In 1989, on his way to becoming the richest man in America, Microsoft founder Bill Gates started another company, Interactive Home Systems, based on a hunch about how people would collect and view ...

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to ...

Since last summer, the technicians responsible for digitizing The Times’s cache of pictures have come across photos of dogs, the Eiffel Tower, a casino and, recently, a 225-pound fish. By Elisha Brown ...