Smithsonian Institution

Author: Unknown..Subject: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Natural History Building. United States National Museum..Type: Photographic print. Exhibit..Date: 1957..Topic: Hall of Colonial Culture. Exhi More

Photographer: Martin Sarna..Date: October 30, 1994..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: SIA2011-1381..Summary: Visitors entering the Alexander Hamilton Customs House in New York City for the opening of t More

Photographer: Jeff Tinsley..Date: 1993..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: 93-7517-17..Summary: Visitors work at a sewing machine in the "More Work for Mother" section of the Hands on History Room in th More

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

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Creator: Constantine Rafinesque..Local number: SIA2012-6106..Summary: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque's descriptive list of specimens collected during a field trip in 1818. This item includes numerous detailed d More

Creator: Constantine Rafinesque..Local number: SIA2012-6042..Summary: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque's descriptive list of specimens collected during a field trip in 1818. This item includes numerous detailed d More

Creator: Constantine Rafinesque..Local number: SIA2012-6086..Summary: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque's descriptive list of specimens collected during a field trip in 1818. This item includes numerous detailed d More

Creator: Unknown illustrator for the United States Exploring Expedition..Local number: SIA2011-1230..Summary: Sketch, dated August 1839, of Balistoid based on fish observed or collected during the United States More

Engraving showing people standing in groups on the lawn and sidewalks at the front entrance to the Smithsonian Institute.

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

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2009-4227..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution A More

Photographic reproduction of a lithograph showing people standing at the front entrance to the Smithsonian Institution castle. Lower left corner: W Wade, del. Published in Historic of Public Architecture by Rob More

Published in Hints on Public Architecture by Robert Dale Oewn (1849), p. 109. Reference copy may be available in LOT 4386P. Caption card tracings: Galleries...; PI WORKS; Gates; DC, Wash. Galleries...; Shelf. More

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

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

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

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

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

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

Description: Paleontologist and fourth Smithsonian Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) often took his family along on collecting trips. This photograph was taken around 1907 when the family stopped More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Description: In 1909, while in the Canadian Rockies near Field, British Columbia, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) discovered what has come to be known as the Burgess Shale. Named after Burgess Pass near t More

Creator: Smithsonian Institution..Subject: Greenwood, Edna Muriel Hilburn Little 1888-1972. Carmichael, Leonard 1898-. National Museum of American History (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1956.. More

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Creator: Smillie, Thomas William 1843-1917..Subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1901..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA RU000095 [SIA2008-2 More

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

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

This image has been taken from scan 000022 from "The Caverns of Luray. Located on line of the Shenandoah Vally, R. R. From the official report of the Smithsonian Institution". The title and subject terms of thi More

Creator: Mary Agnes Chase..Local number: SIA2012-3336a..Summary: SIA RU000229, Box 20, Folder 1; Photographs documenting Mary Agnes Chase's field work in Brazil, 1924-1925...Repository: Smithsonian Institution More

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)."

Cityscape photograph shows 14th Street and E Street, NW, vicinity in foreground with houses and industrial buildings including A. J. Joyce's Coach Factory at 412-416 14th Street, NW; workyard with building supp More

Illus. in: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...for the year 1857. Washington : The Institution, 1858, p. 105. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western More

On mount: Peoples Series. American Views. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Description: Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943) worked for the United States Fish Commission and later at the United States National Museum in the Department of Marine Invertebrates. She began her work as an unpaid More

Photographed and published by Bell & Bro., 480 Penna. Avenue, Washington, D.C. Entered according to an act of Congress A. D. 1867 by F.H. Bell, in the District Court of the District of Columbia.

