Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Panelists and moderator for the BioDiversity teleconference seated at a table, preparing to go on the air 24 September 1986, by Dane A. Penland, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 5, Negative Number: 86-12211-12A."][/caption]
Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the second in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. In a 1930s movie about hotshot newspaper reporters, you might hear the star (Jimmy Cagney, probably) yell
Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.
Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives historian and American University professor, Dr. Pamela Henson, has managed the Smithsonian's oral history program recording important moments in Smithsonian history since 1974, and received the Smithsonian Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service in 2014. #Groundbreaker
Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="U.S. National Museum, May 3, 1917, seen from the National Mall, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 45, Box 79, Folder: 10, Neg. SIA2009-2203."][/caption] As part of my work as the historian for the history of the Smithsonian, I’ve been working for the past year on
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