Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="147" caption="Walt Whitman, 1875, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Chalk on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.73."][/caption] Fascinating interview with poet Robert Roper, who dug into the National Archives to examine the moving letters poet Walt Whitman wrote to family
Description: As we teased earlier this spring in our Facebook Live event, last week Senior Conservator Nora Lockshin and I traveled to Houston, Texas, to share our work with conservation colleagues at the 46th annual meeting of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC). Our contributions centered around work with the Field Book Project, as did our Facebook Live.Another successful
Description: Robert E. Sheldon aka “The Band Man,” museum specialist in the Division of Musical Instruments at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as National Museum of American History, works on a composition for the french horn, 79-5900-32.
Description: Meet the newest (and adorable) member of our National Zoo's family. She sparked an epic cute battle on Twitter! [via WTOP]Maybe not so adorable, a prehistoric "badger otter." [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Museum of American History's political curators were busy last weekend collecting artifacts from the Inauguration and Women's March. [via Voice of America]Speaking
Description: There are 145 collection items at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and their new Objects of Wonder exhibit looks at how scientists use these collections to further our understanding of the world! (via Buzzfeed)Get cozy while you research! Folger Shakespeare Library lends out handmade shawls to visitors. [via Atlas Obscura]Students from the College of
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="274" caption="Untitled, 1950/printed 1982, by Roy DeCarava, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Henry L. Milmore, 1992.15.3."][/caption] Last week American photography lost another of its grand masters. Roy DeCarava died at the age of 87 in New York on October 27th. He was an
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="National Air and Space Museum Flight Simulator, 1978, by Richard Farrar, photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder May 1978, Negative Number:94-8320. "][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Construction of National Museum of Natural History Rotunda Dome, 1908, by unknown photographer, photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 4, Negative Number:2004-10334. "][/caption]
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