Results for "Animal Connections: Our Journey Together (Traveling exhibition)"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-361, Smithsonian Enterprises, Website Records, 2008-2017
- Date: 2008 2008-2017
- Creator: Smithsonian Enterprises
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Thank you, Volunteers!
- Date: April 23, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.
- Blog Post
Combining Interests: You never know what you might find at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Date: January 31, 2012
- Description: A Smithsonian Institution Archives volunteer discusses a Triceratops video collection that also relates to his work at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
- Historic Pictures
National Zoological Park
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The National Zoological Park was founded in 1889 to preserve, teach, and conduct research about the animal world. The zoo opened in Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC in 1891, on a site designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and has been home to giant pandas, Asian elephants, and Smokey the Bear. History of the National Zoological ParkAdditional Historic Images of
O’Sullivan’s West and More
- Date: February 26, 2010
- Description: Framing the West is a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It features 120 of the extraordinary photographs Timothy O’Sullivan made for the King and Wheeler Surveys, two of the most important geological surveys of the western United States. The exhibition demonstrates not only the ability of the camera to capture the details of place, but the talent of
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-259, Smithsonian Enterprises, Website Records, 2008-2014
- Date: 2008 2008-2014
- Creator: Smithsonian Enterprises
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 00-001, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records, c. 1979-1990, and undated
- Date: 1979 1979-1990 c 1979-1990, and undated
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019
- Date: March 26, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.
Documenting a Geologist's Adventures
- Date: December 11, 2012
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of Ursula Marvin, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory geologist who has studied meteorites and lunar samples.
Science Service, Up Close: The Microvivarium
- Date: May 12, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Today’s science museums build on the efforts of biologist George Roemmert (1892-1952), whose “Microvivarium” projected images of amoebas and other microscopic creatures.
Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg
- Date: November 24, 2020
- Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 97-018, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, 150th Anniversary Program Records, 1992-1996
- Date: 1992 1992-1996
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives