Results for "Eighth American Scientific Congress. (1940 : Washington, D.C.)"
Link Love: 9/7/2018
- Date: September 7, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 2/15/2013
- Date: February 15, 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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Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace
- Date: September 19, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.
Link Love: 9/18/2015
- Date: September 18, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge
- Date: May 5, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and
Link Love: 7/26/2019
- Date: July 26, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
“Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator
- Date: March 10, 2016
- Description: This post discusses the contributions of Regina Hughes, a botanical illustrator, to the National Museum of Natural History.
Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian
- Date: June 14, 2018
- Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some
Link Love: 12/20/2019
- Date: December 20, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Most archival “discovery” stories are bogus, but this one (from the Smithsonian’s Joseph Cornell Study Center) is very, very cool! [via Artnet]DCist features some of the objects from the Library of Congress's new Rosa Parks exhibit. [via DCist] [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9968,size=450,center]Medieval medical manuscripts depict unrealistically happy patients. [via Onisillos
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What’s in a Name? The Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: June 16, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: On June 16, 2006, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum changed its name for the third time, signaling a renewed focus on local Black history and beyond.
Link Love: 1/19/2018
- Date: January 19, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: These photos just make you want to write solely in pencil. [story on one of America's last pencil factory via NY Times]It's hard to believe the Flickr Commons, a space in Flickr for archival photo collections, is 10 years old. [via Library of Congress]Scientists, including a fellow from our National Museum of Natural History, Ligiane Moras, have identified two new species of
Telegraphs, Controversy, and the Board of Regents
- Date: December 11, 2014
- Description: Board of Regents minutes might not sound exciting, but they have plenty of drama: including mudslinging over the telegraph’s invention.