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Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull

Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hu-Hub"; "Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952); and psychologist James Burt Miner (1873-1943), taken by Marjorie Van de Water, at the American Psychological As... More

Scene at waterhole near En Café Island of La Gonave, Haiti

Scene at waterhole near En Café Island of La Gonave, Haiti

Creator: Watson Perrygo...Local number: SIA2008-2659...Summary: The photograph documents Watson Perrygo's field work with Arthur J. Poole in Haiti....Dates: 1928-1929...Collection: SIA RU 7306, Watson M. Perryg... More

left to right: Theodore Leslie Shear (1880-1945) and Josephine Platner Shear

left to right: Theodore Leslie Shear (1880-1945) and Josephine Platner...

Subject: Shear, Theodore Leslie 1880-1945. Shear, Josephine Platner. Princeton University. Wellesley College. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1936. 27-Jul-36..Topic: Archaeology. W... More

114. Copper Island, Smithsonian Institution archives

114. Copper Island, Smithsonian Institution archives

Description: View of town on coast of Ostrov Mednyy, Russia. Photograph was taken during Stejneger's field work for U.S. Bureau of Fisheries...Photographer: Leonhard Stejneger..Date: c. 1882-1916..Image ID: SIA... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men with heavily loaded cart

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men with heavily loaded cart

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Carriages and carts..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2936]..Summary: Stamped on verso: "... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Exploration in North China - An old priest in temple near Taiyuan, Shanxi

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Exploration in North China - An old pries...

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Chong shan si (Taiyuan, Shanxi Sheng, China)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Priests. Chinese..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2987]..Cite as... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese man carrying large drums on shoulder down town street

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese man carrying large drums on shoul...

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chinese. China--Description and travel..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2929]..Summary: ... More

Smithsonian Exhibit at the 1888 Cincinnati, Ohio, Exposition

Smithsonian Exhibit at the 1888 Cincinnati, Ohio, Exposition

Description: The Smithsonian Institution Exhibit at the 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States in Cincinnati, Ohio. The sign on the long, low exhibit case in the middle of the photogra... More

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Description: At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. A view of the reflecting pool traversed by several bridges and several Exposition buildings. The large dome of one of the buildings is visible i... More

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1327]..Summary: Cec... More

Man working with fossil, 1900-1935.

Man working with fossil, 1900-1935.

Local number: SIA2011-1428..Summary: RU 424 Box 7 Lantern Slide Box 18. Man working with fossil, 1900-1935. Mammoths, mastadons, and other large mammals from the Late Cenozoic were collected in Idaho and on dis... More

USS Houston, 1938. Warship photograph collection

USS Houston, 1938. Warship photograph collection

Creator: Waldo Schmitt..Local number: SIA2011-2234..Summary: Smithsonian staff were aboard the USS Houston during the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidential Cruise of 1938...Dates: 1938..Collection: RU 007231 Wal... More

Skongen, Expedition's Ship, Smithsonian Institution archives

Skongen, Expedition's Ship, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Unknown..Subject: Rasmussen, Knud 1879-1933. Arctic Expedition. Skongen (Ship). Thule Expedition (5th : 1921-1924) Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24..Type: Photographic print. Landscape..Dat... More

President Wilson's Sheep at White House

President Wilson's Sheep at White House

Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Subject: Wilson, Woodrow 1856-1924. Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt 1872-1961. White House (Washington, D.C.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Buildings... More

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Description: When she retired in 1961, Hazel Gay had served for 45 years as head librarian at the American Museum of Natural History in New York...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black ... More

Barbara Kegerreis Lunde (b. 1937)

Barbara Kegerreis Lunde (b. 1937)

Subject: Lunde, Barbara Kegerreis b. 1937. Goddard Space Flight Center. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1964..Topic: Aerospace engineering. Women engineers..Local n... More

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Smithsonian Institution archives

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Fermi, Enrico 1901-1954..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Nobel Prizes. Nuclear physics. Quantum physics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0574]..Summary: Italian-born physicist... More

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984)

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1...

