Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="323" caption="From left to right: Herbert G. Deignan, Secretary Alexander Wetmore (seated), Jane Love, Samuel A. Arny, and Herbert Friedmann are looking at a tray of birds from the collection. Wetmore and Friedmann are holding birds from the tray in their hands, 1951, by Charles Eliot Perkins, Color photo, Smithsonian Institution
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="428" caption="At the Chicago Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1893, visitors ride in a gondola in the ‘Court of Honor.’ The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition, 1893, by Unknown
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Israel's Shimon Peres and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush looking at the National Air and Space Museum's World War II memorabilia with NASM Deputy Director Donald Lopez during a brief visit in September 1986, by Mark Avino, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in Washington, D.C. February 21, 1985, and because her flight was grounded an extra 10 hours by a forecast of fog, she got to see the National Air and Space Museum, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="At the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, a visitor admires "Omaha's White City," The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition, 1898, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Bill Withuhn (l.), deputy chairman of National Museum of American History's Science and Technology Department, in Annapolis, Maryland in July to greet captain and crew of a British Army sailing yacht carrying a 60 lb. iron plaque from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire for NMAH's transportation collections, 1986,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir, February 28, 1951, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Model of the proposed Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, designed by the firm McKim, Mead and White, and the successor firm Steinmann, Cain, and White, c. 1958, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="From left to right: Baldomiro Moreno, Herbert Clark, John Hushing, C. L. Pierce, Karl Curtis and Watson M. Perrygo stand in front of a building belonging to the La Jagua Hunting Club near Chico, Panama, 1949, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 2: Watson M.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="356" caption="Photo of a termite nest, near Aguadulce, Panama, From 1910 to 1912 the Smithsonian participated in the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, to document the natural history of the Canal Zone prior to construction of the Panama Canal, 1910-1911, by Henri Pittier, Photographic print, "Completion of the Biological
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Alfred Duane Pell Collection of Ceramics and Furniture on display in the National Gallery of Art (NGA), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), at the United States National Museum (USNM) building, now known as the Natural History Building (NHB), c. 1930, by
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="In the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History in an exhibit case of "Poisonous Mammals" displays the short-tailed shrew, the duck-billed platypus, and the spiny anteater, the only poisonous mammals, 1959, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,
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