Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Environmental Sciences Program"
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/9/2010
- Date: September 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, a view of the Natural History Fossil Exhibit with the model of a whale and skeletons of several dinosaurs, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the United States Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition,
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/28/2010
- Date: September 28, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Ray Dudley, assistant grounds foreman in the Office of Horticulture, gives some Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center pre-schoolers the word on the trees and plants in their playground, He also gave the kids some safety tips--including a warning not to eat holly berries, 1989, by Rick Vargas, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/11/2009
- Date: December 11, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="402" caption="Smithsonian Geologists and Paleontologists outside the Arts and Industries Building, 1886. Included in the photograph are: (top, l to r) Frank Wigglesworth Clark, William F. Hillebrand, T. M. Chatard, William Hallock; (bottom, I to r) James Edward Whitfield, Frank
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/15/2009
- Date: December 15, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="Alan B. Shepard, Jr., peers into the window of the Mercury "'Freedom 7"' spacecraft which he flew on May 5, 1961. The spacecraft was presented to the Smithsonian on October 23, 1961, and placed on display in the Quonset Hut or Air Museum Building of the National Air
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/1/2010
- Date: September 1, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Loyal B. Aldrich (standing), who worked for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1908-1955 and was its director from 1944 to 1955, and two unidentified persons (one of whom is a woman), ride a tram up the side of Mt. Wilson, California, which served as a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory station from 1905 to
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/29/2010
- Date: March 29, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="In April of 1913, East African lions, from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909-1910) and mounted by George B. Turner, are placed on display in mammal hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/11/2011
- Date: February 11, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Watson M. Perrygo, taxidermist and exhibits preparator and zoological exhibits worker in the Department of Zoology, USNM, 1952-1958, and Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and Sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, stand beside a truck carrying the identification of the United States Air Force (U.S.A.F. A-6331), March 14, 1952, by
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/3/2011
- Date: March 3, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="253" caption="Edgar A. Mearns, an ornithologist, research associate, and honorary associate in zoology, with the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was one of three naturalists from the National Museum chosen go on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition with Theodore Roosevelt to
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/8/2010
- Date: April 8, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="395" caption="Dr. William H. Holmes, first curator of the National Gallery of Art (NGA), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), (standing, right) with William H. Jackson (standing, left), Story B. Ladd (seated, left) and George B. Chittenden (seated, right), c. 1930, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
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- Date: March 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Summer Youth Employment Program, July 1964, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Call No.: AC0618.004.0001801."][/caption] You may have noticed that we have sorted out our tags
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/21/2009
- Date: December 21, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Renwick Administrator Lloyd E. Herman (1972-1986), wearing a cummerbund made of leftover drapery material from the Grand Salon, examining woodworks of craftsman Wendell Castle at the opening of the Renwick Gallery, January 27, 1972, by Unknown photographer,
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/30/2009
- Date: December 30, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Visit of Muhammad Ali to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, March 17, 1976, when he donated a pair of gloves and a robe to the museum for the "Nations of Nations" exhibition, 1976, Richard K. Hofmeister,