Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Larry Hagman, from the television show "Dallas," presented Carl Scheele, Curator of National Museum of American History's Division of Community Life with his hat from the television show in the Cannon House Office Building caucus room, February 28, 1984, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="African American Laborers including Robert Campbell, Richard Hill, Rev. Bartlett L. Phillips, and Charles Washington are dressed in their white uniforms and worked at the United States National Museum, c. 1890, by T. W. Smillie, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 34, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Exhibits Maker Jimmy Machuga (left) and Terry King painting a ceiling motif in the Ceremonial Court (a re-creation of the White House entrance hall) at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder April 1989,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="Office of Exhibits Central staffers (l-r) Ben Snouffer, Rosemary Regan, and Harold Campbell pose for with the mannequins that were modeled after them in the National Museum of American History's (NMAH) "Engines of Change" exhibit, 1987, by Eric Long, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Carol Burnett, with the charwoman costume that she donated to National Museum of American History. At the presentation ceremony, Burnett honored a reporter's request and bellowed out her famous Tarzan yell, 1988, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 5 Folder July 1988,
Description: First hand account of Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry, about what Washington DC was like during the holidays in the time of the Civil War.
Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through
Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.
Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.
Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.
Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.
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