Results for "United States National Museum. Division of Graphic Arts. Section of Photography"
The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian
- Date: January 9, 2018
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.
Sneak Peek 5/15/2017
- Date: May 15, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Chemical compounds and equipment in the photographic laboratory of the United States National Museum, MAH-4457.
Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian
- Date: April 26, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Isabel C. Pérez Farfante
- Date: September 1, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- 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.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Uta C. Merzbach
- Date: December 30, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- 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.
Sneak Peek 10/7/2019
- Date: October 7, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, visitors view a papier mache replica of a Triceratops skeleton, USNM No. 13744.
Searching for Unicorns
- Date: July 18, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The discovery of a folder titled, "Unicorn," in collection at first brings excitement then disappointment as the unicorn in question was a unicorn fish, not the mythical unicorn.
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Link Love: 6/10/2011
- Date: June 10, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Portrait photograph of Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929), entomologist at the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian from 1897 until his death in 1929, c. 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Negative Number: SIA2009-0002."][/caption] It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in
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The National Park that Never Was
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: This month marks the centennial of the National Park Service—learn about one that was planned but never built.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jean Milton Berdan
- Date: July 6, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- 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.
Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!
- Date: May 12, 2022
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives
Here's Looking at You
- Date: June 25, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A peek into our metrics program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.