Opal Lee by Sedrick Huckaby, oil on canvas, 2023. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of Sasha and Edward P. Bass. Copyright 2023 Sedrick Huckaby.
Arcadia, California. Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly center from San Pedro, California. Evacuees lived at this center located at the former Santa Anita racetrack before being moved inland to relocation centers, April 5, 1942.
The public is invited to help name two cotton-top tamarin sisters at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Image: Chelia Chong, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
"Sewing a fine seam—finishing touches are applied to one section of the new spacesuit for NASA's Apollo lunar missions on this long-arm sewing machine, built specially for manufacturing the spacesuits." Hazel Fellows, seated, machine-sewing pieces of an Apollo A7L spacesuit on the production line at International Latex Corporation (ILC), Federica (Dover), Delaware; released Aug. 9, 1968. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
A crowd watching a lion dancer perform outside the museum during the 2023 Lunar New Year Festival.
Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Pinback button memorial depicting Martin Luther King Jr. ca. 1968.
Credit: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Peggy Boyd Petrey.
Pinback button celebrating the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
The museum hosts Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. for a book talk about his latest publication, The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice, Nov. 11.
Ten Baltimore oriole chicks hatched in June at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. (Photo by Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
