Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Photograph of the Samuel P. Langley commemorative statue at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906, and pioneer in astrophysics and aerial navigation, c. 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.
Description: Former Senior Staff Scientist, Dr. Olga Linares, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, greatly expanded the understanding of Central American human evolution, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1992. #Groundbreaker
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: Senior Curator and Historian Portia James (1953-2015) pioneered a community-based approach at the Anacostia Community Museum and led the exhibitions, publications and collections programs. She researched African American material culture. #Groundbreaker
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: 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: Lisa Stevens, National Zoological Park, was senior curator for mammals and managed all aspects of the giant panda program. In over thirty years at the Zoo she worked with more than thirty different species. #Groundbreaker
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