Results for "Smithsonian Institution. International and Environmental Programs"
- Blog Post
See Here: 6/11/2010
- Date: June 11, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="317" caption="John Estes, operations director, Smithsonian's International Exchange Service, holding up the pay records of his great-grandfather, who worked at the Exchange from 1890-1898, 1977, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/6/2010
- Date: October 6, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Staff of the Bureau of International Exchanges, later the International Exchange Service, gathered on the steps of the east entrance of the Smithsonian Institution Building on July 10, 1891, by Unidentified photographer, Sepia photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 28 Folder 33, Negative
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/22/2010
- Date: September 22, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Aerial view of the Rhode River and the site of the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (CBCES), now known as the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), in Edgewater, Maryland, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 549 Box 2
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/22/2010
- Date: July 22, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building, Note electric wiring is on ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall, Established in 1848, the International Exchange Service, administered by the
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/30/2011
- Date: May 30, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/5/2010
- Date: February 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="In the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building, stacks of packages of publications labeled with the foreign country to receive the shipment have been prepared by the International Exchange Service, Early 1900s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28,
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/11/2010
- Date: May 11, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Photograph of the Samuel P. Langley commemorative statue at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906, and pioneer in astrophysics and aerial navigation, c. 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/16/2010
- Date: July 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/7/2010
- Date: July 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Civil Works Administration Project workers construct a trail to the Bird House in the National Zoological Park in March 1934, The Bird House appears in background, Depression era programs allowed the Zoo to build and renovate many facilities, 1934, by E. Hardy, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record,
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/4/2011
- Date: February 4, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A sculpted bust of Secretary Emeritus S. Dillon Ripley was unveiled on May 11, 1990, in the S. Dillon Ripley International Center, Ripley stands next to the newly unveiled art work, May 11, 1990, by Rick Vargas, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder:July 1990, Negative
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/21/2010
- Date: October 21, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="National Air and Space Museum's Space Shuttle Enterprise flew into Washington Dulles International Airport on November 16 atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier Aircraft, Using cranes, the Enterprise was removed from the top of the 747 and lowered to the tarmac at Dulles on November 17, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/8/2010
- Date: November 8, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="Smithsonian's pilot aluminum-can recycling program started early in February 1990. Forty-four containers like the one pictured were placed at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Air and Space Museum, and the Museum Support Center, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley,