Results for "United States National Museum. Section of Textiles"
The Birth of a Building: Constructing the United States National Museum
- Date: June 20, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The birth of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, as told through construction photographs.
Sneak Peek 7/29/2019
- Date: July 29, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Section of Vertebrate Paleontology staff of the United States National Museum, with research associate Oliver Perry Hay, and assistant curators Charles Whitney Gilmore and James Williams Gidley, MNH-38548A.
Sneak Peek 8/5/2019
- Date: August 5, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-41054.
Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports
- Date: May 19, 2016
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.
Sneak Peek 3/16/2020
- Date: March 16, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Rotunda of the United States National Museum Natural History Building, now known as National Museum of Natural History, 1913, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 22339.
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The Archives’ Hidden Women
- Date: March 15, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the
Sneak Peek 11/14/2012
- Date: November 14, 2012
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Construction of the foundation for the new United States National Museum.
Sneak Peek 3/30/2020
- Date: March 30, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, SIA_000095_B67_F16_004.
Sneak Peek 5/20/2013
- Date: May 20, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: United States National Museum exhibit at World's Columbian Exposition.
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.