Description: Biochemist Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984) were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for their work on how the human body metab... More

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

Description: Carolina Amor de Fournier was associated with the Mexican journal La Prensa Médica Mexicana and was editor of Hummingbirds and Orchids of Mexico (1963)...Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium:... More

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1509]..Summary: In 1963, Chien-shiung... More

Photograph of birds on antenna supports for LORAN tower on Sand-Johnston Island,  1963.

Photograph of birds on antenna supports for LORAN tower on Sand-Johnst...

Creator: unknown...Local number: SIA2013-08806...Summary: Photograph was taken as part of field documentation for the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, on Sand-Johnston Island [Johnston Atoll], 1963....D... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes (l) and George Washington Rappleyea (r)

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes (l) and George W...

Description: Taken the month before the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. June 1925..Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: Black and white photographic print..Dimensions: 4.25 in x 3 in..Culture: Americ... More

Mlle. Marchal, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Mlle. Marchal, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Marchal, Mlle. College de France. American Chemical Society. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1925. C. 1925..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientist... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Main Street, Dayton, Tennessee.

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Main Street, Dayton, Tennessee.

Description: Taken the month before the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. Robinson's Drugstore is shown on the right. June 1925..Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: Black and white photographic print.... More

Unidentified man, Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925.

Unidentified man, Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925.

Creator/Photographer: William Silverman..Type: Photographs..Date: 1925..Image ID: 2009-21075..Description: Taken on the Rhea County Courthouse lawn, this photo captures the informal atmosphere surrounding the t... More

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)

Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977..Subject: Wrinch, Dorothy 1894-1976. University of Oxford Mathematical Institute. Johns Hopkins University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1937. 9/13/1937..Topic: Mat... More

Professor Albert B. Bibb, Smithsonian Institution archives

Professor Albert B. Bibb, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1936..Topic: Men..Standard number: SIA2011-0268 and 32372-3..Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Color: Black ... More

Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909)

Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909)

Creator: Fuller, Wesley..Subject: Seyfert, Muriel E. Mussells 1909-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1936. 3/16/1936..Topic: Astronomy. Women scientists..Local number: SIA ... More

Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

Description: During the 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Eleanor Plunkette Brown was National Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Blindness; by 1944, now married, Eleanor Brown Merrill was the ... More

Lillian Josephine Hawes, scientist

Lillian Josephine Hawes, scientist

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; Lillian Josephine Hawes (b. 1905) graduated from Stanford University in 1928 and first served as a public health nurse in Los Angeles. This photograph was distributed when she... More

left to right: Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003)

left to right: Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003...

Subject: Escallon, Marion Schmidt 1912-2003, Sinclair Oil Company, Geological Survey (U.S.), University of Michigan, Texaco (Colombia), Petroleum.....Type: Black-and-white photographs.....Date: 1937, Dec-37....... More

Miss Bertha Ferguson, Smithsonian Institution archives

Miss Bertha Ferguson, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1935..Topic: Women..Standard number: SIA2011-0905 and 32112..Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black... More

Herbert Spencer Jennings, scientist

Herbert Spencer Jennings, scientist

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Herbert S. Jennings"; "Johns Hopkins University protozoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947) and his wife. This is most likely his first wife, artist Mary Louise Burridge Jenning... More

Nina Kobelt, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Nina Kobelt, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Ko-Koc"; Nina Kobelt (1884-1973) was the secretary of Rockefeller Institute biologists Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) and Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1894-1961) and compiled the defini... More

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and The USS Edisto (AG-89) in Antarctica

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and The USS Edisto (AG-89) in Antarctica

Author: Unknown..Subject: Operation Windmill..Type: Photographic print. Exterior..Date: 1947..Topic: Research expeditions. Scientific expeditions. Snow. Ice. Icebreakers (Ships). Ice breaking operations. Sleds.... More

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and the USS Edisto (AG-89) Breaking Ice

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and the USS Edisto (AG-89) Breaking Ice

Author: Unknown..Subject: Operation Windmill..Type: Photographic print. Exterior. Aerial..Date: 1947..Topic: Aerial photographs. Research expeditions. Scientific expeditions. Snow. Ice. Icebreakers (Ships). Ice... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. American Medical Association. Science Service. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.)... More

Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950)

Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950)

