Results for "United States. Defense Research and Engineering"
Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River
- Date: June 18, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.
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The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian
- Date: June 9, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific
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Where’s Waldo . . . L. Schmitt?
- Date: February 18, 2016
- Creator: Patrick Milhoan
- Description: Waldo L. Schmitt, a curator with the United States National Museum, participated in a 1938 expedition with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to survey the Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands.
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Smithsonian Volunteers: Thanks for the Time and Talent!
- Date: April 6, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: In celebration of over a century of volunteer contributions at the Smithsonian, explore the work of some stellar volunteers from our collection.
Miscellaneous Adventures: Awarding Excellence
- Date: April 9, 2015
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Another Miscellaneous Adventures explores the work of Smithsonian employees and the quest for their work to be awarded.
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Science Service, Up Close: Field Work at Yellowstone
- Date: July 2, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Who is the man at right, standing in Yellowstone National Park with Dutch geologist Henrik Albertus Brouwer?
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Scientists Arrive in Dayton...and Find a Mansion
- Date: July 11, 2011
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Update: New Round of Scientists on the Flickr Commons
- Date: March 8, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: As promised, we just uploaded a new batch of over twenty photographs from our Science Service collection to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. This week is heavy on the anthropology, archeology, and psychology, with a dabble of astronomy and engineering thrown in. The photos include such gems as: Drs.
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A Well Engineered Photograph
- Date: November 20, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Construction of the Pension Building, Designed by Montgomery Meigs, c. 1883, by Unknown photographer, Albumen print, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Image ID: AFS 182."][/caption] One of the first collections that I encountered during my travels through the photography collections of the
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Explore the Arctic with Operation Windmill
- Date: January 28, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: View amazing photos from Operation Windmill, a surveying expedition of Antarctica conducted by the US Navy in 1947-48.
Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees
- Date: August 4, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.
Gone But Not Forgotten: Former Animals at the National Zoo
- Date: May 27, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A number of animals who used to call the National Zoological Park home are no longer there.