Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Image of Merle Crisler Foshag and her husband William F. Foshag, Curator in the U.S. National Museum's Department of Geology, The two are standing amid flowers, while on Foshag's scientific expedition to Tepoztlán, Mexico, 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record
Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.
Description: In honor of National Scrapbooking Month, the Archives highlights the scrapbook of William and Lucile Mann from their trip to Argentina in 1939.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The 1401, a 280-ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive, was moved just inside the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, The locomotive was built in 1926 by the Richmond, Virginia, works of the American Locomotive Company, The railroad car was too large to move into
Description: With the help of digital volunteers, we will make over a century’s worth of Smithsonian Board of Regents Meeting Minutes searchable, via the Smithsonian Transcription Center.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Deborah Bennett, museum technician, and Tim Coffer, data gatherer, sort trays of seashells for the mollusk inventory in the National Museum of Natural History's Division of Mollusks, October 1979, Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Three portraits on exhibit by Portuguese artist Henrique Medina in the lobby of the National Gallery of Art, now the National Museum of American Art, in the Natural History Building, April 13 - May 7, 1938, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311 Box 36 Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="253" caption="Storage area for the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, while still in the Natural History Building, October 1964, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 48 Folder 3, Negative Number: 94-4420."][/caption]
Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.