Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Secretary Leonard Carmichael at the National Zoological Park with a baby gorilla, Leonard (left), and chimpanzee (right), 1961, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 5 Folder 9, Negative Number: 76-17992."][/caption]
Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph
Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how
Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that
Description: In 1864, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth sparked people’s imagination, but have you heard that before the novel was published, the Smithsonian attempted a journey of its own.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="267" caption="S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) formal portrait as a child wearing a sailor suit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ripley served as the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984, 1918, by Louis Fabian Bachrach, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7008, Accession 93-105, Box 28;
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), physicist and first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), taken on December 1, 1875. This print contains the portrait of Henry resting on top of a glass case containing a variety of arrowheads, by Fassett,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="297" caption="Curator of Grasses Mary Agnes Chase receives an award from Smithsonian Secretary Leonard Carmichael, Chase was Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, October 2, 1958, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lafayette Park seen from the Old Executive Office Building, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1943."][/caption]