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Hall of Colonial Culture, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution archives

Hall of Colonial Culture, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

Visitors Entering the Opening of the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian

Visitors Entering the Opening of the George Gustav Heye Center of the ...

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

National Museum of American History’s Hands on History Room

National Museum of American History’s Hands on History Room

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

Helicopter fire on McMurdo Base, Antarctica, prior to arrival of emergency response team

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

Constantine S. Rafinesque's Notes N. 17, pages 124 and 125, 1818

Constantine S. Rafinesque's Notes N. 17, pages 124 and 125, 1818

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

Constantine S. Rafinesque's Notes N. 17, pages 86 and 87, 1818

Constantine S. Rafinesque's Notes N. 17, pages 86 and 87, 1818

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

Letter from Charles D. Walcott to Alexander Graham Bell, undated
Constantine S. Rafinesque's Notes N. 17, front cover, 1818

Constantine S. Rafinesque's Notes N. 17, front cover, 1818

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

Sketch of Balistoid, with notes, August 1839

Sketch of Balistoid, with notes, August 1839

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

The Smithsonian Institution. Book illustration from Library of Congress

The Smithsonian Institution. Book illustration from Library of Congres...

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

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1843. Itatiaia from summit of Agulhas Negras.

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

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1847. Itatiaia. Donna Maria and Agnes Chase at summit.

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1847. Itatiaia. Don...

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

Southern gateway, Smithsonian Institution

Southern gateway, Smithsonian Institution

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

Main entrance, north front, Smithsonian Institution / W. Wade del.

Main entrance, north front, Smithsonian Institution / W. Wade del.

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

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing  662

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 662

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  164

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 164

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  714

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 714

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

Unnumbered Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing

Unnumbered 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  1165

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 1165

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

Edna Greenwood (1888-1972), scientist

Edna Greenwood (1888-1972), scientist

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

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing  191014

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 191014

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  397

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 397

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  550x

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 550x

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

Unnumbered Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing

Unnumbered 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  99

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 99

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  40

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 40

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

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), Sidney Stevens Walcott (1892-1977), and Helen Breese Walcott (1894-1965)

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), Sidney Stevens Walcott (1892-19...

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

Unknown Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing

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

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

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing  667

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 667

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

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."

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing  30285

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 30285

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  688x

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 688x

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

map from "The Caverns of Luray. Located on line of the Shenandoah Vally, R. R. From the official report of the Smithsonian Institution"

map from "The Caverns of Luray. Located on line of the Shenandoah Vall...

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

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing  248086

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 248086

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  588x

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 588x

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

Unnumbered Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing

Unnumbered 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

From Titkana Peak Overlooking Hunga Glacier

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]

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

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing  715

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 715

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  191016

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 191016

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

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah

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

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing  542

Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing 542

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

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, Department of Agriculture display, food and drug inspections

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, Department of Agricu...

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

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1851. Itatiaia.  Agulhas Negras  from side, at summit.

Mary Agnes Chase's Field Work in Brazil, Image No. 1851. Itatiaia. Ag...

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

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)."

[Washington, D.C., view with Smithsonian in the distance]

[Washington, D.C., view with Smithsonian in the distance]

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

[Electromagnetism described and illustrated (with horseshoe magnet, rod, and bell) on a page from the Annual report by the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution]

[Electromagnetism described and illustrated (with horseshoe magnet, ro...

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

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), working with crab specimens

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), working with crab specimens

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

Views of the interior of the Smithsonian Institution

Views of the interior of the Smithsonian Institution

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.

Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944)

Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944)

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

Smithsonian Institution. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Smithsonian Institution. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

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

Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th...

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

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), scientist

Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), scientist

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

Smithsonian Institution, Wash., D.C. (Andrew J. Russel)

Smithsonian Institution, Wash., D.C. (Andrew J. Russel)

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

Florence Merriam Bailey and unidentified individuals at Lake Placid, New York

Florence Merriam Bailey and unidentified individuals at Lake Placid, N...

