Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:10:08 +0100 (AP) - A lid to tin box deposited at Smithsonian Institution Oct. 19, 1881 by Volta Associates is displayed during a news conference at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. Early sound recordings by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and others that had been packed way at the Smithsonian Institution for more than a century were played publicly for the first time Tuesday using new technology. The recordings revealed a portion of Hamlet's Soliloquy, a trill of the tongue and someone reciting numbers starting with 1-2-3. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
A photo of a Bharal taken in China.
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Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:00:07 +0100 (Canadian Press) - This Oct. 6, 1906 stereo photograph provided by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History shows view of earthquake-damaged San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the six images were snapped by color photography pioneer Frederick Eugene Ives several months after the April 1906 ’Great Quake.’ National Museum of American History volunteer Anthony Brooks found the glass plate photos while cataloguing a collection donated by Ives’ son, Herbert. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History)
Bhutanese monks play instruments in a temple built for the Smithsonian ...
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:00:11 +0100 (AFP/File) - Bhutanese monks play instruments in a temple built for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, in 2008. A monk in Bhutan has become the first person jailed under the country's draconian anti-smoking law after a court handed him a three-year prison sentence for smuggling tobacco worth $2.50.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)
This undated handout photo provided by the Smithsonian’s National ...
Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:20:10 +0100 (Canadian Press) - This undated handout photo provided by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History shows an Eddie Van Halen guitar. The museum announced that it has acquired the ’Frank 2’ guitar that Van Halen used during his 2007-2008 North American tour with original lead singer David Lee Roth. (AP Photo/Hugh Talman, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History)
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