Results for "Taxidermists"
Celebrate National Teacher's Day with Education Resources at the Archives
- Date: May 8, 2012
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: In honor of National Teacher's Day, the Archives shares some of its K-12 teaching resources and lesson plans.
Sneak Peek 5/1/2013
- Date: May 1, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermists prepare a walrus for exhibition.
Sneak Peek 9/16/2013
- Date: September 16, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermists prepare a giraffe for installation at the National Museum of Natural History.
Sneak Peek 2/10/2014
- Date: February 10, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermists Paul Rhymer, John Matthews, Ken Walker, Walter Sorrell, and Glenn Rankin prepare specimens for exhibit in Mammal Hall at the National Museum of Natural History.
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: March 12, 2015
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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See Here: 12/8/2009
- Date: December 8, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Taxidermists Mounting Hippopotamus, 1930s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 1: Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews, Negative Number:MAH 11087-A."][/caption]
Sneak Peek 10/15/2018
- Date: October 15, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermist Sybil Costanzo works on zebra model at Museum of Natural History, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-045B.
- Blog Post
Collections in Context
- Date: March 22, 2010
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12311,size=250,right]Walking into the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History one immediately comes face to face with the Fénykövi Elephant (also affectionately known as Henry). Taken at a glance, the African elephant is impressive and imposing, standing over guests to a tune of 13 feet and 2 inches when measured at the shoulder. The Fénykövi
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/11/2010
- Date: November 11, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A baby calf resting on the lawn of the South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle," as part of the Department of Living Animals around 1887, Live animals were kept in the South Yard for exhibit and study by the taxidermists before the National Zoological Park was founded in 1889, 1887, by
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/17/2010
- Date: May 17, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="446" caption="Taxidermists Charles R. Aschemeier (right) and Watson M. Perrygo (left) are at work in a laboratory in the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History) preserving a sailfish caught by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1935, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/18/2011
- Date: July 18, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to
Sneak Peek 4/8/2019
- Date: April 8, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermist Francis “Frank” Greenwell repairs a Nubian giraffe in an exhibit containing animals from Africa in the Hall of Mammals in the National Museum of Natural History, February 10, 1982, by Kim Nielsen, SIA Acc. 11-009, 82-2558-26A.