrying the house-fly vane radiometer afoot up the Mount Wilson, California trail. Abbot made this instrument in Pasadena, California, but carried it by hand up the trail
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="On Coiba Island, Panama, a convict of the penal colony there, carries on his shoulder 5 drinking coconuts or "pipas" to take to Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore and colleagues who were on the island, February 2, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Ten men are carrying a cayuco ("dug-out canoe") to the water in María, Coiba Island, Panama, The image was taken by Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition to Coiba to study birds the birds of Panama, January 24, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
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