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Smithsonian Snapshot
Vera Rubin: Lifelong Astronomer
Rubin is best known for finding evidence of dark matter.
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Intricate Beauty
Peinetas,
such as the 19th-century
peineta
pictured here, came to symbolize a woman’s individuality and entrance into society.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Illuminating Culture
Pepón Osorio created “El Chandelier” for a performance that explored the life of a Puerto Rican woman living in New York.
Smithsonian Libraries
Bond, James Bond: Ornithologist
The Smithsonian collections contain bird specimens that the real James Bond collected in the Caribbean.
National Museum of American History
A Patently Better Egg
Building a better frying pan—a complete one-pan breakfast.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
“Eye”-vy League Bulldog
Graphic designer Paul Rand plays with the iconography of eye charts to create a clever advertisement for Yale University.
National Museum of Natural History
Hey, Little Fella!
The dwarf lantern shark (
Etmopterus perryi
) is the smallest shark, and it can fit in a human hand.
National Museum of Natural History
Behold the Mantis Shrimp
The ocean is home to some of the most incredible creatures on Earth: Learn why the mantis shrimp is one of them.
National Postal Museum
“When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth”
This stamp was released by the U.S. Postal Service in 2000 as part of a souvenir sheet “Celebrate The Century: 1990s.”
National Museum of American History
Remembering James Joyce on Bloomsday
James Joyce’s novel
Ulysses
follows the exploits of Dubliner Leopold Bloom during the course of a single day, June 16, 1904.
Freer Gallery of Art
Guardians of More Than a Galaxy
These two large, wooden guardian figures once kept watch over the Buddha and his followers outside Ebaradera temple in Sakai, Japan.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
It’s Watermelon Season!
This poster (detail), depicting a zoomed-in view of a watermelon, was designed by Stephen Frykholm for the Herman Miller Furniture Company.
National Museum of American History
“Get This Man a Shield!”
Equipped with a shield composed primarily of vibranium from the African nation Wakanda, Captain America fought the forces of evil.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Do Ho Suh’s Sheer Fabric Sculptures
Korean artist Do Ho Suh captures the objects of everyday life as dream-like sculptures.
National Portrait Gallery
A Baseball First
This 1947 photograph by Harry Warnecke pictures Robinson at Ebbets Field during his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Ginger Smock Is the Trailblazing Jazz Violinist You Might Not Have Heard Of
Jazz violinist Emma “Ginger” Smock was born in Chicago in 1920, and she soon displayed precocious musical talent.
National Portrait Gallery
Dolores Huerta: A Latina Civil Rights Icon
A life spent advocating for workers and women’s rights.
National Museum of American History
Alice Paul and Suffragists Were First to Picket the White House
In January 1917, Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party (NWP) became the first people to ever picket the White House.
National Museum of American History
Hi, Neighbor!
“There’s no person in the world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”—Fred Rogers
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Alma Thomas Became a Nationally Recognized Painter after 38 Years Teaching Public School
Alma Thomas spent 38 years as a Washington, D.C., public school art teacher before her painting career took off.
National Air and Space Museum
Chauncey Spencer, Aviator
Chauncey Spencer after a successful parachute jump at a Chicago air show. Spencer became one of Chicago’s most well-known barnstorming pilots.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Perfect for Valentine’s Day: Cupids and Jewelry
The bracelet is believed to have been made by the eminent French jeweler, Honoré-Séverin Bourdoncle, who counted Napoleon III among his clients.
National Air and Space Museum
Bessie Coleman, First African American Licensed Pilot
Bessie Coleman received the first pilot’s license issued to an African American, male or female, from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
Smithsonian Libraries
When You Wish Upon a Shooting Star
The verso of Galileo’s drawings of the Pleiades star cluster, makes an exceptional background for our shooting stars.
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