Results for "United States National Museum. Section of Agriculture"
- Blog Post
Doris Holmes Blake and the Fight for Women’s Right to Paid Employment
- Date: May 3, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: How the marital status provision of the 1932 Economy Act impacted one Smithsonian scientist.
- Blog Post
Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge: Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator
- Date: August 4, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: As one of the first women to work in scientific illustration at the Smithsonian, Violet Dandridge made her mark at the United States National Museum.
- Blog Post
Heart of Glass
- Date: October 5, 2017
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph
Sneak Peek 11/14/2016
- Date: November 14, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Workroom on the second floor of the United States National Museum, MAH-3682.
A Whale of a Tale
- Date: November 13, 2014
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.
Sneak Peek 4/24/2017
- Date: April 24, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermy frame for tiger model for the United States National Museum, MNH-3658.
Sneak Peek 4/27/2015
- Date: April 27, 2015
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Storage area for the Department of Mammals at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, MNH-1246B.
Sneak Peek 8/19/2019
- Date: August 19, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Cameras and photographic equipment for United States National Museum photography exhibition, circa 1913, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-21469.
Sneak Peek 7/2/18
- Date: July 2, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Defective taxidermy specimens, previously on exhibit in United States National Museum, circa 1890, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-5802.
Sneak Peek 6/10/2019
- Date: June 10, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Selection of horns mounted for musical instruments exhibit in the United States National Museum, 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-8224.
Sneak Peek 5/2/2016
- Date: May 2, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Gerrit S. Miller, Curator of Mammals at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, SIA2012-10006.
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/7/2011
- Date: April 7, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, is on horseback along side a man on horseback, c. 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian