Negative Log Book Number 12, (79-13778 to 80-20260)

The Smithsonian Institution has used photography to document artifacts, events, and exhibits for virtually its entire history. We need registered volunteers to help review these transcribed pages. Help us unlock this log of 1979 and 1980 photographs documenting the Smithsonian's visual history! Helpful instructions are available. This impressive body of work began in 1869 when Thomas William Smillie started the valuable photographic catalog. In 1971, the Smithsonian Photographic Services (SPS) was established, continuing the legacy of a century’s worth of photography. Its photographers brought the camera's power to the Smithsonian's unique set of museums, archives and research centers. Their handwritten record, captured in the “green logbooks,” documents about 3 million photographic negatives. Help us unlock the only “key” to these photographic collections.