left to right: Merrill L. Tribe, Mary Elizabeth Hickox Mandels (1917-2...
Subject: Tribe, Merrill L. Mandels, Mary Elizabeth Hickox 1917-2009. Sieling, Dale. United States Army Natick Research Laboratory, Quartermaster Research and Engineering Center (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white pho... 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
Aerial Photography, William J. Clinton Presidential Inauguration, aeri...
Description: 2003-0088, Aerial Photography, William J. Clinton Presidential Inauguration, aerial Mall, (depicting area of NASM towards Washington Monument, TENTS), from 35mm ektachrome...Creator/Photographer: C... More
1997 Clinton Inaugural Ball, Smithsonian Institution archives
Creator/Photographer: Smithsonian Photographer..Medium: C-type print..Culture: American..Date: 1997..: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_308419 ( siris_arc_308419 ) ..Repository: Smithsonian Institution A... 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
Description- Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer a...
Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, beginning his career at the institution in the 1870s. In 1913 he mounted an exhibition on the history of photogra... More
Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1888-1975) and Rachel Brown (1898-1980) (54938189...
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, Albany, developed an effective antifunga... More
Field jackets for specimens, possibly using old bandages, Panama, 1951
Creator: Charles Lewis Gazin Local number: SIA2012-7646 Summary: RU 007314, Box 19, Folder 4; 1951 Expedition to Panama. Two men in a hole work to cover an object with a field jacket (encasing in plaster and bu... More
Emil Bessels parka
Arctic explorer Emil Bessels models a hooded fur coat acquired during a polar expedition.
Heteropogon near Masaya, Nicaragua. (6985376261)
Creator: Mary Agnes Chase Local number: SIA2012-4623 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 fie... More
Mary Smith Griffith (5493790151)
Subject: Griffith, Mary Smith Type: Black-and-White Prints Topic: Gardening Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-2107] Summary: Mary Smith Griffith was author of Gardening on Nothing a Year, which had jus... More
Martin H. Moynihan's field notes on Cyanerpes, Panama, 1958 -3
Creator: Martin H. Moynihan Local number: SIA2012-1899 Summary: Acc 01-096, Box 1, Folder 10; Page from Martin H. Moynihan's field notes on Cyanerpes or Honeycreepers, page 79, April 13, 1958. These observatio... More
Matthew and Marion Stirling in Veracruz, Mexico
Marion Stirling and Matthew Stirling, dressed in field clothes, outside a building in Boca San Miguel, Veracruz, Mexico, on 15 April 1939. Photograph taken by Alexander Wetmore during a visit to the Stirlings'... More
Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991) (6891629793)
Subject: Simpson, Miriam E (Miriam Elizabeth) 1894- University of California (1868-1952) Type: Black-and-white photographs Topic: Anatomy Women scientists Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3384... More
Steel Chair Designed by Peter Cooper
During the 1830s Peter Cooper designed the first steel chair in America. This chair became part of the collections of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. The Cooper Union Museum was transferred... More
Description- The memorial monument to French artist and photography in...
Description: The memorial monument to French artist and photography inventor Jacques Louis Mande Daguerre (1787-1851) was sculpted by J. Scott Hartley (1845-1910). It was erected by the Professional Photograph... More
Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Washington, DC (4920314818)
This building at 1711 New York Avenue, NW, was built in 1914 by architect Nathan C. Wyeth. In 1928 the building on the right was replaced by another 9-story emergency hospital. Part of the Corcoran Gallery of A... More
Field assistants collecting gemsbok specimen. (5988138824)
Creator: Kermit Roosevelt or Edmund Heller Date: 1909 Local number: SIA2011-1414 Summary: Acc. 06-093 Box 1 Folder 2. From a hand-painted lantern slide documenting the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition ... More
Q Street Bridge (4919755001), Smithsonian Institution archives
Creator: Gruber, Martin A Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1919 C. 1920-1924 Topic: Bridges Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-2072] Summary: Side View Cite as: RU007355 - Martin A. Gruber Photograp... More
Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950) - Smithsonian Institution Arc...
