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- Blog Post
See Here: 7/22/2011
- Date: July 22, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The package containing the Hope Diamond is presented to Smithsonian Secretary Dr. Leonard Carmichael, The donor, Harry Winston, shipped the diamond through the regular United States Postal Service via first-class mail; the postage cost him $2.44, plus $142.85 for $1 million dollars worth of insurance, November 10, 1958,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/23/2010
- Date: July 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="The Postage Stamp Collection on display in pull out trays in the Arts and Industries Building, probably early in the twentieth century. Visitors are looking at various cases, Portrait paintings are visible overhead, 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/29/2010
- Date: July 29, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford discusses a scene from the film "The Earth in Our Hands" with Walter Adey, director of Natural History's Marine Systems Laboratory (MSL). The film was shot in MSL's Everglades Ecosystem at the Old Soldiers' Home, 1989, Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/30/2010
- Date: July 30, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/4/2011
- Date: July 4, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="The Rotunda of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, decorated with American flag buntings hanging from the balconies, circa 1915, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 532, Box 103, Folder: NHB Undated, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/5/2010
- Date: July 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="George S. Switzer, first Chairman of the Department of Mineral Sciences, 1963-1968, and Associate Curator, 1948-1956, with some objects from the collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Date unknown, c. 1960s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/7/2010
- Date: July 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Civil Works Administration Project workers construct a trail to the Bird House in the National Zoological Park in March 1934, The Bird House appears in background, Depression era programs allowed the Zoo to build and renovate many facilities, 1934, by E. Hardy, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/8/2011
- Date: July 8, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="A woman and Carlos' sister, who is leaning against a table, are at the open air summer camp above the house on the Isla Iguana, The image was taken by sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore while on an ornithological expedition to Panama, Date unknown, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/9/2010
- Date: July 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Frank Taylor examining two models of ancient Chinese war chariots, made in Peking, China from fragments which were dated to about 500 B.C., 1927, by Underwood and Underwood, Washington, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 22A, Folder 52, Negative Number: 83-2075."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/11/2010
- Date: August 11, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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,
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/20/2010
- Date: August 20, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Sheila Hershey rings up a "sale" on world's first cash register, which was placed in the Smithsonian Institution on July 1, 1959, The device was invented in 1879 by James Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio, cafe owner, who sold the rights to the machine for $1,000, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/2/2010
- Date: August 2, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="From 1897-1903, galleries were built on the second floor of the United States National Museum (USNM), now the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), to provide more exhibit space, Pictured are men beside bricks to be used in the construction of the galleries, c. 1897-1903, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,