Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10581,size=200,left]Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been
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
Description: This summer, have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: An examination of logbooks in the Smithsonian Institution Archives reveals the multiple ways that the Division of Inquiry in the United States Commission of Fish performed scientific work at marine laboratories in the early 20th century to fulfill their expansive mission statement.
Description: Details of a Smithsonian anthropometric measurement sheet made by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička for escape artist Harry Houdini in 1926.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Three square-lipped rhinoceroses are displayed in a diorama in mammal hall of the National Museum of Natural History, These specimens come from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition of 1909-1910, post 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="A view of part of the animals from Africa display in the newly modernized Mammal Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, These specimens came from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition (1909-1910), c. 1953, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="431" caption="Exhibit of Contemporary Hungarian Artists under auspices of the American Federation of Arts and the American-Hungarian Foundation, at the National Gallery, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in the Museum of Natural History, April 23-May 31, 1930, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
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