Results for "Archaeologists"
- Blog Post
Link Love: 7/30/2010
- Date: July 30, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Portrait of a City Marshal by Barr & Wright, 1870-1880, National Museum of American History, Catalog number 77.43.1678."][/caption] Help the Smithsonian ID a Houston city marshal from the 1870s in the picture on the right. The extremely flammable nitrocellulose film used before 1951 led to an estimated 80 percent of silent
- Field Book Registry Collection
Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931 : Cullings, largely personal, from the scrap heap of three score years and ten, devoted to science, literature and art
- Date: 1846-1931
- Creator: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: July 7, 2015
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Herbert Deignan on Expedition
- Date: 1948
- Creator: Walker, Howell
- Creator: Walker, Howell
- SI History Bibliography
The River Basin Surveys Program
- Date: 1994
- Creator: Glenn, James R
- Creator: Glenn, James R
2017 Top Blog Posts
- Date: December 19, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: It's interesting to look back and see what resonated with you, our readers, this past year. Clearly, we along with many of you were fascinated by the solar eclipse of 2017 that was viewable from many parts of the U.S. Three of the top 10 were about solar eclipses. You also were captivated by our efforts to bring more attention to women in science. Three of the posts have to do
- Blog Post
Let’s Play the Name Game: Identifying Women Scientists on the Flickr Commons
- Date: April 12, 2012
- Creator: Susannah Wells
- Description: The Flickr Commons community helps the Archives identify images of Women in Science from our Science Service collections.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2021
- Date: January 7, 2021
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007084, Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933, William Henry Holmes Papers, 1870-1931
- Date: 1870 1870-1931
- Creator: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Road trip!
- Date: June 29, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: It was July 1880 in Washington, DC and Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Baird, had fled the city with his family for cool ocean breezes and to study the fishing grounds off the New England coast at Woods Hole on Cape Cod. For those left behind minding the Smithsonian Castle, it was probably hot, humid, and hellish in town and they were in need of relief. Luckily, the proprietors
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2021
- Date: April 8, 2021
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
“A Very Fine and Unusual Statue”: Fruits of the Freer Gallery Field Expeditions in China
- Date: May 5, 2016
- Description: Carl Whiting Bishop’s expedition to China for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Cosmic Buddha.
