Description: Get to know some Smithsonian staff, from their favorite holiday dishes to their dream celebrity dinner guests, through a former series in The Torch.
Description: The discovery of a folder titled, "Unicorn," in collection at first brings excitement then disappointment as the unicorn in question was a unicorn fish, not the mythical unicorn.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="305" caption="During his years at Albany Academy and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 to 1878, designed the most powerful electromagnets of his day, 1978, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: Senior administrators stand next to their bicycles outside the Arts and Industries Building during an energy conservation campaign, 74-4912-01.