Creator: United States Dept. of Agriculture Subject: McGuire, Ruth (Colvin) 1893-1950 Indiana University United States Bureau of Plant Industry Type: Black-and-white photographs Topic: Plant disea... More
Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1843. Itatiaia from...
Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2012-3335a..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution ... More
From Titkana Peak Overlooking Hunga Glacier
Author: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927..Subject: Mount Robson Park (B.C.)..Type: Photographic print. Landscape. Panoramic photographs..Date: 1913..Topic: Burgess Shale (B.C.). Paleontology. Ca... More
![Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTcvMDMvMjIvZmxvcmEtd2FtYmF1Z2gtcGF0dGVyc29uLTE4NDctMTkyOC11bmNvbmZpcm1lZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/63/webp "Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]")
Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]
Subject: Patterson, Flora W (Flora Wambaugh) 1847-1928. United States Dept. of Agriculture..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Mycology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1344]..Su... More
Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954)
Subject: Moody, Agnes Mary Claypole 1870-1954..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1024]..Summary: Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), zoologist... More
Watson M. Perrygo preparing specimens in Camp at Don Don, Haiti
Creator: Unknown...Local number: SIA2008-2555...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
China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Small raft with a group of Russian wool b...
Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: China National Aviation Corporation..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Flatboats. Wool. Russians..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2908]..Cite as... More
Alice Freeland Maxwell (1890-1961)
Subject: Maxwell, Alice Freeland 1890-1961. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Obstetrics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5950]..Summary: A... More
Trans-Mississippi Expo, View of Buildings
Description: At the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska, a visitor admires "Omaha's White City." The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a displa... More
![Irrigation plant near Zacatecas [Mexico].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTcvMDMvMjIvaXJyaWdhdGlvbi1wbGFudC1uZWFyLXphY2F0ZWNhcy1tZXhpY28tMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/35/webp "Irrigation plant near Zacatecas [Mexico].")
Irrigation plant near Zacatecas [Mexico].
Local number: SIA2012-4605..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
Corona of the Sun during a Solar Eclipse
Description: In 1900 the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, then based in Washington, D.C., loaded several railroad cars with scientific equipment and headed to Wadesboro, North Carolina. Scientists had det... 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 [SIA2009-1326]..Summary: Cec... More
Barbour, Wortman, and Gidley on paleontological expeditions, 1900-1935...
Local number: SIA2011-1415..Summary: RU 424 Box 6 Sub Box 1 Lantern Slide Box 6. Erwin Hinckley Barbour, J.L. Wortman, and James William Gidley on paleontological expeditions in various locations throughout th... 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 [SIA2009-1325]..Summary: Cec... More
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Sunken Garden
Description: At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, MO, 1904, a view of the Sunken Garden flanked on all sides by the monolithic fair buildings. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Governmen... More
Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934), c. 19...
Creator: Science Service..Subject: Curie, Marie 1867-1934. Curie, Pierre 1859-1906..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1903..Topic: Nobel Prizes. Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [... More
Libbie Henrietta Hyman, scientist
90-105, 9B, Biog. Hus-Hy; "Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969) graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1915. She stayed at the university with an appointment a... More
Demonstration of aerial bomb to scare ducks
Creator: Alexander Wetmore..Local number: SIA2011-0844..Summary: S. J. Carpenter firing aerial bombs to frighten ducks from rice fields. Maxwell California. September 7, 1918. The image was taken by sixth Smith... More
Mildred Clare Scoville (1892?-1969)
Subject: Scoville, Mildred Clare c. 1892-1969. National Committee for Mental Hygiene..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Social workers. Mental health..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2701]..Summa... More
Mr. Buchanan, Smithsonian Institution archives
Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1935..Topic: Real estate business. Men..Standard number: SIA2011-0270 and 32259-7..Physical description: Number of I... More
Elizabeth M. Bright, sitting in lab
Description: Between 1918 and 1924, physiologist Elizabeth M. Bright, then affiliated with the Laboratory of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, worked on the effects of radiation, publishing in such journals a... More
Jane Blankenship Gibson - Public domain portrait print
Description: The caption accompanying this 1961 image reads: "Mrs. Carl Gibson who as Jane Blankenship won high science honors in school, combines her scientific work with advanced studies and homemaking." As ... More
Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)
Description: After Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978) received an A.M. in botany from Stanford University (1916), she joined the research and curatorial staff of the university's Dudley Herbarium. T... More
Chain Bridge, Smithsonian Institution archives
Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Subject: Derr, L. Elmer. Balsley, Marie..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Bridges..Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-2076]..Summary: Image include... More
Trees, Flowers, and River in Washington, DC
Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Trees. Flowers. Rivers..Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-2307]..Cite as: RU007355 - Martin A. Gruber Photograph ... More
Marina Prajmovsky Meyers (1924-1974)
Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977..Subject: Meyers, Marina Prajmovsky 1924-1974. Radcliffe College. Yale University. Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Science fairs. Wo... More
Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Jagua...
