Results for "Black Box: Kimsooja (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)"
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Do you remember . . . ?
- Date: August 26, 2010
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home
- Date: October 6, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2019
- Date: June 25, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted this spring at SIA.
Calling All First Ladies
- Date: August 27, 2013
- Description: A closer look at the First Lady’s social obligation to exchange calling cards in the early 19th century.
The Life and Legacy of Alphonso Lorenzo Jones
- Date: February 17, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Alphonso Lorenzo Jones joined the Smithsonian in 1924 as a mechanic. He retired 41 years later as the chief of the Institution’s duplicating office.
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Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers
- Date: March 26, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: In the 1920s, Mary Vaux Walcott published five volumes of her wildflower drawings and donated the proceeds to the Smithsonian.
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Heart of Glass
- Date: October 5, 2017
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph
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Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!
- Date: October 22, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"