Subject: Stoltenberg, Clara S. 1865-1950. Stanford University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Anatomy. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3857]..Summary: Clara S. Stoltenberg (1... More

Olive Swezy (b. 1878), scientist

Olive Swezy (b. 1878), scientist

Subject: Swezy, Olive b. 1878. Scripps Institution for Biological Research. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-1... More

Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009), engineer

Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009), engineer

Subject: Roennau, Laurel V. University of California (1868-1952). Society of Women Engineers. Space Technology Laboratories, inc..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1961..Topic: Women engineers. Aerospace... More

"How Tall Are You Exhibit," Hall of Health, Arts & Industries Building

"How Tall Are You Exhibit," Hall of Health, Arts & Industries Building

Photographer: Unknown..Date: 1957..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: 2002-10650..Summary: Several visitors at the Hall of Health at the "How Tall Are You?" exhibit showing the growth rate of children a... More

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony wit...

Description: This photo was taken in 1963, as physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was being escorted by King Gustav Adolf of Sweden to a gala banquet following the ceremony during which she received the ... More

Youth Classes at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Youth Classes at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Photographer: Unknown..Date: 1968..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: 92-3567..Summary: Girls at a painting class at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum..: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8384 ( siris... More

Jacqueline L. Schroedter -  Womens history month

Jacqueline L. Schroedter - Womens history month

Subject: Schroedter, Jacqueline L. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. University of Arizona. Astronautical Society of the Pacific..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1962..Topic: Astronomy. Women scient... More

Faye Johannes Marley (1900-1992)

Faye Johannes Marley (1900-1992)

Subject: Marley, Faye Johannes 1900-1992. Science Service. American Red Cross. University of Missouri. University of Michigan. International Cancer Congress..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1962. 7/13/... More

Mary Alice McWhinnie, professor, scientist

Mary Alice McWhinnie, professor, scientist

90-105, 13, "Portraits, Mac-Mc L-Z (2)"; "Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980) was a professor of biology at DePaul University and a world-renowned authority on krill when she began working on research ships off-sh... More

Valentine's Day Card Featuring the Smithsonian National Zoo’s Orangutans, Bonnie and Azy, 1981, by Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian Institution Archives, siarchives.si.edu, Negative Number: 96-1376.

Valentine's Day Card Featuring the Smithsonian National Zoo’s Oranguta...

Instructions: Print out this template and fold it twice (once horizontally, once vertically.) If you come up with any fun captions, please share them on this related blog post: blog.photography.si.edu/2011/02/0... More

NZP Keeper Morna Holden Feeding Animals

NZP Keeper Morna Holden Feeding Animals

Author: Cohen, Jessie..Subject: National Zoological Park (U.S.)..Type: Photographic print. Animal, candid..Date: 1987..Topic: Holden, Morna. Women. Animals. Sandhill Crane. Zoos. Zoo keepers. American bison. Bu... More

USNS Eltanin, cruise 9. 1 chart

USNS Eltanin, cruise 9. 1 chart

Creator: Allan Bé Local number: SIA2011-1326 Summary: Acc 09-008, Box 6, Folder 14; This plotting chart illustrates the Eltanin cruise 9 plankton sampling route. Sampling stations are numbered. From the latitud... More

Great South Gardens Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition

Great South Gardens Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition

1915. Postcard from the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California. The postcard shows the Great South Gardens. The exposition was intended to illustrate the function and administrative faculty of ... More

Left to right John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Norris Pierson, Jr. (b. 1929), and Cornelius P. Trowbridge (1898?-1973) (6891623813)

Left to right John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Norr...

Subject: Rock, John        Lasker, Mary        Pierson, Richard N. 1929-        Trowbridge, Cornelius P. c. 1898-1973        Planned Parenthood Federation of America        Harvard Medical School Type: Black-an... More

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946 (4405642879)

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington...

Creator: Briggs, C.A Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968        Catholic University of America Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1946 Topic: Physics      Women scientists Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA20... More

Mary Agnes Chase, Clarissa Rolfs and Group on Expedition in Brazil, Image Id 96-543

Mary Agnes Chase, Clarissa Rolfs and Group on Expedition in Brazil, Im...

