Results for "Archaeological expeditions"
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An Artist's View: William Henry Holmes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]As a young artist living in Washington, William H. Holmes began sketching specimens for scientists at the U.S. National Museum. Based on that experience, he was invited to join the U.S. GeologicalSurvey of the Territories under the command of Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden in 1872.During his early years in the western territories, Holmes refined his skills as an
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John Ellerton Lodge
- Date: 1876 1942
Othniel C. Marsh
- Date: c. 1860s
- Creator: Maull & Co., London
- Creator: Maull & Co., London
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Ephraim George Squier
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=200,left]Ephraim George Squier was a self-educated journalist and diplomat who made substantial contributions to the archaeology and ethnology of the Americas. Born in 1821, he worked as a journalist in New York and Connecticut before moving to Ohio. There Squier developed an interest in the large earthen mounds believed to
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William Henry Holmes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Born near Cadiz, Ohio, in the year the Smithsonian was founded, 1846, Holmes's life was intimately tied to the institution from the time he was twenty-five until his retirement in 1932 when he was 86.He began work as an artist drawing specimens for a number of naturalists in the employ of Spencer Fullerton Baird, then Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian
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Inter-American Cooperation
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_7144,size=200,right]During construction of the Panama Canal at the start of the century, many laborers died of malaria and yellow fever. To find ways to control the diseases, North American biologists came to the isthmus of Panama. Some of these scientists were so impressed by the diversity of the natural environment that they later
William Henry Holmes
- Date: November 29, 2016
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: The multi-talented William Henry Holmes contributed to the Smithsonian as an artist, explorer, geologist, archeologist and museum director.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 1850
- Date: 1879 January 26, 1850
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes
- Date: 1936 02/02/1935
- Creator: 74th Congress, Sess. 1, 1935
- Creator: 74th Congress, Sess. 1, 1935
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes
- Date: 1927 04/22/1926
- Creator: 69th Congress, Sess. 1, 1926
- Creator: 69th Congress, Sess. 1, 1926
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes
- Date: 1929 05/16/1928
- Creator: 70th Congress, Sess. 1, 1928
- Creator: 70th Congress, Sess. 1, 1928
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes
- Date: 1929 02/20/1929
- Creator: 70th Congress, Sess. 2, 1929
- Creator: 70th Congress, Sess. 2, 1929
