Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="437" caption="Ernest P. Walker, Assistant Director, National Zoological Park, 1930-1956, with a flying squirrel, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 24A Folder 1, Negative Number: 2002-10670."][/caption]
Description: Late in July, LENS, a New York Times blog that focuses on images and issues photographic, posted an interesting story by James Estrin. Magnum Photos, the legendary co-operative photo agency founded after World War II by photographers including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson, announced that to boost the visibility (and paid use) of the hundreds of thousands of images it
Description: From April 7-18, 2014, JA Pryse was in residence with the Smithsonian Institution Archives fulfilling the Smithsonian Affiliations Visiting Professional Program fellowship awarded in January of this year. Over the information packed two weeks a number of innovative digital processes were gathered which are valuable to the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division’s present
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="National Portrait Gallery (NPG) curator of photographs, Will Stapp, and his assistant, Ann Shumard, with the last photograph taken of Abraham Lincoln, 1982, Dane A. Penland, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder June 1982, Negative Number: 82-4838-22A."][/caption]
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
Description: [caption id="attachment_10960" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Peter Finkel, volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. "][/caption] Here at the Archives, we have 25 fulltime staff members, and half as many volunteers and interns at any given moment.
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_5844,size=250,left]A staff-favorite story in the Smithsonian’s history is that of the Megatherium Club — a revolving group of young naturalists who made the Castle their temporary home in between expeditions to the outer reaches of the United States. Who could not be intrigued by this photo of the Club where they look to be sharing a joke, or a plan?
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="DeCarlo Wiley, National Air and Space Museum guard and Smithsonian basketball team guard, 1978, by Susan Foster, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1978, Negative Number: 94-2879."][/caption]
Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress were able to pool funds to purchase a rare photo of a young Harriet Tubman. [via Washington Post]The Audobon profiles Smithsonian scientist, Roxie Laybourne, who started the field of forensic ornithology which identified birds involved in plane strikes and led to improved
Description: How photos from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens help preserve the memory of gardens (such as the Middlegate Japanese Gardens pictured above) that are now gone. The Museum of the Future has a great roundup of videos and blogs about museums, technology, and media. An update on earthquake damage at the Smithsonian, and hear Smithsonian Secretary (and earthquake
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Gown and cape worn by Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963, to the Inaugural Ball, c. 1960s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 53, Folder 4, Negative number: 50202."][/caption]
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