Smithsonian Voices

From the Smithsonian Museums

Joseph Henry (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-BH824-4499)

Smithsonian Science Education Center

Joseph Henry: The Father of Weather Forecasting (And the First Smithsonian Secretary!)

Exhibition announcement for The Chicano Codices, 1993. Kathy Vargas papers, 1980-2015. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Exhibition catalog for (en)Gendered Visions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Art, 1992. Kathy Vargas papers, 1980-2015. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Naming Ourselves: Asian American and Latina/o Arts Meet in the Kathy Vargas Papers

Romare Bearden in Harlem, circa 1950 / unidentified photographer. Romare Bearden papers, 1937-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Romare Bearden and His Traveling Cats

Musicorner room designed by John Vassos displayed at the American at Home Pavilion, 1940 New York World's Fair, 1940 / Richard Averill Smith, photographer. John Vassos papers, 1920-[198-]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

New Technologies: John Vassos and Television Design

Sketchbook with portrait of Walt Whitman, 1977. Naul Ojeda papers, 1964-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Acquisitions: Naul Ojeda Papers

San Francisco Museum of Art program for the first artists' soap box derby, 1975 May 18. Jan Butterfield papers, 1950-1997; Official magazine of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art artists' soap box derby, 1978 May 21. Jan Butterfield papers, 1950-1997

Archives of American Art

Supercharged with Wit, Magic, and Talent: The Artists’ Soap Box Derbies

Tlingit Killer Whale Clan Hat digitized and repatriated by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 2005. (Nick Partridge, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Is 3D Technology the Key to Preserving Indigenous Cultures?

Members of the staff of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York hold a welcoming ceremony for a kayak frame built in the traditional Yup'ik way at the Qayanek Qayak Preservation Center in Kwigillingok, Alaska. A testament to the ingenuity and innovation of the Native cultures of the Arctic, the kayak frame will become a teaching exhibit when the New York museum's imagiNATIONS Activity Center opens this May. (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)

National Museum of the American Indian

Long journey: A traditional kayak frame comes to New York

Michele Felice Corné (1752–1845),

National Museum of the American Indian

Everyone's history matters: The Wampanoag Indian Thanksgiving story deserves to be known

John Quincy Adams / Philip Haas / 1843

National Portrait Gallery

Welcome to the Portrait Gallery, John Quincy Adams

Caption: Zendaya and Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017); credit: Sony

National Portrait Gallery

Sylvia Plath’s Appearance in "Spider-Man: Homecoming"

Sarah Weston Seaton with Her Children Augstine and Julia / Charles Bird King / c. 1815 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Bequest of Armida B. Colt

National Portrait Gallery

Sarah Weston Seaton and Washington, DC, Around 1815

John Ashbery (Argyle Socks) by Fairfield Porter/ Oil on canvas, 1952/ Collection The Flow Chart Foundation. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

National Portrait Gallery

Portrait of John Ashbery by Fairfeld Porter

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet / Alexander Hay Ritchie, after Francis B. Carpenter / 1866 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Mrs. Chester E. King

National Portrait Gallery

Remembering President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

On mid-tour leave from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant First Class Chuck Boers carries in the eagle staff at the Shenandoah Powwow, 2004. (Courtesy of Chuck Boers)

National Museum of the American Indian

A tradition of service: Master Sergeant and Lipan Apache War Chief Chuck Boers

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Smithsonian Science Education Center

Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?

Carlos Francisco Parra

National Museum of the American Latino

Francisco Parra Gets Hands-On With Spanish-Language TV and Radio Archives

Four views of a Shee aan. SI Catalog #E7899. (Brittany M. Hance, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

3D Technology May Revive this Ancient Hunting Tool

John Richard Edwards (Onondaga) takes part in the installation of the mile-marker post from the Dakota Access Pipeline in the exhibition

National Museum of the American Indian

Mile-marker from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests makes the point that U.S. treaty history is still being written

A team of Smithsonian scientists excavating the Hart Chalet site found a double tournois copper coin minted for French King louis XIII in 1634. In pristine condition, it would have looked similar to this 1638 double tournois coin. (Images courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Image composite by Anna Torres)

National Museum of Natural History

Some Archaeological Dating can be as Simple as Flipping a Coin