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,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Shortly after he was hired as a Laboratory Apprentice in the Division of Mechanical Technology in the United States National Museum in 1922, Frank A. Taylor works on a large press from the collections, 1920s, by Underwood and Underwood, Washington, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="George S. Switzer, first Chairman of the Department of Mineral Sciences, 1963-1968, and Associate Curator, 1948-1956, with some objects from the collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Date unknown, c. 1960s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,
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="368" caption="After the Exhibits Modernization Program, an exhibit case in the Bird Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, features birds sitting on a tree branch in their natural surroundings, 1956, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="The blue whale can be seen on display in the "Life in the Sea" exhibit as part of the the Exhibits Modernization Program in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, 1963, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder
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,
Description: Profile of the bust of Dr. William Henry Holmes, first curator of the National Collection of Fine Arts, The bust was sculpted by Moses W. Dykaar, 1922, photograph by Smithsonian Institution photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 311 Box 27 Folder 3, Negative Number: 2002-12137.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum exhibit includes the Langley Aerodrome, a model of a whale suspended from the ceiling, natural history exhibits, archaeological objects, and industrial machines, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the