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: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.
Description: You have probably heard of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen. Even Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. And I know you have heard of Rudolph. But do you recall the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s most famous reindeers of all? “Operation Reindeer” was the most publicized event of 1958. Fourteen reindeer and one caribou made their way, sans the open sleigh, to Washington, D.C., for
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series, titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: Some of you may recall the symbol of the United States Forest Service fire prevention program, Smokey Bear. Perhaps I am dating myself, however I distinctly recall posters and television commercials between Saturday morning cartoons depicting the almost human looking bear wearing his park ranger hat and blue jeans, with shovel in one hand and stern finger pointed with the
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Richard Montali, pathology director of the National Zoological Park's Office of Pathology, dedicates the new pathology and autopsy building, August 26, 1977, by Kathy Hammersley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder October
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Abram Lerner (Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), Columbian artist Fernando Botero, and Frances and Sydney Lewis (philanthropist, a retail company executive and trustee at Hirshhorn) are pictured, December 1979, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="At the Kenneth Snelson opening, Abram Lerner, left, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, stands talking to Joseph H. Hirshhorn next to an abstract sculpture by Snelson, June 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9600, Abram Lerner Oral
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Sculpture on pedestals outside the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, Exhibition Hall in the Natural History Building, October 1964, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 48 Folder 3, Negative Number:
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