Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="A close up view of an exhibit case containing Colonial era clothing from the Copp Family Collection, on display in the Arts and Industries Building, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 28,5 Box 16, Folder 7, Negative Number: 9104."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Exhibit case displays Arctic Mammals in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Some of the animals exhibited include the Arctic hare, the Musk ox, and the Arctic ground squirrel, 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 2,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Robert W. Mason and Philip C. Ritterbush, Smithsonian administrators, with "Cosumbo," a mountain coatimundi, collected on their mountain-climbing expedition in Colombia, 1969, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), physicist and first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), taken on December 1, 1875. This print contains the portrait of Henry resting on top of a glass case containing a variety of arrowheads, by Fassett,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="266" caption="Portrait of John MacLean (1800-1886), President of Princeton College and a citizen member to the Smithsonian Board of Regents from New Jersey, Date unknown, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 16 Folder 48,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="441" caption="A papier mache model of a Stegosaurus dinosaur in the Fossil Reptiles Exhibit. The exhibit opened in June of 1963 in the National Museum of Natural History as part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1963, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1944) carrying the house-fly vane radiometer afoot up the Mount Wilson, California trail. Abbot made this instrument in Pasadena, California, but carried it by hand up the trail
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Owls, named "Increase" and "Diffusion", lived in the West Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1977, by Michael Johnson, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1977, Negative Number:96-929."][/caption]
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Eileen M. McCarthy, chief of the Publications Distribution Section of the Smithsonian Institution Press, opening gifts at her retirement party in the Great Hall, Smithsonian Institution Building, March 9, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Secretary S. Dillon Ripley with Mexican Ambassador Jose Juan de Olloqui with the celebrated Chac-Mool from Chichen-Itzaon which is a classic example of Maya-Toltec sculpture, November 18, 1976, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution