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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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winifred Phillips Hathaway - Public domain photogrpaph

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

View of warehouses and boats in the port of Macao [Macau]

Creator: A.S. Hitchcock..Type: black-and-white print, 3 x 5.5 inches..Date: 1921..Local number: SIA2011-0565..Summary: Photograph was taken by A.S. Hitchcock while collecting in Asia. ..Cite as: SIA RU 00022... More

Miss McGrath - Public domain drawing

Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Microfilm industry..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5685]..Summary: Miss McGrath" (This young woman is shown with what may be an early version of a microform rea... More

Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881-1963)

Description: Pathologist Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881-1963), shown in this 1927 photo, was co-developer of a vaccine for scarlet fever with her husband George Frederick Dick (1881-1967). Born in Nebraska, Gl... More

Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945)

Creator: Davis, Watson 1896-1967..Subject: Goddard, Robert Hutchings 1882-1945. Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1935. 12/26/1935..Topic: Aeronautics. Astronautics. ... More

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (b. 1890)

Description: Botanist Matilda Moldenhauer (b. 1890) was completing graduate work at Harvard University (Ph.D., 1920) when she met biologist Sumner Cushing Brooks. During their marriage, Matilda and Sumner cond... More

Left to right: Unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901...

Subject: McAlister, Edward Dorris b. 1901-, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, University of California, Berkeley, University of Oregon.....Type: Black-and-white photographs.....Date: 1930. C. 1930s.....To... More

Frank Harbert and Fred Zwickel at Mill Creek Watershed, March 1949.

Creator: Helmut Buechner...Local number: SIA2014-00006...Summary: Photograph documents field work completed by Helmut Buechner in 1949....Dates: 1949...Collection: SIA RU 007279, Helmut Karl Buechner Papers, 19... More

Lincoln Memorial - A black and white photo of the lincoln memorial

Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Memorials. Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)..Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-1940]..Cite as: RU007355 - Mart... More

left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997) and Dr. Brode

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958. 3/15/1958..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1512]..Summary... More

Jeanne Helen Osiecki (b. 1926) - Womens history month

Subject: Osiecki, Jeanne H. Stanford University. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chemistry, Organic. Polymers. Space vehicles. Women scientists..Local number: SIA ... More

Assistant Secretary Abbot to Secretary Walcott on Goddard's Proposal (...

December 16, 1916 - Assistant Secretary Abbot to Secretary Walcott on Goddard's Proposal

Physicists at the Seventh Solvay Physics Conference, Brussels, Belgium...

Creator: Science Service Solvay Conference on Physics 1933 sitzend, v.l.n.r. Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956 Bohr, Niels 1885-1962 Ioffe, A. F (Abram Fedorovich) 1880-1960 Curie, Marie 1867-1934 stehend, v.l.n.... More

Thylacines in the National Zoo, Washington D.C

Thylacines, Male and Female, in the National Zoo Washington D.C. Public domain photograph of 19th-century female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (1927-1967), his wife Valentina Komarov,...

Creator: United Press International Subject: Komarov, Vladimir Mikhailovich 1927-1967 Komarov, Valentina Type: Black-and-White Prints Topic: Astronauts Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-4943] ... More

Drive-way up from between Zapadnie and Sabatcha Dira [sic]

Description: View of terrain, taken during field work on Copper Island [Ostrov Mednyy], Russia. Photograph was taken during Stejneger's field work for U.S. Bureau of Fisheries...Photographer: Leonhard Stejneger... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men carrying litter covered in or...

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Litters..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2922]..Summary: Stamped on verso: "Hartung's Ph... More

School Children Viewing the First Bison at the National Zoo

Photographer: Frances Benjamin Johnston..Date: 1899..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: 2003-19498..Summary: A group of school children in 1899 viewing the first bison at the National Zoological Park..:... More

left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-20...

Subject: Payne, Eugene H. Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011. Parke, Davis & Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists. Antibiotics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA200... More

Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson (1894-1985) and Sonia Joseph Bronson

Subject: Bronson, Sonia Joseph. Bronson, Wilfrid S (Wilfrid Swancourt) 1894-. Bingham Expedition..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Natural history illustration..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0... More

Wisconsin Avenue Reservoir - Drawing. Public domain image.

Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Subject: Wisconsin Avenue Reservoir (Washington, D.C.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Reservoirs..Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-1947]..Summ... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Unidentified man, Defense Mansion i...

Description: Taken during the time of the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee. The Defense Mansion was a Victorian house where the defense team and witnesses stayed during the trial. July 1925... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes

Lois Mattox Miller, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Creator: Sonntag, W. A..Subject: Miller, Lois Mattox..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958..Topic: Cigarette filters. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-6135]..Summary: Maga... More

Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

Subject: Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011. Parke, Davis & Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1951..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists. Antibiotics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-214... More

Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951)

Description: Plant physiologist Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951) earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University (1901) and taught at Wellesley College from 1893 to 1932. In 1929, she was elected president of the Bot... More

Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kin-Kiq"; "In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined th... More

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

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1963. 3/20/1963..Topic: Physics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1507]..Summary: In 1963, Chien-s... More

Black-footed albatross with egg, Midway Island, circa 1961-1973.

Creator: U.S. Naval Air Station, Midway..Local number: SIA2011-1360..Summary: RU 245 Box 230 Folder 15. A Black-footed albatross with egg on Midway Island, Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, 1961-1973...R... More

Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980), scientist

Description: During her aviation career, from the 1930s through the 1960s, Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980) set more speed and altitude records than any contemporary pilot, male or female, and was the first woman t... More

Nixon Inaugural Ball, Smithsonian Institution archives

Description: President Nixon with his wife Patricia and daughters Julie and Trisha speaking at his Inaugural Ball in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, January 20... More

Field notebook of Charles D. Walcott from August 31 to September 3, 19...

Field notebook of Charles D. Walcott from August 31 to September 3, 1909 detailing the discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils. Three arthropods are drawn in the entry for August 31 - Marrella, Waptia, and Naraoia

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: People pushing carts

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 [SIA2008-2917]..Summary: Stamped on verso: "... More

Steamer landing and rocky bluff on Yukon River, at Eagle, Alaska.

Local number: SIA2012-4544..Summary: SIA Acc. 11-093, Box 1, Folder Mary Agnes Chase Photograph Album 1898-1903; Photograph taken by Mary Agnes Chase or A. S. Hitchcock, documenting field work...Repository: Smi... More

Group photograph in field., Smithsonian Institution archives

Creator: A.S. Hitchcock..Type: black-and-white photograph, 3 x 5.25 inches..Date: c. 1918..Local number: SIA2011-0574..Summary: A. Johnston, Scientific Director of United Fruit Co.; Van Dine, Director of Labo... More

Charlotte Davis (1924-2005) - Womens history month

Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1016]..Summary: Charlotte Davis (later Charlotte Davis Mooers) worked with i... More

Alice Brown (1857-1948), scientist

Description: Alice Brown (1857-1948) studied anatomy at Cornell University. When she published The Black Drop (1919), a novel with scientific themes, the publisher emphasized that its "main character inherits ... More

Frank Thone (1891-1949), Smithsonian Institution archives

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Thone, Frank 1891-. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Journalism. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-4199]..Summary: Scien... More

Sofia (Sophia) Alexsandrovna Satina (1879-1975)

Subject: Satina, Sophia 1879-1975. Carnegie Institution of Washington. Women's College of Moscow..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Cytology. Botany..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2661]..Summar... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Howard Gale Byrd, standing by the ...

Description: Taken during the time of the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. July 1925..Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: Black and white photographic print..Dimensions: 4.25 in x 3 in..Culture: Amer... More

Man in Uniform Named Clark, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Subject: Guard Force..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1930..Topic: Men. Watchmen..Standard number: SIA2011-0529 and 32296-3..Physical description: N... More

left to right: Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1902-1999) and Pilot Dean E. R...

Subject: Machado, Anesia Pinheiro 1902-1999. Robinson, Dean E. Pan American World Airways, Inc. Brazil Air Force..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1948. C. 1948..Topic: Women air pilots..Local number: S... More

Physicists at the Seventh Solvay Physics Conference, Brussels, Belgium...

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Bohr, Niels 1885-1962. Ioffe, A. F (Abram Fedorovich) 1880-1960. Curie, Marie 1867-1934. Joliot-Curie, Frédéric. Heisenberg, Werner 1901-1976... More

Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971)

Creator: Livingstone, F. C..Subject: Lonsdale, Kathleen Dame 1903-1971. British Association for the Advancement of Science..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1968..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists..Loc... More

Maud Leonora Menten (1879-1960)

Subject: Menten, Maud Leonora 1879-1960..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Biochemistry. Histochemistry. Medicine. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5999]..Summary: Canadian-born ... More

Asantehe Visits Museum of African Art

The Asantehene or Ruler of the Asanti Kingdom visits the National Museum of African Art, accompanied by director Sharon Patton.

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Description: Close up of the fountains and sculpture of the 'Court of Honor' at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. Buildings of the Exposition can be seen in the background. The Smithsonian coordin... More

Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995)

Description: Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995) trained in paleontology and geology at the University of Iowa. She coauthored dozens of general science books with her husband, Carroll Lane Fenton, including Reco... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese junk with steamboat in background

Creator: LaVoy, Merl..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Junks. Steamboats..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2947]..Cite as: RU 7263 - Arthur de Carle Sowerby Papers, 19... More

Ruth Winkley, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Winkley, Ruth. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.). University of Michigan..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1396... More

Mary Stuart MacDougall (b. 1885)

Subject: MacDougall, Mary Stuart b. 1885. Randolph-Macon College. University of Chicago. Columbia University. Agnes Scott College. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)..Type: Black-and-white photogr... More

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

John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) and Chief Wi'ishi of Mission India...

Subject: Harrington, John Peabody..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1935. 07/12/1935..Topic: Indians of North America. Ethnology..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3356]..Summary: John Peabody Harr... More

Indigenous children in Ammassalik [Tasiilaq], Greenland, 1936

Local number: SIA2012-0661..Summary: SIA RU007231, Box 74, Folder 12. Taken during Greenland Expedition, 1936, under direction of Bob Bartlett, collecting materials for the Smithsonian...Repository: Smithsonia... More

Mrs. Thomas Brockway, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1935..Topic: Books. Women..Standard number: SIA2011-0276 and 32280-6..Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Colo... More

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), scientist

Subject: McClintock, Barbara 1902-1992. Carnegie Institution of Washington Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. American Association of University Women..Type: Black-and-white pho... More

Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 194...

Creator: Lebenthal, James..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Joliot-Curie, Frédéric..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1940. 1940s..Topic: Physics. Women scientists. Nobel Prizes..Local number: ... More

Elizabeth Lee Hazen, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; "In 1950, microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1888-1975) and chemist Rachel Brown (1898-1980), Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Alban... More

Patricia A. McBroom - Public domain portrait print

Subject: McBroom, Patricia. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1968..Topic: Journalism, Scientific. Anthropology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5598]..Summary: ... More

1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies,...

Description: 89-2843.13, 1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies, at Capitol, Swearing In, from 35mm color negative...Creator/Photographer: Jeff Tinsley..Medium: C-type print..Cult... More

SIA2008-2203 - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 9, Portraits Hall (only); "Sophronia Brooks Hall (1827-1885), an 1850 graduate of Oberlin College, was mother of scientist Charles Martin Hall, who endowed an Oberlin auditorium in her honor."

Louisiana Purchase Exposition - SI Exhibit

Description: At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, a view of the Natural History Fossil Exhibit with the model of a whale and skeletons of several dinosaurs. The Smithsonian coordinated... More

Wyoming native June Etta Downey

90-105, 7, Portraits Dos-Doz; "Wyoming native June Etta Downey (1875-1932) was a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Wyoming, 1915-1932. She became close friends with chemist E.E. Sloss... More

Rock Creek Park, Smithsonian Institution archives

Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Rock Creek Park (Washington, D.C.). Parks..Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-2295]..Cite as: RU007355 - Martin A.... More

Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978)

Subject: Van Wagenen, Gertrude 1893-. Yale University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Biology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0354]..Summary: Biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen ... More

United States Treasury Building

Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Subject: United States Dept. of the Treasury..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Buildings..Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-1961]..Cite as: RU0073... More

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), sitting at desk

Description: First hired by Harvard College Observatory to carry out astronomical calculations, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) eventually became one of the foremost American astronomers, known especially for her... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Rhea County (Tennessee) Courthouse

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

Ann Haven Morgan (1882-1966) - Public domain portrait photograph

Subject: Morgan, Ann Haven 1882-1966. Mount Holyoke College. Cornell University. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local numb... More

Mary Lura Sherrill (1888-1968) - Public domain photogrpaph

Subject: Sherrill, Mary Lura 1888-1968. Mount Holyoke College. Randolph-Macon College. University of Chicago..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1947..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists..Local number: SIA... More

Navy Helicopter Flying Over Antarctica

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

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