Collection Spotlights

View curated sets of collection items. Many of the collection items feature stories from our experts and curators.

3c Joseph Pulitzer single Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Freedom of the Press

9 brown and tan shells in a grid of 3x3

Freshwater Mussels

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

coffee service

From Coffee Cup to Coffee Table

woman swimming

Game Changers: American Women Athletes Who Made History

A tan bisected cube. The area where the cube is divided reveals alternating yellow and red, and green and red, patterns.

Geometric Models - Dissected Polyhedra

A wooden box holding 30 Jullien reliefs. The box is lined with weathered, pink fabric.

Geometric Models - Jullien Models for Descriptive Geometry

Wire in the shape of two intersecting rectangles, with a handle extending from the point of intersection. Between the wires is a soap film.

Geometric Models - Minimal Surfaces as Soap Films

Mathematical model of a twisted cubic. Yellow threads are pulled, then twisted to make two cones. Red threads are arranged in a cylinder.

Geometric Models - Models by Richard P. Baker

Wooden hinged dissection comprised of four trapezoids arranged in a square, a triangle, and a smaller square.

Geometric Models – Plane Dissections

Orange Brill Model of a one-sheeted horizontal hyperboloid on a black stand.

Geometric Models – Surfaces of Degree Two, in Paper

Tan paper model of a truncated isododecahedron, with faces made up of 30 squares, twenty regular pentagons, and twelve regular decagons.

Geometric Models-Regular-Faced Convex Polyhedra

Photo of Georgia Mills Jessup

Georgia Mills Jessup

O'Keeffe on roof at Ghost Ranch.

Georgia O'Keeffe

portrait of amos lilttle, sioux

Gertrude Käsebier Sioux Portraits

Giant panda eating bamboo

Giant Pandas at the Smithsonian

girlhood thumbnail

Girlhood (it’s complicated)

Gladys Bently

Gladys Bentley: Blues Singer

USA pin with Olympic rings

Going for the Gold: Summer Olympics

gold nugget

Gold Treasures of Nature, History, and Craft

Butterfly necklace pendant

Good as Gold

Engraved woodblock of a Native American person with traditional face tattoos.

Graphic Arts: Bureau of American Ethnology

Image of Saturn 5 guidance and control ring

Guidance, Navigation, and Control

painted guitar used by Carlos Vives

Guitars

silver menorah with all lights lit

Hanukkah, O Hanukkah

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