Category: Collections in Focus

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 See Here: 10/12/2018 October 12, 2018 by Kira M. Sobers

See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

  
 
 Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin! October 11, 2018 by Ricc Ferrante

This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

  
 
 Sneak Peek 10/8/2018 October 8, 2018 by Marguerite Roby

Bureau of American Ethnology exhibit featuring "Basketry of the American Indians" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904. 

  
 
 See Here: 10/5/2018 October 5, 2018 by Kira M. Sobers

See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

  
 
 Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website October 4, 2018 by Tammy L. Peters

See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

  
 
 Sneak Peek 10/1/2018 October 1, 2018 by Marguerite Roby

Donation of Betty Ford dress to collection of First Ladies gowns at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as National Museum of American History, with Frankie Welch, fashion designer, First Lady Betty Ford, and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, by John Wooten, June 24, 1976.

  
 
 See Here: 9/28/2018 September 28, 2018 by Kira M. Sobers

See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

  
 
 Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2018 September 27, 2018 by Deborah Shapiro

We highlight a few topics explored this summer by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

  
 
 Sneak Peek 9/24/2018 September 24, 2018 by Marguerite Roby

"Statue of Freedom," the plaster figure used to cast the statue on top of the U.S. Capitol, in the rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building while being dismantled for storage, February 27, 1967.

  
 
 See Here: 9/21/2018 September 21, 2018 by Kira M. Sobers

See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

  

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