Results for "Fire"
Bearly Survived to become an Icon
- Date: May 27, 2010
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: Some of you may recall the symbol of the United States Forest Service fire prevention program, Smokey Bear. Perhaps I am dating myself, however I distinctly recall posters and television commercials between Saturday morning cartoons depicting the almost human looking bear wearing his park ranger hat and blue jeans, with shovel in one hand and stern finger pointed with the
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The Smithsonian Sent Healing Wheels to WWI
- Date: June 21, 2011
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: One of the challenges of being a reference archivist is focusing on the inquiries received, while suppressing the bits of information you come across that may be of personal interest (the corner of my desk is occupied by an ever increasing list of topics I aspire to research further on my own time). Recently, however, a colleague who is familiar with my interest in rare and
Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn
- Date: July 25, 2013
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”