These People Belong In An Institution!
The Smithsonian Institution, of course. A search of the archives has produced these lighter looks at life behind the scenes
| Just a little off the top, please. Conservator touches up the first Secretary, Joseph Henry, in 1984. | |
What are we looking for again? Volunteers track satellites for Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. |
Is this on the record? The "reporter" is actually a registrar checking in a statue called Libyan Sibyl. |
Very funny, Al. Now come on out of there. In the 1930s, taxidermists at the National Museum (later the National Museum of Natural History) stuff a hippopotamus. |
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