Uploads from Smithsonian Institution, tagged bw

Colias on plant

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:25:00 -0800

Creator: Robert E. Silberglied

Local number: SIA2012-7945

Summary: Photograph of Colias on plant. Part of materials documenting Robert E. Silberglied's work with butterflies, Summer 1971.

Dates: 1971

Collection: RU 007316, Robert E. Silberglied Papers, 1960-1982, with related materials to 1984; Box 16, Folder 14.

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Related blog post: The Mixed-Media Field Books of Robert E. Silberglied

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Magnified butterfly wing

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:25:00 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Creator: Robert E. Silberglied

Local number: SIA2012-7946

Summary: Part of materials documenting Robert E. Silberglied's work with butterflies, circa 1970s.

Dates: Circa 1970s

Collection: RU 007316, Robert E. Silberglied Papers, 1960-1982, with related materials to 1984; Box 16, Folder 15.

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Related blog post: Butterfly Vision: Robert E. Silberglied’s Photographic Explorations

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Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872-1948)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:31:37 -0700

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: The biologist, Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie, was the first female member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and, in 1912, the first woman to be appointed as a university professor in Norway. This photograph was taken by Watson Davis in July 1926 in Geneva, Switzerland, where Dr. Bonnevie was attending a meeting of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.

Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Persistent URL: photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5853

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.

Accession number: SIA2007-0318

Tosca Olinsky, American painter, 1909-1984

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:55:32 -0700

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Tosca Barteau Olinsky, the daughter of painter Ivan Olinsky, was born in Florence, Italy. She was both an active painter and teacher at the school at the Old Lyme Artists Colony. Olinsky painted using principals of modern art such as Cubism and Precisionism, with restrained, decorative subject matter, often choosing to paint still lifes.

Creator/Photographer: Peter A. Juley & Son

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 8 in x 10 in

Culture: American

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5833

Repository: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Photograph Archives

Collection: Peter A. Juley & Son Collection - The Peter A. Juley & Son Collection is comprised of 127,000 black-and-white photographic negatives documenting the works of more than 11,000 American artists. Throughout its long history, from 1896 to 1975, the Juley firm served as the largest and most respected fine arts photography firm in New York. The Juley Collection, acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1975, constitutes a unique visual record of American art sometimes providing the only photographic documentation of altered, damaged, or lost works. Included in the collection are over 4,700 photographic portraits of artists.

Accession number: J0115443

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:50:15 -0700

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: From 1929 until 1962, Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962) covered advances in psychology and sociology for Science Service, winning several journalism awards and the admiration of social scientists for diligent coverage of these emerging fields. Her insights became particularly useful during and after World War II, when news publications attempted to explain the techniques of political propaganda and the psychological impacts and implications of war.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5785

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.

Accession number: SIA2009-0887

Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:40:40 -0700

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: The physician Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998) became a prominent public figure as the Director of Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, a post she held from 1954 to 1982.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5773

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.

Accession number: SIA2008-0254

Josephine G. Fountain

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:45:51 -0700

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: During the early 1960s, Josephine G. Fountain, a registered nurse who worked at the University of Florida Teaching Hospital and Clinics, invented the "Direct Suction Tracheotomy Tube" (U.S. Patent No. 3039469) used for tracheotomy patients.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5766

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.

Accession number: SIA2008-1647

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:42:24 -0700

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Biologist Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) began her career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but achieved fame and social influence with publication of such popular books as The Sea Around Us (1951) and Silent Spring (1962).

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5779

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.

Accession number: SIA2008-0392

Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968), sitting in chair

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:36:10 -0700

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: The distinguished British botanist Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968) taught at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1926, Science News Letter reported that "plants as well as animals have in their cells bits of living matter known as the sex chromosomes." This photograph was taken when she was attending a scientific meeting in the United States.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.

Accession number: SIA2007-0252

Bracket, Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York City

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:42:39 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: This bracket was produced by E. F. Caldwell & Co. for the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York City at 109 West 39th Street, New York, NY 10018.

Creator/Photographer: E. F. Caldwell & Co.

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Date: 1908

Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Collection: The E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection - The E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection contains more than 50,000 images consisting of approximately 37,000 black & white photographs and 13,000 original design drawings of lighting fixtures and other fine metal objects that the produced from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.

