Results for "American Legacies (Proposed exhibition)"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-240, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Product Design and Decorative Arts Department, Exhibition Records, circa 1982-2009
- Date: 1982 1982-2009 circa 1982-2009
- Creator: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
RSVP Postcard for "En Pointe" Exhibit
- Date: 2000
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Gallery
National Museum of the American Indian
- Date: September 18, 2013
- Description: The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) was created on November 18, 1989, when President George H.W. Bush signed an act allowing the transfer of the Museum of the American Indian into the Smithsonian to create NMAI. As one of the Smithsonian’s newer museums, the images in this gallery show the evolution of postcard use at the Smithsonian. The NMAI postcards mainly
Missing Manuscripts, Burning Banners, and a “Matter of Heart”
- Date: September 20, 2018
- Description: Curator Keith E. Melder's efforts to create the first permanent exhibit on African American history at the National Museum of American History was successful, but its journey faced difficulties and hatred from the public.
Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth
- Date: January 28, 2021
- Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.
- Blog Post
Introducing: A Tale of Two Sisters: The Hungerford Deed and James Smithson’s Legacy
- Date: August 10, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.
Exhibiting the Enola Gay
- Date: June 25, 2020
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 12-102, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Program in African American Culture, Program Records, 1975-2000
- Date: 1975 1975-2000
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Program in African American Culture
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-177, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Sponsored Programs and Procurement Department, Grant Proposals, 2007-2009
- Date: 2007 2007-2009
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Sponsored Programs and Procurement Department
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Credits
- Date: February 21, 2017
- Description: AcknowledgementsThe web version of From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution was adapted from an exhibition that appeared from July 1996 to January 1997 in the Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition Gallery in the National Museum of American History. It was one of the official projects that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the 1846 founding of the Smithsonian
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 12-501, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Sponsored Programs and Procurement Department, Grant Proposals, 2006-2009
- Date: 2006 2006-2009
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Sponsored Programs and Procurement Department
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 06-051, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Contracts and Grants Department, Grant Proposals, 1999-2005
- Date: 1999 1999-2005
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Contracts and Grants Department
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
