Results for "Archives of American Art. Texas Project"
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: July 9, 2019
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives
- Date: May 2, 2013
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.
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A Surprise from Th Jefferson
- Date: January 6, 2011
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="221" caption="At the turn of the century, visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance, c. 1900, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 8, Negative Number:
Records Shed Light on How Exhibitions Come to Life
- Date: May 28, 2013
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Planning a museum or gallery exhibition takes a lot of work as seen through exhibition records that contain images, layouts, object labels, memos, and other important materials.
Link Love: 12/14/2012
- Date: December 14, 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.
Happy 100th Birthday, S. Dillon Ripley
- Date: September 20, 2013
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Celebrate the life of the eighth Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, who was born on September 20, 1913, 100 years ago today!
Fifty Years and Many More to Come!
- Date: September 12, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that
In the Name of Science
- Date: February 3, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: As some of you reading this know, we enjoy getting to know fascinating women in science throughout our collections and in the Smithsonian's history. We enjoy it so much that one of us decided we needed a set of LEGO women scientists. Over lunch, we assembled the the sets with some trepidation as it had been years since our previous LEGO adventures. We had fun playing and
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022
- Date: July 21, 2022
- Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.
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That's a Wrap! - Showcasing the Archives Through Video
- Date: August 29, 2013
- Description: When I first applied for an internship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I admittedly did not know much about it. For my internship, I was asked to make a video that would explain to the general public what the Archives was, as well as what resources it could offer them. On my first day here I was told that the Archives held the records and history of the Smithsonian
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A Camera in the Kitchen
- Date: August 24, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2064" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Photographs of Paul and Julia from page 262 of My Life in France, by Thérèse-Marie Blazek of feastingonpixels.blogspot.com."][/caption] If you haven’t seen Nora Ephron’s latest film Julie & Julia yet, there are several scenes, which indicate that aside from his work for the U.S. government, Julia Child’s
The Poetry of Solomon Brown
- Date: April 19, 2016
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: We celebrate National Poetry Month with a look at one of the Smithsonian’s resident poets, Solomon G. Brown.