Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="367" caption="A diorama of Andrew Ellicott and his assistant Benjamin Banneker taking a break from surveying the boundaries of Washington, D.C., in "Laying out the Nation's Capital" in the Hall of Physical Sciences, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="National Portrait Gallery (NPG) curator of photographs, Will Stapp, and his assistant, Ann Shumard, with the last photograph taken of Abraham Lincoln, 1982, Dane A. Penland, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder June 1982, Negative Number: 82-4838-22A."][/caption]
Description: In honor of Veteran's Day we talk a look at how a recently discovered newspaper illustrated how information was spread/kept secret during World War II.
Description: In conservation it can be easy to overlook the content of an item and just get on with the treatment. Here is a case where overlooking the content was simply not possible.
Description: Oral history interviews sometimes reveal the central role that a mentor can play in the life of a young person, changing the road taken in that person’s life.
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