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 [SIA2010-2385]..Cite as: RU007355 - M... More
Margaret Mann Lesley (1891-1988)
Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5268]..Summary: Geneticist and cytologist Margaret Mann Lesley (1891-1988) earned a Ph.D. from University of Ca... More
Mary Gibson Smith, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives
Subject: Smith, Mary Gibson..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1921..Topic: Psychology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3535]..Summary: In 1921, Mary Gibson Smith was a psycholog... More
Wisteria House on the NW corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Eleventh S...
Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Trees. Flowers..Local number: SIA RU007355 [SIA2010-2124]..Cite as: RU007355 - Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collecti... More
Mountain gorge near La Paz, Bolivia.
Creator: A.S. Hitchcock..Type: black-and-white photograph, 6.5 x 4.5 inches..Date: c.1923-1924..Local number: SIA2011-0570..Summary: A beautiful mountain gorge between La Paz, Bolivia and the great snow-capped... More
View from LORAN tower through the antenna center structure on Sand-Joh...
Creator: unknown...Local number: SIA2013-08812...Summary: Photograph was taken as part of field documentation for the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, on Sand-Johnston Island [Johnston Atoll], 1964....D... More
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Howard Gale Byrd, Charles Francis P...
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
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Privies outside the Rhea County (Te...
Description: Taken during the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. July 1925..Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: Black and white photographic print..Dimensions: 3 in x 4.25 in..Culture: American..Geogra... More
![Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Outdoor proceedings on July 20, 1925, showing William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. [4 of 4 photos]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjUvMTIvMzEvdGVubmVzc2VlLXYtam9obi10LXNjb3Blcy10cmlhbC1vdXRkb29yLXByb2NlZWRpbmdzLW9uLWp1bHktMjAtMTkyNS1zaG93aW5nLTItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Outdoor proceedings on July 20, 1925, showing William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. [4 of 4 photos]")
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Outdoor proceedings on July 20, 192...
Description: William Jennings Bryan (seated at left) being interrogated by Clarence Seward Darrow, during the trial of the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, July 20, 1925. That Monday afternoon, because... More
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)
Description: Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Brown University but is best known, along with her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, for revolutionizing management techniques. I... More
Ruth Murray Underhill (1883-1984) - Bureau of Indian Affairs
Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977..Subject: Underhill, Ruth 1883-1984. United States Bureau of Indian Affairs..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1941. 6/16/1941..Topic: Anthropology. Navajo Indians. Wome... More
No. 47. Crew member taking a movie of ice berg from the ship, Greenlan...
