Description: Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-805.
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Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
Description: Robert Ridgway, known primarily for his extensive contributions to ornithology and as curator of birds for the United States National Museum, was also a keen observer of the changing landscape in areas where he conducted his detailed studies.
Description: Buffalo group collected on William Temple Hornaday expedition in Buffalo Butte, Montana, 1886. The specimens were later mounted for exhibition in the United States National Museum, MNH-5469.