Results for "American Art Deco (Exhibition) (1987: Washignton, D.C.)"

 
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  1. A woman sits at a desk near a typewriter and many stacks of papers.

    Science Service, Up Close: Science Reporters on the Hunt

    • Date: April 18, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.

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  3. Recognizing the Smithsonian Staff Who Served in the Gulf War

    • Date: November 10, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This Veterans Day, we salute the 21 men and women at the Smithsonian who served in the Gulf War.

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  5. New York World's Fair Map

    Walt Disney's Progressland

    • Date: July 21, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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  7. Diving Consultant Joseph Libbey

    Sneak Peek 9/2/2019

    • Date: September 2, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Diving consultant Joseph Libbey, who taught and certified Smithsonian curators, technicians, and specialists as divers in connection to their work, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 79-10744-25.

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  9. A woman stands behind a man, in the forefront. Both are standing near a portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann M. Shumard

    • Date: April 8, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Ann M. Shumard has worked to develop the photography collection at the National Portrait Gallery as an Assistant Curator, 1979–2001, and Senior Curator of Photographs, 2001–present. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions and serves on the Smithsonian’s Collections Advisory Committee. #Groundbreaker

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  11. Eat more corn, oats and rye products, 1917, by L. N. Britton, U. S. Food Administration, World War I Posters, Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-2975.

    Smithsonian Staff Work Together to Help During World War I

    • Date: July 22, 2014
    • Description: A look at the often forgotten people you can find in archives and what we can learn from them.

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  13. Department of Geology Exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904

    Sneak Peek 4/16/2018

    • Date: April 16, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Department of Geology exhibit featuring casts of the Peary meteorites and a cast of the Bacubirito meteorite at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-16397.

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  15. Blog Post

    It Pays to Be Free

    • Date: March 25, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Bus Seats, by Adam Gerard, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License"][/caption] I took a stroll at lunch today since it’s that time of year again when the magnolia trees bloom in the Smithsonian Castle’s Enid Haupt Garden. It’s important to catch it before a rain or a big breeze snatches

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  17. Halides on display in a well-lit exhibit case.

    Archives Puzzles: Shine Bright Like a Halide

    • Date: January 11, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  19. Taking a sample of mold.

    Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

    • Date: July 26, 2016
    • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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  21. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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  23. Blog Post

    Heart of Glass

    • Date: October 5, 2017
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph

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