Results for "Country life"
Remembering the Work of Claudine K. Brown
- Date: March 23, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: In a 1991 issue of the Prophet, the Smithsonian African American Association’s newsletter, Claudine Kinard Brown called on staff to support Black museums across the country.
- Field Book
Colombia 1943
- Date: 1943 1943 1943
- Creator: Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, 1879-1965
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A Tale of Two Sisters
- Date: August 4, 2021
- Description: Why would an English chemist donate his fortune to the United States, a newly formed country he had never visited? We will likely never know exactly why in 1826 James Smithson chose to bequeath more than half a million dollars to create the Smithsonian Institution.
Mom, can we keep him? Ummm, no.
- Date: January 15, 2013
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Robert F. Kennedy gave his children a sea lion named "Sandy" who was eventually donated to the National Zoological Park.
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William Henry Holmes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Born near Cadiz, Ohio, in the year the Smithsonian was founded, 1846, Holmes's life was intimately tied to the institution from the time he was twenty-five until his retirement in 1932 when he was 86.He began work as an artist drawing specimens for a number of naturalists in the employ of Spencer Fullerton Baird, then Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian
Mildred Stratton Wilson
- Date: March 3, 2022
- Description: We’re exploring the career of a Smithsonian barrier-breaker in marine biology.
The Nation's Refrigerator
- Date: May 15, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Children's art is put on exhibit throughout the country through the help of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Dorothea Dix: Mental Health Reformer and Civil War Nurse
- Date: March 29, 2012
- Description: A profile of Dorothea Dix, a Civil War nurse and advocate for the mentally ill.
Link Love: 9/7/2012
- Date: September 7, 2012
- 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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My Day With Henry
- Date: June 6, 2012
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: SIA just launched a new web resources dedicated to Joseph Henry, the first Smithsonian Secretary, his scientific career and his work at the Smithsonian.
- Blog Post
Coping With Stuff, Down Here and Up There
- Date: September 16, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: We’ve all got storage issues to confront. And when we do, some people take great pleasure in getting things organized and others get headaches. A small percentage descend into madness, while an equally small group see and then seize the business opportunities that are generated by the need to keep life, things, and information under control. Over the past few weeks, the
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Edward Drinker Cope
- Date: November 20, 2017
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391590,size=250,left]Edward Drinker Cope, a paleontologist and a “very hard worker with a very good head” offered a great deal of findings to the Smithsonian and the world of science. Fellow Megatherium Club member Robert Kennicott notes in his letter “Folks at Home” that Cope is, “…bound to be one of the first naturalists of the age,” stating that