Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.
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: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="The Alexander Calder sculpture outside the western facade of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, looking towards the Mall with the United States Department of Agriculture Building in the background, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Foster Henderson Benjamin (1895-1936), lepidopterist, was with the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, There he assisted in the investigations of the Mexican (Texas, 1927) and Mediterranean (Florida, 1929) fruit flies, c. 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Sepia photographic print, Smithsonian
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="307" caption="Wilhelm Carl Paul Gottlieb Heinrich (1880-1955) in 1913 joined the United States Department of Agriculture, He first worked on applied entomology but later switched to the classification of Lepidoptera, c. 1940, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7427, Box 1,
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
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
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Watson M. Perrygo, taxidermist and exhibits preparator and zoological exhibits worker in the Department of Zoology, USNM, 1952-1958, and Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and Sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, stand beside a truck carrying the identification of the United States Air Force (U.S.A.F. A-6331), March 14, 1952, by
Description: In celebration of over a century of volunteer contributions at the Smithsonian, explore the work of some stellar volunteers from our collection.
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