Results for "Americans Now (Exhibition) (2006-2008: Washington, D.C.)"

 
Showing results 349 - 360 of 773 for Americans Now (Exhibition) (2006-2008: Washington, D.C.)
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    Brave New Museum

    • Date: March 11, 2010
    • Description: Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University have announced a new system of powerful graphics algorithms that will create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods, and potentially even entire cities. Fittingly the inventors went for the gold and named the system PhotoCity. Like its precursor, Microsoft’s Photosynth, the

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    Save the Silver!

    • Date: September 4, 2012
    • Description: During the Civil War, Solomon G. Brown protected valuables from the approaching Confederate Army.

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  5. Link Love: 7/19/2019

    • Date: July 19, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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.

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  7. Colorful painting of African American woman in red dress.

    Link Love: 5/18/2018

    • Date: May 18, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the African American woman whose cells were unknowingly contributed to over 10,000 medical patents, aiding research and benefiting patients with polio, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and other conditions. [via Smithsonian

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  9. Link Love: 8/2/2019

    • Date: August 2, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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.

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    Photography's Colorful Past

    • Date: January 14, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4168" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="Albumen portrait of the Reverend Levi L. Hill, Baptist minister and early daguerreotypist, West Kill, New York and New York City, b. 1816-d. February 9, 1865. Inscription on reverse, “Levi L. Hill, Died February 9, 1865, He is Asleep in Heaven.”"][/caption] Just when we think that we must have at last

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  13. Link Love: 12/6/2019

    • Date: December 6, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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.

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  15. Ceramics Exhibit in the United States National Museum

    Sneak Peek 5/9/2016

    • Date: May 9, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Ceramics exhibit in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, featuring "Haviland Memorial Vases," MNH-37695.

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  17. printed page with 12 pointed star color spectrum, as well as a bar of colors below.

    Link Love: 6/1/2018

    • Date: June 1, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A graphic designer's delight — a new exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt explores color perception. [via Smithsonian Libraries]33 museums from 7 countries, including our own Smithsonian Archives of American Art, have produced the largest collection of Frida Kahlo art and ephemera with Google Arts & Culture. [via Remezcla]A key figure in LGBQT activism who organized the first pride

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  19. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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  21. Link Love: 11/23/2012

    • Date: November 23, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  23. Photographers posing together for a photograph on the roof of Marceau's Studio, 1920, Byron Company, Museum of the City of New York.

    Link Love: 7/11/2014

    • Date: July 11, 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.

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