Mary Agnes Chase (third from right with the big hat) on a horse with Clarissa Rolfs, daughter of Peter Henry Rolfs of the Esculea Superior de Agricultura e Veterinaria do Estado de Minas Geraes, Brazil, second... More

SIA-MNH-1122A

SIA-MNH-1122A

Arctic explorer Emil Bessels models a hooded fur coat acquired during a polar expedition.

Smithsonian Institution Archives - MNH-28191

Smithsonian Institution Archives - MNH-28191

Two whale-headed storks, shoe bill balaeniceps rex, from eastern tropical Africa, are displayed in an exhibit case in the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. The ... More

Smithsonian Institution Archives - SIA2010-0483

Smithsonian Institution Archives - SIA2010-0483

A group of East African buffalo, specimens from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition (1909-1910), are on display in the Mammal Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natu... More

Watson Davis, 1942

Watson Davis, 1942

Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915- Subject: Teschan, Paul E. 1923-        Davis, Watson 1896-1967        Prajmovsky, Marina 1924-1974        Science Service Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1942 Topic: Scienc... More

Steam Tricycle in Front of North Entrance to Smithsonian Institution Building 1888

Steam Tricycle in Front of North Entrance to Smithsonian Institution B...

Lucius Copeland "Phaeton Moto-Cycle" steam tricycle at North entrance to Smithsonian Institution Building. Lucius D. Copeland is the driver. Frances Benjamin Johnston is the passenger. Patent attorney B. C. Po... More

Augustus Radcliffe Grote entomologist

Augustus Radcliffe Grote entomologist

Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841-1903) was one of the leading American entomologists of the nineteenth century. In 1881, Grote sold his valuable collection of Lepidoptera to the British Museum, and permanently l... More

Description- A master blacksmith shapes a scroll in the Master of the Building Arts program at the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. (2548087053)

Description- A master blacksmith shapes a scroll in the Master of the ...

Description: A master blacksmith shapes a scroll in the Master of the Building Arts program at the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. Creator/Photographer: Harold Dorwin ... More

Description- Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution's physical object collection, he also extensively (2575921534)

Description- Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian's first photogra...

Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution's physical object collection, he also extensively photograph... More

Description- As the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, Thomas Smillie used images to catalog the much of the institution's physical object collection, ranging from stuffed (2575937522)

Description- As the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of ph...

Description: As the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, Thomas Smillie used images to catalog the much of the institution's physical object collection, ranging from stuffed animals to p... More

Description- As the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, Thomas Smillie used images to catalog the much of the institution's physical object collection, ranging from stuffed (2575677718)

Description- As the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of ph...

Description: As the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, Thomas Smillie used images to catalog the much of the institution's physical object collection, ranging from stuffed animals to p... More

Description- Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution's scientists, (2550556335)

Description- Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer a...

Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution's scientists, including docu... More

Description- Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution's scientists, (2551392868)

Description- Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer a...

Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution's scientists, including docu... More

Description- Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff were responsible for collecting and duplicating images brought back by (2574915887)

Description- Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer a...

Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff were responsible for collecting and duplicating images brought back by scientists and cu... More

Description- Knight wearing high water boots standing in water and painting at an easel. Identification on verso (handwritten)- Louis Aston Knight; Smith, F.H; The Man in the High-Water Boots. (2545775280)

Description- Knight wearing high water boots standing in water and pai...

Description: Knight wearing high water boots standing in water and painting at an easel. Identification on verso (handwritten): Louis Aston Knight; Smith, F.H.; The Man in the High-Water Boots. Creator/Photogra... More

Lafayette Park seen from the Old Executive Office Building (4919711903)

Lafayette Park seen from the Old Executive Office Building (4919711903...

Creator: Gruber, Martin A Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1919     C. 1920-1924 Topic: Monuments      Parks Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-1943] Summary: Gates to a park in Washington, DC Cite as: ... More

Louise Home (SW corner of Fifteenth and Massachusetts, Washington, DC, razed 1949) (4920368882)

Louise Home (SW corner of Fifteenth and Massachusetts, Washington, DC,...

