Results for "America on Film (Program series)"
An Operation of Its Own: Brigitte Blachere and Programming within the Smithsonian Associates
- Date: September 8, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.
Hot Topics: From Extinct Monsters to Carousels
- Date: January 8, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Recent Acquisitions - NMAI's Film and Video Center
- Date: July 25, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Highlighting the recent acquisition of the records of the National Museum of the American Indian's Film and Video Center in January 2017.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2021
- Date: October 12, 2021
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
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Snapshots of Transition: Native American Reservation Life in the Early 1900s
- Date: November 17, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="In this photo Reverend James O. Arthur poses on a sand dune at White Sands, New Mexico. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Catalog number: N53381."][/caption] This is the first entry in a series celebrating National Native American Heritage Month. In this series we will be highlighting photos from the
Link Love: 11/9/2012
- Date: November 9, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Harry Walters - Director of the Diné College Museum, 1973-2008
- Date: July 30, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Before becoming the Director of the Diné College Museum in Arizona, Harry Walters spent three months at the Smithsonian learning techniques for the care and handling of artifacts, including their identification, description, conservation, storage, and exhibition.
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Link Love: 11/12/2010
- Date: November 12, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Steven Cohn, the Smithsonian’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management and the museum’s representative Industrial Hygienist, tests Owney's fur for arsenic, lead and mercury. Courtesy of the National Postal Museum "Pushing the Envelope" blog."][/caption] More interesting preservation challenges. We’ve covered
Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments
- Date: May 8, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than
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Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair
- Date: October 19, 2012
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Tune into a live webcast of the Smithsonian's 2012 Archives Fair to watch the lecture series on "Revealing Hidden Treasures."
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Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success
- Date: December 18, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.
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For All the World to See
- Date: February 10, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE.