Description: An examination of logbooks in the Smithsonian Institution Archives reveals the multiple ways that the Division of Inquiry in the United States Commission of Fish performed scientific work at marine laboratories in the early 20th century to fulfill their expansive mission statement.
Description: As you may know, the Smithsonian is celebrating Archives Month this October. This year, the Society of American Archivists is observing the month with the theme "I Found It in the Archives," which is meant to promote the treasures and gems that researchers find in archival collections, such as genealogical information about their families or materials related to their special
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.
Description: As the architect Victor Lundy turns 90, we look back at the redwood shade structures he designed in the mid-1960s for the terrace of the new Museum of History and Technology (today the National Museum of American History).
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Nancy Sage, museum registrar, using a periscope to view a gallery in a scale model of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1973,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Richard Montali, pathology director of the National Zoological Park's Office of Pathology, dedicates the new pathology and autopsy building, August 26, 1977, by Kathy Hammersley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder October
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: In honor of Bald and Free Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents bald or partially bald employees and visitors to the Smithsonian.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Administrative offices of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon Building, Panama City, This tropical laboratory, called the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), and later renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1946, photo taken December 1965, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Alligators in their enclosure in the original Animal House, also known as the Carnivora House, which opened in 1892 and was the first permanent building at the National Zoological Park, 1900, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 46, Folder 1, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Workers laying the foundation for the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, looking southeast on June 2, 1905, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 5, Negative Number: 17526."][/caption]
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