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- Blog Post
See Here: 8/19/2010
- Date: August 19, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard, "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth, On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times, late 1960s - c. 1975, by
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/1/2010
- Date: September 1, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Loyal B. Aldrich (standing), who worked for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1908-1955 and was its director from 1944 to 1955, and two unidentified persons (one of whom is a woman), ride a tram up the side of Mt. Wilson, California, which served as a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory station from 1905 to
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/28/2010
- Date: October 28, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="On January 25, 1904, a military procession to Smithsonian Institution grounds brings the remains of James Smithson (c.1765-1829) whose bequest created the Smithsonian, His remains had been transported by Alexander Graham Bell, a member of the Board of Regents, from Genoa, Italy, after the Italian cemetery had fallen into
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/9/2010
- Date: December 9, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum
- Blog Post
See Here: 2/15/2011
- Date: February 15, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="From left to right: Baldomiro Moreno, Herbert Clark, John Hushing, C. L. Pierce, Karl Curtis and Watson M. Perrygo stand in front of a building belonging to the La Jagua Hunting Club near Chico, Panama, 1949, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 2: Watson M.
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/10/2011
- Date: March 10, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Henry B. Collins, ethnologist with the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, conducted field work in Florida in the winter of 1927-1928, In this photo, Collins holds up a recently caught fish, and Mrs. W. E. Colton is seated next to Collins, c. 1927-1928, by
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/19/2011
- Date: April 19, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="335" caption="Sophie Lutterlough, hired in 1943 as the Smithsonian’s first female elevator operator, sits in front of a microscope in the Department of Entomology, For 14 years Lutterlough ran the elevators, but moved on to a second career after asking Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke if there were any openings in his department, and being hired
- Blog Post
See Here: 6/17/2011
- Date: June 17, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="In El Valle, Cocle, Panama, on 31 March 1951, Sixth Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore and taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo at his left are outside a building sitting at a table preparing bird specimens for study at the Natural History Museum, March 31, 1951, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian
- Blog Post
See Here: 11/8/2010
- Date: November 8, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="Smithsonian's pilot aluminum-can recycling program started early in February 1990. Forty-four containers like the one pictured were placed at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Air and Space Museum, and the Museum Support Center, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley,
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/31/2010
- Date: December 31, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="299" caption="Hanging from the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the U.S. flag loomed large and proud over the podium at the July 20 celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first lunar landing, President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle joined the three Apollo 22 astronauts- Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/1/2011
- Date: March 1, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="View of Main Street in La Central Colonia Penal, Coiba Island, Panama, The image was taken by Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition in Panama to Coiba Island, while completing field work for his four volume work, The Birds of Panama, January 9, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic
- Blog Post
See Here: 10/18/2010
- Date: October 18, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="After three years at the National Portrait Gallery, (l-r) William Trossen, Terry Conable, Lina Best and David Price are moving the Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington for shipment to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where they will be displayed under an alternating exhibition plan worked out in 1980