Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="A reproduction of the facade of a 19th century instrument shop of Benjamin Pike of New York City in the Hall of Physical Sciences, The exhibit opened in March 1966 in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="441" caption="A papier mache model of a Stegosaurus dinosaur in the Fossil Reptiles Exhibit. The exhibit opened in June of 1963 in the National Museum of Natural History as part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1963, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Under a banner for Operation Moonwatch, people are lined up at the entrance to a Satellite Demonstration set up in Biloxi, Mississippi, The Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was created in 1956 as part of the Satellite Tracking Program and established to track and photograph the artificial
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Eileen M. McCarthy, chief of the Publications Distribution Section of the Smithsonian Institution Press, opening gifts at her retirement party in the Great Hall, Smithsonian Institution Building, March 9, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The map shows the distribution of Smithsonian Correspondents throughout the world from the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, 1895, the map is found after page 32, From its earliest years, the Institution maintained correspondence with scholars and volunteers who supported the work of the Smithsonian, by collecting
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A group of Smithsonian Employees in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building on February 9, 1927 in connection with a test of the lights in preparation for the group shot of the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Retouched Photograph of Fire in Smithsonian Institution Building, 1865, by Alexander Gardner, photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 30 Folder 9, Negative Number:37082."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption=""Japan: Design Today" exhibition organized by the Japan Design House, the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Institution, and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, seen here as installed at the Walker Art Center, November 1960, by Robert Wilcox, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="295" caption="Letter written "To the Meteorological Observers of the Smithsonian Institution: The Ministry of Public Instruction in Italy, desiring to ascertain whether the aurora borealis makes its appearance simultaneously, or at the same moment of absolute time, on different meridians, have requested the Smithsonian Institution to