• The Tenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium: World War I and Its Immediate Aftermath, Select Papers 

  Smith, Susan N. (2022)
• The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers from the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symposia 

  Smith, Susan N. (2020)

  Writers in the field of postal history have incredibly diverse interests and approaches. As a result, the postal history symposia have been organized around themes. The three themes represented in papers here are mail and ...
• The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers, 2010–2011 

  Lera, Thomas M. (2012)
• A Layman's Forensic Adventure 

  Cipolla II, Roland H. (2013)
• Reflectance Spectroscopy of Colored Overprints 

  Caswell, Lyman R. (2013)
• Statistical Estimates of Rare Stamp Populations 

  Herendeen, David L.; White, Gary C. (2013)
• Infrared Spectroscopic and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Typographed Confederate 5¢ Stamps 

  Brittain, Harry G. (2013)
• Documenting Science in Philatelic Literature: A New Perspective 

  Herendeen, David L. (2013)
• Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Analytical Methods in Philately 

  Lera, Thomas M.; Barwis, John H.; Herendeen, David L.; (2013)
• The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers, 2006 2009 

  Lera, Thomas M. (2010)
• Patent Models Index: Guide to the Collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution: Listings by Inventor and Residence of Inventor, Volume 2 

  Suit Janssen, Barbara (2010)
• Patent Models Index: Guide to the Collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution: Listings by Patent Number and Invention Name, Volume 1 

  Suit Janssen, Barbara (2010)
• Harpsichords and Clavichords 

  Hoover, Cynthia A. (1969)

  The harpsichord and the clavichord represent the two most important types of stringed keyboard instruments used from the 15th through the 18th centuries. By the 19th century, the piano had become the most important domestic ...
• Invention and Development of the Radiosonde with a Catalog of Upper-Atmospheric Telemetering Probes in the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 

  DuBois, John L. (2002)

  From a historical perspective, the radiosonde is one of the more significant technological innovations of the twentheth century, not only because its widespread use greatly enhanced the accuracy of weather forecasting, but ...
• Judaica at the Smithsonian: Cultural Politics as Cultural Model 

  Grossman, Grace Cohen; Ahlborn, Richard Eighme (1997)

  This study surveys the history of the Smithsonian Institution's ethnographic Judaica collection from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. It investigates how the particular cultural perspective of ...
• Russian Copper Icons and Crosses from the Kunz Collection: Castings of Faith 

  Ahlborn, Richard Eighme; Beaver-Bricken Espinola, Vera (1991)

  This study of Old Russian metallic “traveling” icons features eight distinct discussions: Russia, 1600-1900 (a general history); Russian Orthodox theology and icons, 1600-1900; iconographic form and content in the Kunz ...
• Vertical Transportation in Old Back Bay, a Museum Case Study: The Acquisition of a Small Residential Hydraulic Elevator 

  Vogel, Robert M. (1988)

  The National Museum of American History recently acquired a small elevator from a 19th century residence in Boston's Back Bay. The acquisition was one of unusual historical significance, for the elevator's means of ...
• Technology in Miniature: American Textile Patent Models 1819-1840 

  Janssen, Barbara Suit (1988)

  To obtain a patent in the nineteenth century, an inventor had to submit a written specification, a drawing, and a model to the United States Patent Office. This catalog is concerned with the textile patent models in the ...
• Brief History of Geomagnetism and a Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History 

  Multhauf, Robert P. (1987)

  Geomagnetism (also known as terrestrial magnetism) is the scientific study of the earth from the point of view of its magnetic properties. The alignment of a natural or artificial magnet in a north-south direction is only ...
• Organs of Mexico City Cathedral 

  Flentrop, Dirk Andries; Fesperman, John (1986)

  Published as part of <I>Visitatio Organorum</I>, a tribute to Dr. Maarten Vente, <I>The Organs of Mexico City Cathedral</I> gives a description of the two cathedral organs based on information gathered during their restoration ...

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