Results for "Art"
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Link Love: 3/25/2011
- Date: March 25, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=""EXIT" sign in the Smithsonian Institution Building (i.e. "The Castle Building"), by Adam Gerard, Creative Commons: Attribution BY-NC-SA 2.0."][/caption] We agree, Adam! The Smithsonian “Castle” takes the cake for vintage details. Via @voteprime on Twitter: “I am fascinated by this EXIT sign I saw at the Smithsonian
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Link Love: 3/26/2010
- Date: March 26, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="193" caption="Camel cigarette advertisement from Vanity Fair, 1934, by Unknown creator, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, ID: SIL7-78-03."][/caption] Cigarettes and gardenias . . . The Smithsonian Institution Libraries blog checks out old trade literature on women, commerce, and society. Beautiful digital flipbooks at Mediastorm. I
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Summary of #AskArchivists Day at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 13, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [View the story "#AskArchivists Day a Success at the Smithsonian" on Storify]
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See Here: 5/3/2011
- Date: May 3, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Court of Neptune Fountain, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1994."][/caption]
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See Here: 5/2/2011
- Date: May 2, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="President Wilson's Sheep at White House, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1986."][/caption]
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See Here: 5/4/2011
- Date: May 5, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lafayette Park seen from the Old Executive Office Building, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1943."][/caption]
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See Here: 5/5/2011
- Date: May 5, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Views of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, showing Peacock, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-2345."][/caption]
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Link Love: 2/19/2010
- Date: February 19, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Happy Mother's Day!
- Date: May 9, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Looking through our collections, we find the universal language of motherly gestures. Mothers nursing, bathing, and embracing their babies. Mothers present during the most important of life events, from the first day of school to the wedding day. There are also views of mothers, often stereotypical or oversimplified, and often presented by advertisers—the mother who dreams of
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Happy Thanksgiving!
- Date: November 24, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Link Love: 1/15/2010
- Date: January 15, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Star Birth, Star Death
- Date: January 31, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Today, three new images of starbursts and colliding galaxies from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray team were uploaded to the Smithsonian's Flickr Commons stream.