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- Blog Post
See Here: 1/12/2010
- Date: January 12, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Model of the proposed Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, designed by the firm McKim, Mead and White, and the successor firm Steinmann, Cain, and White, c. 1958, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 1/21/2010
- Date: January 21, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Gown and cape worn by Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963, to the Inaugural Ball, c. 1960s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 53, Folder 4, Negative number: 50202."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/21/2009
- Date: December 21, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Renwick Administrator Lloyd E. Herman (1972-1986), wearing a cummerbund made of leftover drapery material from the Grand Salon, examining woodworks of craftsman Wendell Castle at the opening of the Renwick Gallery, January 27, 1972, by Unknown photographer,
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/29/2009
- Date: December 29, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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
- Blog Post
See Here: 1/5/2010
- Date: January 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Three black-billed magpies in the National Zoological Park's Flight Cage, 1978, by Vichai Malikul, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1978, Negative number: 94-8329."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/23/2010
- Date: December 23, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Explorers of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition, 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, who between 1921 and 1924, led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across arctic North America from
- Blog Post
See Here: 1/26/2011
- Date: January 26, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir, February 28, 1951, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore
- Blog Post
See Here: 6/28/2010
- Date: June 28, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,
- Blog Post
See Here: 8/19/2010
- Date: August 19, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard, "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth, On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times, late 1960s - c. 1975, by
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/1/2010
- Date: September 1, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Loyal B. Aldrich (standing), who worked for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1908-1955 and was its director from 1944 to 1955, and two unidentified persons (one of whom is a woman), ride a tram up the side of Mt. Wilson, California, which served as a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory station from 1905 to
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/28/2010
- Date: October 28, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="On January 25, 1904, a military procession to Smithsonian Institution grounds brings the remains of James Smithson (c.1765-1829) whose bequest created the Smithsonian, His remains had been transported by Alexander Graham Bell, a member of the Board of Regents, from Genoa, Italy, after the Italian cemetery had fallen into
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/9/2010
- Date: December 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum