Best-of-the-First-Year:
Description: As the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, Thomas Smillie used images to catalog the much of the institution’s physical object collection, ranging ...
19 Dec
Best-of-the-First-Year: Ostraciidae, Juvenile (Boxfish)
Best-of-the-First-Year: Ostraciidae, Juvenile (Boxfish)
Description: The standard length of the juvenile boxfish is ten millimeters. This image was taken with a Nikon D1X 5.47-megapixel camera with a 105-millimeter f/2.8D ...
16 Nov
Best-of-the-First-Year: scarab
Best-of-the-First-Year: scarab
Description: As the Smithsonian’s first photographer and curator of photography, Thomas Smillie used images to catalog the much of the institution’s physical object collection, ranging ...
20 Sep
Holocaust Personal Family Photos
Holocaust Personal Family Photos
Wall of personal family photos, Holocaust Museum, Smithsonian, Washington, DC. david cuevas
07 Aug
Mackay Emerald and Diamond Necklace
Mackay Emerald and Diamond Necklace
Mackay Emerald and Diamond Necklace - 168 carats (Muzo, Colombia) This huge emerald is set in an art deco diamond and platinum pendant designed by Cartier. In ...
03 Aug
Hope Diamond
Hope Diamond
Hope Diamond -- 45.53 Carats (from India) One of the world's most famous gems, surrounded by 16 white diamonds suspended from a platinum chain bearing 46 more ...
28 Jul
Equal Rights March
Equal Rights March
From the collection at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC. Equal Rights Protest March.
20 May
Going to Church
Going to Church
rtist: William H. Johnson, born Florence, SC 1901-died Central Islip, NY 1970 Type: Graphic Arts-Print Date: ca. 1940-1941 Topic: Architecture\religious\church Figure(s) in exterior\rural Figure group\family Ethnic\African-American Architecture\vehicle\cart Travel\land\cart Object number: 1967.59.1022 Medium: serigraph on paper Credit ...
27 Apr
Subject: Museum of the American Indian – Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989
Subject: Museum of the American Indian – Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989
Photographer: Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins (N.L. Stebbins/N.L. Stebbins Photo), Non-Indian, 1847-1922 Subject: Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989 Date Created: December 1921 Catalog Number: P02977 Format: ...
21 Mar
Esteban Vicente: Spring, 1972
Esteban Vicente: Spring, 1972
Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, 1972 Esteban Vicente, Born: Turegano, Spain 1903 Died: Bridgehampton, New York 2001 oil on canvas 68 x 56 in. (172.7 x 142.2 cm) Smithsonian ...
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