Results for "Archives of American Art. Texas Project"
Spotlight: Oscar Loew, Office of the Chemist
- Date: August 26, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: a closer look at Oscar Loew, the first person to hold the Office of Smithsonian Chemist.
Sneak Peek: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Date: March 11, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Series of photographs of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute buildings and facilities at Barro Colorado, Naos, and Galeta islands, Panama, 1960s, SIA RU000095.
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Learn. Educate. Imagine.
- Date: September 14, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Alice Paul Memorial March
- Date: March 26, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.
Open Access: Put a Bird On It
- Date: February 24, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!
Panda-Rama
- Date: July 11, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling arrive at the National Zoo.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
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What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and
Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)
- Date: February 10, 2022
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Learn more about the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center and the impact this unit had in the study of marine science worldwide.
Sweet Caroline
- Date: November 18, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The Kennedy Family presents their twin engine Convair CV-240, "Caroline" to the Smithsonian.
Robert Ridgway: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
- Date: April 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Robert Ridgway, known primarily for his extensive contributions to ornithology and as curator of birds for the United States National Museum, was also a keen observer of the changing landscape in areas where he conducted his detailed studies.
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I Never Meta-data I Didn’t Like…
- Date: June 10, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: So you know those thousand words a picture is worth? It’s true! Though my idea of what those thousand words should be might differ from yours and that’s why we’re going to talk about descriptive metadata, controlled vocabularies, and levels of access. Boy howdy, sounds like a wild ride, eh? When I was younger and infinitely more creative with how I spent my time I used to