Results for "Elephants"
Hunting for Elephants in Archives
- Date: February 17, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that
Sneak Peek 4/13/2020
- Date: April 13, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: A keeper feeds Asian elephants Hitam and Kechil in the octagonal elephant barn at the National Zoological Park.
How Uncle Maurice Saved the Smithsonian Elephant
- Date: January 6, 2015
- Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how
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A Recipe: Elephant Hide and Ivory
- Date: April 21, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 10/2/2020
- Date: October 2, 2020
- 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.
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Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo
- Date: May 17, 2018
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now
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Everyone Loves a Circus
- Date: June 2, 2010
- Creator: Ginger Yowell
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Link Love: 6/27/2014
- Date: June 27, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Happy Birthday, Smithsonian Magazine!
- Date: April 21, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look back at the first issue of Smithsonian Magazine for its 45th anniversary.
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Collections in Context
- Date: March 22, 2010
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12311,size=250,right]Walking into the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History one immediately comes face to face with the Fénykövi Elephant (also affectionately known as Henry). Taken at a glance, the African elephant is impressive and imposing, standing over guests to a tune of 13 feet and 2 inches when measured at the shoulder. The Fénykövi
Link Love: 10/19/2018
- Date: October 19, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janine Brown
- Date: February 22, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Congratulations to Janine Brown for receiving the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award to examine, "Using serum inflammatory markers to investigate the immune response to elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus."