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- Blog Post
See Here: 7/25/2011
- Date: July 25, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Bill Withuhn (l.), deputy chairman of National Museum of American History's Science and Technology Department, in Annapolis, Maryland in July to greet captain and crew of a British Army sailing yacht carrying a 60 lb. iron plaque from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire for NMAH's transportation collections, 1986,
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/28/2010
- Date: July 28, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="365" caption="At the end of the three-story high concourse in the Smithsonian Institutions underground complex is an illusionist mural by Richard Haas, The mural depicts through ancient stone arches the Arts and Industries Building and the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, both located above ground, adjacent to the
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/29/2011
- Date: July 29, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="At the July 3-14, 1974 Festival of American Folklife -- "Old Ways in the New World," Norwegian dancers perform the "halling dance" (men's acrobatic dance), 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder July/August 1974, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/8/2010
- Date: July 8, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption=""Japan: Design Today" exhibition organized by the Japan Design House, the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Institution, and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, seen here as installed at the Walker Art Center, November 1960, by Robert Wilcox, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/10/2010
- Date: August 10, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="ATLAS Computer Exhibit displayed in the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), The Atlas Computer, developed at the University of Manchester, England, was at the time the fastest computer, using germanium transistors, 1970s, by Unidentified photographer,
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/12/2010
- Date: August 12, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Exhibit case displays examples of the adaptation of temperate zone mammals to the climate by the use of hibernation or aestivation, The case includes a deer, a ground squirrel, a fox squirrel, and a jumping mouse, The exhibit is in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, 1959, by Unidentified
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/16/2010
- Date: August 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Empty display cases of what was the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) museum shop in the Arts and Industries Building, NASM was housed in the Arts and Industries Building until 1975 when it moved to its own building which opened in 1976, 1975, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/18/2010
- Date: August 18, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="The Division of Radiation and Organisms, located in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), Shown here is apparatus for studying phototropism (bending toward light) of seedlings, in connection with experiments to determine effects of wave lengths of light on growth, Date unknown, by Unidentified
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/23/2010
- Date: August 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Fabrics of the Future Exhibit installed in a display window at the Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, G and 12th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C, The exhibit featured such synthetic fabrics as nylon and rayon, c. 1938-1939, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/25/2010
- Date: August 25, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Mrs. Edna Winston, wife of Harry Winston, presenting the Hope Diamond to Secretary Leonard Carmichael and Curator George Switzer on November 10, 1958, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder 11, Negative Number: SIA2008-2293."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/27/2010
- Date: August 27, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="267" caption="S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) formal portrait as a child wearing a sailor suit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ripley served as the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984, 1918, by Louis Fabian Bachrach, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7008, Accession 93-105, Box 28;
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/30/2010
- Date: August 30, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="Theodore H. Reed, Secretary Leonard Carmichael and Assistant Secretary James C. Bradley at a meeting of the Anteater's Association, National Zoological Park, c. 1950s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9568, Box 1, Negative Number: 84-13887."][/caption]