Results for "Face to Face (Blog)"
A Strange Thing Happened To Me On My Way to the Ground
- Date: June 19, 2012
- Description: Snow and its flakes: appreciated by some and despised by others, dreaded and welcomed at the same time, here today and gone tomorrow; such would not be the case for one particular snowflake, thanks Wilson Bentley.
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The Shadow of Your Smile
- Date: November 23, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Someone To Watch Over Me: Home Edition
- Date: November 11, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3132" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Surveillance camera found in hallway, 2009, courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption]Note to readers: the "News in the Visual" blog posts referenced below have now been moved to the "What Gets Saved" category on THE BIGGER PICTURE (2/20/2011).Talk about ironic. The whole time I’ve been writing “News in the
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Link Love: 2/5/2010
- Date: February 5, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- 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: 5/20/2011
- Date: May 20, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288" caption="Owney Embarks on his Makeover, photo courtesy of National Postal Museum, Pushing the Envelope blog."][/caption] Owney the Railway Mail Service dog is about to undergo conservation to improve his appearance and will be tweeting about the whole process on his very entertaining Twitter feed. You all know about our passion
100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
- Date: January 6, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support
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The Smithsonian Castle: Tragic Death, a Mystery, and Strange Occurrences
- Date: March 29, 2016
- Description: On this day in 1850, a young man was killed in the Castle, the first of four deaths to occur within its walls. William H. Page was working in the building, which was still under construction at the time, when he fell to his death.
Archives Puzzles: Joseph Henry on the Move
- Date: December 7, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
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Postcards on the Edge
- Date: February 18, 2010
- Description: One of the largest collections of real photo postcards at the Smithsonian can be found in the conveniently titled “post card collection” in the Eliot Elisofon Archives at the National Museum of African Art. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Madagascar - Le bel album venu de France, c. 1905, by Unknown photograher, Postcard, National Museum of African Art,
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An Accidental Archivist...
- Date: July 15, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: I was reading one of Holland Cotter’s reviews of an art exhibition in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, when I came across a description of a show that was about to close and wished I’d been able to see. At a space run by the Esopus Foundation, Bob Warner, a New York artist and optician, was opening, one box at a time, the cartons of material that another artist, Ray
A No-Shave November Matching Game
- Date: November 1, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: In observance of No-Shave November, play our Smithsonian history-themed matching game!
Un-Locke the Mystery
- Date: March 13, 2012
- Creator: Susannah Wells
- Description: Even with help from the dedicated Flickr Commons community, there are still many more images to identify in the Ruel Pardee Tolman Flickr set.