Results for "Computer games -- Programming -- History"
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The Challenge of Preserving Digital Architectural Drawings
- Date: July 27, 2010
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural
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Looking Wayback on the Smithsonian’s Sesquicentennial
- Date: August 10, 2020
- Description: The Smithsonian marked its 150th birthday with a huge celebration and special website in 1996.
Link Love: 8/30/2013
- Date: August 30, 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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Suppose We Decide to Dispose
- Date: October 28, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Interior of Office of Printing and Photographic Service's cold storage vault, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder September 1983, Negative Number 2004-10338."][/caption] To be sure, the Smithsonian has a lot of photographs. Millions of them in hundreds of
Where Are They Now?
- Date: May 20, 2014
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives catches up with former interns.
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Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: December 27, 2016
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives Reference Team handles an average of around 6,000 queries per year, and if you us what people have been researching at the Archives recently, you'll get some pretty interesting responses. Although not comprehensive, here's a snapshot of the diverse range of information encompassed by the history of the world's largest museum complex!
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: July 7, 2015
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Publicity, Politics, and Physics
- Date: March 10, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with
A Recipe from the Archives: Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip
- Date: January 20, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Need some snack inspiration for your family’s Super Bowl game watch? Look no further than the 1984 NMNH Docent Cookbook. Read about how we whipped up the Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip.
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Less is More With Compressed Scanning
- Date: March 3, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Window Necklace, by Hoong Wei Long, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For those who continue to believe that bigger is better—that you’re better off, for example, the more megapixels your digital camera delivers—a recent article by Jordan Ellenberg in WIRED magazine suggests the opposite may be true.
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Smithsonian's Photo Summit
- Date: October 12, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.
Goodbye, 2020: Working Through a Different Kind of Year
- Date: December 31, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Despite so many setbacks this year, Archives staff has continued to serve our researchers.