Results for "United States National Museum. Transportation Clerk"
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.
Spotlight: Carl William Schuermann, Jr., Property Clerk
- Date: October 28, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: We're taking a closer look at Carl William Schuermann, Jr., a Smithsonian property clerk with an interest in ornithology.
Sneak Peek 1/20/2020
- Date: January 20, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-805.
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.
The Long Journey to Scientific Aide: Barry Hampton’s Career
- Date: February 16, 2017
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Barry Hampton played an important role in Division of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Natural History Museum for decades, but recognition was slow to come.
The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail
- Date: June 1, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
The Woman Behind the Camera
- Date: March 28, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: A closer look at Smithsonian's first woman photographer, Louisa Bernie Gallaher.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret A. Santiago
- Date: June 10, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- 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.
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.
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.