Results for "Update"
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/8/2011
- Date: April 8, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="A reproduction of the facade of a 19th century instrument shop of Benjamin Pike of New York City in the Hall of Physical Sciences, The exhibit opened in March 1966 in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print,
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/9/2010
- Date: April 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="362" caption="Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931) sits at a table in the Hollywood Playhouse. She is best remembered for her efforts to transform Washington, D.C. into the nation's cultural capital during the first quarter of the twentieth century, 1927, by Paralta Studio, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/10/2011
- Date: May 10, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Agnes Chase (1869-1963), Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, is seated at a table holding up a herbarium sheet with a grass specimen, Chase specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/11/2010
- Date: May 11, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Photograph of the Samuel P. Langley commemorative statue at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906, and pioneer in astrophysics and aerial navigation, c. 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/12/2011
- Date: May 12, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The map shows the distribution of Smithsonian Correspondents throughout the world from the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, 1895, the map is found after page 32, From its earliest years, the Institution maintained correspondence with scholars and volunteers who supported the work of the Smithsonian, by collecting
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/13/2010
- Date: May 13, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Looking south from the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street, the silhouette of the Smithsonian Institution Building is seen in the distance, Above the first building to the right of 11th Street, the sign reads "Latimer & Cleary Auction and Commission Merchants", the next building has a sign "Star Buildings," and
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/16/2011
- Date: May 16, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- 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,
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/17/2010
- Date: May 17, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="446" caption="Taxidermists Charles R. Aschemeier (right) and Watson M. Perrygo (left) are at work in a laboratory in the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History) preserving a sailfish caught by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1935, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/19/2010
- Date: May 19, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum exhibit includes the Langley Aerodrome, a model of a whale suspended from the ceiling, natural history exhibits, archaeological objects, and industrial machines, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/20/2010
- Date: May 20, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="Women employees in the Telephone and Telegraph Office which was located in the North Tower of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, from the time the building was opened in 1881, Through the window is the Syrian Sarcophagus brought to the United States in 1837 and intended for Andrew
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/24/2010
- Date: May 24, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="At the National Zoological Park, Louis Paul Jonas, designer of the fiberglass sculpture of a dinosaur triceratops named Uncle Beazley used in the NBC production of 'The Enormous Egg', with the enormous egg made for the production, 1967, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/30/2011
- Date: May 30, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Under a banner for Operation Moonwatch, people are lined up at the entrance to a Satellite Demonstration set up in Biloxi, Mississippi, The Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was created in 1956 as part of the Satellite Tracking Program and established to track and photograph the artificial