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- Blog Post
See Here: 4/23/2010
- Date: April 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Exhibits Maker Jimmy Machuga (left) and Terry King painting a ceiling motif in the Ceremonial Court (a re-creation of the White House entrance hall) at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder April 1989,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/26/2011
- Date: April 26, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="297" caption="Curator of Grasses Mary Agnes Chase receives an award from Smithsonian Secretary Leonard Carmichael, Chase was Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, October 2, 1958, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/27/2010
- Date: April 27, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot (Secretary, 1928-1944) and two unidentified persons viewing site for Table Mountain Observatory in California, The Table Mountain Observatory was closed in 1961, c. 1925, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005 Box 187 Folder 7, Negative
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/28/2011
- Date: April 28, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Photograph of the west court, looking toward the south pavilion and rotunda, and showing the projection of one of the stair towers of the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1913, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/29/2010
- Date: April 29, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="The Art Room in the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building, created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley. The furnishings were specially designed by Hornblower and Marshall. Encircling the room was a plaster copy of the Parthenon frieze and carbon photographs by Adolphe Braun of Old Master portraits and
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/30/2010
- Date: April 30, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="411" caption="To the right is the Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit at the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian, February 11, 1927, with James W. Gidley (1866-1931), Assistant Curator of Mammalian Fossils, seated beside exhibit panels, Febuary 11, 1927, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/4/2011
- Date: April 4, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Ribbon cutting ceremony for the Museum Support Center Bus to transport staffers, going to and from the Museum Support Center, Silver Hill Facility (MSC), formally launched on February 6, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 98-015, Box 2, Folder: April
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/6/2011
- Date: April 6, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), North Entrance Lobby (Foyer), looking west, soon after the building was completed, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/7/2010
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Rasmussen (left) and his two Inuit campanions, Arnarulunguak and Miteq, visit Washington, D.C. Born in Greenland of a Danish missionary father and an Inuit mother, Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, 1879-1933, was a Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist, 1924, by Leo Hansen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/8/2011
- Date: April 8, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="A reproduction of the facade of a 19th century instrument shop of Benjamin Pike of New York City in the Hall of Physical Sciences, The exhibit opened in March 1966 in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/9/2010
- Date: April 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="362" caption="Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931) sits at a table in the Hollywood Playhouse. She is best remembered for her efforts to transform Washington, D.C. into the nation's cultural capital during the first quarter of the twentieth century, 1927, by Paralta Studio, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/10/2011
- Date: May 10, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Agnes Chase (1869-1963), Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, is seated at a table holding up a herbarium sheet with a grass specimen, Chase specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work