Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="The cast of the television sitcom "All in the Family" came to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, to donate Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs to the "A Nation of Nations" exhibit in September of 1978, (L-R): Jean Stapleton, Secretary (1964-1984) S. Dillon Ripley,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Grace Rogers Cooper, former curator in the Division of Textiles, receiving a thirty year certificate at her farewell party from Brooke Hindle, director of the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1976, Alfred Harrell, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="On a collecting trip to the White Sands, New Mexico, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000), paleobiologist at the National Museum of Natural History, stands beside his car, used in the field, nicknamed the "Scarlet Harlot," 1973, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="In search for the Permian brachiopods in the Glass Mountains of Texas, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper 1902-2000, paleobiologist at the National Museum of Natural History, stands beside his car, nicknamed the "Emerald Queen," used in the field, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: In anticipation of its Fall 2016 opening, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) did something beautiful. A film, by Stanley J. Nelson and Marcia Smith, was projected on NMAAHC's new building representing the history of African Americans in the U.S. You can check out all the images from the projection mapping on their Pinterest
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: How Smithsonian entomologist Harrison Dyar's field notes, now available on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, are improving present-day research done by Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.
Description: To mark American Indian Heritage Month this year, staff members from the Photo Archive at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), filled us in on the history of the collections recently made available on the NMAI Collections Search website. As a follow-up, they are sharing their personal favorites from the archive. Today we hear from Lou Stancari,
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