Description: “Are you arty or hearty?” As family legend has it, this hilarious question was asked of one of our family’s old friends upon his arrival at Jesus College, Oxford University in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar. Well, as the story goes, it turns out that he was hearty and intellectually gifted (physics). And, the same can be said of lots of Smithsonian employees.
Description: Okay, okay—sorry for the lame title, but I can’t resist a rhyme. In all seriousness, though, so much of the hard work at the Smithsonian is done by volunteers, and we would be remiss to not recognize them during National Volunteer Week.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="340" caption="Image of Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and Smithsonian Secretary, with Baldomiro Moreno, The two men are sitting in a jeep near the Rio Chico, Chico, Panama, April 4, 1948, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 176, Folder: Album 2,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Secretary Charles G. Abbot's Solar Cooker at Mt. Wilson, CA, Date unknown, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005 Box 189 Folder 1, Negative Number: MAH 11020-B."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Secretary Samuel P. Langley studying and photographing birds in flight from a tower on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, 1901, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 10, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Aerodrome designed by the third Smithsonian Secretary, Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), on one of its brief, unsuccessful, test flights along the Potomac River, 1903, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 9A, Negative Number: 2002-10628."][/caption]
Description: When did women begin to manage Smithsonian museums? Meet Grace Dunham Guest who was a key staff member in opening the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923.
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