Results for "American Festival Project"

     
    Showing results 1 - 12 of 33 for American Festival Project
    1. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

      Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

    2.  
    3. Blog Post

      Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

      • Date: July 7, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

    4.  

    5. Caught on Film: Archives Fair 2012 Film Festival

      • Date: October 18, 2012
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The Smithsonian’s 2012 Archives Fair will feature a film festival this year where films fitting the theme “Hidden Treasures” will make their debut.

    6.  
    7. Four women gather around a table on which papers are spread out. Kotkin is the second from the right.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Kotkin

      • Date: March 23, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

    8.  
    9. People standing around quilt panel with a design of the Smithsonian Castle on the upper half and small quilt panels and people’s names on the lower half.

      The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall

      • Date: December 17, 2020
      • Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.

    10.  
    11. Hamilton stands on the right with three men. The group is looking down at a model of Washington, D.C.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Susan A. Hamilton

      • Date: August 4, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

    12.  
    13. Stamp with

      Link Love: 9/29/2017

      • Date: September 29, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Our National Museum of African American History & Culture is getting a forever stamp October 13th! [via WUSA 9]Save the date: the Freer Sackler reopens October 14th and the are celebrating with a festival, IlluminAsia featuring projections on the building. [via DCist] Need your baby animal fix? The National Zoo has three baby critically-endangered dama gazelles, the latest

    14.  
    15. Blog Post

      Link Love: 7/24/2014

      • Date: July 25, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

    16.  
    17. Pink backpack, field notes notebooks, microphone, audio recorder, and guides on recording oral histories

      Link Love: 6/29/2018

      • Date: June 29, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The University of North Carolina at Chapel wants to make archiving more accessible with Archivist in a Backpack. [via Hyperallergic]The Field Book Project wrapped up May 31 with a contribution of 517,000 pages of field books to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive! [via BHL Blog]Some lessons learned from archiving Lubalin's Radical 60's magazines. [via AIGA's

    18.  
    19. Native American Film and Video Festival program, November 3-21, 1982. Accession 17-252, 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.

    20.  
    21. A young woman in a blue t-shirt interviews a man with a beard and long hair in a tented area. The man is sitting in front of a microphone. Panels about Smithsonian history are in the background.

      Smithsonian Memories

      • Date: September 9, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: Learn a little more about a collection that both challenges and celebrates the history of the Smithsonian.

    22.  
    23. Romeo and Juliet, 1908

      Link Love: 7/1/2016

      • Date: July 1, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

    24.  
    Showing results 1 - 12 of 33 for American Festival Project

    Pages