Results for "American Association for State and Local History. The Common Agenda for History Museums"
Skating Smithsonian
- Date: February 6, 2014
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: You don’t have to go to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to learn about ice dancing. Check out the Smithsonian ice dancers who used the sport as a great way to unwind and stay warm in the winter.
Operation Reindeer
- Date: December 22, 2010
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: You have probably heard of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen. Even Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. And I know you have heard of Rudolph. But do you recall the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s most famous reindeers of all? “Operation Reindeer” was the most publicized event of 1958. Fourteen reindeer and one caribou made their way, sans the open sleigh, to Washington, D.C., for
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Ruel P. Tolman’s Images: Who Are You?
- Date: January 12, 2012
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Help us identify images from the 1930s, photographed by Ruel P. Tolman, Curator and Director of the Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fine Arts.
All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian
- Date: September 21, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After
The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37
- Date: May 13, 2014
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!