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: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: This piece is part one in a series of posts about Smithsonian Institution Archives’ (SIA) paper conservator and interns working on stabilizing a 1921 panoramic photo of air mail pilots and crews that is being moved to the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. You can see Part II here. In addition to being the Paper Conservator for the Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mrs. Walter (Joan) Mondale playing the drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) with, (l-r), Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins (founder of the Museum) and Sen. Wendell Anderson, 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="286" caption="James Burford, Anthony Pineau, and Raymond Watson, On September 19, 1981, an ex-clerk with Smithsonian Museum shops, armed with a .25 caliber automatic pistol attempted to steal more than $2,500 from the National Museum of Natural History’s shop but was stopped by this trio, November 1981, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="President Richard Nixon, with his wife Patricia and daughter Julie to his right and daughter Trisha and her husband Edward Finch Cox to his left, addresses the crowd at his Inaugural Ball in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1973, Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Bill Withuhn (l.), deputy chairman of National Museum of American History's Science and Technology Department, in Annapolis, Maryland in July to greet captain and crew of a British Army sailing yacht carrying a 60 lb. iron plaque from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire for NMAH's transportation collections, 1986,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="The National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, exhibition "Art and Archeology of Viet-Nam" at the Natural History Building, October 27-December 8,1960, In this photograph taken on October 26,1960 at the opening reception for invited dignitaries, NCFA Director Thomas M. Beggs discusses
Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque
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