Fred Collier and Jann Thompson with Data Entry Machine

ID: SIA2013-03885

Creator: Sandved, Kjell Bloch 1922-

Form/Genre: Group, candid

Date: 1975

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier

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Summary

Fred (Frederick J.) Collier, Collection Manager in the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, stands and holds papers (handwritten data entry records) in his hand as he talks with data entry clerk, Jann W. Thompson, seated at a data entry machine, as they look at a SELGEM printout, produced on the Smithsonian's Honeywell mainframe computer. The data entry machines were very noisy, hence the "Acoustinet" surrounding it. Jann W. Thompson was later promoted to Collections Manager.

Subject

  • Collier, Frederick J (Frederick Joseph) 1932-
  • Thompson, Jann W
  • Department of Paleobiology (NMNH) Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975.
  • The Department of Paleobiology was created in 1963 as part of a reorganization in the National Museum of Natural History. At that time the Department of Geology was divided into two departments, with the Divisions of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany and Vertebrate Paleontology joined to form the Department of Paleobiology, a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms .
  • See Negatives SIA2013-03883 through SIA2013-03892 for additional photos of Fred Collier.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1975

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Topic

  • Computers
  • Women
  • Information storage and retrieval systems
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Museums--Collection management
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

  • Group, candid
  • Slide

ID Number

SIA2013-03885

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Color; Size: 1"w x 1 3/8"h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Slide

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