Creator: Gruber, Martin A Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1919     C. 1920-1924 Topic: Flowers      Trees Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-2129] Cite as: RU007355 - Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collec... More

Palata at Copper Island (18210838294)

Palata at Copper Island (18210838294)

RU 007074, Box 29, Folder 5; Seals in vicinity of cliffs on the coast of Ostrov Mednyy, Russia. Photograph was taken during Stejneger's field work for U.S. Bureau of Fisheries.

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Camel (4919778365)

Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Camel...

Creator: Gruber, Martin A Subject: National Zoological Park (U.S.) Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1919     C. 1920-1924 Topic: Animals Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-2344] Cite as: RU007355 - Mart... More

Helen Marie Gunz, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Helen Marie Gunz, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9, Portraits Gui-Guz; "Helen Marie Gunz served as Assistant Librarian at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, with Hazel Gay (see SIA Digital No. 2008-1852)."

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

Subject: Curie, Marie 1867-1934..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chemistry. Nobel Prizes. Physics. Radioactivity--History. Radium--History. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-074... More

Winifred Phillips Hathaway - Public domain photograph

Winifred Phillips Hathaway - Public domain photograph

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Has-Hau"; "Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870?-1954), Associate Director, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, had just received the Leslie Dana Gold Medal at the June 1937 As... More

Lucia McCulloch (1873-1955) -  Womens history month

Lucia McCulloch (1873-1955) - Womens history month

Subject: McCulloch, Lucia 1873-1955. United States Bureau of Plant Industry..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1913..Topic: Botany. Plant diseases. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA200... More

Watson M. Perrygo holding a live boa constrictor, Don Don, Haiti

Watson M. Perrygo holding a live boa constrictor, Don Don, Haiti

Creator: Unknown...Local number: SIA2008-2551...Summary: The photograph documents Watson Perrygo's field work with Arthur J. Poole in Haiti....Dates: 1928-1929...Collection: SIA RU 7306, Watson M. Perrygo Paper... More

Commanding office at Fort Liberté, Haiti

Commanding office at Fort Liberté, Haiti

Creator: Watson Perrygo...Local number: SIA2008-2598...Summary: The photograph documents Watson Perrygo's field work with Arthur J. Poole in Haiti....Dates: 1928-1929...Collection: SIA RU 7306, Watson M. Perryg... More

U.S. National Museum Decorated for Garfield Inaugural Ball

U.S. National Museum Decorated for Garfield Inaugural Ball

Description: The East Hall looking toward the Rotunda, with the "Statue of America" in it, of the new United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, decorated for President James A. Garfie... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Gate tower and wall of Shuiteh, Shaanxi

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Gate tower and wall of Shuiteh, Shaanxi

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Chong shan si (Taiyuan, Shanxi Sheng, China)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Architecture, Chinese..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-3021]..Su... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men carrying a litter

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men carrying a litter

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Litters..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2918]..Summary: Stamped on verso: "Hartung's Ph... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men pulling rickshaws down the street

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men pulling rickshaws down the st...

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Rickshaws. Chinese..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2938]..Summary: Stamped on verso: "H... More

Drawing and poetry by Vernon Orlando Bailey, 1890-1891

Drawing and poetry by Vernon Orlando Bailey, 1890-1891

Creator: Vernon Orlando Bailey..Local number: SIA2011-1409..Summary: The poem and the drawings of animal tracks are from a field book kept by Vernon Orlando Bailey during his collecting efforts in Nevada and Ca... More

Snowflake Study, Smithsonian Institution archives

Snowflake Study, Smithsonian Institution archives

Type: Photographs..Date: 1890..Image ID: RU 31 Box 12 Folder 17..Description: Wilson A. Bentley first became fascinated with snow during his childhood on a Vermont farm, and he experimented for years with ways ... More

Untitled, cyanotype Botanical cyanotype contact print

Untitled, cyanotype Botanical cyanotype contact print

Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian’s first photographer. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution’s scientists, including documentation of Smithsonian-sp... More

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Description: At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, visitors walk along pathways and bridges between several of the fair buildings. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits an... More

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Description: At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, visitors ride in a gondola in the 'Court of Honor.' The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a display on it... More

