Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives’ Website

The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collections to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.

New Finding Aids Online:

A group of collections documenting the field work of scientists who worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology:

• Accession 17-001 - National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology,  Curatorial Records, 1983 (Michael J. Sweeney field notes)
• Accession 17-002 - National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Curatorial Records, 1936-1943 (Rendell Rhoades field notes)
• Accession 17-004 - National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Curatorial Records, 1947-1986 (Perry C. Holt field notes)
• Accession 17-005 - National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Curatorial Records, 1948-1972 (Denton W. Crocker field notes)

Links to Finding Aids with Newly-Digitized Material:

Collections Documenting the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, 1865-1867 (and more!)

• Record Unit 7213, Western Union Telegraph Expedition Collection, 1865-1867 (reports on the expedition)
• Record Unit 7072, Robert Kennicott Papers, 1863-1865 (correspondence)
• Record Unit 7073, William Healey Dall Papers, circa 1839-1858, 1862-1927 (images of the 1867 U.S. Coastal Survey, Western Union Telegraph Expedition Reports, correspondence)
• Record Unit 32, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1843-1887 (Robert Kennicott’s plan of exploration)

Collections Containing Field Notes

• Record Unit 7342, James W. Eike Papers, 1927, 1950-1983 (ornithologist)
  
• Record Unit 7348, Douglas Ralph Emlong Papers, 1943-1980 (paleontologist)
• Accession 95-044, Jonathan Dwight Notebooks and Catalogues, circa 1875-1886 (ornithologist)

Goings-On at the Young Smithsonian United States National Museum (much more to follow as digitization progresses)

• Record Unit 158, United States National Museum, Curators' Annual Reports, 1881-1964

New Images Online:

• Seventy-one images from Accession 16-126, National Museum of Natural History, Photographic Collection, 1959-1971