From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

He later wrote that Tookoolito asked, "Are you cold Mr. Hall?" Charles Francis Hall: I answered, "My feet are almost frozen. I cannot get them comfortable." Quickest thought, Tookoolito made passage ...

Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography and whose experimental works blur ...

The National Numismatic Collection is comprised of approximately 1.6 million objects and is thought to be the largest collection of money and transactional objects in the world. Its diverse holdings ...

The rocket, a reaction-propulsion device that carries all of its propellants internally, has been around for almost a millennium since its invention in China. But the twentieth-century saw a ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at Ōsaka Shiritsu Bijutsukan, May 19-June 24, 1990. siris_sil_875719 ...

Press releases from the newsroom for the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, education centers, and the National Zoo.

Prepared by the Technology Applications Group, George Washington University Medical Center, Biological Sciences Communication Project as the annual report for NASA contract NASw 2055. siris_sil_193451 ...

Precious memories : a basic guide to collecting family history / written by Maria R. Goodwin ; produced by the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and ...

The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. American paintings to 1945 / Margaret C. Conrads, editor ...

"You show pictures of Uncle Tom, but you won't serve us" : social activism and the commemoration of black history in Ontario Canada / Tracey Warren ...

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-S⁶ T². Printers' colophon, p. 212: Fry and Kammerer, Printers. siris_sil_204272 ...