Results for "Books"
Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs
- Date: October 21, 2021
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2020
- Date: October 15, 2020
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2022
- Date: April 28, 2022
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
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Rediscovering Elizabeth’s Smile
- Date: November 18, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
To Post-it or Not to Post-it
- Date: September 5, 2013
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: Although fun and easy to use, post-it notes are often harmful to archival records, as seen with the conservation of Cordelia Rose’s recently acquired scroll.
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Save the Silver!
- Date: September 4, 2012
- Description: During the Civil War, Solomon G. Brown protected valuables from the approaching Confederate Army.
Exhibiting the Smithsonian Institution Archives: A Look Back
- Date: May 15, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be
An Operation of Its Own: Brigitte Blachere and Programming within the Smithsonian Associates
- Date: September 8, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.
Thank you, Volunteers!
- Date: April 23, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.
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The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair
- Date: October 3, 2017
- Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s
Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects
- Date: October 15, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.
A Twofer
- Date: February 10, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: The Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian took place on February 11, 1927, raising awareness of the activities of the Smithsonian and at the same time served as a venue to raise money.