Local number: SIA2012-0657..Summary: SIA RU007231, Box 74, Folder 15. Photograph was taken during Bob Bartlett's expeditions to the Arctic...Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives..View more collections ... More
Kathleen May Crossley, scientist
Description: Kathleen May Crossley was on the physics faculty at University of Toronto from 1920s through 1940s...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print..: p... More
Mary Blade, standing at blackboard
Description: In 1946, when this photograph was taken, Mary Blade was the only woman on the Cooper Union engineering faculty (where she initially taught drawing, mathematics and design) and one of few women on a... More
![Each end of Jumbo Mt. anticline - or spring creek above Danahen creek. Orando quad [sic]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTcvMDMvMjEvZWFjaC1lbmQtb2YtanVtYm8tbXQtYW50aWNsaW5lLW9yLXNwcmluZy1jcmVlay1hYm92ZS1kYW5haGVuLWNyZWVrLW9yYW5kby1xdWFkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/34/webp "Each end of Jumbo Mt. anticline - or spring creek above Danahen creek. Orando quad [sic]")
Each end of Jumbo Mt. anticline - or spring creek above Danahen creek....
Creator: Charles D. Walcott...Local number: SIA2014-06930...Summary: Photograph documents fieldwork of Charles D. Walcott while in Montana....Dates: 1905...Collection: SIA RU 7004, Charles D. Walcott Collection... More
Slumped Lower Ordovician beds (1944)
Description: Unidentified individual along cliffside. Image documents observations and field work of Franco Rasetti...Photographer: Franco Rasetti..Date: 1944..Image ID: SIA2015-004178..Collection: SIA RU 7240,... More
USS Burton Island (AG-88) in Antarctica
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
Icebreaker with Equipment in Antarctica
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
SIA2008-4009, Smithsonian Institution archives
90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Howard (various)"; "Janet Moore Howard was the daughter of entomologist and Science Service board member Leland Ossian Howard (1857-1950). In the late 1920s, Janet Howard worked on the ... More
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
Jessie Stickel, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives
Subject: Stickel, Jessie. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Bacteriology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3810]..Summary: Jessie Stickel wa... More
Nihoa Millerbird, Nihoa Island, 1962.
Creator: David B. Marshall..Local number: SIA2011-1352..Summary: RU 245 Box 230 Folder 2. A Nihoa millerbird on nest in shrubby growth of Chenapodium sandwicheum and Sida fallax near the summit of Miller's Pea... More
National Museum of Natural History's Third Annual Picnic
Photographer: Tom Lucas..Date: 1976..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: 94-13200..Summary: Museum staff and their families at the Third Annual National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) picnic at Fort Hu... More
1985 Inaugural Ball: President and Mrs. Reagan Dancing in National Air...
Description: 85-725.17, Reagan Inaugural Ball in NASM, from 35mm bwn...Creator/Photographer: Mark Avino..Medium: Black and white photographic print..Culture: American..Date: 1985..: siarchives.si.edu/collection... More
1997 Clinton Inauguration - Swearing-in Ceremony
Creator/Photographer: Smithsonian Photographer..Medium: C-type print..Culture: American..Date: 1997..: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_308418 ( siris_arc_308418 ) ..Repository: Smithsonian Institution A... More
150th Anniversary Cake Shaped as the Smithsonian Institution Building
Description: A cake in the form of the Smithsonian Institution Building is on display in the S. Dillon Ripley Center during the Birthday Party on the Mall celebration of the Smithsonian's 150th anniversary...Cr... More
Aerial Photograph of the National Mall on August 10, 1996
Description: An aerial photograph of the National Mall on August 10, 1996. The Mall is packed with people for the Birthday Party on the Mall celebration of the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary. The S... More
Excavation for Quad Construction
1984. Excavation in preparation for construction of the Smithsonian's $73.2 million underground complex on the Quad to include the National Museum of African Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the S. Dillo... More
Burger Hands Adams Castle Key at Installation
Chief Justice Warren Burger hands key to the Smithsonian Institution Building, the "Castle," to ninth Smithsonian Secretary Robert McCormick Adams at installation ceremony on The Mall on September 17, 1984. He... More
Edgar A. Mearns with woman and child, circa 1892-1894
RU 007083, Box 4, Folder 5; Edgar A. Mearns with woman and child, probably wife Ella and son Louis, during the Mexican Boundary Survey, 1892-1894.