Accession number: LB007022-a

1981 Inauguration Ball: President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:41:25 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: President Ronald Reagan addresses party-goers assembled in the Rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History's at the Inaugural Ball in January 1981. Mrs. Reagan is at his side.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 8 in x 10 in

Date: 1981

Persistent URL: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_10487

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession number: 81-754-23

Vice-President and Mrs. Bush at 1985 Inaugural Ball, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:41:25 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: 85-723.12, Reagan Inaugural Ball in NASM, from 35mm bwn.

Creator/Photographer: Mark Avino

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Date: 1985

Persistent URL: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_308426

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives/Smithsonian Photographic Services

Accession number: 85-723.12

Arthur B. Davies

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:58:12 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Davies.
Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen), 1862-1928

Creator/Photographer: Peter A. Juley & Son

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 35 cm x 28 cm

Date: c. 1908

Persistent URL: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/arthur-b-davies-...

Repository: Archives of American Art

Collection: 1913 Armory Show, 50th anniversary exhibition records, 1962-1963

Accession number: aaa_munswilp_10605

Mailing Letters

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:23:43 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Young boy does his best to put his letters into a Doremus-style mailbox. Mailboxes of this type, designed by Willard D. Doremus, were not very strong. The lip covering the letter slot could too easily break, letting rain, or in this case, snow, into the mailbox.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Culture: American

Geography: USA

Date: c. 1880

Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=203573

Repository: National Postal Museum

Collection: U.S. Mailboxes

Accession number: A.2008-46

Janet Scudder

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:25:50 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Scudder wearing an artist's smock and holding sculpting tools. Inscription lower right: "Janet Scudder". Published in: Archives of American Art Journal v. 9, no. 2, p. 9; v. 12, no. 3, p. 5.
Scudder, Janet, 1873-1940

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 16 cm x 12 cm

Date: c. 1920

Persistent URL: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/janet-scudder-2380

Repository: Archives of American Art

Collection: Macbeth Gallery Records, c. 1890-1964

Accession number: aaa_macbgall_4840

William Trost Richards

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:22:13 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Side view portrait of Richards. Inscription on lower center: "William T. Richards".
Richards, William Trost, 1833-1905

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 20 cm x 15 cm

Date: c. 1900

Persistent URL: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/william-trost-ri...

Repository: Archives of American Art

Collection: Macbeth Gallery Records, c. 1890-1964

Accession number: aaa_macbgall_4826

Isamu Noguchi's father

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:29:41 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: One of Noguchi's father photographed by Chas. W. Hearn, 1903 and one photograph of an unidentified woman (misidentified at the time of accessioning as Noguchi's mother), photographed by Walter Studio, N.Y., ca. 1900.
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-

Co-Creator: Hearn, Charles W.
Walter Studio (New York, N.Y.)
(Image 2 of 2)

Creator/Photographer: Charles W. Hearn

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Culture: Asian-American

Date: c. 1900

Persistent URL: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/yone-noguchi-2851

Repository: Archives of American Art

Accession number: aaa_miscphot_11153

Edward Moran

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:53:28 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Portrait of Moran seated and holding a book in his lap. Inscription lower left: "Always yours, Edward Moran."
Moran, Edward, 1829-1901

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 19 cm x 12 cm

Date: c. 1900

Persistent URL: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/edward-moran-2569

Repository: Archives of American Art

Collection: Macbeth Gallery Records, c. 1890-1964

Accession number: aaa_macbgall_4794

Kenneth Hayes Miller

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:53:11 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Identification on verso (handwritten): "Kenneth Hayes Miller." Published in: Archives of American Art Journal v. 13, no. 2, p. 20.
Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 17 cm x 12 cm

Date: c. 1910

Persistent URL: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/kenneth-hayes-mi...

Repository: Archives of American Art

Collection: Macbeth Gallery Records, c. 1890-1964

Accession number: aaa_macbgall_4788

F. Luis Mora

nobody@flickr.com (Smithsonian Institution) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:53:24 -0800

Smithsonian Institution posted a photo:

Description: Portrait of Mora in suit. Image is somewhat faded.
Mora, F. Luis (Francis Luis), 1874-1940

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 16 cm x 11 cm

Date: 1910

Persistent URL: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/f-luis-mora-2287

Repository: Archives of American Art

Collection: Macbeth Gallery Records, c. 1890-1964

Accession number: aaa_macbgall_4792