Results for "Art objects"
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: 6/15/2012
- 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.
- Blog Post
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:
Link Love: 10/14/2011
- Date: October 14, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 7/29/2011
- Date: July 29, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: An important part of the museum story that we often forget: how the objects got there in the first place. Donors’ stories often reveal the fascinating and complicated path that object take before they come into the Smithsonian’s collections. Here’s a great read on a family who collected celluloid (plastic) souvenirs, jewelry, products, and knick-knacks, that now reside at the
Link Love: 11/25/2011
- Date: November 25, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 5/18/2012
- Date: May 18, 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.
Get Inspired: Using Smithsonian Images for Creative Writing
- Date: January 17, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: A highlight of a series of creative writings inspired by photographs from the Smithsonian Flickr Commons and published at the online journal, Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure.
Link Love: 4/1/2011
- Date: April 1, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="View of the Thrift Drugs Pharmacy and Luncheonette at 533 Liberty Avenue, September 11th, 1952, P"][/caption] My chosen Friday time-suck?: geotag, explore, and help ID thousands of historic photos of Pittsburgh on Retrographer.org [via Marguerite Roby, SIA]. Pretty cool! Thousands of new objects from the Smithsonian’s
Link Love: 11/11/2011
- Date: November 11, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 8/5/2011
- Date: August 5, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The Freer Sackler Gallery’s efforts to make their large collection of squeezes (paper molds that capture the inscriptions of ancient monuments) into an easy-to-use Web resource received a nice write-up on The Atlantic’s Tech blog [originally posted on the Smithsonian Collections Blog]. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, talks about “balancing access and
Link Love: 1/13/2012
- Date: January 13, 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.