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    See Here: 10/18/2010

    • Date: October 18, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="After three years at the National Portrait Gallery, (l-r) William Trossen, Terry Conable, Lina Best and David Price are moving the Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington for shipment to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where they will be displayed under an alternating exhibition plan worked out in 1980

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    See Here: 12/10/2010

    • Date: December 10, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="The Board of Regents meeting, January 15, 1954. In attendance at the meeting was Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Representative Clarence Cannon, Representative Leroy Johnson, Representative John M. Vorys, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Mr. Robert V. Fleming, Dr. Jerome C. Hunsaker, Justice Owen J. Roberts,

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    See Here: 12/8/2010

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="371" caption="An exhibit case filled with West African wood carvings from an exhibition of the Herbert Ward African Collection in the United States National Museum (USNM), now the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), which opened March 1, 1922, Herbert Ward was an explorer, soldier, author, and artist, who collected objects of

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  7. Blog Post

    See Here: 6/28/2010

    • Date: June 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,

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    See Here: 12/9/2010

    • Date: December 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum

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    See Here: 3/10/2011

    • Date: March 10, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Henry B. Collins, ethnologist with the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, conducted field work in Florida in the winter of 1927-1928, In this photo, Collins holds up a recently caught fish, and Mrs. W. E. Colton is seated next to Collins, c. 1927-1928, by

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    Pardon our temporary departure . . .

    • Date: March 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Honeywell, El Segundo, Calif., from the Los Angeles Documentary Project 1980 Susan Ressler, 1949, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Photography Museum of Los Angeles, 1990.38.93."][/caption] This is just a head's up to let our

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  15. Blog Post

    See Here: 7/18/2011

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to

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    See Here: 3/4/2010

    • Date: March 4, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="402" caption="Listening to the tape recorded description of the Falcon Guided Missile presented to the National Air Museum, now the National Air and Space Museum, by the Hughes Aircraft Company. L to R: Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who made the presentation; Brig. General Emmett F. Yost, Commander, 85th Air Division, Air Defense

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  19. In like a lion, out like a lamb...

    • Date: March 16, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: The age-old adage “in like a lion and out like a lamb” refers to the wildly varying weather in the month of March. Certainly, this March has been no different, with snow and nasty storms pelting the northeast, and all of us dreaming of cherry blossom season after a long winter. While we all wait it out, check out some lions and lambs, both subdued and fierce, from across the

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  21. For all you merry pranksters

    • Date: April 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: Happy April Fool's Day! Enjoy some tricks and pranks from the collections.

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  23. Blog Post

    See Here: 8/1/2011

    • Date: August 1, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture

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