Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

Record Unit 9566 - Oral history interviews with Olga C. Hirshhorn, 1986-1988
Accession 17-057 - Neal Griffith Smith Papers (documenting Smith’s research in the Arctic and for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
Accession 17-295 - Museum of History and Technology, Division of Manufactures and Heavy Industries, Curatorial Records, 1878-1961 (documenting exhibitions, collections, and research by division staff)

Accession 96-153 - Alice Pike Barney Papers, 1861-1965 (links to numerous images of Alice Pike Barney, friends, family and her artist’s salon)
Record Unit 7082 - Bohumil Shimek Papers, 1878-1936 (links to field notes and photographs documenting Shimek’s ornithological and geological studies)
Record Unit 7186 - United States Exploring Expedition Collection, 1838-1885 (links to field notes and illustrations)
Record Unit 7177 - George P. Merrill Collection, circa 1800-1930 and undated (links to images of Merrill’s colleagues and well known geologists)
Record Unit 229 - United States National Museum, Division of Grasses, 1884, 1888, 1899-1965 (links to images, scrapbooks and field notes documenting the work of botanists Albert Spear Hitchcock and Mary Agnes Chase)

Over 700 images from Accession 11-009 - Smithsonian Photographic Services, Photographic Collection, 1971-2006

Ninety-nine images from Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s (portraits of scientists)
Forty-one images from Accession 16-126 - National Museum of Natural History, Photographic Collection, 1959-1971 (images of the collections and exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History, taken by the museum's own photographers)
Two hundred images from Record Unit 371 - Office of Public Affairs, The Torch (Smithsonian staff newsletter), 1955-1960, 1965-1988

The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith, The Bigger Picture blog, Smithsonian Institution Archives

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