Vernon Orlando Bailey on horseback in Rabbit Hole Basin, Nevada, 1898

Vernon Orlando Bailey on horseback in Rabbit Hole Basin, Nevada, 1898

Creator: Vernon Orlando Bailey..Local number: SIA2011-1382..Summary: Photograph taken for Vernon Orlando Bailey during his work as field naturalist for the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Biol... More

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921

Creator: Stokley, James 1900-1990..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Stokley, James 1900-1990. University of Pennsylvania..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1921..Topic: Physics. Women scientists.... More

School Children Visiting Hall of Gems & Minerals

School Children Visiting Hall of Gems & Minerals

Photographer: Unknown..Date: Unknown..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: MNH 142-A ..Summary: A Junior League docent explains exhibits in The Hall of Gems and Minerals, National Museum of Natural Histor... More

Harvard University biologist Walter Bauer

Harvard University biologist Walter Bauer

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Lan"; "Harvard University biologist Walter Bauer, Chairman of the Whitney Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee; Rockefeller Institute microbiologist Rebecca Price Craighill Lancefi... More

Diplodocus over 80ft in length, 1900-1935

Diplodocus over 80ft in length, 1900-1935

Local number: SIA2011-1420..Summary: RU 424 Box 7 Lantern Slide Box 22. Diplodocus over 80ft in length. Excavation, possibly of Dinosaur National Monument Quarry, undated. From black and white lantern slides fo... More

A gray pocket, Smithsonian Institution archives

A gray pocket, Smithsonian Institution archives

Creator: Unknown...Local number: SIA2014-01826...Summary: Psaltriparus minimus californicus, Twin Oaks, California. ...Dates: Undated...Collection: RU007417 Florence Merriam Bailey Papers, 1865-1942, Box 2, F... More

Photograph of Charles Lewis Gazin's field work and collecting in Wyoming, 1941

Photograph of Charles Lewis Gazin's field work and collecting in Wyomi...

Creator: Charles Lewis Gazin..Local number: SIA2012-3629..Summary: 1941 Expedition to Wyoming - Field Photos. Photograph of Charles Lewis Gazin's field work and collecting in Wyoming, 1941...Dates: 1941..Collec... More

Photograph of Charles Lewis Gazin's field work and collecting in Wyoming, 1941

Photograph of Charles Lewis Gazin's field work and collecting in Wyomi...

Creator: Charles Lewis Gazin..Local number: SIA2012-2692..Summary: 1941 Expedition to Wyoming - Field Photos. Photograph of Charles Lewis Gazin's field work and collecting in Wyoming, 1941. Two tents and a Jeep... More

Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox

Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hea-Hed"; "U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanists Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), and Florence Hedges (1878-1956). Quirk was assistant to the senior plant path... More

Someone (probably Charles Lewis Gazin) unearthing specimens, 1959

Someone (probably Charles Lewis Gazin) unearthing specimens, 1959

Creator: Charles Lewis Gazin..Local number: SIA2012-3411..Summary: 1959 Expedition to Wyoming and Utah - Field Photos. Someone (probably Charles Lewis Gazin) unearthing specimens. Man's hand shown using a tool ... More

Alexander Wetmore and friends, Wisconsin, 1902

Alexander Wetmore and friends, Wisconsin, 1902

Creator: Unknown..Local number: SIA2011-2231..Summary: Jim Seely, Alexander Wetmore, Clarence Cook, and Art Rudy in North Freedom, Wisconsin, February 22, 1902...Dates: 1902..Collection: RU 007006 Alexander Wet... More

SIA2008-2161 - Public domain portrait print

SIA2008-2161 - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 9, Portraits Gui-Guz; Helen Cowen Gunsaulus (1886-1954) was curator of Japanese prints at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995)

Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan We...

Creator: American Ornithologists' Union..Subject: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-1978. Wetmore, Annie Beatrice. Aldrich, John W (John Warren) 1906-. American Ornithologists' Union..Type: Black-and-white photographs..D... More

Example of aerial bomb to scare ducks

Example of aerial bomb to scare ducks

Creator: Alexander Wetmore..Local number: SIA2011-0843..Summary: Ordinary style mortar, with fuse of aerial bomb projecting set to frighten ducks from rice fields. Maxwell, California. September 7, 1918. The im... More

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