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Sneak Peek 12/2/2019
- Date: December 2, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Infant gorilla "Tomoka" while fostered at home of Bernard F. Gallagher, supervisory keeper for great apes at National Zoological Park, and his wife, Louise E. Gallagher.
Sneak Peek 6/4/2018
- Date: June 4, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- 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.
Sneak Peek 8/13/2018
- Date: August 13, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, on the day of the test flight of Aerodrome No. 5 on the Potomac River, by Alexander Graham Bell, MAH-18836.
Sneak Peek 12/24/2018
- Date: December 24, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Christmas tree worms [Spirobranchus giganteus] at the Carrie Bow Cay Field Station, Belize, Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems (CCRE) Program, 93-9283.
Sneak Peek 6/18/2018
- Date: June 18, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Construction of Angelica Van Buren mannequin for First Ladies Hall exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History, November 1972, SIA Acc. 11-009, 73-1221-25A.
Sneak Peek 9/24/2018
- Date: September 24, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: "Statue of Freedom," the plaster figure used to cast the statue on top of the U.S. Capitol, in the rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building while being dismantled for storage, February 27, 1967, SIA Acc. 11-008, OPA-1002R1-03.
Sneak Peek 10/29/2018
- Date: October 29, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Museum visitor views dinosaur bone, the humerus (upper arm bone) of Brachiosaurus altithorax, on exhibit at Museum of Natural History, September 11, 1959, by Jack Scott, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-054A.
Sneak Peek 9/3/2018
- Date: September 3, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Aerial view of National Mall from Washington Monument looking towards U.S. Capitol building, with Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station and Center Market in view, circa early 1900s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-43753A.
Sneak Peek 10/14/2019
- Date: October 14, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: U.S. Capitol building as seen from the tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, with Baltimore and Potomac railroad station and tracks in view, circa 1880, SIA RU000095, SA-197.
Sneak Peek 10/22/2018
- Date: October 22, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Dr. Richard L. Zusi, associate curator in the Division of Birds, Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Natural History, examines bird skulls, August 31, 1964, by Jack Scott, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-154.
Sneak Peek 2/24/2020
- Date: February 24, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Homeopathy exhibit showing its history, methods, and remedies, installed in the Hall of Health in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, in 1929, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 27049.
Sneak Peek 4/15/2019
- Date: April 15, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: United States Fish Commission (USFC) staff member monitors McDonald hatching jars for the hatching of buoyant fish eggs at USFC research station, circa 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5611.