Subject: Maltby, Margaret Eliza 1860-1944. Göttingen University. Barnard College. American Association of University Women..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SI More

Creator: Pearce, John Howard..Subject: Rathbun, Mary Jane 1860-1943. United States Fish Commission. United States National Museum Division of Marine Invertebrates..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1927. More

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph shows the Smithsonian Institution building from the northeast with spectators in the driveway and seated on the grass. Photograph taken before Jan. 1865 when a major fire destroyed parts of the buil More

Creator: Unknown...Local number: SIA2014-01845...Summary: Photograph shows Florence Merriam Bailey with unidentified individuals in Lake Placid, New York. Caption on reverse side lists "Edgan [sic], Husteds, F More

Wood engraving showing the Smithsonian Institution engulfed in flames. Wood engraving after Philip Wharton. Wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, Feb. 11, 1865, p. 94. Reference copy filed in LOT 4386-48.

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

Description: Polish physicist Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, sharing it with her husband Pierre in 1903 for their work on radioactivity. After More

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph, historic place, 19th-century albumen silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph - 19th-century albumen print, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

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

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

Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie.Birth Date: 1843.Death Date: 1917..Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After More

Description: Mary Knapp Strong Clemens (1873-1965) is shown at the New York Botanical Garden with her husband, Joseph Clemens (1862-1936), an ordained Methodist minister who had become a U.S. Army Chaplain in 1 More

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4535]..Summary: Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd (1873-1946) was educated at Wesleyan University (A.B., 1894), University of Leipzig (Ph.D., 1896), and served as director More

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

90-105, 8, Portraits Gar; "Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918), wife of President James A. Garfield. The caption to this photo notes that ""Lucretia Garfield lived to the ripe old age of 85."""

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a religious building interior, church, cathedral, hall, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Public domain photograph, historic place, 19th-century albumen silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Description: Gown worn by Julia Dent Grant, wife of President (1869-1877) Ulysses S. Grant first lady of the White House, . This gown was worn by Mrs. Grant at the second inaugural ball in 1873. It is made of w More

Public domain image of cattle, cow, bull, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Description: Smithsonian Institution exhibit at the United States Government Building at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepa More

Description: Exhibits at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in the United States Government Building include a totem pole, minerals, paintings, and mineral technology exhibits. The Smithsonian coord More

Description: Bird exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in the United States Government Building shows duck specimens in case. Flags hang from the ceiling above the exhibit case. The Smithso More

Description: Mineral and Mineral Technology exhibits at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in the United States Government Building includes mineral specimens and industrial equipment. Exhibit is la More

Description: The 48-spindle spinning machine, the oldest piece of cotton mill machinery in America, built by Samuel Slater and operated by him on December 20, 1790, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Exhibited in 1876 More

Description: Smithsonian exhibit of American Indian and other artifacts in the United States Government Building at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Go More

Description: United States Government Building at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Smithsonian exhibit was housed inside. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepa More

Description: Smithsonian exhibit of anthropological and other artifacts in the United States Government Building at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Go More

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

Description: Mammal exhibit and other exhibits at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in the United States Government Building. The mammal exhibit includes specimens of deer, moose and bison. The Flo More

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

Creator: Bohumil Shimek..Local number: SIA2012-3228..Summary: Photographs document Bohumil Shimek's geological and botanical field work, 1878-1936...Dates: circa 1878-1936..Collection: RU 007082, Bohumil Shimek More

Creator: Bohumil Shimek..Local number: SIA2012-3229..Summary: Photographs document Bohumil Shimek's geological and botanical field work, 1914...Dates: 1914..Collection: RU 007082, Bohumil Shimek Papers, 1878-19 More

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Hahn, Otto 1879-1968..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1913..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3209]..S More

Description: John H. Richard's studio in the East Range of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Richard was a French-born scientific illustrator and is seen here, approximately a year before his death, paintin More

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

Creator: Watson Perrygo...Local number: SIA2008-2642...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

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

Creator: Watson Perrygo...Local number: SIA2008-2509...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

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

Subject: Slosson, May Gorslin Preston 1858-1943. Cornell University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Suffragists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3435]..Summary: May Gorslin Preston Slosson (18 More

Description: After earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972) taught in the department of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College until becoming professor emeritus in 1946. A pionee More