Description: Ceramics exhibit in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, featuring "Haviland Memorial Vases," MNH-37695.
Description: Arrival of the Polaris A-3 missile, the first U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missile, outside the Arts and Industries Building, OPA-1172R2-9.
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: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="Groundbreaking for the Freer Gallery of Art building, September 3, 1916, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 56 Folder 12, Negative Number: 94-4417."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lafayette Park seen from the Old Executive Office Building, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1943."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Owls, named "Increase" and "Diffusion", lived in the West Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1977, by Michael Johnson, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1977, Negative Number:96-929."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="In a 1989 videotaping session, Secretary Adams welcomes visitors to the Smithsonian, The segment ran in the Smithsonian Institution Building Information Center theater, Lee Woodman, producer in the Office of Telecommunications, directs the camera crew, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
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: Group portrait of zookeepers in front of a crated bison on a horse-drawn wagon on road in front of the hospital building at the National Zoological Park, NZP-0532.
Description: How the projects are selected for inclusion in the Smithsonian Transcription Center and how the digital volunteers who contribute their work help make collections accessible.
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