Results for "Art objects"
Link Love: 2/1/2013
- Date: February 1, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Science Sits for Art
- Date: April 29, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Heads and Fragments of Heads of Humeri, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, 1865, by William Bell, Albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen
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From Defense to Decoration: the Renwick Gallery in the Civil War
- Date: August 22, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 2/10/2012
- Date: February 10, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 6/22/2018
- Date: June 22, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial
Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady of the National Collection of Fine Arts
- Date: August 8, 2019
- Description: Learn about Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady, globetrotter, and founding donor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum!
Link Love: 6/15/2012
- Date: June 15, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Takin' Care of Records
- Date: April 17, 2018
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Did you know April is Records and Information Management Month? Did you also know that the Smithsonian Institution has over 154 million objects, 10 million digital records, and 156,830 cubic feet of archival materials in its collections? It is mostly thanks to amazing record keeping that we are able to locate, care, and give access to millions of fascinating objects.We look at
“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.
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Celebrate American Archives Month with the Smithsonian
- Date: September 20, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="232" caption="The flag pole on the top of the Flag Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building with the American flag and the new flag of the Smithsonian Institution, 1996, by Eric Long, Color photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 97-074, Box 1, Folder, Birthday Party on the Mall Bell and Flag, Negative Number:
Viewing the Smithsonian in a Different Way
- Date: January 31, 2017
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: The Smithsonian Architectural History and Historic Preservation office serves as curator of the Smithsonian buildings.
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Link Love: 6/5/2015
- Date: June 5, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.