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

Burning of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, January 24, 1865 / sketched by Philip Wharton.

Burning of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, January 24, 1865 /...

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.

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

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)

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

View of the Interior of the Smithsonian Institution.

View of the Interior of the Smithsonian Institution.

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

View of the Interior of the Smithsonian Institution.

View of the Interior of the Smithsonian Institution.

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

The Smithsonian Institution. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

The Smithsonian Institution. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domai...

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

The Smithsonian Institution. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

The Smithsonian Institution. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domai...

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

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

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

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Washington DC sterescope car...

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

Winifred Phillips Hathaway - Public domain photogrpaph

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

Chinese Kite Frame, cyanotype - Public domain map drawing

Chinese Kite Frame, cyanotype - Public domain map drawing

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

Mary Knapp Strong Clemens (1873-1965) with Joseph Clemens (1862-1936)

Mary Knapp Strong Clemens (1873-1965) with Joseph Clemens (1862-1936)

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

Charles Hubbard Judd (1873-1946)

Charles Hubbard Judd (1873-1946)

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

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield SIA2008-1818 first lady

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield SIA2008-1818 first lady

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."""

Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954)

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

Museum, Smithsonian Institution., J. Paul Getty Museum

Museum, Smithsonian Institution., J. Paul Getty Museum

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

The Smithsonian Institution is a massive building erected in the southwest quarter of the City of Washington...

The Smithsonian Institution is a massive building erected in the south...

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

The Smithsonian Institution is a massive building erected in the southwest quarter of the City of Washington...

The Smithsonian Institution is a massive building erected in the south...

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

First Ladies Gowns, Julia Dent Grant

First Ladies Gowns, Julia Dent Grant

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

Buffalo, 19th century - Public domain dedication, Art Institute of Chicago

Buffalo, 19th century - Public domain dedication, Art Institute of Chi...

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

Slater Spinning Frame - Drawing. Public domain image.

Slater Spinning Frame - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Centennial Exposition, Indian Exhibits

Centennial Exposition, Indian Exhibits

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

Philadelphia Centennial - Mineral Exhibit

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

Philadelphia Centennial - Mammal Exhibit

Philadelphia Centennial - Mammal Exhibit

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

Philadelphia Centennial Exhibits

Philadelphia Centennial Exhibits

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

Philadelphia Centennial Bird Exhibit

Philadelphia Centennial Bird Exhibit

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

Philadelphia Centennial Mineralogy Exhibits

Philadelphia Centennial Mineralogy Exhibits

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

Centennial Exposition, Smithsonian Exhibit

Centennial Exposition, Smithsonian Exhibit

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

1876 Centennial Government Building

1876 Centennial Government Building

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

Centennial Exposition, Anthropology Exhibits

Centennial Exposition, Anthropology Exhibits

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

Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-Smith

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

3. -Q. macrocarpa var. depressa. Prairie border. S.W. corner of Lyon county, Iowa, circa 1878-1936

3. -Q. macrocarpa var. depressa. Prairie border. S.W. corner of Lyon c...

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

7. Near view of native vegetation on sand-steppe near Heidesheim, Germany, 1914

7. Near view of native vegetation on sand-steppe near Heidesheim, Germ...

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

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1913

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1...

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

John H. Richard's Studio - Drawing. Public domain image.

John H. Richard's Studio - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

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

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

Portraits, Has-Hau, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Portraits, Has-Hau, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Has-Hau"; "(left to right): An unidentified woman (possibly Alice Haskins) sitting with U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, botanists Lucia McCulloch (1873-1955), C... 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

Sting Ray caught at St. Marc, Haiti

Sting Ray caught at St. Marc, Haiti

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

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

Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C

Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04417. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Local helpers L'Atalaye [Haiti]

Local helpers L'Atalaye [Haiti]

Creator: Watson Perrygo...Local number: SIA2008-2532...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

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