Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="359" caption="Photographic Collage depicting the standard exhibit cases with specimens and artifacts used by the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1880s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 55, Folder 7, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="365" caption="A history exhibit in the Arts and Industries Building of the first typewriter patented in the United States, It was submitted to the United States Patent Office by William Austin Burt in 1829 and called the typographer, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Exhibit of wood technology presented by Rayonier Incorporated in the United States National Museum (USNM), now the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), c 1930s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder 38, Negative Number: 36649."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="A Junior League docent explains exhibits in The Hall of Gems and Minerals, National Museum of Natural History, to visiting school children, 1950s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 44, Negative Number: MNH 142-A."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Visitors, including children, are viewing entomology exhibits in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, June 1954, by United States Department of Agriculture, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 10, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="A Junior League docent explains exhibits in The Hall of Gems and Minerals, National Museum of Natural History, to visiting school children, 1950s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 44, Negative Number: MNH 142-A."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A crowd of visitors looking at the lunar sample on exhibit in the Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building soon after it came to the National Air and Space Museum, 1970, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 398, Box 56, Folder 18, Negative Number:
Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as
Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as
Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch
Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have
Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through
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