Edna Greenwood (1888-1972) (4406377944)
Edna Greenwood (1888-1972), a life-long collector of domestic furnishings, is made an honorary Smithsonian fellow by seventh Secretary Leonard Carmichael. She and her husband donated the Arthur and Edna Greenwo... More
Louise Harrison
Subject: Harrison, Louise Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) Type: Black-and-White Prints Topic: Anatomy Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-3342] Summary: Louise Harrison is identified as c... More
Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-S...
Subject: Mott-Smith, Morton Churchill 1877-1944 Science Service Type: Black-and-white photographs Topic: Physics Journalism, Scientific Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1130] Summary: left to ... More
Paul E. Teschan (1923- ), Watson Davis (1896-1967), and Marina Prajmov...
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
SI ellipsograph crop
From SIA: This wooden model is a prime example of an elliptic trammel, often referred to as the Trammel of Archimedes. An oval shape, the ellipse is one of the four conic sections, the others being the circ... More
Loreto Meteorite
Photograph of the Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, meteorite brought back by Harvey Harlow Nininger (1887-1986). Through Stuart H. Perry (1874-1957), a newspaper publisher and authority on meteorites, who ... More
William Dunlop Brackenridge (young)
Русский: Уильям Данлоп Брейкенридж (1810-1893) - шотландский садовник и ботаник в возрасте 20 лет.
Drawing by Robert Ridgway robin
A color drawing by Robert Ridgway of a robin showing its yellow beak and red breast. Robert Ridgway was an American ornithologist, a protégé of second Smithsonian Secretary Spencer F. Baird, and first full ti... More
Description- Lee and Renee Harris pose on Easter morning in New York C...
Description: Lee and Renee Harris pose on Easter morning in New York City. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Gelatin silver print Dimensions: 3.5" x 3.5" Culture: African American Geograp... More
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- A participant weaves a basket in the Native Basketry prog...
Description: A participant weaves a basket in the Native Basketry program at the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Creator/Photographer: David Abbott Medium: Digital photograph Geography: USA Date: 2006 Repo... More
Spanish American War Memorial (4919743077)
Creator: Gruber, Martin A Subject: Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.) Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1919 C. 1920-1924 Topic: Memorials Spanish-American War, 1898 Local number: SIA R... More
Type section of Charny Formation (Lower Cambrian) at Chaudiere Falls, ...
RU 007240, Box 2, Folder 5; Image documents observations and field work of Franco Rasetti.
View from shore of Madden Lake at "mouth" of Boqueron, 12 February 193...
RU 007187, Box 8, Folder 18; "The photograph documents Isaac Ginsburg's field work in locations in Panama, particularly connected with the fishing industry."
Smithsonian Institution Archives - SIA2010-0166
Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the ... More
Helicopter fire on McMurdo Base, Antarctica, prior to arrival of emerg...
Local number: SIA2012-0665..Summary: SIA RU007231, Box 140, Folder. Taken during Waldo Schmitt's collecting during the Palmer Peninsula Survey 1962-1963.....Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives..View m... More
Unknown Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing
Description: This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and... More
Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 721
Description: This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and... 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."
Philadelphia Centennial - Mineral Exhibit
Description: Mineral exhibits at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia with other exhibits visible in the background. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a disp... More
Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-S...
Subject: Mott-Smith, Morton Churchill 1877-1944. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1130]..Summary: left to right:... More
Repairing plane on Island of La Gonave, Haiti
Creator: Watson Perrygo...Local number: SIA2008-2646...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
China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men standing in field
Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Chong shan si (Taiyuan, Shanxi Sheng, China)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chinese. China--Description and travel..Local number: SIA RU007263 [... More
Mountain lions in traps, 1908-1916
Creator: Clay Hunter and Don Stroenson...Local number: SIA2011-1387...Summary: Photograph taken for Vernon Orlando Bailey during his work as field naturalist for the United States Department of Agriculture Bure... More
left to right: Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), Linus Carl Pauling (190...
Subject: Morgan, Thomas Hunt 1866-1945. Pauling, Linus 1901-1994. Osterhout, Marian Irwin 1889-1973. California Institute of Technology. Bryn Mawr College. Radcliffe College. Rockefeller Institute for Medical R... More