Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Program in Black American Culture"
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/8/2010
- Date: October 8, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in Washington, D.C. February 21, 1985, and because her flight was grounded an extra 10 hours by a forecast of fog, she got to see the National Air and Space Museum, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/26/2010
- Date: March 26, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="275" caption="Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822-1912), author and reformer, was born in Boston, sitting at a table reading a book, 1870s, by J. W. Black, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 6, Folder: 43, Dall, William Healey - Family, Negative Number: 2005-17691."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/11/2011
- Date: April 11, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Print of the original architectural drawing of the National Museum of Natural History Building, originally known as the United States National Museum Building, Drawn by architects Hornblower and Marshall in 1906 in black and red ink pen on cloth, 1906, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 000092, Box CGMC, Folder
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/15/2011
- Date: April 15, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Deborah Bennett, museum technician, and Tim Coffer, data gatherer, sort trays of seashells for the mollusk inventory in the National Museum of Natural History's Division of Mollusks, October 1979, Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/28/2011
- Date: April 28, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Photograph of the west court, looking toward the south pavilion and rotunda, and showing the projection of one of the stair towers of the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1913, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/4/2011
- Date: April 4, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Ribbon cutting ceremony for the Museum Support Center Bus to transport staffers, going to and from the Museum Support Center, Silver Hill Facility (MSC), formally launched on February 6, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 98-015, Box 2, Folder: April
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/6/2011
- Date: April 6, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), North Entrance Lobby (Foyer), looking west, soon after the building was completed, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1,
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/14/2010
- Date: October 14, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mrs. Walter (Joan) Mondale playing the drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) with, (l-r), Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins (founder of the Museum) and Sen. Wendell Anderson, 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/21/2010
- Date: October 21, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="National Air and Space Museum's Space Shuttle Enterprise flew into Washington Dulles International Airport on November 16 atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier Aircraft, Using cranes, the Enterprise was removed from the top of the 747 and lowered to the tarmac at Dulles on November 17, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/16/2010
- Date: December 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="301" caption="Photograph of the "Dynamics of Evolution," a major exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History. The "People Tower" in the foreground is covered with more than 100 larger-than-life sized photos of faces that show genetic traits, such as blue or brown eyes, or black or blonde hair, May 1979, by Unidentified
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/27/2011
- Date: April 27, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="286" caption="James Burford, Anthony Pineau, and Raymond Watson, On September 19, 1981, an ex-clerk with Smithsonian Museum shops, armed with a .25 caliber automatic pistol attempted to steal more than $2,500 from the National Museum of Natural History’s shop but was stopped by this trio, November 1981, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/11/2010
- Date: October 11, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="The skeleton of a Hyracotherium, a tiny horse that heralded one of the major evolutionary trends of the age of mammals - the move to grazing - from the National Museum of Natural History's new exhibit "Mammals in the Limelight," opening May 30, 1985, In the background is Robert Emry, Curator of fossil mammals in the